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Joel Mokyr
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Joel Mokyr

Author · born July 26, 1946

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Joel Mokyr is an American and Israeli economic historian and the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. He is also a senior adjunct professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~34Named Guggenheim Fellowship1980
  2. ~69Received the Balzan Prize2015
  3. ~79Received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2025

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