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This is a list of economists who are also politicians, statesman, central bankers, entrepreneurs, journalists, world leaders, and other notable persons with an academic background in economics.... .
Diego Abad de Santill?n , born Sinesio Vaudilio Garc?a Fern?ndez, was an author, economist and leading figure in the Anarchism in Spain and Argentina anarchism movements....
Edith Abbott was an United States economist, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Her younger sister was Grace Abbott....
Kamer Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish-American economist. He is currently the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal....
Zoltan J. Acs is a leading advocate of the importance of entrepreneurship for economic development.Dr. Zoltan J. Acs is University Professor at , where he teaches in the and directs the Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy....
George Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics ....
Armen Albert Alchian is an United States economist and an emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles.Alchian was born into an Armenian-American family....
Maurice F?lix Charles Allais is a French economist, and was the 1988 winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources."...
Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, Order of the British Empire, British Academy was an English economics, mathematician and statistician.Roy Allen was born in Worcester, England and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, from which he won a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge....
Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner was the first woman to become a university lecturer in Germany.In 1904, she received a doctorate in Zurich, Switzerland....
is an economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece.Amemiya is the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics and a Professor of Classics at Stanford University....
Richard Keith "Dick" Armey is a former United States House of Representatives from Texas's and Party Leaders of the United States House of Representatives ....
Kenneth Joseph Arrow is an United States economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to receive this award, at 51....
Thomas Attwood , was a British economist and strong campaigner for electoral reform.He was born in Halesowen, and attended Halesowen Grammar School before being moved to Wolverhampton Grammar School....
David Bruce Audretsch is an United States economist. He is currently the Director-general of the research unit Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena in Germany....
Robert John Aumann is an Israeli mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel....
Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor. He finished secondary school in 1928 and entered the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, from which he graduated in 1931 as a mining engineer....
Haydar Bas is a Turkey politician associated with the Independent Turkey Party , party, which polled at 0.5% in both the 2002 and 2007 Turkish general elections....
Dean Baker is an United States macroeconomist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He previously was a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University....
Leszek Balcerowicz is a Poland economist and the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland. He is famous for implementing the Polish economic transformation program, commonly known as shock therapy in the 1990s....
Paul A. Baran was an American economics known for his Marxist views.Baran was born in Russia. His father, a Menshevik, left the USSR for Vilna, in 1917....
William Arnold Barnett is an United States economist whose current work is in the field of chaos theory, bifurcation, and nonlinearity in socioeconomic contexts, as well as the study of the aggregation problem....
Robert Joseph Barro is an United States classical liberal macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to RePEc....
Yoram Barzel is an Israel economist and a professor of economics at the University of Washington. He is interested in Property Rights, Applied Price Theory, and Political Economy....
Kaushik Basu is an Indian economist. He is the C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University....
Raveendra N. Batra is a United States economics and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is best known for his best selling books The Great Depression of 1990 and Surviving the Great Depression of 1990....
Peter Thomas Bauer, Baron Bauer was a Development economics. Bauer is best remembered for his opposition to the widely-held notion that the most effective manner to help Developing country advance is through state-controlled foreign aid....
Yoram Bauman is an United States economist.He grew up in San Francisco and went to graduate school at the University of Washington where he received a Ph.D....
William Jack Baumol is a New York University economics professor who has written extensively about labor market and other economic factors that affect the economy....
Robert Dudley Baxter was an England economist and statistician born in Doncaster. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge....
Gary Stanley Becker is an United States economist and a Nobel laureate. Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Becker earned a B.A. at Princeton University in 1951 and a Ph.D....
Mahamudu Bawumia , Ghanaian economist until his nomination as Vice Presidential candidate for New patriotic Party was Deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana....
Dwayne Benjamin is a Canadian economist and member of the University of Toronto faculty.Benjamin is currently the managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and an associate editor of the journal Economic Development and Cultural Change....
Albert Rex Bergstrom was a distinguished New Zealand econometrician recognised for his work in continuous time econometrics. He was born on 9 July 1925 in Christchurch where he attended Christchurch School for Boys....
Ben Shalom Bernanke is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States Federal Reserve. Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan on February 1, 2006....
