List of economists
Appearance
This is an alphabetical list (by surname) of notable economists, that is, experts in the social science of economics.
Economists
A
- Edith Abbott, (1876–1957) was an American economist, social worker, educator, and author.
- Daron Acemoglu, (b. 1967) is a Turkish economist, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal.
- Zoltan Acs, professor at George Mason University, advocate of the importance of entrepreneurship for economic development.
- Walter Adams, (1922–1998), American, economist and college professor, and served as an expert witness before 36 congressional committees.
- George Akerlof, (b. 1940), American, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.
- Armen Alchian, (b. 1914), American, emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
- Alberto Alesina, (b. 1957), Italian political economist, author of many-cited books and articles in major economics journals.
- Maurice Allais, (1911–2010), French economist, and was the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
- R. G. D. Allen, CBE, FBA, (1906–1983), English economist, mathematician and statistician.
- Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner, (1874–1930), German, the first woman to become a university lecturer in Germany.
- Takeshi Amemiya, (b. 1935), Japanese, an economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece.
- Georges Anderla, (1921–2005), Czech, was a French economist.
- Norman Angell, (1872–1967) was an English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party.
- Thomas Aquinas, (1225–1274), Italian, Dominican priest of the Catholic Church.
- Dan Ariely
- Aristotle, (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
- Kenneth Arrow, (b. 1921), American economist, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972.
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, (b. 1947) is a Filipino economist who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010.
- Anthony Barnes Atkinson, British, the Atkinson index (a measure of economic inequality) is named after him
- Thomas Attwood, (1783–1859), British economist, the leading figure of the underconsumptionist Birmingham School.
- David B. Audretsch, (b. 1954), American, economist.
- Leonardo Auernheimer, (1936–2010), Argetina, was an economist, professor, and international monetary consultant.
- Robert Aumann, (b. 1930), Israeli-American mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2005.
- Clarence Ayres, (1891–1972) was the principal thinker in the Texas school of Institutional Economics.
B
- Nikolai Baibakov, (1911–2008), Russian, was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor.
- Dean Baker, (b. 1958), American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
- Leszek Balcerowicz, (b. 1947), Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland.
- Ludwig Bamberger, (1823–1899), German economist, politician and writer.
- Abhijit Banerjee, (b. 1961), Indian, economist, currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Paul A. Baran, (1909–1964), Russian, American, was the only tenured Marxist economist in the United States until his death in 1964.
- William A. Barnett, American, economist, works in chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity.
- Nicholas Barr, British, economist, currently professor of public economics at the London School of Economics.
- Robert Barro, (b. 1944), American classical macroeconomist, presently the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
- Enrico Barone, (1859–1924), Italian, soldier, military historian, and economist.
- Yoram Barzel, Israeli, economist, work in Property Rights, Applied Price Theory, and Political Economy.
- Frederic Bastiat, (1801–1850), French, classical liberal theorist, political economist.
- Kaushik Basu, (b. 1952), Indian economist, chief economic adviser to the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi.
- Ravi Batra, (b. 1943), American economist, author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
- Peter Thomas Bauer, (1915–2002), Hungarian, was a developmental economist.
- William Baumol, (b. 1922), American, is a New York University economics professor.
- Robert Dudley Baxter, (1827–1875), English economist and statistician.
- Michael Baye
- Gary Becker, (b. 1930), American economist and a Nobel laureate.
- Jeremy Bentham, (1748–1832), English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer.
- Mahamudu Bawumia, (b. 1963), Tamale, was a Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana.
- Dwayne Benjamin, (b. 1961), Canadian, economist, the managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics
- Barbara Bergmann, (b. 1927), American, forerunner in feminist economics with a passion for social policy and equality.
- Albert Rex Bergstrom, New Zealand, econometrician recognised for his work in continuous time econometrics.
- Adolf Berle, (1895–1971), American, lawyer, educator, author, and U.S. diplomat.
- Ben Bernanke, (b., 1953), American, economist, Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve.
- Jagdish Bhagwati,(b. 1934), Indian, economist and Professor of economics and law at Columbia University.
- Mark Bils, (b. 1958), macroeconomist at the University of Rochester.
