Nobel laureates in economics since 2000

2007: Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory.

2006: American Edmund S. Phelps for furthering the understanding of the trade-offs between inflation and its effects on unemployment.

2005: Robert J. Aumann, of Israel and the United States, and American Thomas C. Schelling, for their work in game-theory analysis.