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NOTE: The first Memorial Prize was awarded in 1969
Prize Laureate Motivation
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Economic -FRISCH, RAGNAR "for having developed and
Sciences 1969 -TINBERGEN, JAN applied dynamic models for
the analysis of economic
processes"
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Economic -SAMUELSON, PAUL A "for the scientific work
Sciences 1970 through which he has
developed static and dynamic
economic theory and actively
contributed to raising the
level of analysis in economic
science"
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Economic -KUZNETS, SIMON "for his empirically founded
Sciences 1971 interpretation of economic
growth which has led to new
and deepened insight into the
economic and social structure
and process of development"
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Economic -HICKS, Sir JOHN R. "for their pioneering
Sciences 1972 -ARROW, KENNETH J. contributions to general
economic equilibrium theory
and welfare theory"
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Economic -LEONTIEF, WASSILY "for the development of the
Sciences 1973 input-output method and for
its application to important
economic problems"
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Economic -MYRDAL, GUNNAR "for their pioneering work in
Sciences 1974 -VON HAYEK, FRIEDRICH AUGUST the theory of money and
economic fluctuations and for
their penetrating analysis of
the interdependence of
economic, social and
institutional phenomena"
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Economic -KANTOROVICH, LEONID "for their contributions to
Sciences 1975 VITALIYEVICH the theory of optimum
-KOOPMANS, TJALLING C., allocation of resources"
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Economic -FRIEDMAN, MILTON "for his achievements in the
Sciences 1976 fields of consumption
analysis, monetary history
and theory and for his
demonstration of the
complexity of stabilization
policy"
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Economic -OHLIN, BERTIL "for their pathbreaking
Sciences 1977 -MEADE, JAMES E contribution to the theory of
international trade and
international capital
movements"
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Economic -SIMON, HERBERT A. "for his pioneering research
Sciences 1978 into the decision-making
process within economic
organizations"
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Economic -SCHULTZ, THEODORE W. "for their pioneering
Sciences 1979 -LEWIS, Sir ARTHUR research into economic
development research with
particular consideration of
the problems of developing
countries"
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Economic -KLEIN, LAWRENCE R. "for the creation of
Sciences 1980 econometric models and the
application to the analysis
of economic fluctuations and
economic policies"
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Economic -TOBIN, JAMES "for his analysis of
Sciences 1981 financial markets and their
relations to expenditure
decisions, employment,
production and prices"
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Economic -STIGLER, GEORGE J. "for his seminal studies of
Sciences 1982 industrial structures,
functioning of markets and
causes and effects of public
regulation"
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Economic -DEBREU, GERARD "for having incorporated new
Sciences 1983 analytical methods into
economic theory and for his
rigorous reformulation of the
theory of general
equilibrium"
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Economic -STONE, Sir RICHARD "for having made fundamental
Sciences 1984 contributions to the
development of systems of
national accounts and hence
greatly improved the basis
for empirical economic
analysis"
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Economic -MODIGLIANI, FRANCO "for his pioneering analyses
Sciences 1985 of saving and of financial
markets"
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Economic -BUCHANAN, Jr., JAMES M. "for his development of the
Sciences 1986 contractual and
constitutional bases for the
theory of economic and
political decision-making"
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Economic -SOLOW, ROBERT M. "for his contributions to the
Sciences 1987 theory of economic growth"
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Economic -ALLAIS, MAURICE "for his pioneering
Sciences 1988 contributions to the theory
of markets and efficient
utilization of resources"
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Economic -HAAVELMO, TRYGVE "for his clarification of the
Sciences 1989 probability theory
foundations of econometrics
and his analyses of
simultaneous economic
structures"
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Economic -MARKOWITZ, HARRY M. "for their pioneering work
Sciences 1990 -MILLER, MERTON H. in the theory of financial
-SHARPE, WILLIAM F. economics"
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Economic -COASE, RONALD H. "for his discovery and
Sciences 1991 clarification of the
significance of transaction
costs and property rights for
the institutional structure
and functioning of the
economy"
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Economic -BECKER, GARY S. "for having extended the
Sciences 1992 domain of microeconomic
analysis to a wide range of
human behaviour and
interaction, including
nonmarket behaviour"
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Economic -FOGEL, ROBERT W. "for having renewed research
Sciences 1993 -NORTH, DOUGLASS C. in economic history by
applying economic theory and
quantitative methods in order
to explain economic and
institutional change"
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Economic -HARSANYI, JOHN C. "for their pioneering
Sciences 1994 -NASH, JOHN F. analysis of equilibria in the
-SELTEN, REINHARD theory of non-cooperative
games"
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Economic -LUCAS Jr., ROBERT E. "for having developed and
Sciences 1995 applied the hypothesis of
rational expectations, and
thereby having transformed
macroeconomic analysis and
deepened our understanding of
economic policy"
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Economic -MIRRLEES, JAMES A. "for their fundamental
Sciences 1996 -VICKREY, WILLIAM contributions to the economic
theory of incentives under
asymmetric information"
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Economic -MERTON, ROBERT C. "for a new method to
Sciences 1997 -SCHOLES, MYRON S. determine the value of
derivatives"
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Economic -SEN, AMARTYA "for his contributions to
Sciences 1998 welfare economics"
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Economic -will be announced on
Sciences 1999 -October 13,
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