List of economists

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

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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

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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

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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.

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