Joel Mokyr
American-Israeli economic historian
Joel Mokyr is a Dutch-born American-Israeli economic historian who has served as a professor of economics and history and as the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University since 1994. Wikipedia
Born: 1946 (age 77 years), Leiden, Netherlands
Education: Yale University (1974) and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Awards: Heineken Prizes (2006) and Balzan Prize (2015)
Main interests: Economic history of Europe