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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1999
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1999The 1999 award linked this prize to Robert Mundell. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2000
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2000The 2000 award linked this prize to James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2001
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001The 2001 award linked this prize to George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2002
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2002The 2002 award linked this prize to Daniel Kahneman and Vernon L. Smith. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2003
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2003The 2003 award linked this prize to Robert F. Engle III and Clive W.J. Granger. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2004
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2004The 2004 award linked this prize to Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2005
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005The 2005 award linked this prize to Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2006
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006The 2006 award linked this prize to Edmund S. Phelps. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2007
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007The 2007 award linked this prize to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2008
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008The 2008 award linked this prize to Paul Krugman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2009
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009The 2009 award linked this prize to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2010
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010The 2010 award linked this prize to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2011
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011The 2011 award linked this prize to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2012
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012The 2012 award linked this prize to Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2013
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013The 2013 award linked this prize to Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2014–2026
CARICOM formulates and expands a reparations agendaCARICOM heads of government approved a ten-point plan linking Indigenous genocide and African enslavement to health, education, heritage, debt, and development. In February 2026 they endorsed a revised twelve-point manifesto adding economic, environmental, and digital justice; it is a regional political platform, not a British payment agreement
2014
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2014The 2014 award linked this prize to Jean Tirole. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2015
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015The 2015 award linked this prize to Angus Deaton. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2016
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016The 2016 award linked this prize to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2017
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017The 2017 award linked this prize to Richard H. Thaler. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2018–2026
Windrush exposes the harm of “hostile environment” policyLawfully resident Caribbean people were detained, lost work and housing, or were removed after failing to prove a status the state had poorly documented. The government apologized and created status and compensation schemes; Wendy Williams’s 2020 review identified institutional ignorance of race and colonial history. Commissioner Clive Foster and rules updated in July 2026 show that redress remains open
2018
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018The 2018 award linked this prize to William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2019
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019The 2019 award linked this prize to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2020
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020The 2020 award linked this prize to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2021
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021The 2021 award linked this prize to David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2022
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022The 2022 award linked this prize to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2023
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023The 2023 award linked this prize to Claudia Goldin. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2024
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024The 2024 award linked this prize to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2025
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025The 2025 award linked this prize to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.