CATCH-PHRASE: Innovation-Driven Growth and Creative Destruction
Award breakdown
The prize money was divided in two parts:
- Joel Mokyr was awarded half of the 11 million Swedish kronor prize ($1.2 million) "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress".
- Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt shared the other half of the prize for their work on the theory of "sustained growth through creative destruction".


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