Edward C. Prescott, an American economist, was the Nobel Prize winner for Economics in 2004. Edward C. Prescott is the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize with Finn E. Kydland, for their works on areas of dynamic macroeconomics.
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Douglass C. North is an American Economic historian, who was awarded Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993 along with Robert W. Fogel. He will be remembered for his research works in economic history, which explains economic and institutional change through economic theory and quantitative methods. [br]
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Daniel Kahneman is the co-recipient of Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for his contribution to the psychological research into economic science. Kahneman shared the award with American economist Vernon L. Smith.
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Daniel L. McFadden is an American economist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2000 for his contribution to the development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choices.
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Daniel L. McFadden was born on 29th July, 1937 in Raleigh, NC, USA.
Clive W.J.Granger, a Welsh economist (resident of Wales) was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize with Robert F. Engle of U.S. for Economics in 2003. He will be remembered for his work on development of techniques for analyzing time series data with common trends. Clive W.J.Granger was born on 4th September,1934 at Swansea, Wales. [br]
As the winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, the name of the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin (1899–1979) is associated with Hecksher-Ohlin model, the standard mathematical model of free foreign trade.
Amartya Sen is a distinguished Indian economist who was born on the 3rd of November 1933. in 1998, Sen won the Nobel Prize for welfare economics. His work on famine, human development theory, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism have enriched the treasure of economics and modern society.
Amartya Sen’s academic interest began at an early age, where he received exposure in Sanskrit, mathematics and physics before he finally settled for the “eccentric charm of economics”.
John C. Harsanyi is a celebrated economist and co-recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics together with John F. Nash and Reinhard Selten. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution in game theory.
A Hungarian of Jewish descent, John C. Harsanyi won the Nobel award for his work in game theory; a specialization that deals with competition where information is imperfect or incomplete and players have to no clue about the response of their opponents.
