# Every winner of the Nobel economics prize, 2020–2025

From auction theory to minimum-wage research, financial crises, women in the labour market, the institutions behind national prosperity and innovation-driven growth: the 15 economists who won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in the 2020s, with their citations.

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- Aug 19, 2026 · Woojin Jung
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## Top 15

1. **Guido W. Imbens (2021)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Netherlands/United States. Economics prize 2021 for empirical contributions to labour economics (Card) and methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships (Angrist and Imbens).
2. **Paul Milgrom (2020)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — United States. Economics prize 2020 for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.
3. **Robert B. Wilson (2020)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — United States. Economics prize 2020 for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. He was Milgrom's doctoral supervisor.
4. **Joshua D. Angrist (2021)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — United States/Israel. Economics prize 2021 for empirical contributions to labour economics (Card) and methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships (Angrist and Imbens).
5. **Ben S. Bernanke (2022)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — United States. Economics prize 2022 for research on banks and financial crises. Former chair of the US Federal Reserve.
6. **Philip H. Dybvig (2022)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — United States. Economics prize 2022 for research on banks and financial crises.
7. **Daron Acemoglu (2024)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Turkey/United States. Economics prize 2024 for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity. Co-author of Why Nations Fail.
8. **James A. Robinson (2024)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — United Kingdom/United States. Economics prize 2024 for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.
9. **David Card (2021)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Canada/United States. Economics prize 2021 for empirical contributions to labour economics (Card) and methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships (Angrist and Imbens).
10. **Douglas W. Diamond (2022)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United States. Economics prize 2022 for research on banks and financial crises.
11. **Claudia Goldin (2023)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United States. Economics prize 2023 for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes. The first woman to win the economics prize alone.
12. **Simon Johnson (2024)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — United Kingdom/United States. Economics prize 2024 for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.
13. **Peter Howitt (2025)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Canada. Economics prize 2025 for having explained innovation-driven economic growth.
14. **Joel Mokyr (2025)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Netherlands/Israel/United States. Economics prize 2025 for having explained innovation-driven economic growth.
15. **Philippe Aghion (2025)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — France. Economics prize 2025 for having explained innovation-driven economic growth.

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