Concerning the John Bates Clark award, Beatrice Cherrier and Andrej Svorenčík write,

From the citations of the medalists from the late 2000s onward, one get the impression that all economics has indeed become applied

Pointer from Tyler Cowen.

I agree with the authors’ view of the trends. In my essay, I pointed out that in the 1970s, what I refer to as the “peak math” era, the Clark medalists had published heavily in the most mathematical journals of the time, Econometrica and the Journal of Economic Theory. The more recent winners appear very little in those journals.