That assumption would change, however, and the economics prize would be fundamentally altered as a result of the selection of John Nash as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.

Since its beginnings, the prize category has been heavily dominated by Americans or by foreign scholars working in the U.S., including, in 1994, John Nash. Meet the Nobel laureates in economics ...

The West Virginia senator who knew a member of Jesse James’ gang Born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, John F. Nash Jr. won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 for his “pioneering analysis of ...