| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| H. Gardner Ackley |
Economist |
30-Jun-1915 |
12-Feb-1998 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1968-69 |
| Henry Carter Adams |
Economist |
31-Dec-1851 |
11-Aug-1921 |
Public Debts |
| George A. Akerlof |
Economist |
17-Jun-1940 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Maurice Allais |
Economist |
31-May-1911 |
9-Oct-2010 |
Monopoly pricing and the Allais effect |
| Norman Angell |
Economist |
26-Dec-1872 |
7-Oct-1967 |
The Great Illusion |
| Dan Ariely |
Economist |
29-Apr-1968 |
|
The Upside of Irrationality |
| Dick Armey |
Politician |
7-Jul-1940 |
|
US House Majority Leader, 1995-2003 |
| Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
| Pedro Aspe |
Economist |
7-Jul-1950 |
|
Mexican Minister of Finance, 1988-94 |
| Robert J. Aumann |
Economist |
8-Jun-1930 |
|
Game theorist |
| Roger Babson |
Economist |
6-Jul-1875 |
5-Mar-1967 |
Founder of Babson College |
| Walter Bagehot |
Economist |
3-Feb-1826 |
24-Mar-1877 |
Editor of The Economist, 1860-77 |
| Katherine Baicker |
Economist |
23-May-1971 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2005-07 |
| Samuel Bailey |
Economist |
1791 |
18-Jan-1870 |
Formation and Publication of Opinions |
| Martin N. Baily |
Economist |
1945 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1995-96, 1999-2001 |
| Dean Baker |
Economist |
13-Jul-1958 |
|
Center for Economic and Policy Research |
| Paul A. Baran |
Economist |
8-Dec-1910 |
26-Mar-1964 |
Marxist economist |
| Raymond Barre |
Head of State |
12-Apr-1924 |
23-Aug-2007 |
Prime Minister of France, 1976-81 |
| Cesare Beccaria |
Philosopher |
15-Mar-1738 |
28-Nov-1794 |
On Crimes and Punishments |
| Gary S. Becker |
Economist |
2-Dec-1930 |
|
Human Capital |
| Jeremy Bentham |
Philosopher |
15-Feb-1748 |
6-Jun-1832 |
Proponent of Utilitarianism |
| C. Fred Bergsten |
Economist |
23-Apr-1941 |
|
Institute for International Economics |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman |
| William Beveridge |
Economist |
5-Mar-1879 |
16-Mar-1963 |
Social Insurance and Allied Services |
| Rebecca M. Blank |
Economist |
19-Sep-1955 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1998-99 |
| Alan S. Blinder |
Economist |
14-Oct-1945 |
|
Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve |
| Roy Blough |
Economist |
1901 |
2000 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1950-52 |
| Jean Bodin |
Economist |
1530 |
1596 |
Six livres de la République |
| Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. |
Attorney |
18-Sep-1940 |
|
Patton Boggs |
| Michael J. Boskin |
Economist |
23-Sep-1945 |
|
Economics Professor at Stanford |
| Kenneth E. Boulding |
Economist |
18-Jan-1910 |
18-Mar-1993 |
The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society |
| David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
| Karl Brandt |
Economist |
9-Jan-1899 |
8-Jul-1975 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1958-61 |
| Andrew Brimmer |
Economist |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 1966-74 |
| J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr. |
Economist |
8-Jul-1939 |
|
President of the Richmond Fed, 1993-2004 |
| James M. Buchanan |
Economist |
2-Oct-1919 |
|
Public Choice Theory |
| Nikolai Bukharin |
Economist |
9-Oct-1888 |
15-Mar-1938 |
Soviet theoretical economist |
| Arthur F. Burns |
Economist |
27-Apr-1904 |
6-Jun-1987 |
