The Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation is a charitable foundation whose aims are to promote Finnish research in economics and medicine and to maintain and support educational and research facilities in Finland. It was established in 1954 by the wife of
Yrjö Jahnsson,
Hilma Jahnsson. It supports the award of the
Yrjö Jahnsson Award Yrjö, a masculine Finnish given name that is the equivalent of George, may refer to:
* Yrjö von Grönhagen (1911–2003), Finnish anthropologist
* (1903–1956), Finnish poet
* Yrjö Kilpinen (1892–1959), Finnish composer
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and Yrjö Jahnsson Lecture series. These lectures have been delivered by noteworthy economists since 1963. 10 of the Yrjö Jahnsson Lecture series scholars have gone on to win the Nobel prize in economics, making it a top predictor for future recipients.
The Yrjö Jahnsson Lecture series
Source
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation* 1963
Kenneth J. Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow (August 23, 1921 – February 21, 2017) was an American economist, mathematician and political theorist. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1957, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972, along with J ...
Aspects of the Theory of Risk-Bearing
* 1967
Assar Lindbeck
Carl Assar Eugén Lindbeck (26 January 1930 – 28 August 2020) was a Swedish professor of economics at Stockholm University and at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
Lindbeck was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of S ...
Monetary-Fiscal Analysis and General Equilibrium
* 1968
L.R. Klein An Essay on the Theory of Economic Prediction
* 1970
Harry G. Johnson The Two-Sector Model of General Equilibrium
* 1973
John Hicks
Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics ...
The Crisis in Keynesian Economics
* 1976
Edmond Malinvaud The Theory of Unemployment Reconsidered
* 1978
James Tobin
James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard University, Harvard and Yale Uni ...
Asset Accumulation and Economic Activity
* 1980
János Kornai
János Kornai (21 January 1928 – 18 October 2021) was a Hungarian economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states. He also covered macroeconomic aspects in countries undergoing pos ...
Growth, Shortage and Efficiency
* 1983
Jacques H. Drèze Labour Management, Contracts and Capital Markets
* 1985
Robert E. Lucas Models of Business Cycles
* 1987
Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, Sen received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions ...
Rational Behaviour
* 1990
A.B. Atkinson Poverty in Europe
* 1992
Bengt Holmström
Bengt Robert Holmström (born 18 April 1949) is a Finnish economist who is currently Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Together with Oliver Hart, he received the Central Bank of Swe ...
Models of the Firm
* 1996
Paul R. Krugman Economic Theory and the East Asia Miracle
* 1999
Hans-Werner Sinn
Hans-Werner Sinn (born 7 March 1948) is a German economist who served as President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research from 1999 to 2016. He currently serves on the German ministry of economy’s advisory council. He is Professor Emeri ...
The New Systems Competition
* 2002
Alvin Roth The Timing of Transactions: Strategic behavior, and market performance
* 2005
Ricardo Caballero Macroeconomics and Restructuring in the Global Economy
* 2007
Peter Diamond
Peter Arthur Diamond (born , 1940) is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memor ...
Thinking about Taxes
* 2010
Tim Besley
Sir Timothy John Besley, (born 14 September 1960) is a British academic economist who is the School Professor of Economics and Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE ...
,
Torsten Persson Pillars of Prosperity: The political economics of state building
* 2012
John A. List
John August List (born September 25, 1968) is an American economist known for his work in establishing field experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis. Since 2016, he has served as the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Profess ...
Using Field Experiments in Economics
* 2015
Nicholas Bloom,
John van Reenen Management and the Wealth of Nations
* 2019
Daron Acemoglu
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (;, ; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish Americans, Turkish-American economist of Armenians in Turkey, Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Ja ...
, The Future of Work
* 2023
Janet Currie
Janet Currie is a Canadian-American economist and the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, where she is Co-Director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing. S ...
, Child Health as Human Capital and The Environment and Children’s Health
Yrjö Jahnsson Award
The Yrjö Jahnsson Award is a
biennial
Biennial means (an event) lasting for two years or occurring every two years. The related term biennium is used in reference to a period of two years.
In particular, it can refer to:
* Biennial plant, a plant which blooms in its second year and t ...
award given by the
Finnish Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation to European economists under the age of 45 "who have made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to the study of economics in Europe."
[
] The selection committee, chaired by the president of the EEA, consists of five members, four nominated by the
European Economic Association
The European Economic Association (EEA) is a learned society, professional academic body which links European economists. It was founded in the mid-1980s. Its first annual congress was in 1986 in Vienna and its first president was Jacques Drèze. ...
(EEA) and one by the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation. The selection committee consults all EEA fellows individually and uses their responses together with their own judgment to form a short list.
Recipients
Source
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
See also
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List of economics awards
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John Bates Clark Medal
The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." The award is named after the ...
*
Gossen Prize
References
External links
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation European Economic Association Awards
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Foundations based in Finland
1954 establishments in Finland
Lecture series
Economics awards
Organizations established in 1954
Recurring events established in 1963
Awards established in 1993