- Nancy Birdsall, (b. 1946), American, founding president of the Center for Global Development (CGD).
- Kenneth Binmore, CBE (b. 1940), British, economist and game theorist, professor emeritus of economics at University College, London.
- Fischer Black, (1938–1995), American economist, best known as one of the authors of the famous Black–Scholes equation.
- Olivier Blanchard, (b. 1948), French, currently the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.
- Alan Blinder, (b. 1945), American, economist. He serves at Princeton University.
- Walter Block, (b. 1941), American, free market economist and anarcho-capitalist.
- Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk, (1851–1914), Austrian, founder of the Austrian School of economics.
- Jean Bodin, (1530–1596), French, early proponent of the Quantity Theory of Money.
- Tito Boeri, (b. 1958), is an Italian economist, currently professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan.
- Peter J. Boettke, (b. 1960), American, economist of the Austrian School.
- Michele Boldrin, (b. 1956), Italian American, economist, expert in economic growth.
- Korkut Boratav, (b. 1935), Turkish, is a marxist economist.
- George Borjas, (b. 1950), American, at Harvard Kennedy School.
- Giovanni Botero, (c. 1544–1617), Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat.
- Kenneth E. Boulding, (1910–1993), American, economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker.
- Heather Boushey, (b. 1970) is a senior economist with the Center for American Progress.
- Samuel Bowles, (b. 1939), American, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Harry Braverman, (1920–1976), American, Socialist, economist and political writer.
- John Francis Bray, (1809–1897), American, was a radical, Chartist, writer on socialist economics.
- William Breit, professor of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
- Martin Browning, (b. 1946) is an English economist. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford.
- James M. Buchanan, (b. 1919), American, known for his work on public choice theory, received the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
- Sergei Bulgakov, (1871–1944), Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist.
- Bingu wa Mutharika, (b. 1934), Malawi, politician, and the current President of Malawi.
C
- Ricardo J. Caballero, (b. 1959), Chilean macroeconomist, holds the Ford International chair of economics at MIT.
- Phillip D. Cagan, (b. 1927), American scholar and author, Professor of Economics Emeritus at Columbia University.
- John Elliot Cairnes, (1823–1875), Ireland, "last of the classical economists".
- Richard Cantillon, (c. 1680–1734), Irish-French, economist and author of Essay on the Nature of Trade in General.
- Edwin Cannan, (1861–1935), British, economist and historian of economic thought.
- Bryan Caplan, (b. 1971), professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
- David Card, Canadian, labour economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
- David Cass, (1937–2008), American, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Gustav Cassel, (1866–1945), Swedish, economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University.
- Thomas Chalmers, (1780–1847), Scottish mathematician, political economist and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland.
- Frank J. Chaloupka, American, distinguished professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Winston Chang, (1941–1996), Chinese, was a president of Soochow University in Taipei.
- Henry Charles Carey, (1793–1879), American, 19th century economist of the American School of capitalism.
- Edward Hastings Chamberlin, (1899–1967), American economist.
- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., (1918–2007), American, professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University
- Ha-Joon Chang, (b. 1963), Korean, one of the leading heterodox economists and institutional economists specialising in development economics.
- Steven N. S. Cheung, (b. 1935), Chinese, economist, specializes in the fields of transaction costs and property rights.
- Josiah Child
- Menzie Chinn
- Colin Clark
- Gregory Clark
- John Bates Clark
- John Maurice Clark
- Ronald Coase
- Jean Baptiste Colbert
- John R. Commons
- Auguste Comte
- Marquis de Condorcet
- Tim Congdon
- Russell W. Cooper
- Antoine Augustin Cournot
- Christopher Coyne
- Tyler Cowen
- August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome
- Raymond Crotty
D
- Uri Dadush
- Herman E. Daly
- Charles Davenant
- D.J. Davies
- Partha Dasgupta
- Paul Davidson
- Hernando de Soto
- Gérard Debreu
- J. Bradford DeLong
- Harold Demsetz
- Isaac de Pinto
- Pat Devine
- Armando Di Filippo
- Peter Diamond
- Peter Dicken
- Benjamin Diokno
- Avinash Dixit
- Huw Dixon
- Simeon Djankov
- Maurice Dobb
- Evsey Domar
- Peter Donaldson
- Rudi Dornbusch
- Giovanni Dosi
- Paul Douglas
- Mario Draghi, (b. 1947), Italian banker and economist who has been governor of the Banca d'Italia since January 16, 2006.
