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 |
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Founding director, Congressional Budget Office |
Paul Craig Roberts |
Economist |
1939 |
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The Supply-Side Revolution |
Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
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Harvard economist |
Harvey S. Rosen |
Economist |
29-Mar-1949 |
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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 |
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The End of Poverty |
Carlos Salinas |
Head of State |
3-Apr-1948 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Strategy of Conflict |
Richard L. Schmalensee |
Economist |
1944 |
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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 |
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Council of Economic Advisers, 1977-81 |
Joseph Schumpeter |
Economist |
8-Feb-1883 |
8-Jan-1950 |
Creative Destruction |
Klaus Schwab |
Economist |
30-Mar-1938 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Theory of economic growth |
Hugo F. Sonnenschein |
Economist |
1941 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000 |
Thomas Sowell |
Economist |
30-Jul-1930 |
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Conservative economist, Hoover fellow |
A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
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Asymmetric markets |
Gene Sperling |
Economist |
24-Dec-1958 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
David Stockman |
Government |
10-Nov-1946 |
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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 |
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US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 |
Phillip Swagel |
Government |
c. 1965 |
|
Bush economist |
John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
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Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
Lester Thurow |
Economist |
7-May-1938 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Transaction cost economics |
Edwin E. Witte |
Economist |
4-Jan-1887 |
20-May-1960 |
Father of Social Security |
Paul Wonnacott |
Economist |
16-Mar-1933 |
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Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
Janet L. Yellen |
Economist |
13-Aug-1946 |
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President and CEO, San Francisco Fed |
Ernesto Zedillo |
Head of State |
27-Dec-1951 |
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President of Mexico, 1994-2000 |