| 1969 |
Ragnar Frisch (Norwegian) and
Jan Tinbergen (Dutch) for their work in econometrics, a
method of analyzing economic activity. |
| 1970 |
Paul A. Samuelson (American)
for raising the level of scientific analysis in economic
theory. |
| 1971 |
Simon Kuznets (American) for
his interpretation of economic growth. |
| 1972 |
Kenneth J. Arrow (American) and
Sir John Hicks (British) for their pioneering contribution
to general equilibrium theory and to welfare theory. |
| 1973 |
Wassily Leontief (American) for
his development of the input-output method of economic
analysis. |
| 1974 |
Friedrich von Hayek (Austrian)
and Gunnar Myrdal (Swedish) for their work in the theory
of money and economic change and in the relationship
between economic and social factors. |
| 1975 |
Leonid V. Kantorovich (Soviet)
and Tjalling C. Koopmans (American) for their work on how
economic resources should be distributed and used. |
| 1976 |
Milton Friedman (American) for
his work in the fields of economic consumption, monetary
history and theory, and price stabilization policy. |
| 1977 |
James Meade (British) and
Bertil Ohlin (Swedish) for their studies of international
trade and finance. |
| 1978 |
Herbert A. Simon (American) for
his research on the decision-making process in business. |
| 1979 |
Sir Arthur Lewis (St. Lucian-born)
and Theodore W. Schultz (American) for their research into
the economic problems of developing countries. |
| 1980 |
Lawrence R. Klein (American)
for using econometric models to analyze economic policies
and the rise and fall in business activity. |
| 1981 |
James Tobin (American) for his
analyses of financial markets and their effect on how
businesses and families spend and save money. |
| 1982 |
George Stigler (American) for
his research on industrial organization, markets, and
regulation. |
| 1983 |
Gerard Debreu (American) for
his development of a mathematical model that proved the
theory of supply and demand. |
| 1984 |
Sir Richard Stone (British) for
developing methods of measuring the performance of
national economies. |
| 1985 |
Franco Modigliani (American)
for his theories on personal savings and financial markets. |
| 1986 |
James M. Buchanan (American)
for developing methods of analyzing the decision-making
process in government. |
| 1987 |
Robert Solow (American) for
developing a mathematical model that identified technology
as the dominant factor in long-term economic growth. |
| 1988 |
Maurice Allais (French) for his
theories on economic markets and the efficient use of
resources. |
| 1989 |
Trygve Haavelmo (Norwegian) for
his development of statistical techniques that led to the
creation of mathematical models used in making economic
predictions. |
| 1990 |
Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H.
Miller, and William F. Sharpe (American) for their
theories in corporate finance. |
| 1991 |
Ronald H. Coase (British-born)
for his theories on the economic importance of property
rights and of the costs of carrying out business
transactions. |
| 1992 |
Gary S. Becker (American) for
extending economic theory to aspects of behavior that
previously had been dealt with only by such fields as
sociology and criminology. |
| 1993 |
Robert W. Fogel and Douglass C.
North (American) for their work in economic history. |
| 1994 |
John F. Nash (American), John
C. Harsanyi (American), and Reinhard Selten (German) for
their work in game theory. |
| 1995 |
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (American),
for his analysis of the impact of government economic
policies on the economic decisions of individuals. |
| 1996 |
William S. Vickrey (American)
and James A. Mirrlees (British) for their contributions to
the economic theory of incentives. |
| 1997 |
Merton, Robert C, (U.S.A) Scholes, Myron S."for a
new method to determine the value of derivatives" |
| 1998 |
Amartya Sen, (India) "for his contributions to
welfare economics" |
| 1999 |
Robert A. Mundell "for his analysis of monetary and
fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and
his analysis of optimum currency areas" |