- Axel Dreher
- Jacques Drèze
- Pradeep Dubey
- Esther Duflo
- Wim Duisenberg
- Jules Dupuit
E
- Richard Easterlin
- William Easterly
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
- Richard T. Ely
- Ludwig Erhard
- Massimo Ellul
- Kenneth G. Elzinga
- Ernst Engel
- Friedrich Engels
- Stanley Engerman
- Robert F. Engle
F
- Manuela Ferreira Leite
- Marc Faber
- Günter Faltin
- Eugene Fama
- Henry Fawcett
- Nikolaj Prokofevich Fedorenko
- Ernst Fehr
- Antal E. Fekete
- Stanley Fischer
- Irving Fisher
- Jon Fisher
- William Fleetwood
- Marcus Fleming
- John E. Floyd
- Robert Fogel
- Robert H. Frank
- Jeffrey Frankel
- Bernie Fraser
- Bruno Frey
- Benjamin M. Friedman
- David D. Friedman
- Milton Friedman
- Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch
- Roland Fryer
- Masahisa Fujita
- Celso Furtado
G
- Xavier Gabaix
- James Kenneth Galbraith
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- David Gale
- Jordi Galí
- A. Ronald Gallant
- Norton Garfinkle
- Leonid Gatovsky
- Henry George
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
- Silvio Gesell
- Jayati Ghosh
- Charles Gide
- Richard T. Gill
- Victor Ginsburgh
- Herbert Gintis
- Edward Glaeser
- William Godwin
- Jose Antonio Gomariz
- George Goodman (a.k.a. "Adam Smith")
- Myron J. Gordon
- Robert J. Gordon
- Hermann Heinrich Gossen
- Benjamin Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Clive Granger
- Sir Thomas Gresham
- Stephany Griffith-Jones
- Elgin Groseclose
- Dominique Guellec
- Faruk Gül
H
- Trygve Haavelmo
- Gottfried Haberler
- Charles Hall
- Alvin Hansen
- Lars Peter Hansen
- Eric Hanushek
- Mahbub ul Haq
- Arnold Harberger
- Donald Harding
- Tim Harford
- Roy Harrod
- John Harsanyi
- Oliver Hart
- Espen Gaarder Haug
- Jerry A. Hausman
- Friedrich Hayek
- Henry Hazlitt
- James Heckman
- Eli Heckscher
- Hazel Henderson
- Noreena Hertz
- Robert Heilbroner
- John Hicks
- Michael J. Hicks
- Robert Higgs
- Jack Hirshleifer
- John A. Hobson
- Thomas Hodgskin
- Hans Hermann Hoppe
- Branko Horvat
- Harold Hotelling
- Peter Howitt
- William Hsiao
- Michael Hudson
- Leonid Hurwicz
- David Hume
I
J
K
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- Daniel Kahneman
- Ehud Kalai
- Nicholas Kaldor
- Michal Kalecki
- Thomas Kane
- Leonid Kantorovich
- Ethan Kaplan
- Steve Keen
- Timothy J. Kehoe
- Peter Kenen
- Srgjan Kerim
- John Maynard Keynes
- Charles Kennedy
- Ibn Khaldun
- Mwai Kibaki
- Mervyn King
- Robert G. King
- Israel Kirzner
- Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
- Lawrence Klein
- Jan Kmenta
- Frank Knight
- Nikolai Kondratiev
- Tjalling Koopmans
- János Kornai
- Andrey Korotayev
- Naum Krasner
- Lawrence B. Krause
- Jan Kregel
- Michael Kremer
- Paul Krugman
- Per Krusell
- Robert Kuttner
- Simon Kuznets
- Finn E. Kydland
- Vladimir Kvint
L
- Ludwig Lachmann
- Arthur Laffer
- Jean-Jacques Laffont
- David Laidler
- Steven Landsburg
- Philip R. Lane
- Oskar Lange
- Serge Latouche
- Richard Layard
- John Law
- Axel Leijonhufvud
- Leonardus Lessius
- Wassily Leontief
- Richard Levin
- David K. Levine
- Steven D. Levitt
- Arthur Lewis
- Evsei Liberman
- Justin Yifu Lin
- Erik Lindahl
- Friedrich List
- John A. List
- John Locke
- William Forster Lloyd
- Bernard Lonergan
- Max O. Lorenz
- Pascal Lorot
- Robert Lucas, Jr.
