Money, banking & finance
An editorial selection for comparing processes, events, and lives. The interval and counts describe selected records, not the historical boundaries or importance of the subject.
- Canonical records
- 209
- Events
- 85
- People
- 101
- Processes and periods
- 23
Topics represented
Economic Sciences (156) · Nobel laureates (99) · People (99) · Nobel Prizes (57) · Money, banking & finance (28) · British Empire (24) · Companies, trade & extraction (16) · Law & imperial government (9) · War & conquest (7) · Resistance & colonized agency (6) · Colonization & sovereignty (5) · Slavery & coerced labor (5)
View distribution by region and period
| Region | Before 3000 BCE | 3000–1 BCE | 1–1499 | 1500–1799 | 1800–1899 | 1900–1999 | Since 2000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| Americas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 83 | 2 |
| Asia | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| Europe | 0 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 64 | 28 |
| Oceania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Global / no specific region | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Records and sources
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1970
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1970The 1970 award linked this prize to Paul A. Samuelson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1971
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1971The 1971 award linked this prize to Simon Kuznets. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1972
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972The 1972 award linked this prize to John R. Hicks and Kenneth J. Arrow. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1972–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Esther DufloEsther Duflo (1972–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Economic Sciences (2019). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1973
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1973The 1973 award linked this prize to Wassily Leontief. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1974
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974The 1974 award linked this prize to Gunnar Myrdal and Friedrich von Hayek. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1975
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1975The 1975 award linked this prize to Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich and Tjalling C. Koopmans. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1976
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1976The 1976 award linked this prize to Milton Friedman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1977
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1977The 1977 award linked this prize to Bertil Ohlin and James E. Meade. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1978
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1978The 1978 award linked this prize to Herbert Simon. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1979
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1979The 1979 award linked this prize to Theodore W. Schultz and Sir Arthur Lewis. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1980
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1980The 1980 award linked this prize to Lawrence R. Klein. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1981
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1981The 1981 award linked this prize to James Tobin. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1982
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1982The 1982 award linked this prize to George J. Stigler. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1983
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1983The 1983 award linked this prize to Gerard Debreu. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1984
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1984The 1984 award linked this prize to Richard Stone. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1985
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1985The 1985 award linked this prize to Franco Modigliani. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1986
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1986The 1986 award linked this prize to James M. Buchanan Jr.. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1987
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1987The 1987 award linked this prize to Robert M. Solow. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1988
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1988The 1988 award linked this prize to Maurice Allais. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1989
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1989The 1989 award linked this prize to Trygve Haavelmo. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1990
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1990The 1990 award linked this prize to Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller and William F. Sharpe. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1991
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1991The 1991 award linked this prize to Ronald H. Coase. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1992
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1992The 1992 award linked this prize to Gary Becker. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1993
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1993The 1993 award linked this prize to Robert W. Fogel and Douglass C. North. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1994
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994The 1994 award linked this prize to John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr. and Reinhard Selten. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1995
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1995The 1995 award linked this prize to Robert E. Lucas Jr.. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1996
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996The 1996 award linked this prize to James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1997
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1997The 1997 award linked this prize to Robert C. Merton and Myron Scholes. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1998
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998The 1998 award linked this prize to Amartya Sen. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.