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1970-78 |
| Henry C. Carey |
Economist |
15-Dec-1793 |
13-Oct-1879 |
The Principles of Social Science |
| Dennis W. Carlton |
Economist |
c. 1950 |
|
Economics Professor, University of Chicago |
| John Cavanagh |
Economist |
? |
|
Institute for Policy Studies |
| John Bates Clark |
Economist |
26-Jan-1847 |
21-Mar-1938 |
Philosophy of Wealth |
| John D. Clark |
Economist |
26-Sep-1884 |
6-Nov-1961 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-53 |
| Ronald H. Coase |
Economist |
29-Dec-1910 |
|
Transactions costs and property rights |
| George Douglas Howard Cole |
Economist |
25-Sep-1889 |
14-Jan-1959 |
British Labour theorist |
| Nugget Coombs |
Economist |
24-Feb-1906 |
29-Oct-1997 |
Banker, proponent of aboriginal rights |
| Kathleen B. Cooper |
Economist |
c. 1948 |
|
Dean, UNT Business School |
| Tyler Cowen |
Economist |
21-Jan-1962 |
|
Mercatus Center |
| Joseph S. Davis |
Economist |
5-Nov-1885 |
1975 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-58 |
| Jacques de Larosiere |
Government |
12-Nov-1929 |
|
IMF Director 1978-87 |
| Nicholas L. Deak |
Business |
8-Oct-1905 |
18-Nov-1985 |
Deak-Perera |
| Gerard Debreu |
Economist |
4-Jul-1921 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Supply and demand theorist |
| Kemal Derviş |
Government |
10-Jan-1949 |
|
Head of the UNDP |
| Peter Diamond |
Economist |
29-Apr-1940 |
|
Diamond paradox in economics |
| Peter Drucker |
Business |
19-Nov-1909 |
11-Nov-2005 |
Management guru |
| James S. Duesenberry |
Economist |
18-Jul-1918 |
5-Oct-2009 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1966-68 |
| John T. Dunlop |
Government |
5-Jul-1914 |
2-Oct-2003 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1975-76 |
| George C. Eads |
Economist |
20-Aug-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1979-81 |
| William Easterly |
Economist |
7-Sep-1957 |
|
The White Man's Burden |
| Alexander Eckstein |
Economist |
9-Dec-1915 |
4-Dec-1976 |
Sinologist, China's Economic Revolution |
| Otto Eckstein |
Economist |
1-Aug-1927 |
22-Mar-1984 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-66 |
| Francis Edgeworth |
Mathematician |
8-Feb-1845 |
13-Feb-1926 |
Pure Theory of Taxation |
| Douglas W. Elmendorf |
Government |
c. 1961 |
|
Director, Congressional Budget Office |
| Richard T. Ely |
Economist |
13-Apr-1854 |
4-Oct-1943 |
Introduction to Political Economy |
| Ernst Engel |
Economist |
26-Mar-1821 |
8-Dec-1896 |
Engel's Law |
| Friedrich Engels |
Economist |
28-Nov-1820 |
5-Aug-1895 |
Communist Manifesto |
| Robert F. Engle III |
Economist |
10-Nov-1942 |
|
Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity |
| Paul Erdman |
Economist |
19-May-1932 |
23-Apr-2007 |
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing |
| Ludwig Erhard |
Head of State |
4-Feb-1897 |
5-May-1977 |
German Chancellor, 1963-66 |
| Charles L. Evans |
Economist |
15-Jan-1958 |
|
President and CEO, Chicago Fed |
| Kathleen Foley Feldstein |
Economist |
c. 1941 |
|
Economics Studies, Inc. |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| William J. Fellner |
Economist |
31-May-1905 |
15-Sep-1983 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1973-75 |
| Franklin M. Fisher |
Economist |
13-Dec-1934 |
|
Economist at MIT |
| Irving Fisher |
Economist |
27-Feb-1867 |
29-Apr-1947 |
The Theory of Interest |
| Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
