Milestones in Economics
(surely still an incomplete timeline, but hey…)
I had some fun compiling this list in 2021. I tried to include a decent amount of the foundational works and innovative papers, but also spread the scope to include some divulgation works, some particularly relevant textbooks, and some works from adjacent/overlapping disciplines.
1776 Adam Smith: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
1817 David Ricardo: On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation // comparative advantage
1820 Thomas Robert Malthus: Principles of Political Economy
1821 James Mill: Elements of Political Economy
1848 John Stuart Mill: Principles of Political Economy
1857 Karl Marx: Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie
1859 Charles Darwin: On The Origin of Species // foundational work for Biology just as much as for all social sciences
1867 Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Band I: Der Produktionsprozeß des Kapitals
1871 Carl Menger: Grundsätze der Volkswirthschaftslehre (Principles of Economics)
1873 Walter Bagehot: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market
1874/1877 Léon Walras: Éléments d’Économie Politique Pure
1879 Henry George: Progress and Poverty
1890 Alfred Marshall: Principles of Economics
1892/1893 Vilfredo Pareto: Considerazioni sui principi fondamentali dell’economia politica pura
1896 Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk: Zum Abschluss des Marxschen Systems (Karl Marx and the Close of His System)
1898 Edward Lee Thorndike: Animal Intelligence: an Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals (1898, 1911) // law of effect, puzzle box
1899 Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class // behavioral and evolutionary economics
1904 Edward Lee Thorndike: Introduction to the Theory of Mental and Social Measurements // behavioral psychology and economics
1906 Vilfredo Pareto: Manuale di economia politica con una introduzione alla scienza sociale
1906 Irving Fisher: The Nature of Capital and Income
1911 Joseph Schumpeter: Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung (The Theory of Economic Development)
1912 Corrado Gini: Variabilità e mutabilità; contributo allo studio delle distribuzioni e delle relazioni statistiche
1916 Vilfredo Pareto: Trattato di sociologia generale
1919 Erik Lindahl: Die Gerechtigkeit der Besteuerung (Just Taxation – A Positive Solution) (1919, 1958) // Lindahl equilibrium, Walras-Lindahl-Wicksell
1920 Arthur Cecil Pigou: The Economics of Welfare // externalities
1920 Ludwig von Mises: Die Wirtschaftsrechnung im sozialistischen Gemeinwesen (Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth)
1921 Frank Hyneman Knight: Risk, Uncertainty and Profit
1922 Max Weber: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: Grundriss der Verstehenden Soziologie (Economy and Society)
1923 John Maynard Keynes: A Tract on Monetary Reform
1927 F. P. Ramsey: A Contribution to the Theory of Taxation // optimal taxation, Ramsey pricing
1928 F. P. Ramsey: A Mathematical Theory of Saving
1928 Irving Fisher: The Money Illusion
1928 Charles W. Cobb & Paul H. Douglas: A Theory of Production
1929 Harold Hotelling: Stability in Competition // Hotelling’s law
1930 John Maynard Keynes: A Treatise on Money
1930 Irving Fisher: The Theory of Interest
1933 Irving Fisher: The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions
1933 Edward Chamberlin: The Theory of Monopolistic Competition: a Re-Orientation of the Theory of Value
1933 Joan Robinson: The Economics of Imperfect Competition // monopsony
1936 John Maynard Keynes: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
1937 Ronald Coase: The Nature of the Firm
1939 John Hicks: Value and Capital
1939 Joseph Schumpeter: Konjunkturzyklen (Business cycles: a theoretical, historical, and statistical analysis of the capitalist process)
1944 John von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern: Theory of Games and Economic Behavior // game theory, Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem
1944 Friedrich von Hayek: Der Weg zur Knechtschaft (The Road to Serfdom)
1945 Friedrich von Hayek: The Use of Knowledge in Society
1945 Karl Popper: The Open Society and Its Enemies
1947 Paul Samuelson: Foundations of Economic Analysis
1948 Paul Samuelson & William Nordhaus: Economics // first scientific synthesis of the entire discipline, first textbook
1950 John Forbes Nash: Equilibrium Points in N-person Games
1950 John Forbes Nash: The Bargaining Problem
1951 John Forbes Nash: Non-cooperative Games
1951 Kenneth J. Arrow: Social Choice and Individual Values
1952 Harry Markowitz: Portfolio Theory
1953 John Forbes Nash: Two-person Cooperative Games
1953 Leonid Hurwicz & Kenneth J. Arrow: Hurwicz’s optimality criterion for decision making under ignorance