Mark Bils is a macroeconomics at the University of Rochester. Like most macroeconomists, Bils is interested in the business cycle and has written extensively on it....
Kenneth George "Ken" Binmore is a well-known economist, and game theory. He is one of the founders of the modern economic theory of Nash bargaining solution , and has made important contributions to the foundations of game theory, experimental economics, and evolutionary game theory, as well as to analytical philosophy....
Olivier Jean Blanchard is currently the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, a post he has held since September 1, 2008. He is also the...
Alan Stuart Blinder is an United States economist, a chair professor in the Economics Department of Princeton University and co-director of Princeton?s Center for Economic Policy Studies, which he founded in 1990....
Korkut Boratav is a Turkish people economist.Boratav was born in Konya. After his graduation from Ankara Gazi Lycee in 1955, he continued his studies at Ankara University, Law School....
Giovanni Botero was an Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat, best known for his 1589 work The Reason of State. In this work, he argued against the amoral political philosophy associated with Niccol? Machiavelli's The Prince, not only because it lacked a Christian foundation but also because it simply did not work....
Kenneth Ewart Boulding was an economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher....
Heather Boushey is a senior economist with the Center for American Progress. She was formerly a Senior Economist with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S....
Martin Browning is an English native. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.Browning received his undergraduate education at the London School of Economics....
James McGill Buchanan, Jr. is an United States economist renowned for his work on public choice theory, for which he won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics....
His Excellency Dr Bingu wa Mutharika is a Malawi economist, politician, and the current President of Malawi. He took office on May 24, 2004, after winning a disputed Malawi general election, 2004....
Bryan Caplan is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He received his B.S. in economics from University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D....
David Edward Card is a Canada labor economics economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.Card earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University in 1978 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Economics in 1983 from Princeton University....
Henry Charles Carey , a leading 19th century economist of the American School of capitalism. He is now best known for the book The Harmony of Interests, to compare and contrast what he called the "British System" of laissez faire free trade capitalism with the "American System" of developmental capitalism, through tariff protect...
Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations....
'Ha-Joon Chang' is one of the world's foremost heterodox economics specialising in development economics. Trained at the University of Cambridge, where he currently works as a Reader in the Political Economy of Development, Chang is the author of several influential policy books, including 2002's Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strateg...
Steven Ng-Sheong Cheung , a Hong Kong born economist, specializes in the fields of transaction costs and property rights. He is also the most expensive columnist in Hong Kong....
Menzie David Chinn is a professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.He received a PhD degree in economics from the University of California at Berkely and was a former senior economist with the White House Council of Economic Advisors ....
Colin Grant Clark was a United Kingdom economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and who pioneered the use of the gross national product as the basis for studying national economies....
John Bates Clark was an American neo-classical economics economist. He was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutional economics, and spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University....
John Maurice Clark was an United States of America economist whose work combined the rigor of traditional economic analysis with an Institutional economics attitude....
Russell W. Cooper is an American macroeconomist who is the Fred Hofheinz Professor of Economics at the University of Texas, Austin. He has previously held academic positions at Yale University, the University of Iowa, and Boston University....
Christopher Coyne is an Assistant Professor of Economics at West Virginia University. He is also the North American Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center....
Tyler Cowen occupies the Holbert C. Harris Chair of economics as a professor at George Mason University and is co-author, with Alex Tabarrok, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution ....
Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society, is the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge....
Hernando de Soto Polar is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of property rights. He is the president of Peru's Institute for Liberty and Democracy , located in Lima....
G?rard Debreu was a France economist and mathematician. In July 1975, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics....
James Bradford DeLong commonly known as Brad DeLong, is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration....
Isaac de Pinto was a History of the Jews in the Netherlands of Portugal origin, a scholar and one of the main investors in the Dutch East India Company....
Pat Devine is a radical economist concerned mainly with industrial economics and comparative economic systems. He made one of the most thorough descriptions of a future economy where allocation is done by democratic planning and social ownership without any social division of labour ....
Armando Di Filippo is an Argentina economist, an economic science faculty member at the University of Rosario and Mag?ster in economic science at the University of Chile....
Peter Arthur Diamond is an United States economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s....
