Joel Mokyr · CC BY-SA 3.0

An economic historian who spent decades studying why sustained technological progress took hold in some societies and not others. In 2025 he was awarded half of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress." Mokyr holds a professorship at Northwestern University and a senior adjunct position at Tel Aviv University's Eitan Berglas School of Economics, working across American and Israeli academic life.