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Joel Mokier

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Joel Mokyr (English: Joel Mokyr; born July 26, 1946) is a Dutch-born Israeli-American economic historian who has served as Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University since 1994 and as the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences. Since 2001, he has been a research scholar at the Sackler Professor Etan Bergras School of Economics at Tel Aviv University. In 2025, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Category
Scholars
Nationality
Israel
Born
1946-07-26
Wikidata
Q2899100
Occupations economic historianuniversity teachereconomistnobel prize winnerhistorian
Aliases Joel MokyrJoel Mokier

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