|
Cliometrics |
| Kristin J. Forbes |
Economist |
21-Aug-1970 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05 |
| Gail D. Fosler |
Economist |
c. 1948 |
|
President, The Conference Board |
| Jeffrey A. Frankel |
Economist |
5-Nov-1952 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1997-99 |
| Richard Freeman |
Economist |
29-Jun-1943 |
|
Labor economist |
| Milton Friedman |
Economist |
31-Jul-1912 |
16-Nov-2006 |
1976 Nobel Prize for Economics |
| Ragnar Frisch |
Economist |
3-Mar-1895 |
31-Jan-1973 |
Econometrics pioneer |
| James K. Galbraith |
Scholar |
c. 1952 |
|
Economics Professor at UT-Austin |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
Economist |
15-Oct-1908 |
29-Apr-2006 |
Modern economics renegade |
| Henry George |
Economist |
2-Sep-1839 |
29-Oct-1897 |
Progress and Poverty |
| Melchiorre Gioja |
Economist |
20-Sep-1767 |
2-Jan-1829 |
Filosofia della Statistica |
| Stephen M. Goldfeld |
Economist |
9-Aug-1940 |
25-Aug-1995 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1980-81 |
| Austan D. Goolsbee |
Economist |
18-Aug-1969 |
|
Chair, Council of Economic Advisers, 2010-11 |
| Kermit Gordon |
Economist |
1916 |
1976 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-62 |
| Henry F. Grady |
Economist |
12-Feb-1882 |
14-Sep-1957 |
First US Ambassador to India, 1947-48 |
| Lyle Gramley |
Economist |
14-Jan-1927 |
|
Former Federal Reserve governor |
| Clive W.J. Granger |
Economist |
4-Sep-1934 |
27-May-2009 |
Granger causality |
| Alan Greenspan |
Economist |
6-Mar-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006 |
| Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
| Sanford J. Grossman |
Business |
21-Jul-1953 |
|
CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies |
| Trygve Haavelmo |
Economist |
13-Dec-1911 |
28-Jul-1999 |
Economic forecasting |
| Frederick A. Halsey |
Engineer |
12-Jul-1856 |
20-Oct-1935 |
Kept America safe from the metric system |
| Alexander Hamilton |
Government |
11-Jan-1757 |
12-Jul-1804 |
Primary author of The Federalist Papers |
| Dag Hammarskjold |
Diplomat |
29-Jul-1905 |
18-Sep-1961 |
UN Secretary General, 1953-61 |
| Arvid Harnack |
Spy |
24-May-1901 |
22-Dec-1942 |
Hanged by the Nazis for espionage |
| C. Lowell Harriss |
Economist |
2-Aug-1912 |
14-Dec-2009 |
Columbia University Economist |
| Roy Harrod |
Economist |
13-Feb-1900 |
9-Mar-1978 |
Towards a Dynamic Economics |
| John C. Harsanyi |
Economist |
29-May-1920 |
9-Aug-2000 |
Game theory |
| Jerry A. Hausman |
Economist |
5-May-1946 |
|
Hausman Specification Test |
| F. A. Hayek |
Economist |
8-May-1899 |
23-Mar-1992 |
Austrian economist |
| James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| Robert Heilbroner |
Economist |
24-Mar-1919 |
4-Jan-2005 |
The Worldly Philosophers |
| H. Robert Heller |
Economist |
8-Jan-1940 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 1986-89 |
| Walter W. Heller |
Economist |
27-Aug-1915 |
15-Jun-1987 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-64 |
| David R. Henderson |
Economist |
c. 1952 |
|
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics |
| Keith B. Hennessey |
Economist |
? |
|
National Economic Council |
| John R. Hicks |
Economist |
8-Apr-1904 |
20-May-1989 |
Value and Capital |
| Thomas M. Hoenig |
Economist |
6-Sep-1946 |
|
President and CEO, Kansas City Fed |
| Douglas Holtz-Eakin |
Economist |
3-Feb-1958 |
|
McCain chief economic advisor |
| Francis Horner |
