John von Neumann Award

For the medal given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, see IEEE John von Neumann Medal.

The John von Neumann Award (Hungarian: Neumann János-díj), named after John von Neumann, is given annually by the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies in Budapest, to an outstanding scholar in the exact social sciences, whose works have had substantial influence over a long period of time on the studies and intellectual activity of the students of the college. The award was established in 1994 and is given annually. In 2013, separately from the annual prize, Kenneth J. Arrow was given the Honorary John von Neumann Award.

John von Neumann Award
Awarded for	Influential contributions to research in exact social sciences, effect on research directions of the College.
Country	Hungary
Presented by	Rajk László College for Advanced Studies
First awarded	1995
Website	rajk.eu/neumann-award/

This award differentiates itself from other scientific awards on the basis that it is given by students of economics and various social sciences, decided after a long deliberation process. The students select the nominees and vote for the prize-winner in the Assembly of the College after a review and debate regarding the pre-selected names.

Most of the recipients of the award have been academics working in some branch of economics - an exception is the philosopher and political theorist Jon Elster. Multiple recipients, such as Jean Tirole, Esther Duflo, and Joshua Angrist were subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Others like Gary Becker and John Harsanyi received the award after they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Kenneth J. Arrow also received the Honorary John von Neumann Award in 2013 after being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972.

Recipients

Source: Rajk László College of Advanced Studies

Year	Recipient	Institution	Nationality
1995	John Harsanyi	UC Berkeley	United States
1996	Hal Varian	University of Michigan	United States
1997	János Kornai	Harvard University; Collegium Budapest	Hungary
1998	Jean Tirole	Toulouse School of Economics	France
1999	Oliver E. Williamson[1]	UC Berkeley	United States
2001	Avinash K. Dixit	Princeton University	India;  United States
2002	Jon Elster	Columbia University	Norway
2003	Maurice Obstfeld[2]	UC Berkeley	United States
2004	Gary Becker	University of Chicago	United States
2005	Glenn Loury[3]	Brown University	United States
2006	Matthew Rabin[4]	UC Berkeley	United States
2007	Daron Acemoglu[5]	MIT	Turkey;  United States
2008	Kevin M. Murphy	University of Chicago	United States
2009	Philippe Aghion[6]	Harvard University	France
2010	Tim Besley[7]	London School of Economics	United Kingdom
2011	Joshua Angrist	MIT	United States
2012	Olivier Blanchard	MIT	France
2013	Esther Duflo[8]	MIT	France;  United States
20131	Kenneth J. Arrow	Stanford University	United States
2014	Emmanuel Saez[9]	UC Berkeley	France;  United States
2015	Matthew O. Jackson	Stanford University	United States
2016	Alvin E. Roth	Stanford University	United States
2017	Richard H. Thaler	University of Chicago	United States
2018	Dani Rodrik	Harvard University	Turkey;  United States
2019	Susan Athey	Stanford University	United States
2020	Mariana Mazzucato	University College London	Italy;  United States
2021	Matthew Gentzkow	Stanford University	United States
2022	John A. List	University of Chicago	United States
2023	Raj Chetty	Harvard University	India;  United States

¹ Received honorary prize.

See also

• List of social sciences awards
• List of economics awards
• Prizes named after people
• John Bates Clark Medal
• Yrjö Jahnsson Award
• Nakahara Prize
• Gossen Prize

References

1. Read, Colin (2015). The corporate financiers : Williams, Modigliani, Miller, Coase, Williamson, Alchian, Demsetz, Jensen and Meckling. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 134. ISBN 9781137341273.
2. "Berkeley economist appointed to a top IMF post". Berkeley News. 2015-07-20. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
3. "Arena profile: Glenn C. Loury". The Arena. Politico. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
4. "Matthew Rabin". Washington State University School of Economic Sciences. Washington State University. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
5. Bowmaker, Simon W (2012). The art and practice of economics research: lessons from leading minds. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. p. 2. ISBN 9781849808460.
6. Aghion, Philippe. "Philippe Aghion CV" (PDF). Retrieved 17 April 2015.
7. "Awards and Grants". LSE STICERD website. Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
8. "Invitation to the John von Neumann Award Ceremony organized by the Rajk László College of Advanced Studies". Corvinus University of Budapest. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
9. Saez, Emmanuel. "Emmanuel Saez CV" (PDF). Retrieved 17 April 2015.

Bibliography

• Sen, Syamal K.; Agarwal, Ravi P. (2014). Creators of mathematical and computational sciences. Cham: Springer. p. 399. ISBN 9783319108704.
• Colin, Read (2012). The Portfolio Theorists. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-230-36230-7.

External links

• John von Neumann Award at Rajk László College