Premio Nobel de Economía
Galardonados judíos del Premio Nobel de Economía documentados en el directorio ThankJews. Los judíos son alrededor del 40 % de todos los galardonados, aunque constituyen aproximadamente el 0,2 % de la población mundial.
40 galardonados documentados
Paul Samuelson1948
Economic Theory
Fuente: Nobel Prize Economics 1970
Simon Kuznets1971
Empirical research on economic growth and the measurement of national income
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Economics 1971
Kenneth Arrow1972
Economista who proved the impossibility theorem of social choice and, with Gérard Debreu, the existence of a general equilibrium in a competitive economy; Premio Nobel de Economía 1972
Fuente: Wikipedia — Kenneth Arrow / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1972
Wassily Leontief1905
Economista que creó input-output analysis and compiled the first input-output tables of the American economy; Premio Nobel de Economía 1973
Fuente: Wikipedia — Wassily Leontief / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1973
Leonid Kantorovich1912
Fundó linear programming; Premio Nobel in economics.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Milton Friedman1962
Free Market Economics
Fuente: Nobel Prize Economics 1976
Herbert Simon1978
Social scientist of administrative decision-making and bounded rationality, and with Allen Newell a pioneer of artificial intelligence; Premio Nobel de Economía 1978
Fuente: Wikipedia — Herbert A. Simon / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1978
Lawrence Klein1980
Economista who built the first large econometric models of national economies, the Wharton models and Project LINK; Premio Nobel de Economía 1980
Fuente: Wikipedia — Lawrence Klein / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1980
Franco Modigliani1985
Life-Cycle Hypothesis
Fuente: Nobel Prize Economics 1985
Robert Solow1987
Economic Growth Theory
Fuente: Nobel Prize Economics 1987
Harry Markowitz1990
Modern portfolio theory: choosing investments by the expected return and the variance of the whole portfolio (Portfolio Selection, 1952); Premio Nobel de Economía 1990
Fuente: Wikipedia — Harry Markowitz / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1990
Merton Miller1990
Modigliani–Miller theorems on capital structure and dividend policy (1958, with Franco Modigliani), foundation of modern corporate finance; Premio Nobel de Economía 1990
Fuente: Wikipedia — Merton Miller / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1990
Gary Becker1992
Economic Analysis of Human Behavior
Fuente: Nobel Prize Economics 1992
Robert Fogel1993
Renewal of economic history using quantitative and economic-theory methods
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Economics 1993
John Harsanyi1920
Análisis matemático of games of incomplete information (1967–1968), a foundation of the economics of information; Premio Nobel de Economía 1994
Fuente: Wikipedia — John Harsanyi / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1994
Reinhard Selten1994
Subgame perfection (1965) and trembling-hand perfection (1975), refining the Nash equilibrium; pionero de experimental economics; Premio Nobel de Economía 1994
Fuente: Wikipedia — Reinhard Selten / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1994
Robert C. Merton1997
Premio Nobel in economics (1997) for the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model; son of sociologist Robert K. Merton
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Economics
Myron Scholes1997
Black–Scholes option-pricing formula (1973, with Fischer Black); Premio Nobel de Economía 1997
Fuente: Wikipedia — Myron Scholes / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1997
George Akerlof1940
Premio Nobel de Economía 2001 for the analysis of markets with asymmetric information; his 1970 paper The Market for Lemons showed how hidden quality can make a market wither
Fuente: Wikipedia — George Akerlof / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 2001
Joseph Stiglitz2001
Premio Nobel de Economía 2001 for the analysis of markets with asymmetric information (screening, credit rationing, efficiency wages); chief economist of the World Bank 1997–2000
Fuente: Wikipedia — Joseph Stiglitz / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 2001
Daniel Kahneman2002
Psicólogo who, with Amos Tversky, documented the systematic biases of intuitive judgment and developed prospect theory (1979); Premio Nobel de Economía 2002
Fuente: Wikipedia — Daniel Kahneman / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 2002
Robert Aumann2005
Teoría de juegos
Fuente: Nobel Prize Economics 2005
Leonid Hurwicz1917
Fundador de mechanism design theory; Premio Nobel de Economía 2007, received at ninety, the oldest laureate to that date
Fuente: Wikipedia — Leonid Hurwicz / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 2007
Eric Maskin1950
Premio Nobel (2007) for developing the theory of mechanism design
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Economics
Roger Myerson1951
Premio Nobel (2007) for foundational work on mechanism design and game theory
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Economics
Paul Krugman2008
New trade theory and new economic geography; sole winner of the 2008 Premio Nobel de Economía for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity
Fuente: Wikipedia — Paul Krugman / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 2008
Elinor Ostrom2009
First woman to receive the Premio Nobel de Economía (2009), for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons; daughter of a Jewish father, raised Protestant
Fuente: Wikipedia — Elinor Ostrom / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 2009
Peter Diamond1940
Economista who laid the foundations of search theory — why unemployment and job vacancies coexist — and wrote widely used models of public debt and optimal taxation; Premio Nobel de Economía 2010
Fuente: Wikipedia — Peter Diamond / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 2010
Alvin Roth2012
Theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Economics 2012
Oliver Hart2016
Premio Nobel in economics (2016) for contract theory
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Economics
Richard Thaler2017
Fundador de behavioural economics — mental accounting, the endowment effect, fairness and self-control — and co-author of Nudge (2008); Premio Nobel de Economía 2017
Fuente: Wikipedia — Richard Thaler / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 2017
William Nordhaus1941
Economista who built the first integrated assessment models of the economy and the climate, including the DICE model (1992); Premio Nobel de Economía 2018
Fuente: Wikipedia — William Nordhaus / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 2018
Michael Kremer2019
Premio Nobel in economics (2019) for experimental approaches to fighting poverty
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Economics
Paul Milgrom1948
Economista who generalised auction theory and, with Robert Wilson, diseñó the simultaneous multiple round auction first used for US radio spectrum in 1994; Premio Nobel de Economía 2020
Fuente: Wikipedia — Paul Milgrom / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 2020
Joshua Angrist1960
Economista who, with Guido Imbens, showed what natural experiments can reveal about cause and effect, and used them to measure the effects of schooling, class size and military service; Premio Nobel…
Fuente: Wikipedia — Joshua Angrist / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 2021
Ben Bernanke2006
Economista who showed how bank failures deepened and prolonged the Great Depression; chaired the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014; Premio Nobel de Economía 2022
Fuente: Wikipedia — Ben Bernanke / NobelPrize.org — Ben Bernanke, Biographical
Douglas Diamond1953
Premio Nobel (2022) whose Diamond-Dybvig model explains bank runs and the role of banks in financial crises
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Economics
Claudia Goldin2023
Premio Nobel (2023) who chronicled women's place in the labor market; Nemmers Prize (2020)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Nemmers Prize in Economics
Philippe Aghion2025
Economista who, with Peter Howitt, construyó the model of growth through creative destruction (1992); John von Neumann Award 2009; Premio Nobel de Economía 2025
Fuente: Wikipedia — Philippe Aghion / NobelPrize.org — Philippe Aghion, Facts
Joel Mokyr2025
Economic historian who showed that sustained growth needed both practical know-how and scientific explanation, in a culture open to new ideas; Premio Nobel de Economía 2025; son of Dutch Jewish…
Fuente: Wikipedia — Joel Mokyr / NobelPrize.org — Joel Mokyr, Facts