Economist |
12-Aug-1778 |
8-Feb-1817 |
Bullion Report |
| Hendrik S. Houthakker |
Economist |
31-Dec-1924 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
| Allan Hubbard |
Economist |
8-Sep-1947 |
|
George W. Bush economist |
| Glenn Hubbard |
Economist |
4-Sep-1958 |
|
George W. Bush economist |
| William Curt Hunter |
Educator |
c. 1948 |
|
Dean of Business, University of Iowa |
| Leonid Hurwicz |
Economist |
21-Aug-1917 |
24-Jun-2008 |
Mechanism design theory |
| Reed Irvine |
Activist |
29-Sep-1922 |
16-Nov-2004 |
Founder, Accuracy in Media |
| Douglas A. Irwin |
Economist |
c. 1962 |
|
Free Trade Under Fire |
| Donald P. Jacobs |
Economist |
22-Jun-1927 |
|
Dean of the Kellogg School, 1975-2001 |
| Neil H. Jacoby |
Economist |
19-Sep-1909 |
31-May-1979 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55 |
| William Stanley Jevons |
Economist |
1-Sep-1835 |
13-Aug-1882 |
Theory of Political Economy |
| Manuel H. Johnson |
Economist |
10-Feb-1949 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 1986-90 |
| Jerry L. Jordan |
Economist |
12-Dec-1941 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1981-82 |
| Dale W. Jorgenson |
Economist |
7-May-1933 |
|
Economist at Harvard |
| Paul L. Joskow |
Economist |
c. 1946 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| DeAnne S. Julius |
Economist |
14-Apr-1949 |
|
Chairman, Royal Institute of International Affairs |
| Nicholas Kaldor |
Economist |
12-May-1908 |
30-Sep-1986 |
An Expenditure Tax |
| Islam Karimov |
Head of State |
30-Jan-1938 |
|
President of Uzbekistan |
| John Maynard Keynes |
Economist |
5-Jun-1883 |
21-Apr-1946 |
Father of Keynesian economics |
| Leon H. Keyserling |
Economist |
22-Jan-1908 |
9-Aug-1987 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-53 |
| Lawrence R. Klein |
Economist |
14-Sep-1920 |
|
Macroeconometric modeling |
| Donald L. Kohn |
Economist |
7-Nov-1942 |
|
Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve |
| Tjalling C. Koopmans |
Economist |
28-Aug-1910 |
26-Feb-1985 |
Linear programming |
| Marie-Josée Kravis |
Economist |
11-Sep-1949 |
|
President of MoMA |
| Randall S. Kroszner |
Economist |
22-Jun-1962 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor |
| Paul Krugman |
Columnist |
28-Feb-1953 |
|
New York Times columnist/economist |
| Lawrence Kudlow |
Economist |
20-Aug-1947 |
|
Kudlow & Cramer |
| Simon Kuznets |
Economist |
30-Apr-1901 |
8-Jul-1985 |
National Income and Its Composition |
| Finn E. Kydland |
Economist |
Dec-1943 |
|
Dynamic macroeconomics |
| Jeffrey M. Lacker |
Economist |
27-Sep-1955 |
|
President and CEO, Richmond Fed |
| Arthur B. Laffer |
Economist |
14-Aug-1940 |
|
Reagan advisor, Laffer curve |
| Nicholas R. Lardy |
Economist |
c. 1946 |
|
Senior fellow, Institute for International Economics |
| Lyndon LaRouche |
Economist |
8-Sep-1922 |
|
Eccentric economist politician |
| Harold Laski |
Economist |
30-Jun-1893 |
24-Mar-1950 |
A Grammar of Politics |
| Robert Z. Lawrence |
Economist |
c. 1948 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001 |
| Edward Lazear |
Economist |
1948 |
|
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors |
| Stephen Leacock |
Author |
30-Dec-1869 |
28-Mar-1944 |
Literary Lapses |
| Wassily Leontief |
Economist |
5-Aug-1906 |
5-Feb-1999 |
Structure of the American Economy |
| David Lereah |
Economist |
? |
|
National Association of Realtors |
| Abba Lerner |
Economist |
28-Oct-1903 |
