Joel Mokyr
Joel Mokyr | |
|---|---|
יואל מוקיר | |
| Born | Joel Michael Mokyr 26 July 1946 |
| Citizenship | |
| Awards | Heineken Award for History (2006) Balzan Prize (2015) Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2025) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA) Yale University (MPhil, PhD) |
| Thesis | Industrial Growth and Stagnation in the Low Countries, 1800–1850 (1974) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economic history |
| Institutions | Northwestern University |
| Doctoral students | Avner Greif, Ran Abramitzky, Mauricio Drelichman, Marlous van Waijenburg |
| Main interests | Economic history of Europe |
| Influenced | Cormac Ó Gráda |
Joel Mokyr (Hebrew: יואל מוקיר; born 26 July 1946) is an American and Israeli economic historian and the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. He is also a senior adjunct professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University. He was awarded half a share of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2025 "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress."