On October 13, 2025, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it had awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth.” In its Scientific Background paper explaining the award, the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences singled out Mokyr’s work on how “science interacts with technology” and “society welcomes change.” The Committee focused attention on Mokyr’s books documenting the role of Enlightenment thinking in paving “the way for a fruitful dialogue between theoretical and practical knowledge,” drawing a straight line from this dialogue to the Industrial Revolution and in turn to sustained economic growth. The books in which Mokyr developed these ideas are informed by economic theory, but they exemplify the historian’s craft in their narrative style, in their reliance on contemporary texts, and in the painstaking way they build on the work of previous historians. The award is indeed a Nobel Prize for history, and we think it fitting that the American Historical Association devote a session to celebrating Mokyr’s achievement, appraising the work that gained him the prize, and laying out its significance for the historical profession more generally. The panel brings together three distinguished historians to comment on different aspects of Mokyr’s contribution. Jan de Vries, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California Berkeley, will discuss how Mokyr led economic historians seeking to explain the Industrial Revolution to shift their focus from factors of production to institutions and finally to culture, pointing out how his work added appealing rigor to the concept of culture. Paola Bertucci, Professor of History at Yale University, will follow up by showing how Mokyr made the history of science and technology central to understanding the antecedents of the Industrial Revolution. Kenneth Pomeranz, University Professor of History at the University of Chicago, will then take the discussion beyond Europe and assess Mokyr’s contribution to the global history of economic development. Professor Mokyr will provide commentary.