27-Oct-1982 |
The Economics of Control |
| Steven Levitt |
Economist |
1968 |
|
Freakonomics |
| Theodore Levitt |
Economist |
1-Mar-1925 |
28-Jun-2006 |
Marketing Myopia |
| Arthur Lewis |
Economist |
23-Jan-1915 |
15-Jun-1991 |
Economics of developing nations |
| John P. Lewis |
Economist |
18-Mar-1921 |
19-May-2010 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1963-64 |
| Larry Lindsey |
Economist |
18-Jul-1954 |
|
Masterminded GWB's tax cut |
| John Lott |
Economist |
8-May-1958 |
|
More Guns, Less Crime |
| Robert Lucas |
Economist |
15-Sep-1937 |
|
Theory of rational expectations |
| Paul W. MacAvoy |
Economist |
21-Apr-1934 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1975-76 |
| Burton Malkiel |
Economist |
28-Aug-1932 |
|
A Random Walk Down Wall Street |
| Thomas Malthus |
Economist |
13-Feb-1766 |
29-Dec-1834 |
Essay on the Principle of Population |
| Julianne Malveaux |
Columnist |
c. 1953 |
|
Pundit |
| Greg Mankiw |
Economist |
3-Feb-1958 |
|
George W Bush economist |
| Harry M. Markowitz |
Economist |
24-Aug-1927 |
|
Portfolio theory |
| Alfred Marshall |
Economist |
26-Jul-1842 |
13-Jul-1924 |
Principles of Economics |
| William McChesney Martin |
Economist |
17-Dec-1906 |
29-Jul-1998 |
Federal Reserve Chairman, 1951-70 |
| Karl Marx |
Economist |
5-May-1818 |
14-Mar-1883 |
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Mark McClellan |
Government |
26-Jun-1963 |
|
Medicare Chief |
| Paul W. McCracken |
Economist |
29-Dec-1915 |
3-Aug-2012 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
| Daniel L. McFadden |
Economist |
29-Jul-1937 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| James Edward Meade |
Economist |
23-Jun-1907 |
22-Dec-1995 |
Theory of International Economic Policy |
| Carl Menger |
Economist |
28-Feb-1840 |
26-Feb-1921 |
Founder, Austrian School of Economics |
| Robert C. Merton |
Economist |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Risk management and options |
| Laurence H. Meyer |
Economist |
8-Mar-1944 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 1996-2002 |
| John Stuart Mill |
Philosopher |
20-May-1806 |
8-May-1873 |
Liberal philosopher and essayist |
| James C. Miller III |
Economist |
25-Jun-1942 |
|
Conservative economist |
| Merton H. Miller |
Economist |
16-May-1923 |
3-Jun-2000 |
Modigliani-Miller theorem |
| Hyman Minsky |
Economist |
23-Sep-1919 |
25-Oct-1996 |
Inherently unstable markets |
| James A. Mirrlees |
Economist |
5-Jul-1936 |
|
Asymmetric information in economics |
| Frederic S. Mishkin |
Economist |
11-Jan-1951 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor |
| Wesley Clair Mitchell |
Economist |
5-Aug-1874 |
29-Oct-1948 |
Business Cycles |
| Franco Modigliani |
Economist |
18-Jun-1918 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Life-cycle theory |
| Jean Monnet |
Diplomat |
09-Nov-1888 |
16-Mar-1979 |
Worked to unify Europe |
| Stephen Moore |
Activist |
16-Feb-1960 |
|
Club for Growth |
| Thomas Gale Moore |
Economist |
6-Nov-1930 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1985-89 |
| Oskar Morgenstern |
Economist |
24-Jan-1902 |
26-Jul-1977 |
Game theorist |
| Dale Mortensen |
Economist |
2-Feb-1939 |
|
Job creation and destruction |
| Michael H. Moskow |
Business |
7-Jan-1938 |
|
CEO, FRB Chicago, 1994-2007 |
| Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
| Alicia H. Munnell |
Economist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1996-97 |
