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  13 Oct 2025, 16:57

Recent winners of the Nobel Economics Prize

STOCKHOLM, Oct 13, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The Nobel economics prize, the only one of the six Nobel prizes not included in Alfred Nobel's 1895 will establishing the awards, was created in 1968 to commemorate the Swedish central bank's 300th anniversary.

Here are the laureates honoured in the past 10 years:

2025: Joel Mokyr (Israel-US)/Philippe Aghion (France)/Peter Howitt (Canada)

2024: Daron Acemoglu (Turkey-US)/Simon Johnson (UK-US)/James Robinson (US-UK)

2023: Claudia Goldin (US)

2022: Ben Bernanke/Douglas Diamond/Philip Dybvig (US)

2021: David Card (Canada)/ Joshua Angrist (Israel-US)/Guido Imbens (US-Netherlands)

2020: Paul Milgrom/Robert Wilson (US)

2019: Abhijit Banerjee (US)/Esther Duflo (France-US)/Michael Kremer (US)

2018: William Nordhaus/Paul Romer (US) 

2017: Richard Thaler (US)

2016: Oliver Hart (Britain-US)/Bengt Holmstrom (Finland)