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The Nobel Prize to Aghion, Howitt and Mokyr: between Economics and History

Pierluigi Ciocca
November 2025 - n. 11
Keywords: Premio Nobel, crescita economica
Jel codes: A20, B20, B30

In the last two years, economists and economic historians, together, have been awarded the Nobel Prize. Through the first studies of Robert Vogel and Douglass North (Nobel Prize winners in 1993) then those of Eric Jones, David Landes, Deirdre Mc Closkey and others, including Italians, History, Economic theory and Econometrics have illuminated the links of demography, capital accumulation, innovation and growth with culture, institutions, actions, and social values. The mutual, fertile enrichment between History and Economic analysis has allowed the most valuable cognitive progress since Harrod and Solow on the «wealth of nations», the central theme of Political Economy.

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