Who was the first Nobel prize winner for economics?
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch
Laureates in the Memorial Prize in Economics are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[12][13] It was first awarded in 1969 to the Dutch and Norwegian economists Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch, "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes".[9][14][15]