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Peter Howitt (economist)

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Peter Howitt
Born
Peter Wilkinson Howitt

1946 (age 7879)
Canada
InstitutionUniversity of Western Ontario
Ohio State University
Brown University
FieldNew Dynamics, Monetary economics, Macroeconomics
AwardsNobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2025)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Peter Wilkinson Howitt[1] (born 1946) is a Canadian economist. He is a professor at Brown University. Howitt is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1994 and a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada since 1992. He was president of the Canadian Economics Association from 1993 to 1994. He was the editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.

Howitt and Philippe Aghion shared half of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2025, "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction".[2]

References

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  1. "Wilfrid Laurier University announces honorary degree recipients". www.laurieralumni.ca. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
  2. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (13 October 2025). "The Prize in Economic Sciences 2025" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)