| Year | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|
| 1969 | Ragnar Frisch Jan Tinbergen |
| 1970 | Paul A. Samuelson |
| 1971 | Simon Kuznets |
| 1972 | Sir John R. Hicks Kenneth J. Arrow |
| 1973 | Wassily Leontief |
| 1974 | Gunnar Myrdal Friedrich A. von Hayek |
| 1975 | Leonid V. Kantorovich Tjalling C. Koopmans |
| 1976 | Milton Friedman |
| 1977 | James E. Meade Bertil Ohlin |
| 1978 | Herbert A. Simon |
| 1979 | Sir Arthur Lewis Theodore W. Schultz |
| 1980 | Lawrence R. Klein |
| 1981 | James Tobin |
| 1982 | George J. Stigler |
| 1983 | Gerard Debreu |
| 1984 | Richard Stone |
| 1985 | Franco Modigliani |
| 1986 | James M. Buchanan |
| 1987 | Robert M. Solow |
| 1988 | Maurice Allais |
| 1989 | Trygve Haavelmo |
| 1990 | Harry M. Markowitz William F. Sharpe Merton H. Miller |
| 1991 | Ronald H. Coase |
| 1992 | Gary S. Becker |
| 1993 | Robert W. Fogel Douglass C. North |
| 1994 | John F. Nash John C. Hasranyi Reinhard Selten |
| 1995 | Robert E. Lucas, Jr. |
| 1996 | William S. Vickrey James A. Mirrlees |
| 1997 | Robert C. Merton Myron S. Scholes |
| 1998 | Amartya Sen |
| 1999 | Robert A. Mundell |
| 2000 | James J. Heckman Daniel L. McFadden |
| 2001 | George A. Akerlof A. Michael Spence Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| 2002 | Daniel Kahneman Vernon L. Smith |
| 2003 | Robert F. Engle Clive W. J. Granger |
| 2004 | Finn E. Kydland Edward C. Prescott |
| 2005 | Robert J. Aumann Thomas C. Schelling |
| 2006 | Edmund S. Phelps |