List of economists

This is an alphabetical list of notable economists, that is, experts in the social science of economics. There is also a separate list of politicians with economics training.

A

*Diego Abad de Santillán
*Daron Acemoglu
*Zoltan Acs
*George Akerlof
*Armen Alchian
*Alberto Alesina
*Maurice Allais
*R. G. D. Allen
*Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner
*Takeshi Amemiya
*Georges Anderla
*Dick Armey
*Kenneth Arrow
*Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
*Anthony Barnes Atkinson
*Thomas Attwood
*David B. Audretsch
*Robert Aumann

B

*Nikolai Baibakov
*Dean Baker
*Leszek Balcerowicz
*Ludwig Bamberger
*Paul A. Baran
*William A. Barnett
*Robert Barro
*Yoram Barzel
*Frederic Bastiat
*Kaushik Basu
*Ravi Batra
*Peter Thomas Bauer
*Yoram Bauman
*William Baumol
*Robert Dudley Baxter
*Michael Baye
*Gary Becker
*Dwayne Benjamin
*Albert Rex Bergstrom
*Ben Bernanke
*Jagdish Bhagwati
*Mark Bils
*Kenneth Binmore
*Fischer Black
*Olivier Blanchard
*Alan Blinder
*Walter Block
*Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk
*Peter J. Boettke
*Korkut Boratav
*George Borjas
*Giovanni Botero
*Kenneth E. Boulding
*Heather Boushey
*William Breit
*Martin Browning
*James M. Buchanan
*Bingu wa Mutharika

C

*Ricardo J. Caballero
*Phillip D. Cagan
*Bryan Caplan
*David Card
*Henry Charles Carey
*Edward Hastings Chamberlin
*Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
*Ha-Joon Chang
*Lin Chen
*Steven N. S. Cheung
*Colin Clark
*Gregory Clark
*John Bates Clark
*John Maurice Clark
*Ronald Coase
*Jean Baptiste Colbert
* Russell W. Cooper
*Antoine Augustin Cournot
*Christopher Coyne
*Tyler Cowen

D

*Herman E. Daly
*Partha Dasgupta
*Paul Davidson
*Hernando de Soto
*Gérard Debreu
*J. Bradford DeLong
*Harold Demsetz
*Isaac de Pinto
*Pat Devine
*Armando Di Filippo
*Peter Diamond
*Wim Duisenberg
*Simeon Djankov
*Maurice Dobb
*Evsey Domar
*Rudi Dornbusch
*Giovanni Dosi
*Paul Douglas
*Axel Dreher
*Pradeep Dubey
*Jules Dupuit

E

*William Easterly
*Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
*Ludwig Erhard
*Massimo Ellul
*Kenneth G. Elzinga
*Friedrich Engels
*Stanley Engerman
*Robert F. Engle

F

*Günter Faltin
*Eugene Fama
*Henry Fawcett
*Nikolaj Prokofevich Fedorenko
*Ernst Fehr
*Irving Fisher
*Marcus Fleming
*John E. Floyd
*Robert Fogel
*James Foster
*Robert H. Frank
*Jeffrey Frankel
*Bruno Frey
*Benjamin M. Friedman
*David D. Friedman
*Milton Friedman
*Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch
*Roland Fryer
*Masahisa Fujita
*Celso Furtado
*Ragnar Frisch

G

*James Kenneth Galbraith
*John Kenneth Galbraith
*A. Ronald Gallant
*Norton Garfinkle
*Leonid Gatovsky
*Henry George
*Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
*Silvio Gesell
*Victor Ginsburgh
*Edward Glaeser
*Jose Antonio Gomariz
*George Goodman (a.k.a. "Adam Smith")
*Robert J. Gordon
*Phil Gramm
*Clive Granger
*Alan Greenspan
*Keith Griffin
*Elgin Groseclose
*Dominique Guellec
*Michael Grossman

H

*Trygve Haavelmo
*Gottfried Haberler
*Steven C. Hackett
*Eric Hanushek
*Mahbub ul Haq
*Arnold Harberger
*Tim Harford
*Roy Harrod
*John Harsanyi
*Oliver Hart
*Jerry A. Hausman
*Friedrich Hayek
*Henry Hazlitt
*James Heckman
*Eli Heckscher
*Hazel Henderson
*Noreena Hertz
*Robert Heilbroner
*John Hicks
*Robert Higgs
*Jack Hirshleifer
*Hans Hermann Hoppe
*Branko Horvat
*Leonid Hurwicz

I

*Otmar Issing

J

*Robert A. Jarrow
*William Jevons
*Marshall Jevons

K

*Nicholas Kaldor
*Thomas Kane
*Michal Kalecki
*Leonid Kantorovich
*Ethan Kaplan
*Timothy J. Kehoe
*Peter Kenen
*John Maynard Keynes
*Daniel Kahneman
*Steve Keen
*Charles Kennedy
*Ibn Khaldun
*Mwai Kibaki
*Mervyn King
*Robert G. King
*Israel Kirzner
*Lawrence Klein
*Frank Knight
*Nikolai Kondratiev
*Tjalling Koopmans
*János Kornai
*Andrey Korotayev
*Naum Krasner
*Lawrence B. Krause
*Jan Kregel
*Michael Kremer
*Paul Krugman
*Per Krusell
*Simon Kuznets
*Finn E. Kydland
*Srgjan Kerim
*Vladimir Kvint