1953 Lloyd Shapley: Stochastic Games
1953 Lloyd Shapley: A value for n-person games
1953 Robert L. Heilbroner: The Worldly Philosophers
1954 Emile Grunberg & Franco Modigliani: The Predictability of Social Events
1954 Paul Samuelson: The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure // Samuelson condition, Lindahl-Bowen-Samuelson conditions
1954 Joseph Schumpeter: History of Economic Analysis // (posthumous)
1955 Arthur Lewis: The Theory of Economic Growth
1955 Simon Kuznets: Economic Growth and Income Inequality
1956 Robert M. Solow: A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth
1957 Robert M. Solow: Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function
1957 Anthony Downs: An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy
1958 Merton Miller & Franco Modigliani: The cost of capital, corporate finance and the theory of investment
1958 John Kenneth Galbraith: The Affluent Society
1960 Ronald Coase: The Problem of Social Cost
1960 Thomas C. Schelling: The Strategy of Conflict
1961 Robert Mundell: A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas
1961 William Vickrey: Counterspeculation, Auctions, and Competitive Sealed Tenders
1962 James M. Buchanan & Gordon Tullock: The Calculus of Consent // public choice
1962 George Stigler: The Intellectual and the Marketplace
1962 Gary Becker: Irrational Behavior and Economic Theory
1962 Lloyd Shapley: College admissions and the stability of marriage
1963 Milton Friedman & Anna Jacobson Schwartz: A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
1963 Dale W. Jorgenson: Capital Theory and Investment Behavior
1963 Kenneth J. Arrow: Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care
1964 G. E. P. Box & D. R. Cox: An Analysis of Transformations
1964 Gary Becker: Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
1964 William F. Sharpe: Capital asset pricing model
1965 Mancur Olson: The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
1965 Peter A. Diamond: National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model
1965 Gary S. Becker: A Theory of the Allocation of Time
1966 Michael Polanyi: The Tacit Dimension // it builds upon Hayek’s essential intuition (The Use of Knowledge in Society)
1968 Milton Friedman: The Role of Monetary Policy
1968 George Stigler: The Organization of Industry
1970 John R. Harris & Michael P. Todaro: Migration, Unemployment and Development: A Two-Sector Analysis
1970 Eugene Fama: Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Theory and Empirical Work
1970 George A. Akerlof: The Market for “Lemons”: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism
1971 George Stigler: The Theory of Economic Regulation
1971 Peter A. Diamond & James A. Mirrlees: Optimal Taxation and Public Production I (Production Efficiency) & II (Tax Rules)
1972 Robert Lucas: Expectations and the Neutrality of Money
1972 Armen A. Alchian & Harold Demsetz: Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization
1973 Thomas J. Sargent & Neil Wallace: The Stability of Models of Money and Growth with Perfect Foresight
1973 Stephen A. Ross: The Economic Theory of Agency: The Principal’s Problem
1973 Fischer Black & Myron Scholes: The pricing of options and corporate liabilities
1973 Robert Lucas: Some International Evidence on Output-Inflation Tradeoffs
1973 Michael Spence: Job Market Signaling
1973/1974 Gary Becker: A Theory of Marriage: Part I & II
1974 Gary Becker: A Theory of Social Interactions
1974 Anne O. Krueger: The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society
1974 Jacob Mincer: Schooling, Experience, and Earnings
1974 Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky: Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
1975 George Stigler: Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation
1975 Thomas J. Sargent & Neil Wallace: “Rational” Expectations, the Optimal Monetary Instrument, and the Optimal Money Supply Rule // policy-ineffectiveness proposition
1975 John Kenneth Galbraith: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
1975 William Nordhaus: The Political Business Cycle
1976 Robert Lucas: Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique // Lucas critique
1976 Michael C. Jensen & William H. Meckling: Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
1977 Finn E. Kydland & Edward C. Prescott: Rules Rather than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans // time inconsistency of optimal policies
1977 Avinash K. Dixit & Joseph E. Stiglitz: Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity
1978 Thomas C. Schelling: Micromotives and Macrobehaviour
1979 Thomas J. Sargent: Macroeconomic Theory (1979, 1987)
1979 Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky: Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk
1979 James J. Heckman: Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error
1980 Milton Friedman & Rose D. Friedman: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
1980 Paul Krugman: Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade
1980 Sanford J. Grossman & Joseph E. Stiglitz: On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets
1980 Angus Deaton & John Muellbauer: An Almost Ideal Demand System
1980 Angus Deaton & John Muellbauer: Economics and Consumer Behavior
1980 Eugene Fama: Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm
1981 Robert J. Shiller: Do Stock Prices Move Too Much to be Justified by Subsequent Changes in Dividends?
1981 Allan H. Meltzer & Scott F. Richard: A Rational Theory of the Size of Government
1981 Thomas J. Sargent & Neil Wallace: Some unpleasant monetarist arithmetic
1982 Mancur Olson: The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
1982 Paul R Milgrom & Robert J Weber: A theory of auctions and competitive bidding
1983 David Cass & Karl Shell: Do Sunspots Matter?
1983 Eugene Fama & Michael C. Jensen: Separation of Ownership and Control
1983 Gary Becker: A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence
1983 Edward E. Leamer: Let’s Take the Con Out of Econometrics
1984 Milton Friedman & Rose D. Friedman: The Tyranny of the Status Quo
1984 Zvi Griliches & M. D. Intrigilator: Handbook of Econometrics
1984 Robert Axelrod: The Evolution of Cooperation
1985 George Stigler: Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist
1985 Edmund S. Phelps: Political Economy: An Introductory Text
1985 Rajnish Mehra, Edward C. Prescott: The Equity Premium: A Puzzle
1985 Deirdre McCloskey: The Rhetoric of Economics
1986 Paul M. Romer: Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth
1986 Orley C. Ashenfelter & Richard Layard: Handbook of Labor Economics
1987 Fischer Black: Business Cycles and Equilibrium
1987 Alan S. Blinder: Hard Heads, Soft Hearts
1987 Robert F. Engle & C. W. J. Granger: Co-Integration and Error Correction: Representation, Estimation, and Testing
1987 Kenneth R. French, G. William Schwert, Robert F. Stambaugh: Expected stock returns and volatility
1987 Andrew W. Lo & A. Craig MacKinlay: Stock Market Prices Do Not Follow Random Walks: Evidence From a Simple Specification Test
1988 Jean Tirole: The Theory of Industrial Organization
1988 Eric L. Jones: Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History
1988 Robert Lucas: On the Mechanics of Economic Development
1988 Reid Hastie & Robyn Mason Dawes: Rational Choice in an Uncertain World
1989 Pierre Perron: The Great Crash, the Oil Price Shock, and the Unit Root Hypothesis
1990 Michael C. Jensen & Kevin J. Murphy: Performance Pay and Top-Management Incentives
1990 Sergio Rebelo: Long Run Policy Analysis and Long Run Growth
1990 William Baumol: Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive
1990 Paul M. Romer: Endogenous Technological Change
1991 John Sutton: Sunk Costs and Market Structure
1991 Paul Krugman: Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
1991 Manuel Arellano & Stephen Bond: Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
1991 Robert J. Barro: Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries
1991 Icek Ajzen: The Theory of Planned Behavior
1991 Drew Fudenberg & Jean Tirole: Game Theory
1992 Philippe Aghion & Peter Howitt: A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction
1992 Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer, Ivo Welch: A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades
1992 Abhijit V. Banerjee: A Simple Model of Herd Behavior
1992 N. Gregory Mankiw, David Romer, David N. Weil: A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth
1992 Edward L. Glaeser, Hedi D. Kallal, José A. Scheinkman, Andrei Shleifer: Growth in Cities
1992 Lawrence F. Katz & Kevin M. Murphy: Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987: Supply and Demand Factors
1992 Paul R. Milgrom & John Roberts: Economics, Organization and Management
1992 Alvin E. Roth & Marilda Sotomayor: Two-sided matching
1993 Matthew Rabin: Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics
1993 Andrei Shleifer & Robert W. Vishny: Corruption
1993 Chinhui Juhn, Kevin M. Murphy, Brooks Pierce: Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill
1993 Eugene Fama & Kenneth R. French: Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds
1993 Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg, Rebecca Henderson: Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations
1993 David Card & Alan Krueger: Minimum wages and employment: A case study of the fast food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
1994 Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Mary Norris, Zhongyang Zhang: Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries
1993 Abhijit V. Banerjee & Andrew F. Newman: Occupational Choice and the Process of Development
1994 Alberto Alesina & Dani Rodrik: Distributive Politics and Economic Growth
1994 Torsten Persson & Guido Tabellini: Is Inequality Harmful for Growth?
1994 Avinash K. Dixit & Robert S. Pindyck: Investment under Uncertainty
1994 Mitchell A. Petersen & Raghuram G. Rajan: The Benefits of Lending Relationships: Evidence from Small Business Data
1994 Jess Benhabib, Mark M. Spiegel: The role of human capital in economic development evidence from aggregate cross-country data
1994 Joel Mokyr: Cardwell’s Law and the political economy of technological progress
1995 Robert J. Barro & Xavier Sala i Martín: Economic Growth
1995 Robert J. Barro: Inflation and Economic Growth
1995 Gene M. Grossman & Alan B. Krueger: Economic Growth and the Environment
1995 Paolo Mauro: Corruption and Growth
1995 Berg Joyce, John Dickhaut, Kevin McCabe: Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History
1995 John H. Kagel & Alvin E. Roth: The Handbook of Experimental Economics
1995 Joshua Angrist & Guido Imbens: Identification and estimation of local average treatment effects
1996 Robert J. Barro: Getting It Right: Markets and Choices in a Free Society
1996 Deirdre McCloskey & Stephen T. Ziliak: The Standard Error of Regressions
1996 Graham Elliott, Thomas J. Rothenberg, James H. Stock: Efficient Tests for an Autoregressive Unit Root
1996 David Yermack: Higher market valuation of companies with a small board of directors
1996 Andrew E. Clark, Andrew J. Oswald: Satisfaction and comparison income
1996 Alberto Alesina & Roberto Perotti: Income distribution, political instability, and investment
1996 Joshua Angrist, Guido Imbens, Donald Rubin: Identification of causal effects using instrumental variables
1997 Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
1997 N. Gregory Mankiw: Principles of Economics
1997 William Easterly & Ross Levine: Africa’s Growth Tragedy
1997 Ross Levine: Financial Development and Economic Growth: Views and Agenda
1997 Stephen Knack & Philip Keefer: Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation
1997 Vito Tanzi & Ke-Young Chu: Income Distribution and High-Quality Growth
1998 Jeffrey M. Perloff: Microeconomics
1998 Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny: Law and Finance
1998 Raghuram G. Rajan & Luigi Zingales: Financial Dependence and Growth
1998 Richard Blundell & Stephen Bond: Initial conditions and moment restrictions in dynamic panel data models
1998 Drew Fudenberg, David K. Levine: The Theory of Learning in Games
1999 Thomas J. Sargent: The Conquest of American Inflation
1999 Ernst Fehr & Klaus M. Schmidt: A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation
1999 Robert E. Hall & Charles I. Jones: Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker Than Others?
1999 Jeffrey A. Frankel & David Romer: Does Trade Cause Growth?
1999 John Y. Campbell & John H. Cochrane: By Force of Habit: A Consumption‐Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior
1999 Graciela L. Kaminsky, Carmen M. Reinhart: The Twin Crises: The Causes of Banking and Balance-of-Payments Problems
1999 Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert Vishny: The Quality of Government
1999 David Card: The causal effect of education on earnings
1999 Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group: Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
2000 Robert J. Shiller: Irrational Exuberance
2000 Noelwah R. Netusil: Variations on a Theme: The Double-Oral Auction Market and Voluntary Contribution Mechanism Experiments
2000 Daniel Kahneman: Choices, Values and Frames
2000 Mancur Olson: Power and Prosperity
2000 Ben S. Bernanke: Essays on the Great Depression
2000 George A. Akerlof & Rachel E. Kranton: Economics and Identity
2000 Gary E. Bolton & Axel Ockenfels: ERC: A Theory of Equity, Reciprocity, and Competition
2000 Ross Levine, Norman Loayza, Thorsten Beck: Financial intermediation and growth: Causality and causes
2000 Brad M. Barber & Terrance Odean: Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors
2000 Christopher A. Pissarides: Equilibrium Unemployment Theory
2001 Stephen D. Williamson: Macroeconomics
2001 Jeremy Greenwood, Ananth Seshadri, Mehmet Yorukoglu: Engines of Liberation
2001 Jeffrey M. Wooldridge: Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data
2001 William Easterly: The Elusive Quest for Growth
2001 Gerd Gigerenzer: Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox
2001 James E. Anderson, Eric van Wincoop: Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle
2002 Charles A. Holt & Susan K. Laury: Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects
2002 Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson: Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
2002 Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-De-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer: Corporate Ownership Around the World
2002 Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian, Francesco Trebbi: Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
2003 Raghuram G. Rajan & Luigi Zingales: Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists
2003 Colin Camerer, George Loewestein, Matthew Rabin: Advances in Behavioral Economics
2003 Colin Camerer: Behavioral Game Theory
2004 Edward L. Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-De-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer: Do Institutions Cause Growth?
2004 Alberto Alesina & Edward Glaeser: Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference
2004 Harold L. Cole & Lee E. Ohanian: New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis
2004 William Nordhaus: Schumpeterian Profits in the American Economy: Theory and Measurement
2004 Pierre Cahuc & André Zylberberg: Labor Economics
2005 Gordon Tullock: The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock, Vol. 4 (The Economics of Politics), Vol. 5 (The Rent-Seeking Society), Vol. 6 (Bureaucracy), Vol. 7 (The Economics and Politics of Wealth Redistribution) // (collection)
2005 Nicholas Bardsley, Robin Cubitt, Graham Loomes, Peter Moffatt, Chris Starmer & Robert Sugden: Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules
2005 Philippe Aghion, Nick Bloom, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith, Peter Howitt: Competition and Innovation: An Inverted-U Relationship
2005 Adrian C. Cameron & Pravin K. Trivedi: Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications
2007 Bryan Caplan: The Myth of the Rational Voter
2007 Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok: Modern Principles of Economics
2007 Andrew Clark, Paul Frijters, Michael A. Shields: Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles
2007 Eugene Fama & Kenneth R. French: Disagreement, tastes, and asset prices
2008 Paul W. Glimcher, Colin F. Camerer, Russell Alan Poldrack, Ernst Fehr: Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain
2008 Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein: Nudge (updated edition: 2021)
2008 Philippe Aghion & Peter W. Howitt: The Economics of Growth
2008 Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine: Against Intellectual Monopoly
2009 Joshua Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke: Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion
2009 Rachel Croson, Uri Gneezy: Gender Differences in Preferences
2009 Guido W Imbens & Jeffrey M Wooldridge: Recent developments in the econometrics of program evaluation
2010 Raghuram G. Rajan: Fault Lines
2011 Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
2011 Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo: Poor Economics
2011 Thomas Dohmen, David Huffman, Jürgen Schupp, Armin Falk, Uwe Sunde and Gert G. Wagner: Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences
2011 David Card & Orley Ashenfelter: Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4
2012 Daron Acemoğlu: Why Nations Fail
2012 Enrico Moretti: The New Geography of Jobs
2013 Angus Deaton: The Great Escape
2014 William Scarth: Macroeconomics: The Development of Modern Methods for Policy Analysis
2015 Richard H. Thaler: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
2015 Alberto Alesina & Paola Giuliano: Culture and Institutions
2015 Eugene Fama & Kenneth R. French: A five-factor asset pricing model
2015 John H. Kagel & Alvin E. Roth: The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Volume 2
2016 Jean Tirole: Economics for the Common Good
2016 Robert J. Gordon: The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
2017 Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson: The Elephant in the Brain
2017 Thomas Philippon: The Great Reversal
2017 Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, Laurie Macfarlane: Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
2017 Òscar Jordà, Katharina Knoll, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Moritz Schularick & Alan M. Taylor: The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015
2019 Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo: Good Economics for Hard Times
2019 David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson, John Van Reenen: The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms
2020 Edmund S. Phelps, Gylfi Zoega, Hian Teck Hoon, Raicho Bojilov: Dynamism
2021 Alberto Bisin & Giovanni Federico: The Handbook of Historical Economics
