Vol. I 1969 — 2025 57 Prizes 96 Laureates
A century of ideas that shaped economic thought.
Every Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from its founding in 1969 to the present, gathered as a working archive — for the curious reader and the practising economist alike. Each entry includes the official citation, plain-language explanation, technical depth, contemporary applications, and clickable references.
Timeline · Density of Prizes
A Tool for Reading the News
From today's headlines to canonical economic ideas.
Every news cycle revisits questions that won someone a Nobel. Browse the recurring themes below, or paste an article to see which prizes illuminate it.
Patterns in the Record
Reading the archive at a distance.
Most-Awarded Fields
Prizes by Decade
Live · Citation Atlas
Who's most cited in economics today.
Forty leading economists ranked by lifetime citations, fetched live from OpenAlex when you scroll into view. Twenty are existing laureates (for benchmarking scale); twenty are frequently mentioned as future contenders.
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