L

*Arthur Laffer
*David Laidler
*Steven Landsburg
*Philip R. Lane
*Oskar Lange
*Richard Layard
*Wassily Leontief
*Richard Levin
*David K. Levine
*Steven D. Levitt
*Evsei Liberman
*Justin Yifu Lin
*Erik Lindahl
*Friedrich List
*John A. List
*Max O. Lorenz
*Pascal Lorot
*Robert Lucas, Jr.
*Edward Luttwak

M

*Donald MacDougall
*Edmond Malinvaud
*Thomas Malthus
*Gerard de Malynes
*N. Gregory Mankiw
*Charles Manski
*Harry Markowitz
*Alfred Marshall
*Xavier Sala-i-Martin
*Karl Marx
*Eric Maskin
*Richard Maybury
*Deirdre McCloskey
*Daniel McFadden
*Lionel W. McKenzie
*David McWilliams
*Carl Menger
*Robert C. Merton
*Albert J. Meyer
*Leo Michelis
*David Miles
*Paul Milgrom
*John Stuart Mill
*Jacob Mincer
*James Mirrlees
*Ludwig von Mises
*Franco Modigliani
*Herbert Mohring
*Gustave de Molinari
*Michio Morishima
*Dale Mortensen
*Robert Mundell
*Richard Murnane
*Tim Murray
*John Muth
*Alva Myrdal
*Gunnar Myrdal

N

*John Forbes Nash
*Richard Nelson
*Nikolay Nenovsky
*John von Neumann
*Stephen Nickell
*William Nordhaus
*Dan North
*Douglass North

O

*Bertil Ohlin
*Walter Oi
*Arthur Melvin Okun
*Mancur Olson

P

*Vilfredo Pareto
*Jacques Parizeau
*Edith Penrose
*Mohammad Hashem Pesaran
*Carlota Perez
*Douglas Peters
*Sir William Petty
*William Phillips
*Arthur Cecil Pigou
*Christopher A. Pissarides
*Michael Polanyi
*Jean-Pierre Ponssard
*Richard Posner
*Edward C. Prescott
*Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
*Raúl Prebisch

Q

*Danny Quah
*Francois Quesnay

R

*Frank Plumpton Ramsey
*Debraj Ray
*Daniel Raymond
*Ricardo Reis
*George Reisman
*David Ricardo
*Lionel Robbins
*Abraham Robinson
*Paul Craig Roberts
*Denis Robertson
*Joan Robinson
*Paul Romer
*Harvey S. Rosen
*Henry Rosovsky
*Sherwin Rosen
*Walt Whitman Rostow
*Murray Rothbard
*Nouriel Roubini
*Ariel Rubinstein
*Isaak Russman
*Tadeusz Rybczynski
*Justinian Rweyemamu

*Jeffrey Sachs
*Henri de Saint-Simon
*Paul Samuelson
*José Santana
*Thomas J. Sargent
*Jean-Baptiste Say
*Louis Say
*Herbert Scarf
*Thomas Schelling
*Helmut Schmidt
*John Schmitt
*Gustav von Schmoller
*Theodore Schultz
*Ernst Schumacher
*Joseph Schumpeter
*Anna Schwartz
*Paul Seitz
*Reinhard Selten
*Amartya Sen
*Nassau William Senior
*Süreyya Serdengeçti
*G. L. S. Shackle
*Lloyd Shapley
*David Shapiro
*Neil Shephard
*Robert Shiller
*Andrei Shleifer
*Artyom Shneyerov
*Martin Shubik
*Ota Sik
*Herbert Simon
*Julian Lincoln Simon
*Hans-Werner Sinn
*Eugen Slutsky
*Adam Smith
*Andrzej Sławiński
*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
*Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin
*Lawrence Summers
*Robert Summers
*William Graham Sumner
*Lars E. O. Svensson
*Paul Sweezy
*Syahrir
*Edward Szczepanik

T

*Alex Tabarrok
*Naim Talu
*Yair Tauman
*Frederick Taylor
*Lester G. Telser
*Richard Thaler
*Lester Thurow
*Jan Tinbergen
*Jean Tirole
*James Tobin
*Michael Todaro
*Richard Tol
*Rodrigue Tremblay
*Giulio Tremonti
*Jean-Claude Trichet
*Robert Triffin
*Gordon Tullock
*Fatafehi Tupoumalohi
*Anne Turgot
*Amos Tversky
*Laura D'Andrea Tyson

U

*Kazuhide Uekusa
*Hirofumi Uzawa

V

*Alexander Van der Bellen
*Bruno van Pottelsberghe
*Eugen Varga
*Hal Varian
*Thorstein Veblen
*William Vickrey
*Jacob Viner
*Robert W. Vishny
*Paul Volcker

W

*Léon Walras
*Carl Walsh
*John Glen Wardrop
*James Webb
*Alfred Weber
*Max Weber
*Mark Weisbrot
*Brian Wesbury
*Knut Wicksell
*Philip H Wicksteed
*Friedrich von Wieser
*Walter E. Williams
*Oliver E. Williamson
*Ulrich Witt
*Edward Lawrence Wheelwright
*Michael Woodford
*Holbrook Working

Y

*Janet Yellen
*Arthur Young
*Mohammad Yunus

Z

*Arnold Zellner

ee also

*Economist
*The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
*List of Austrian School economists
*List of politicians with economics training
*List of business theorists
*List of corporate leaders
*List of think tanks

External links

* [http://ideas.repec.org/coupe.html Tom Coupé's list of the top 1000 contemporary economists, ranked by publication impact, at IDEAS/RePEc]
* [http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all.html List of top 5% of contemporary economists, ranked by current research impact, at IDEAS/RePEc]