Selected Bibliographies of Chicago Nobel Prize Winners in Economics

University of Chicago winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

The prize was instituted in 1969. Thirty two Laureates have been associated with the University of Chicago during their careers.

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

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

1999

Robert A. Mundell 1932 -
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 -
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