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Profs Robert Engle and Michael Spence are cited as past winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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Excerpt from LiveScience -- "Economics wasn't on the original list of prizes envisioned by Alfred Nobel. In 1968, Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, donated money to the Nobel Foundation to extend a prize to economists. In 1969, the first Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded according to the same criteria used for the original prizes." Additional coverage appeared on SIgnonSanDiego.