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Who will win the 2026 Nobel Prize in economics?

A thinly traded prediction market offers a starting point. We explore potential winners and the big ideas that could earn them economics' biggest prize.

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A thinly traded prediction market offers a starting point. We explore potential winners and the big ideas that could earn them economics' biggest prize. In the meantime, the week before the announcement is a great time to partake in a nerdy pastime: remembering all the amazing economics research that hasn't yet gotten a Swedish medal, and guessing who might get the world's most coveted wake-up call. One quick note: The official name is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It's a mouthful, so we'll stick with "Nobel Prize in economics." Unlike the original Nobel Prizes, this one wasn't established by Alfred Nobel's will. Other times it's because of very technical work that has given economists stronger empirical tools to study the world. Well, there's one tool that economists love for making predictions: markets. Markets can aggregate the scattered information held by countless people, boiling down what they know about the world into a single number: a price — an idea famously articulated by economist Friedrich von Hayek, who, naturally, won a Nobel Prize back in 1974. For example, take the stock market. [🎧 There is, of course, a classic Planet Money episode about this, and also about a cow.] The same idea applies to prediction markets, which have really taken off in recent years.

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From the storyA thinly traded prediction market offers a starting point.

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From the storyWe explore potential winners and the big ideas that could earn them economics' biggest prize.

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From the storyIn the meantime, the week before the announcement is a great time to partake in a nerdy pastime: remembering all the amazing economics research that hasn't yet gotten a Swedish medal, and guessing who might get the world's most coveted wake-up call.

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From the storyIn the meantime, the week before the announcement is a great time to partake in a nerdy pastime: remembering all the amazing economics research that hasn't yet gotten a Swedish medal, and guessing who might get the world's most coveted wake-up call.

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From the storyIn the meantime, the week before the announcement is a great time to partake in a nerdy pastime: remembering all the amazing economics research that hasn't yet gotten a Swedish medal, and guessing who might get the world's most coveted wake-up call.

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