Editing Economic history (section)

== Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economic historians ==
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}}Several economists have won Nobel prizes for contributions to economic history or contributions to economics that are commonly applied in economic history. 
* [[Simon Kuznets]] won the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] ("the Nobel Memorial Prize") in 1971 "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development".
* [[John Hicks]], whose early writing was on the field of economic history, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1972 due to his contributions to [[general equilibrium theory]] and [[welfare theory]].
* [[W. Arthur Lewis|Arthur Lewis]] won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1979 for his contributions in the field of [[economic development]] through historical context.
* [[Milton Friedman]] won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1976 for "his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy".
* [[Robert Fogel]] and [[Douglass North]] won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1993 for "having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change".
* [[Claudia Goldin]], who won the Nobel in 2023 for 'having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes', began her career researching the history of the US southern economy and was President of the Economic History Association in 1999/2000.