George Herbert Walker Jr. Lecture: Joel Mokyr '74 PhD

Awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, Mokyr is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University and Sackler Professor (by special appointment) at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at the University of Tel Aviv. He specializes in economic history and the economics of technological change and population change. Mokyr has an undergraduate degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. from Yale University. His books have won a number of important prizes, including the Joseph Schumpeter Memorial Prize, the Ranki Prize for the best book in European Economic history, the Donald Price Prize of the American Political Science Association, and the Allan Sharlin Prize of the Social Science History Association.