Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

The Princess of Asturias Awards for Social Sciences (Prince of Asturias Awards for Social Sciences until 2014) have been awarded, since 1981, to a person, group of people or Institution whose creative or research work in the fields of Anthropology, Law, Economics, Geography, History, Psychology, Sociology and other Social Sciences represents a relevant contribution to their development for the benefit of Humanity.

List of winners

Year	Awarded	Activity	Nationality
1981	Román Perpiñá Grau	Economista	SpainSpain
1982	Antonio Domínguez Ortiz	Historian	SpainSpain
1983	Julio Caro Baroja	Anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist	SpainSpain
1984	Eduardo García de Enterría	Jurist	SpainSpain
1985	Ramón Carande	Historian and economist	SpainSpain
1986	José Luis Pinillos	Psychologist	SpainSpain
1987	Juan José Linz	Politologist	SpainSpain
1988	Luis Díez del Corral Luis Sánchez Agesta	Jurist and Polythologist Politics, jurist and historian	SpainSpain
1989	Enrique Fuentes Quintana	Economista	SpainSpain
1990	Rodrigo Uría González	Jurist	SpainSpain
1991	Miguel Artola Gallego	Historian	SpainSpain
1992	Juan Velarde Fuertes	Economista	SpainSpain
1993	Silvio Zavala	Historian and diplomat	Mexico Mexico
1994	Aurelio Menéndez	Jurist	SpainSpain
1995	Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão	Historian	Portugal
	Miquel Batllori	Priest and historian	SpainSpain
1996	John Huxtable Elliott	Historian and Hispanicist	United KingdomUnited Kingdom
1997	Martin de Riquer	Writer and philologist	SpainSpain
1998	Pierre Werner Jacques Santer	Political	LuxembourgLuxembourg
1999	Raymond Carr	Historian and Hispanicist	United KingdomUnited Kingdom
2000	Carlo Maria Martini	Cardinal	ItalyItaly
2001	Juan Iglesias Santos	Jurist	SpainSpain
	The College of Mexico	Institution of higher education and research in social sciences and humanities	Mexico Mexico
2002	Anthony Giddens	Sociologist	United KingdomUnited Kingdom
2003	Jürgen Habermas	Philosopher and sociologist	GermanyGermany
2004	Paul Krugman	Economist and journalist	United States
2005	Giovanni Sartori	Politologist	ItalyItaly
2006	Mary Robinson	Policy and counsel	Ireland
2007	Ralf Dahrendorf	Sociologist, philosopher, political and political	GermanyGermany
2008	Tzvetan Todorov	Linguistic, philosopher, historian, critic and literary theorist	BulgariaBulgaria France
2009	David Attenborough	Naturalist	United KingdomUnited Kingdom
2010	Archaeological equipment discovered by the Terracotta Warriors	Archaeology	ChinaChina
2011	Howard Gardner	Psychologist	United States
2012	Martha Nussbaum	Philosopher	United States
2013	Saskia Sassen	sociologist	NetherlandsNetherlands
2014	Joseph Pérez	Historian and Hispanicist	France
2015	Esther Duflo	Economista	France
2016	Mary Beard	Historian and academic specializing in classic studies	United KingdomUnited Kingdom
2017	Karen Armstrong	Writer	United KingdomUnited Kingdom
2018	Michael J. Sandel	Philosopher	United States
2019	Alejandro Portes	Sociologist	CubaCuba United States
2020	Dani Rodrik	Economista	TurkeyTurkey
2021	Amartya Sen	Economista	India
2022	Eduardo Matos Moctezuma	Archaeologist	Mexico Mexico

Award winners by country

Country	Number of awards
SpainSpain	16
United KingdomUnited Kingdom	6
United States	5
France	3
Mexico Mexico	3
GermanyGermany	2
ItalyItaly	2
BulgariaBulgaria	1
ChinaChina	1
CubaCuba	1
India	1
Ireland	1
LuxembourgLuxembourg	1
NetherlandsNetherlands	1
Portugal	1
TurkeyTurkey	1