Stockholm: The economics prize is the only Nobel not originally included in Alfred Nobel`s last will and testament -- it was established in 1968 to celebrate the Swedish central bank`s 300th birthday.


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Since it was first awarded in 1969, Americans have dominated the prize.


Here is a list of the winners:


2016: Oliver Hart (Britain-US) and Bengt Holmstrom (Finland)


2015: Angus Deaton (Britain-US)


2014: Jean Tirole (France)


2013: Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller (US)


2012: Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley (US)


2011: Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims (US)


2010: Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen (US) and Christopher Pissarides (Cyprus-Britain)


2009: Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson (US)


2008: Paul Krugman (US)


2007: Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson (US)


2006: Edmund Phelps (US)


2005: Thomas Schelling (US), Robert J. Aumann (US-Israel)


2004: Finn Kydland (Norway), Edward Prescott (US)


2003: Robert Engle (US), Clive Granger (Britain)


2002: Daniel Kahneman (Israel-US) and Vernon Smith (US)


2001: George Akerlof (US), A. Michael Spence (US), Joseph Stiglitz (US)


2000: James Heckman (US), Daniel McFadden (US)


1999: Robert Mundell (Canada)


1998: Amartya Sen (India)


1997: Robert Merton (US), Myron Scholes (US)


1996: James Mirrlees (Britain), William Vickrey (US)


1995: Robert Lucas Jr (US)


1994: John Harsanyi (US), John Nash (US), Reinhard Selten (Germany)


1993: Robert Fogel (US), Douglass North (US)


1992: Gary Becker (US)


1991: Ronald Coase (Britain)


1990: Harry Markowitz (US), Merton Miller (US), William Sharpe (US)


1989: Trygve Haavelmo (Norway)


1988: Maurice Allais (France)


1987: Robert Solow (US)


1986: James Buchanan (US)


1985: Franco Modigliani (US)


1984: Richard Stone (Britain)


1983: Gerard Debreu (US)


1982: George Stigler (US)


1981: James Tobin (US)


1980: Lawrence Klein (US)


1979: Theodore Schultz (US), Arthur Lewis (Britain)


1978: Herbert Simon (US)


1977: Bertil Ohlin (Sweden), James Meade (Britain)


1976: Milton Friedman (US)


1975: Leonid Kantorovich (Soviet Union), Tjalling Koopmans (US)


1974: Gunnar Myrdal (Sweden), Friedrich von Hayek (Britain)


1973: Vassily Leontief (US)


1972: John Hicks (Britain), Kenneth Arrow (US)


1971: Simon Kuznets (US)


1970: Paul Samuelson (US)


1969: Ragnar Frisch (Norway), Jan Tinbergen (Netherlands)