The medal John Bates Clark is decreed every two years by the American Economic Association with a American economist of less than forty years “which contributed a significant share to the thought and economic knowledge. ”

After the “Nobel Prize” of economy, it is the most prestigious reward in economy. Moreover, a significant proportion of prizes winner take down the “Nobel thereafter”.

The medal bears the name of the neo-classic economist American John Bates Clark (1847-1938).

Member elects

• 1947 Paul Samuelson (1970*)

• 1949 Kenneth Boulding
• 1951 Milton Friedman (1976*)
• 1953 Not decreed
• 1955 James Tobin (1981*)
• 1957 Kenneth Arrow (1972*)
• 1959 Lawrence Klein (1980*)
• 1961 Robert Solow (1987*)
• 1963 Hendrik Houthakker
• 1965 Zvi Griliches
• 1967 Gary Becker (1992*)
• 1969 Marc Leon Nerlove
• 1971 Flagstone Jorgenson
• 1973 Franklin Fisher
• 1975 Daniel McFadden (2000*)
• 1977 Martin Feldstein
• 1979 Joseph Stiglitz (2001*)
• 1981 Michael Spence (2001*)
• 1983 James Heckman (2000*)
• 1985 Jerry Hausman
• 1987 Sanford Grossman
• 1989 David Kreps
• 1991 Paul Krugman
• 1993 Lawrence Summers
• 1995 David Card
• 1997 Kevin Murphy
• 1999 Andrei Shleifer
• 2001 Matthew Rabin
• 2003 Steven Levitt
• 2005 Daron Acemoglu
• 2007 Susan Athey

(* the year between brackets indicates the attribution of the “Nobel Prize”.)