Nobel Prize in Economics (thing) by cretog8

(See an_mo's writeup for prizes awarded 1969-1999.)

2000 James Heckman
"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples"
and Daniel McFadden
"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice"
2001 George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph E. Stiglitz
"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
2002 Daniel Kahneman
"for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"
(It is worth noting that, while Nobel prizes are not awarded posthumously, the late Amos Tversky would certainly have shared this prize for much of the work done jointly with Kahneman.)
and Vernon L. Smith
"for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms"
2003 Robert F. Engle
"for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)" ("ARCH" stands for AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity.)
and Clive W. J. Granger
"for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)"
2004 Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott
"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"
2005 Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling
"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"
2006 Edmund S. Phelps
"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"
2007 Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson
"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"

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