- Rosa Luxemburg
M
- Donald MacDougall
- Edmond Malinvaud
- Thomas Malthus
- Gerard de Malynes
- N. Gregory Mankiw
- Charles Manski
- Harry Markowitz
- Karl Marlo
- Alfred Marshall
- Xavier Sala-i-Martin
- Harriet Martineau
- Karl Marx
- Eric Maskin
- Richard Maybury
- Elizabeth Mays
- Deirdre McCloskey
- John Ramsey McCulloch
- James McDonald
- Daniel McFadden
- Lionel W. McKenzie
- David McWilliams
- Gardiner Means
- Sir Leslie Melville
- Carl Menger
- Stanislav Menshikov
- Robert C. Merton
- Albert J. Meyer
- Leo Michelis
- David Miles
- Murray Milgate
- Paul Milgrom
- John Stuart Mill
- Merton Miller
- Jacob Mincer
- Hyman Minsky
- James Mirrlees
- Ludwig von Mises
- Wesley Mitchell
- Franco Modigliani, (1918–2003) Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.
- Ghulam Mohey-ud-din
- Herbert Mohring
- Gustave de Molinari
- Winnie Monsod
- Jonathan Morduch
- Michio Morishima
- Dale Mortensen
- Warren Mosler
- Anu Muhammad
- Thomas Mun
- Mohan Munasinghe
- Robert Mundell
- Richard Murnane
- Tim Murray
- John Muth
- Roger Myerson
- Alva Myrdal
- Gunnar Myrdal
N
- John Forbes Nash
- Richard Nelson
- Nikolay Nenovsky
- John von Neumann
- Francis William Newman
- Stephen Nickell
- William Nordhaus
- Montagu Norman
- Douglass North
- Dudley North
O
- William Ogilvie
- Lee E.Ohanian
- Bertil Ohlin
- Walter Oi
- Nobuo Okishio
- Arthur Melvin Okun
- Mancur Olson
- Redvers Opie
- Nicole Oresme
- Robert Owen
P
- Yadav Prasad Pant
- Vilfredo Pareto
- Manuel V. Pangilinan
- Jacques Parizeau
- Luigi Pasinetti, (b. 1930), Italian economist of the Post-Keynesians school.
- Prabhat Patnaik
- William Paterson
- Edith Penrose
- Mohammad Hashem Pesaran
- Emile Pereire
- Carlota Perez
- Torsten Persson
- Douglas Peters
- Sir William Petty
- William Phillips
- Ernesto Piedras
- Arthur Cecil Pigou
- Christopher A. Pissarides
- Plato
- Michael Polanyi
- Robert Pollin
- Jean-Pierre Ponssard
- Arden Pope
- Richard Posner
- Edward C. Prescott
- Steven Pressman
- Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
- Raúl Prebisch
Q
R
- John Rae
- Rogelio Ramirez de la O
- Frank Plumpton Ramsey
- Debraj Ray
- Daniel Raymond
- Ralph Recto
- Ricardo Reis
- George Reisman
- David Ricardo
- Alice Rivlin
- Paul Craig Roberts
- Denis Robertson
- Lionel Robbins
- Abraham Robinson
- Austin Robinson
- Joan Robinson
- Johann Karl Rodbertus
- John Roemer
- Gérard Roland
- Eric Roll
- Christina Romer
- David Romer
- Paul Romer
- Raymond de Roover
- Harvey S. Rosen
- Henry Rosovsky
- Sherwin Rosen
- Stephen A. Ross
- Walt Whitman Rostow
- Murray Rothbard
- Alvin E. Roth
- Nouriel Roubini
- Raghuram Rajan
- Ariel Rubinstein
- Isaak Russman
- Tadeusz Rybczynski
- Justinian Rweyemamu
S
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Diego Abad de Santillán
- Henri de Saint-Simon
- Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqui
- Paul Samuelson
- Chris William Sanchirico
- José Santana
- Thomas J. Sargent
- Jean-Baptiste Say
- Louis Say
- Hjalmar Schacht
- Herbert Scarf
- Thomas Schelling
- Peter Schiff
- Helmut Schmidt
- John Schmitt
- Gustav von Schmoller
- Theodore Schultz
- Ernst Schumacher
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Anna Schwartz
- Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman
- Reinhard Selten
- Amartya Sen
- Nassau William Senior
- Brad Setser
- G. L. S. Shackle
- Anwar Shaikh
- Lloyd Shapley
- David Shapiro
- Neil Shephard
- Robert Shiller
- Robert Shimer
- Andrei Shleifer
- Joel Slemrod
- Artyom Shneyerov
- Martin Shubik
- Henry Sidgwick
- Miguel Sidrauski
- Cavaco Silva
- Ota Sik
- Herbert Simon
- Julian Lincoln Simon
- Hans-Werner Sinn
- Eugen Slutsky
- Andrzej Sławiński
- Adam Smith
- Thomas Smith
- Vernon L. Smith
- Manmohan Singh
- Robert Solow
- Werner Sombart
- Hugo F. Sonnenschein
- Thomas Sowell
- Michael Spence
- Piero Sraffa
- T. N. Srinivasan
- Nicholas Stern
- George Stigler
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
- George W. Stocking, Sr.
- Richard Stone
- Benjamin Strong
- Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin
- Paul Sultan
- Lawrence Summers
- Robert Summers
- William Graham Sumner
- Jomo Kwame Sundaram
- Arun Sundararajan
- Jan Svejnar
- Lars E. O. Svensson
- Trevor Swan
- Paul Sweezy
- Syahrir
- Edward Szczepanik
T
- Alex Tabarrok
- Naim Talu
- Yair Tauman
- Frank William Taussig
- Fred M. Taylor
- Lester G. Telser
- Richard Thaler
- William Thompson
- Lester Thurow
- Johann Heinrich von Thünen
- Jan Tinbergen
- Jean Tirole
- James Tobin
- Michael Todaro
- Richard Tol
- Alejandro Toledo
- Robert Torrens
- Robert Townsend
- Kenneth E. Train
- Rodrigue Tremblay
- Giulio Tremonti
- Jean-Claude Trichet
- Robert Triffin
- Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky
- Gordon Tullock
- Anne Turgot
- Amos Tversky
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson
U
V
- Alexander Van der Bellen
- Eugen Varga
- Hal Varian
- Thorstein Veblen
- Carlos A. Vegh
- William Vickrey
- Jacob Viner
- Robert W. Vishny
- Paul Volcker
W
- W. Allen Wallis
- Léon Walras
- Carl Walsh
- John Glen Wardrop
- Beatrice Webb
- Sidney Webb
- Alfred Weber
- Max Weber
- Sidney Weintraub
- Burton Weisbrod
- Mark Weisbrot
- Brian Wesbury
- Richard Whatley
- Edward Lawrence Wheelwright
- Knut Wicksell
- Philip H Wicksteed
- Friedrich von Wieser
- Clair Wilcox
- Walter E. Williams
- Oliver E. Williamson
- Ulrich Witt
- Martin Wolf
- Michael Wolf
- Myrna Wooders
- Michael Woodford
- Holbrook Working
- Randall Wright, (b. 1956), Canadian macroeconomist, advanced the fields of monetary economics, labor economics through his role in the development of matching theory.
X
- Xenophon, (c. 430–354 BCE), Ancient Greek, author of Oeconomicus
Y
- Janet Yellen, (b. 1946), American economist and professor, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
- Allyn Abbott Young, (1876–1929) American economist.
- Alwyn Young, professor of economics and the Leili & Johannes Huth Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Arthur Young, (1741–1820), English writer on agriculture, economics and social statistics.
- Muhammad Yunus, (b. 1940), Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank.
Z
- Arnold Zellner, (1927–2010), American, economist and statistician specializing in the fields of Bayesian probability and econometrics.
See also
- List of Austrian School economists
- List of business theorists
- List of think tanks
- List of Nobel laureates in Economics