| Michael L. Mussa |
Economist |
15-Apr-1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1986-88 |
| Roger B. Myerson |
Economist |
29-Mar-1951 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Gunnar Myrdal |
Economist |
6-Dec-1898 |
17-May-1987 |
Monetary Equilibrium |
| Scott Nearing |
Economist |
6-Aug-1883 |
24-Aug-1983 |
Socialist economist |
| Rick Nevin |
Economist |
? |
|
ICF Consulting Group |
| Joseph P. Newhouse |
Economist |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Rand economist, Harvard professor |
| Douglass C. North |
Economist |
5-Nov-1920 |
|
Cliometrics |
| Edwin G. Nourse |
Economist |
20-May-1883 |
7-Apr-1974 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49 |
| Jim O'Neill |
Economist |
c. 1956 |
|
Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management |
| Shijuro Ogata |
Economist |
? |
|
Trilateral Commission's Pacific Asia deputy |
| Bertil Ohlin |
Economist |
23-Apr-1899 |
3-Aug-1979 |
Hecksher-Ohlin model of free trade |
| Arthur M. Okun |
Economist |
28-Nov-1928 |
23-Mar-1980 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-69 |
| Mark W. Olson |
Economist |
17-Mar-1943 |
|
Chairman, PCAOB |
| Mollie Orshansky |
Economist |
9-Jan-1915 |
18-Dec-2006 |
Orshansky Index |
| Peter R. Orszag |
Government |
16-Dec-1968 |
|
Beltway economist |
| Elinor Ostrom |
Sociologist |
7-Aug-1933 |
12-Jun-2012 |
Common-pool resources |
| Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa |
Economist |
23-Jul-1940 |
18-Dec-2010 |
Italian Finance Minister, 2006-08 |
| Frédéric Passy |
Economist |
20-May-1822 |
12-Jun-1912 |
International League for Permanent Peace |
| Merton J. Peck |
Economist |
17-Dec-1925 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1968-69 |
| Edmund S. Phelps |
Economist |
26-Jul-1933 |
|
Golden Rules of Economic Growth |
| Sandra Pianalto |
Economist |
4-Aug-1954 |
|
President and CEO, Cleveland Fed |
| Christopher Pissarides |
Economist |
c. 1948 |
|
Job creation and destruction |
| Charles Plosser |
Economist |
19-Sep-1948 |
|
President and CEO, Philadelphia Fed |
| Bill Poole |
Economist |
19-Jun-1937 |
|
President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| Johannes Popitz |
Government |
2-Dec-1884 |
2-Feb-1945 |
Prussian finance minister 1933-44 |
| Edward C. Prescott |
Economist |
26-Dec-1940 |
|
Dynamic macroeconomics |
| Richard W. Rahn |
Economist |
c. 1941 |
|
The End of Money |
| John Raisian |
Economist |
c. 1953 |
|
Director, Hoover Institution |
| Uwe E. Reinhardt |
Educator |
c. 1936 |
|
Health economist |
| David Ricardo |
Economist |
18-Apr-1772 |
11-Sep-1823 |
Principles of Political Economy |
| Emmett J. Rice |
Economist |
21-Dec-1919 |
10-Mar-2011 |
Federal Reserve Governor, 1979-86 |
| Alice Rivlin |
Economist |
4-Mar-1931 |
|
Founding director, Congressional Budget Office |
| Paul Craig Roberts |
Economist |
1939 |
|
The Supply-Side Revolution |
| Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
|
Harvard economist |
| Harvey S. Rosen |
Economist |
29-Mar-1949 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05 |
| Eric S. Rosengren |
Economist |
3-Jun-1957 |
|
President and CEO, Boston Fed |
| Jeffrey A. Rosensweig |
Economist |
c. 1957 |
|
Finance Professor at Emory |
| Stephen A. Ross |
Economist |
c. 1943 |
|
Professor of Financial Economics, MIT |
| Murray Rothbard |
Economist |
2-Mar-1926 |
7-Jan-1995 |
Anarcho-capitalist |
| Nouriel Roubini |
Economist |
