Joel MOkyr, Philippe AGHion and Peter Howitt received 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 for their contributions to innovative economic growth. Mocker’s share recognizes his work on technological progress, while Agu and Howitt are honored by their theory of creative destruction.
Who is Joel Mokyr?
MkyPr was born on July 26, 1946 and is associated with Northwestern University at the time of the price. He was honored “for identifying the prerequisites for continuous growth through technological progress”.
Joel MOkyr examines Europe’s economic history with a focus on 1750-1914. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the Cliometric Society, the British Academy, the Italian Accademia dei Lincei and the Dutch Royal Academy.
He worked as the president of the Association of Economic History, modified the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, and together edited the Journal of Economic History. In 2006 he received the Heineken Award for history at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, on the Biennial of Honor, and in 2015 he won the Balzan International Prize for economic history.
The MCKEr supervised forty doctoral dissertations in the Department of Economics and History.
Who is Peter Howitt?
Peter Howitt won the Nobel Prize “for the theory of lasting growth of creative destruction”.
Peter Howitt is a professor of economics and social science professor Lyn Crost at Brown University. From 1972 to 1996 he worked at the Faculty of University of Western Ontario from 1996 to 2000 at Ohio State University.
Most of his research focuses on macroeconomics and monetary economy. He is a key contributor to the development of modern “Schumpeterian” approach to the theory of economic growth. He was actively looking for new foundations in macroeconomics and monetary theory and wrote extensively about Canadian monetary policy.
Who is Philippe AGHion?
Philippe Aguhion was born on August 17, 1956 and is Professor of Collège de France and Insad, a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, and a member of the Economist Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for the Economy for “for the theory of lasting growth of creative destruction”.
His research focuses on the economy of growth. Together with Peter Howitt, he worked on the paradigm of Schumpeterian growth, which was later used to analyze the proposal of growth policies and the role of the state in the growth process.
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