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Joel Mokyr
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Joel Mokyr is an economic historian, economist, and university teacher born in Leiden in 1946. He holds citizenship in Israel and the United States and speaks English and Hebrew. Mokyr was educated at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy. He has served as faculty at Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University. His doctoral student is Avner Greif.
Mokyr is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Balzan Prize, and recognition as a Clarivate Citation Laureate. He is also recognized in the Nobel Economics collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
His notable works include *The Invention of Enterprise*, *כלכלה במבחן הזמן*, *Twenty-Five Centuries of Technological Change*, *British Industrial Revolution*, and *Two Paths to Prosperity*. He has authored 31 works. His name in his native language is יואל מוקיר.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 26 July 1946
- Works
- 31
Top works
- The invention of enterprise
- כלכלה במבחן הזמן
- Twenty-Five Centuries of Technological Change
- British Industrial Revolution
- Two Paths to Prosperity
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Key facts
- Born
- Joel Michael Mokyr , ( 1946-07-26 ) 26 July 1946 (age 79) , Leiden , Netherlands
- Citizenship
- American Israeli
- Awards
- Heineken Award for History (2006), Balzan Prize (2015), Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2025)
- Education
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem ( BA ), Yale University ( MPhil , PhD )
- Thesis
- Industrial Growth and Stagnation in the Low Countries, 1800–1850 (1974)
- 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
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2025
“for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Leiden
- Occupation
- economic historian
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Employer
- Tel Aviv University
- Languages spoken
- Hebrew
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- economic history
- Image
- Joel Mokyr.png
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- date of birth
- 1946-07-26
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- Econometric Society
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Encyclopedic overview
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."
Early life and education
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