John Bates Clark Medal
The John Bates Clark Medal is a prestigious award from the American Economic Association .
The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded to the “American economist under forty years of age who has made a significant contribution to economic thinking and knowledge”. “American” refers to the place of creation, not to nationality; In 2010 , Esther Duflo from France, who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , won. Until 2009, the awards took place every two years. The medal has been awarded annually since 2010.
The award, named after the American neoclassical economist John Bates Clark (1847–1938), is one of the most prestigious awards in the field of economics , along with the Swedish Reichsbank's Prize for Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel . Twelve of the award winners later also won the more frequently awarded Nobel Prize, on average after a waiting period of 20 years. A comparable European award is the Yrjö Jahnsson Prize , in German-speaking countries the Verein für Socialpolitik awards the Gossen Prize .
List of award winners
(Years in brackets indicate when the person in question was awarded the Nobel Prize)
- 1947 Paul A. Samuelson (1970)
- 1949 Kenneth Ewart Boulding
- 1951 Milton Friedman (1976)
- 1953 not awarded
- 1955 James Tobin (1981)
- 1957 Kenneth Arrow (1972)
- 1959 Lawrence Klein (1980)
- 1961 Robert Merton Solow (1987)
- 1963 Hendrik Houthakker
- 1965 Zvi Griliches
- 1967 Gary S. Becker (1992)
- 1969 Marc Nerlove
- 1971 Dale Jorgenson
- 1973 Franklin M. Fisher
- 1975 Daniel McFadden (2000)
- 1977 Martin S. Feldstein
- 1979 Joseph E. Stiglitz (2001)
- 1981 Michael Spence (2001)
- 1983 James Heckman (2000)
- 1985 Jerry Hausman
- 1987 Sanford J. Grossman
- 1989 David M. Kreps
- 1991 Paul Krugman (2008)
- 1993 Lawrence Summers
- 1995 David Card
- 1997 Kevin M. Murphy
- 1999 Andrei Shleifer
- 2001 Matthew Rabin
- 2003 Steven Levitt
- 2005 Daron Acemoğlu
- 2007 Susan Athey
- 2009 Emmanuel Saez
- 2010 Esther Duflo (2019)
- 2011 Jonathan Levin
- 2012 Amy Finkelstein
- 2013 Raj Chetty
- 2014 Matthew Gentzkow
- 2015 Roland Fryer
- 2016 Yuliy Sannikov
- 2017 Dave Donaldson
- 2018 Parag Pathak
- 2019 Emi Nakamura
- 2020 Melissa Dell