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Economics at the University of Chicago

Starting points on the history of economics at UChicago

Nobel Laureates

Not technically a Nobel Prize, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was established in 1968. The first prizes were awarded in 1969. Thirty two economists associated with the University of Chicago at some point in their careers have been awarded the Prize.

2023
Claudia Goldin, 1946 -
     PhD, 1972

2022
Douglas W. Diamond, 1953 -
     Professor of Finance, 1979 -

2019
Micheal Kremer, 1964 -
     Professor of Economics, 2020 -

2018
Paul Romer, 1955 -
     Professor of Economics, 1988-1990

2017
Richard H. Thaler, 1945 -
     Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, 1995 -

2013
Eugene F. Fama, 1939 -
     Professor of Finance, 1963 -
     MBA 1963, Ph.D 1964

Lars Peter Hansen 1952 -
     Professor in Economics, Statistics and the College 1981 -

2011
Thomas J. Sargent, 1943 -
     Professor of Economics, 1991-1998

2007
Roger B. Myerson, 1951 -
     Professor of Economics, 2001 -

2004
Edward C. Prescott, 1940 -
     Professor of Economics, 1998-99

2000
James J. Heckman, 1944 -
     Professor of Economics, 1973-

Daniel McFadden, 1937 -
     Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, 1966-67

1999
Robert A. Mundell 1932 - 2001
     Professor of Economics, 1965 - 1971

1997
Myron Scholes, 1941 -
     MBA 1964, Ph.D 1969
     Professor, Graduate School of Business, 1973-1983

1995
Robert E. Lucas, Jr., 1937 - 2023
     Professor of Economics, 1974 - 2023

1993
Robert W. Fogel, 1926 - 2013
     Professor of American Institutions 1981 - 2013

1992
Gary S. Becker, 1930 - 2014
     Ph.D, 1955
     University Professor in Economics, Booth School of Business, and Sociology, 1954-57, 1970 - 2014

1991
Ronald H. Coase, 1910 - 2013
     Professor of Economics, the Law School, 1964 - 2013

1990
Harry M. Markowitz, 1927 - 2023
     Ph.B. 1947, A.M., 1950, Ph.D 1954

Merton H. Miller 1923 - 2000
     Professor of Finance and Economics, Graduate School of Business 1961-2000

1989
Trygve Haavelmo, 1911 - 1999
     Visiting Professor of Economics, 1957-58 Research Associate of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, 1946-7

1986
James M. Buchanan, Jr., 1919 - 2013
     Ph.D 1948

1985
Franco Modigliani, 1918 - 2003
     Research Associate of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics 1948-50

1983
Gerard Debreu, 1921 - 2004
     Research Associate of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, 1950 - 1955

1982
George J. Stigler, 1911 - 1991
     Ph.D 1938
     Professor of Economics, 1958-81

1980
Lawrence R. Klein, 1920 - 2013
     Research Associate of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, 1942-43

1979
Theodore W. Schultz, 1902 -1998
     Professor of Economics 1943 - 72

1978
Herbert A. Simon, 1916 - 2001
     AB 1936, Ph.D 1943
     Research Associate of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, 1936 - 38

1976
Milton Friedman, 1912 - 2007
     Professor of Economics, 1946 - 2007

1975
Tjalling C. Koopmans, 1910 - 1986
     Research Associate of the Cowles Commission of Economics Research and Professor of Economics, 1944 - 1955

1974
Friedrich August von Hayek, 1889 - 1992
     Professor of Social and Moral Science in the Committee on Social Thought, 1950-1962

1972
Kenneth J. Arrow, 1921 - 2017
     Research Associate and Instructor in the Department of Economics, 1947-48; Assistant Professor, 1948-49.

1970
Paul A. Samuelson, 1915 - 2009
     A.B., 1935