Willem Frederik Duisenberg, commonly known as Wim Duisenberg, was a Netherlands banker and politician. The first president of the European Central Bank , he was instrumental in the introduction of the euro in twelve European countries in 2002....
Simeon Djankov is the chief economist of the finance and private sector vice-presidency of the World Bank. In his thirteen years at the World Bank, he has worked on regional trade agreements in North Africa, enterprise restructuring and privatization in transition economies, corporate governance in East Asia, and regulatory reforms around the...
Maurice Herbert Dobb , was a British economist, and a lecturer 1924-1959 and Reader 1959-1976 at University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1948-1976....
Giovanni Dosi is Professor of Economics at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa , where he also coordinates the Doctoral Program in Economics and Management and leads the Laboratory of Economics and Management ....
Paul Howard Douglas was an Politics of the United States and University of Chicago economics. He served as a Democratic Party United States Senate from Illinois from 1949 to 1967....
Axel Dreher is a German economist.He earned a master's degree from the University of Mannheim in 1999 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2003. He is among the 1000 top economists of the world according to the RePEc ....
Pradeep Dubey is a Leading Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and a member of at Stony Brook. He also holds a visiting position at Cowles Foundation, Yale University....
Jules Dupuit was a France civil engineer and economist.He was born in Fossano, Italy then under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. At the age of ten he emigrated to France with his family where he studied in Versailles ? winning a Physics prize at graduation....
William Russell Easterly is an United States economist, specializing in economic growth and foreign aid. He is a Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU?s Development Research Institute....
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s. From 1891 onward he was the editor of a leading academic journal in economics and his own writings in economics were influential....
Richard Theodore Ely was an American economist and leader of the progressive Movement who called for more government intervention in order to reform the injustices of capitalism, especially regarding factory conditions, compulsory education, child labor and labor unions....
Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard was a Germany politician and Chancellor of Germany of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. He is notable for his leading role in German postwar economic reform and Wirtschaftswunder, particularly in his role as Minister of Economics under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer after 1949....
Massimo Ellul is an accomplished Maltese people businessman, very active in Malta and other countries in the commercial, social, political and philanthropical fields of activity....
Kenneth G. Elzinga is an economics professor at the University of Virginia. His two major claims to fame are his antitrust expertise and his co-authorship of a highly successful trio of murder mystery novels in which the sleuth, dubbed Henry Spearman, solves the murder using principles of economics....
Friedrich Engels was a German Social science and Philosophy, who developed Communism alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto ....
Stanley Lewis Engerman is an economist and economic historian at the University of Rochester. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1962 from Johns Hopkins University....
Robert Fry Engle III is an United States economist and the winner of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility "....
G?nter Faltin is a German economist and entrepreneur.Faltin graduated with a Dr. rer.soc. from the University of Konstanz. His doctoral thesis investigates Milton Friedman theory of consumer behavior....
Henry Fawcett was a blindness England statesman and economist.He was born in Salisbury, and educated at King's College School and the University of Cambridge, where he became Fellow of Trinity Hall....
Antal E. Fekete, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, is a proponent of the gold standard and critic of the current monetary system....
Irving Fisher was an United States Economics, health campaigner, and Eugenics, and one of the earliest American Neoclassical economics and, although he was perhaps the first celebrity economist, his reputation today is probably higher than it was in his lifetime....
Jon Fisher is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, adjunct professor and analyst. Jon co-founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Bharosa, an Oracle Corporation company, yielding the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager product....
John Marcus Fleming was Deputy Director of the research department of the International Monetary Fund for many years; he was already a member of this department during the period of Robert Mundell affiliation....
Robert William Fogel is an United States economic historian and scientist, and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is best known as a leading advocate of cliometrics, a name for the use of quantitative methods in history....
James Foster may refer to:*James Foster *James Foster , English mason and architect in Bristol*James Foster , English cricketer*James Foster , Scottish-born Canadian hockey player...
Robert H. Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and a Professor of Economics at Cornell University S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management....
Jeffrey Alexander "Jeff" Frankel is the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government....
Bruno S. Frey is a Swiss economist and a professor at the University of Zurich. He is one of the world's leading welfare economics. He may be best known for his critique of Homo economicus or economic man, arguing that it places excessive emphasis on extrinsic motivation rather than intrinsic motivation....
