• 1969 Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen
• 1970 Paul A. Samuelson
• 1971 Simon Kuznets
• 1972 Sir John R. Hicks, Kenneth J. Arrow
• 1973 Wassily Leontief
• 1974 Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek
• 1975 Leonid Kantorovich, Tjalling C. Koopmans
• 1976 Milton Friedman
• 1977 Bertil Ohlin, James E. Meade
• 1978 Herbert A. Simon
• 1979 Theodore W. Schultz, Sir Arthur Lewis
• 1980 Lawrence R. Klein
• 1981 James Tobin
• 1982 George J. Stigler
• 1983 Gerard Debreu
• 1984 Sir Richard Stone
• 1985 Franco Modigliani
• 1986 James M. Buchanan, Jr.
• 1987 Robert M. Solow
• 1988 Maurice Allais
• 1989 Trygve Haavelmo
• 1990 Harry M. Markowitz, Merton M. Miller, William F. Sharpe
• 1991 Ronald H. Coase
• 1992 Gary S. Becker
• 1993 Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North
• 1994 John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash, Reinhard Selten
• 1995 Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
• 1996 James A. Mirrlees, William Vickrey
• 1997 Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes
• 1998 Amartya Sen
• 1999 Robert A. Mundell
• 2003
• 2004 Finn Kidland and Edward Prescott

The Nobel Prize for Economics is not awarded by the Nobel Foundation but by the Bank of Sweden. Its correct name is "Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel". There was much controversy around this price, so after the founding this price, the Nobel Foundation changed its rules so that another prize can never be added in this way.

• 2000 James Heckman
  "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples"
  and Daniel McFadden
  "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice"
• 2001 George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph E. Stiglitz
  "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
• 2002 Daniel Kahneman
  "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"
  (It is worth noting that, while Nobel prizes are not awarded posthumously, the late Amos Tversky would certainly have shared this prize for much of the work done jointly with Kahneman.)
  and Vernon L. Smith
  "for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms"
• 2003 Robert F. Engle
  "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)" ("ARCH" stands for AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity.)
  and Clive W. J. Granger
  "for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)"
• 2004 Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott
  "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"
• 2005 Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling
  "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"
• 2006 Edmund S. Phelps
  "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"
• 2007 Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson
  "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"