Factbox: The Nobel prize for Economics

Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:02am EDT

(Reuters) - Two Americans and a British-Cypriot won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded 41 times to 64 Laureates between 1969 and 2009.

Here are the last 10 winners of the Economics prize:

2010 Christopher A. Pissarides (Britain/Cyprus)

Peter A. Diamond (United States)

Dale T. Mortensen (United States)

2009 Elinor Ostrom (United States)

Oliver Williamson (United States)

2008 Paul Krugman (United States)

2007 Leonid Hurwicz (United States)

Eric S. Maskin (United States)

Roger B. Myerson (United States)

2006 Edmund Phelps (United States)

2005 Robert Aumann (Israel)

Thomas Schelling (United States)

2004 Finn Kydland (Norway)

Edward Prescott (United States)

2003 Robert Engle (United States)

Clive Granger (Britain)

2002 Daniel Kahneman (Israel/United States)

Vernon Smith (United States)

2001 George Akerlof (United States)

Michael Spence (United States)

Joseph Stiglitz (United States)
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