29-Mar-1958 |
|
Dr. Doom, Roubini Global Economics |
| Jeffrey Sachs |
Economist |
5-Nov-1954 |
|
The End of Poverty |
| Carlos Salinas |
Head of State |
3-Apr-1948 |
|
President of Mexico, 1988-94 |
| Paul Samuelson |
Economist |
15-May-1915 |
13-Dec-2009 |
Theory of revealed preference |
| Thomas J. Sargent |
Economist |
19-Jul-1943 |
|
Rational expectations theory |
| Raymond J. Saulnier |
Economist |
20-Sep-1908 |
30-Apr-2009 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-61 |
| Thomas C. Schelling |
Economist |
14-Apr-1921 |
|
The Strategy of Conflict |
| Richard L. Schmalensee |
Economist |
1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Myron S. Scholes |
Economist |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
Black-Scholes options pricing model |
| Theodore W. Schultz |
Economist |
30-Apr-1902 |
26-Feb-1998 |
Investment in Human Capital |
| Charles L. Schultze |
Economist |
12-Dec-1924 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1977-81 |
| Joseph Schumpeter |
Economist |
8-Feb-1883 |
8-Jan-1950 |
Creative Destruction |
| Klaus Schwab |
Economist |
30-Mar-1938 |
|
Founder, World Economic Forum |
| Anna J. Schwartz |
Economist |
11-Nov-1915 |
21-Jun-2012 |
A Monetary History of the United States |
| Gary L. Seevers |
Economist |
c. 1938 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1973-75 |
| L. William Seidman |
Economist |
29-Apr-1921 |
13-May-2009 |
CNBC chief commentator |
| Reinhard Selten |
Economist |
5-Oct-1930 |
|
Game theory |
| Amartya Sen |
Economist |
3-Nov-1933 |
|
Poverty and Famines |
| William F. Sharpe |
Economist |
16-Jun-1934 |
|
Capital asset pricing model |
| Kathryn L. Shaw |
Economist |
c. 1954 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001 |
| Robert Shiller |
Economist |
29-Mar-1946 |
|
Irrational Exuberance |
| John Shoven |
Economist |
1947 |
|
Stanford economist |
| Martin Shubik |
Economist |
24-Mar-1926 |
|
Economist and game theorist |
| Herbert A. Simon |
Economist |
15-Jun-1916 |
9-Feb-2001 |
Administrative Behavior |
| Christopher A. Sims |
Economist |
21-Oct-1942 |
|
Statistical theory of time series |
| Mark Skousen |
Economist |
c. 1948 |
|
Forecasts & Strategies |
| Matthew J. Slaughter |
Economist |
c. 1968 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2005-07 |
| Adam Smith |
Economist |
5-Jun-1723 |
17-Jul-1790 |
The Wealth of Nations |
| Vernon L. Smith |
Economist |
1-Jan-1927 |
|
Experimental economics |
| Warren L. Smith |
Economist |
23-Mar-1914 |
20-Apr-1972 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1968-69 |
| Frederick Soddy |
Chemist |
2-Sep-1877 |
22-Sep-1956 |
Isotopes |
| Lewis C. Solmon |
Economist |
17-Jul-1942 |
17-Dec-2007 |
Education reformer |
| Ezra Solomon |
Economist |
20-Mar-1920 |
9-Dec-2002 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1971-73 |
| Robert M. Solow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1924 |
|
Theory of economic growth |
| Hugo F. Sonnenschein |
Economist |
1941 |
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President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000 |
| Thomas Sowell |
Economist |
30-Jul-1930 |
|
Conservative economist, Hoover fellow |
| A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Gene Sperling |
Economist |
24-Dec-1958 |
|
Chief Economic Advisor, 1996-2000 |
| Beryl W. Sprinkel |
Economist |
20-Nov-1923 |
22-Aug-2009 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1985-89 |
