# Joel Mokyr

> American-Israeli economic historian

**Wikidata**: [Q2899100](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2899100)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Mokyr)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/joel-mokyr

## Summary

Joel Mokyr was born on July 26, 1946, in Leiden [1][2]. He works as an economic historian, university teacher, and economist . His education took place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University [3].Mokyr specializes in the field of economic history . He has received numerous accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Balzan Prize, the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History, and recognition as a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Clarivate Citation Laureate [4][5].He holds membership in the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society .


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6. [Source](https://clarivate.com/citation-laureates)
7. [Source](https://www.univ-lyon2.fr/universite/bourses-prix-et-distinctions/dhc)
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