Benjamin Morton Friedman, a leading United States of America Political economy, is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University....
David Director Friedman is a writer who became a leading figure in the anarcho-capitalism community with the publication of his book The Machinery of Freedom ....
Milton Friedman was an United States economist, statistician and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
Masahisa Fujita is a Japanese economist and professor at Kyoto university, who has studied regional science and Urban Economics and International Trade, Spatial Economy ....
John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, Order of Canada was a Canadian-American economics. He was a Keynesian economics and an institutional economics, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and Progressivism in the United States....
A. Ronald "Ron" Gallant is a leading United States econometrics. He is currently the Hanes Corporation Foundation Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, with secondary appointment in the Department of Economics, Duke University, in the United States....
Norton Garfinkle is an economist and author.He received a BA with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate work at Columbia University and Princeton University....
Leonid Gatovsky was a Soviet economist . He was the first economist that brought up the objective rules of the socialist economy by with his work: The Methodology of the Socialist Economy Theory, which was published in 1930....
Henry George was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "Single Tax" on Land ....
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, born Nicolae Georgescu was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist, best known for his 1971 magnum opus The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, which situated the view that the second law of thermodynamics, i.e., that usable "free energy" tends to disperse or become lost in the form of "bou...
Victor Alexandre Ginsburgh is a Belgian economist of Austrian origin.Ginsburgh studied at the Solvay Business School at the Free University of Brussels and mastered in econometrics....
Edward Ludwig "Ed" Glaeser is an economist at Harvard University. He was educated at The Collegiate School in New York City before obtaining his B.A....
Jos? Antonio Gomariz was an Argentina economist and educator.He was a major figure in Argentine universities, including the University of Buenos Aires, where he was one of the founders of the Economics department in 1958 and Dean until 1972....
George Jerome Waldo Goodman , is an United States economist, author, and broadcast economics commentator, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith .... (a.k.a. "Adam Smith")
Robert James Gordon is an economics professor at Northwestern University. He also holds the title of "Stanley G. Harris, Professor in the social sciences"....
William Philip Gramm is a US politician, who has served as a Democratic Party United States House of Representatives , a Republican Party Congressman and a Republican United States Senate from Texas ....
Sir Clive William John Granger is a United Kingdom economist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. Along with Robert F....
Alan Greenspan is an United States economist and was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private advisor and providing consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC....
Keith B. Griffin is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Miami....
Elgin Earl Groseclose was an United States economist, statesman, and author.Special assistant to Arthur Millspaugh's economic mission in Persia, he was appointed Treasurer-General of Persia by the order of the Majles in 1943....
Dominique Guellec is a France economist. He formerly held the post of chief economist at the European Patent Organisation . He is senior economist at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ....
Michael V. Grossman is an United States television director.He has directed a number of episodes from dozens of different television series, perhaps most notably his work on Grey's Anatomy and the backdoor pilot of its spin-off, Private Practice....
Trygve Magnus Haavelmo was an economist with main research interests centered on the fields of econometrics and economics theory. During World War II he worked with Nortraship in the Statistical Department in New York City....
Gottfried von Haberler was an economist. He worked in particular on international trade.Haberler was born in Austria in 1900, and was educated in the Austrian School of economics....
Professor Steven C. Hackett began his career at the rank of Assistant Professor at Indiana University in Bloomington in 1989. He currently holds the rank of Professor of Economics at Humboldt State University , and served as the department's chairperson between 2004 and 2006....
Charles Hall was a British physician and social critic who published The Effects of Civilization on the People in European States in 1805, condemning capitalism for its inability to provide for the poor....
Lars Peter Hansen is an economist at the University of Chicago. He was born in 1952 in Champaign, Illinois. After graduating from Utah State University and the University of Minnesota he served as assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University before moving to University of Chicago in 1981....
Eric Alan Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and an expert on education policy. His main area of interest is the economics of education, focusing on controversial areas of education policy including the class size reduction, high stakes accountability, and the importance of teach...
Mahbub ul Haq , born in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, was an influential and world renowned Pakistani Economics. He is the pioneer of Human development theory and founder of the Human Development Report....
