For far-reaching analysis of the role of political and economic institutions in shaping national development
Daron Acemoglu
Institute Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
James A. Robinson
Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies, and Institute Director, The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Simon Johnson
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship of Economics and Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
For pioneering contributions to the economics of happiness and subjective well-being
Richard A. Easterlin
University Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Lord Richard Layard
Co-Director, Community Wellbeing Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, London
Andrew J. Oswald
Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, University of Warwick, Coventry
For providing evidence and models that broaden our understanding of economic behavior to include not only self interest but also reciprocity, altruism, and other forms of social cooperation
Samuel Bowles
Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
Herbert Gintis
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico