The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1993
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Robert W. Fogel
Prize share: 1/2
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Douglass C. North
Prize share: 1/2
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1993 was awarded jointly to Robert W. Fogel and Douglass C. North "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"
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