The Economic Sciences Prize Committee is the prize committee for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences,[1] and fills the same role as the Nobel Committees do for the Nobel Prizes. This means that the committee is responsible for proposing laureates for the prize.[2] The Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It usually consists of Swedish professors of economics or related subjects who are members of the academy, although the academy in principle could appoint anyone to the committee. Two of the members of the founding committee as well as later members of the committee had also been associated with the Mont Pelerin Society.[3]
The committee is a working body without decision power, and the final decision to award the prize is taken by the entire Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, after having a first discussion in the academy's Class for Social Sciences.[2]
The secretary takes part in Prize Committee meetings but cannot vote (by right). Unless, however, he or she has also been appointed as a Prize Committee full member—which entails the right to vote. (On a number of occasions, individuals have held both appointments.)
| Name | Years | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bertil Ohlin | Chairman 1969–1974 | Stockholm School of Economics | |
| Erik Lundberg | 1969–1979 Chairman 1975–1979 Associate member 1980– | Stockholm School of Economics | |
| Ingvar Svennilson | 1969–1971 | University of Stockholm | |
| Herman Wold | 1969–1980 | University of Uppsala University of Gothenburg | |
| Assar Lindbeck | 1969–1994 Chairman 1980–1994[4] | University of Stockholm | |
| Ragnar Bentzel | 1975–1990 Secretary 1969–1980, 1982– | University of Uppsala | |
| Sune Carlson | 1972–1979 Associate member 1980– | University of Uppsala | |
| Lars Werin | 1980– Secretary 1981 Associate member 1975–1979 | University of Stockholm | |
| Ingemar Ståhl | 1980– | University of Lund | |
| Karl-Göran Mäler | 1981– | Stockholm School of Economics |
| Name | Years | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jörgen Weibull | 1998–2007Chairman 2004–2007[8] | A.O. Wallenberg Professor of Economics Stockholm School of Economics | |
| Peter Englund | 1993–1995 Secretary 1996–1997, 2002–[9] | Professor of Banking and Insurance Stockholm School of Economics | |
| Lars Calmfors | 1996–1998, 2003–2007[10] | Professor of International Economics Stockholm University | |
| Bertil Näslund | 1999[11] | Professor Stockholm School of Economics | |
| Per Krusell | 2003–Adjunct member 2003–2004[12] | Professor of Economics Princeton University | |
| Karl-Gustaf Löfgren | 2002–2007 Associate member 1993–1995 | Professor of Economics Umeå University | |
| Timo Teräsvirta | 2003?- | Professor of Economic Statistics (emeritus) Stockholm School of Economics Professor of Econometrics School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus[13] | |
| Bertil Holmlund | Adjunct member 1998–2001, 2005–2006 Chairman 2008[14] | Professor of Economics Uppsala University |