The Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, established by the Bank of Sweden in 1968, has been awarded to three researchers – Joel Mokyr, Philippe Agyon and Peter Howitt.
Half of the prize will go to American-Israeli researcher Mokyr for “discovering the preconditions for stable economic growth as a result of technological progress”, and the other half will go jointly to Frenchman Aghion and Canadian Howitt “for developing a theory of economic growth through creative destruction”.
The 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was awarded to Daron Adjemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson “for their research on the processes of institution formation and their impact on economic prosperity”. research on differences in the prosperity of countries
The announcement of the economics prize winners closes Nobel week.
The awards will be presented to the laureates in Stockholm and Oslo on 10 December, the day Alfred Nobel died.