| Herbert Stein |
Economist |
27-Aug-1916 |
8-Sep-1999 |
Economic adviser for Nixon |
| Gary H. Stern |
Economist |
3-Nov-1944 |
|
President and CEO, Minneapolis Fed |
| Walter W. Stewart |
Economist |
1885 |
Mar-1958 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55 |
| George J. Stigler |
Economist |
17-Jan-1911 |
1-Dec-1991 |
Economic Theory of Regulation |
| Joseph Stiglitz |
Economist |
9-Feb-1943 |
|
Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
| David Stockman |
Government |
10-Nov-1946 |
|
Ronald Reagan's chief economist |
| Richard Stone |
Economist |
30-Aug-1913 |
6-Dec-1991 |
National Income and Expenditure |
| Lawrence H. Summers |
Economist |
30-Nov-1954 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 |
| Phillip Swagel |
Government |
c. 1965 |
|
Bush economist |
| John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Lester Thurow |
Economist |
7-May-1938 |
|
Sloan School of Management |
| Jan Tinbergen |
Economist |
12-Apr-1903 |
9-Jun-1994 |
Economic Policy |
| James Tobin |
Economist |
5-Mar-1918 |
11-Mar-2002 |
Investment behaviorist |
| Robert C. Turner |
Economist |
2-Mar-1908 |
5-Dec-1978 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1952-53 |
| Laura D. Tyson |
Economist |
28-Jun-1947 |
|
Dean of London Business School |
| Thorstein Veblen |
Economist |
30-Jul-1857 |
3-Aug-1929 |
The Theory of the Leisure Class |
| William Vickrey |
Economist |
21-Jun-1914 |
11-Oct-1996 |
Asymmetric information in economics |
| Paul Volcker |
Economist |
5-Sep-1927 |
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Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979-87 |
| Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk |
Head of State |
22-Aug-1887 |
4-Mar-1977 |
German Chancellor, 1945 |
| Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn |
Historian |
31-Jul-1909 |
26-May-1999 |
Conservative ideologue |
| Ludwig von Mises |
Economist |
29-Sep-1881 |
10-Oct-1973 |
Libertarian Economist |
| Francis A. Walker |
Economist |
2-Jul-1840 |
5-Jan-1897 |
The Wages Question |
| Henry C. Wallich |
Economist |
10-Jun-1914 |
16-Sep-1988 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1959-61 |
| Léon Walras |
Economist |
16-Dec-1834 |
5-Jan-1910 |
Founded the marginalist school of economics |
| Kevin M. Warsh |
Economist |
13-Apr-1970 |
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Federal Reserve Governor, 2006-11 |
| Robert C. Weaver |
Government |
29-Dec-1907 |
17-Jul-1997 |
US HUD Secretary, 1966-68 |
| Max Weber |
Sociologist |
21-Apr-1864 |
14-Jun-1920 |
The Protestant Ethic |
| Murray L. Weidenbaum |
Economist |
10-Feb-1927 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1981-82 |
| Mark Weisbrot |
Economist |
1954 |
|
Center for Economic and Policy Research |
| Marina v.N. Whitman |
Economist |
6-Mar-1935 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1972-73 |
| Walter E. Williams |
Economist |
31-Mar-1936 |
|
Conservative economist |
| Oliver E. Williamson |
Economist |
27-Sep-1932 |
|
Transaction cost economics |
| Edwin E. Witte |
Economist |
4-Jan-1887 |
20-May-1960 |
Father of Social Security |
| Paul Wonnacott |
Economist |
16-Mar-1933 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
| Janet L. Yellen |
Economist |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
President and CEO, San Francisco Fed |
| Ernesto Zedillo |
Head of State |
27-Dec-1951 |
|
President of Mexico, 1994-2000 |
