Joel Mokyr's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

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Joel Mokyr (Hebrew: יואל מוקיר; born 26 July 1946) is an American and Israeli economic historian and the Robert H. The birth-card coordinate for July 26 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2025 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2025 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress

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Joel Mokyr in the public record

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. He was awarded half a share of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2025 "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress." Joel Mokyr was born in Leiden, Netherlands, in 1946. He was born into a family of Dutch Jews who had survived the Holocaust. His father Salomon Mok, a civil servant, died of cancer when Mokyr was one year old. In 1955, he immigrated to Israel as a child with his mother Gonda Mok (née Jakobs), and grew up in Haifa. He received a B.A. in economics and history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1968. He then received an M.Phil. in economics from Yale University in 1972, and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1974.

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Joel Mokyr (Hebrew: יואל מוקיר; born 26 July 1946) is an American and Israeli economic historian and the Robert H.

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Also on the record

1. His dissertation was titled Industrial Growth and Stagnation in the Low Countries, 1800–1850.
2. A revised version was published in 1976 by Yale University Press.
3. Mokyr was an acting instructor at Yale University between 1972 and 1973, and became an assistant professor at Northwestern University in 1974, where he has remained ever since.
4. He has been the editor-in-chief of the Princeton Economic History of the Western World (a book series published by Princeton University Press), the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (5 volumes, 2003), and was a co-editor of the Journal of Economic History.

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• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• Edmund S. Phelps — 2006 Economic Sciences
• Elfriede Jelinek — 2004 Literature
• F. Sherwood Rowland — 1995 Chemistry
• George Bernard Shaw — 1925 Literature
• George Wald — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
• 11 more laureates share this card.

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