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Analyser: Pristagarna ser inte tillväxten som ohotad

Årets ekonomipris handlar om tillväxtens drivkrafter och dynamiken mellan skapande och förstörelse, den så kallade kreativa förstörelsen som består i att innovation slår ut gammal teknik. Men ingen av de tre pristagarna – Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion och Peter Howitt – ser tillväxten som ohotad, skriver Expressens krönikör Gunnar Wetterberg:

”Det är viktigt med sociala skyddsnät för att den livgivande förstörelsen ska kunna ha sin gång.”

Wetterberg, som är ledamot i Kungliga vetenskapsakademien och själv var med och utsåg pristagarna, ser den kreativa förstörelsen som något vi behöver slå vakt om.

SR:s ekonomikommentator Knut Kainz Rognerud konstaterar att valet av pristagare inte var överraskande.

”I en del av förhandsspekulationerna är det många som har pratat om att fokuset på tillväxt har varit centralt i västvärlden”, säger han.

Under senare år tycks tillväxten ha stannat av – bland annat i Sverige – och därför kan det i det närmaste ses som ett ställningstagande att belöna tillväxtforskare, lägger Kainz Rognerud till.

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The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel and commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, is an award in the field of economic sciences administered by the Nobel Foundation, established in 1968 by Swedish central bank Sveriges Riksbank to celebrate its 300th anniversary and in memory of Alfred Nobel. Although the Prize in Economic Sciences was not one of the original five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel's will, it is considered a member of the Nobel Prize system, and is administered and referred to along with the Nobel Prizes by the Nobel Foundation. Winners of the Prize in Economic Sciences are chosen in a similar manner to and announced alongside the Nobel Prize recipients, and receive the Prize in Economic Sciences at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. The laureates of the Prize in Economic Sciences are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which also selects the laureates of the prizes in Physics and Chemistry. The Prize was first awarded in 1969 to Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen and Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes".

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Joel Mokyr
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Joel Mokyr (born 26 July 1946) is a Dutch-born American-Israeli economic historian who has been a professor of economics and history and the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University since 1994. Since 2001, he has also been the Sackler Professorial Fellow at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University.
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Philippe Aghion
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Philippe Mario Aghion (French: [aɡjɔ̃]; born 17 August 1956) is a French economist who is a professor at the Collège de France, at INSEAD, at the London School of Economics, and at the Paris School of Economics. From 2002 to 2015, he was the Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Prior to that, he was a professor at University College London, an Official Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Peter Howitt
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Peter Wilkinson Howitt is a Canadian economist. He is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University. Howitt is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1994 and a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada since 1992. He served as president of the Canadian Economics Association in 1993–1994 and was the editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking in the period 1997–2000. For 2019 he received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics.
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