Tim Harford is an United Kingdom economist and journalist, residing in London. He is the author of two economics books, presenter of BBC television series Trust Me, I'm an Economist, and writer of a humorous weekly column called "Dear Economist" for The Financial Times, in which he uses economic theory to attempt to solve readers' pe...
Sir Roy Forbes Harrod was an England economist. He, independently of Evsey Domar, developed an important economic model now called the Harrod-Domar model....
John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungary-Australian-United States economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner.He is best known for his contributions to the study of game theory and its application to economics, specifically for his developing the highly innovative analysis of games of incomplete information, so-called Bayesi...
Jerry A. Hausman is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a famous econometrician....
Friedrich August von Hayek Order of the Companions of Honour was an Austrian economist and philosopher known throughout the world for his defense of classical liberalism and free market capitalism against socialism and collectivism thought....
Henry Hazlitt was a Libertarianism philosopher, economist, and journalist for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The American Mercury, among other publications....
James Joseph Heckman is an American economist and Nobel laureate. He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Distinguished Chair of Microeconometrics at University College, London, and University College, Dublin....
Eli Filip Heckscher was a Sweden Political economy and Economic history.Heckscher was born in Stockholm into a prominent Jewish family, son of the Danish-born businessman Isidor Heckscher and his spouse Rosa Meyer, and completed his secondary education there in 1897....
Hazel Henderson is a Futures studies and an economic iconoclast. In recent years she has worked in television, and she is the author of several books including Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, ''Planetary Citizenship , and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy....
Robert Heilbroner was an United States economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers , a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes....
Sir John Richard Hicks was one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer theory in microeconomics, and the IS/LM model, which summarised a Keynesian view of macroeconomics....
Robert Higgs is an United States economics of the Austrian School. His writings in economics and economic history have most often focused on the causes, means, and effects of government growth....
Jack Hirshleifer was an United States economist and long-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.He received a Bachelor of Science from Harvard University in 1945 and a Doctorate in 1950....
Branko Horvat was Croatia economist and politician. He worked a long time at the Institute of Economic Sciences, the former Planning Institute of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....
Michael Hudson is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City .He is also a Wall Street Financial analyst and consultant...
Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz was an United States economist and mathematician of Poles and Jewish people descent. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science....
Otmar Issing is a Germany economist, former member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank and of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank ....
Robert Alan Jarrow is the Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University....
Marshall Jevons is a fictitious name crime writer invented and used by William Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga, professors of economics at Trinity University , San Antonio, Texas and the University of Virginia, respectively....
Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics and currently also Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi, India....
Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor was one of the foremost Cambridge economists in the post-war period. He developed the famous "compensation" criteria called Kaldor-Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons , derived the famous cobweb model and argued that there were certain regularities that are observable as far as economic growth is concerned...
Thomas Kane is an economist and Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has made important contributions to the concept of education policy, including policies pertaining to student assessment, teacher quality and financial aid for college....
Michal Kalecki was a Poland Economics who specialized in macroeconomics. Over the course of his life, he worked at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and Warsaw School of Economics as well as an economic advisor to governments of Cuba, Israel, Mexico and India....
Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich was a Soviet Union/Russian mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources....
Ethan Kaplan is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden....
Timothy Jerome "Tim" Kehoe is a renowned United States economist and professor at the University of Minnesota. His area of specialty is macroeconomics and international economics....
Peter B. Kenen is a Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University....
Daniel Kahneman With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and biases , and developed Prospect theory ....
Dr Steve Keen is an Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He identifies as post-Keynesian, criticizing both modern neoclassical economics and Marxian economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported....
Charles Kennedy He was born into a large family, the youngest of five sons; he was the son of George Kennedy , an architect, and grandson of the painter Charles Napier Kennedy....
Mwai Kibaki is the Heads of State of Kenya of Kenya. Kibaki was previously Vice-President of Kenya , and has held several other cabinet positions, including Minister for Finance , Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Health ....
Mervyn Allister King , is Governor of the Bank of England of the Bank of England. He succeeded Sir Edward Georgeon June 30 2003.King studied at Wolverhampton Grammar School, King's College, Cambridge and St John's College, Cambridge....
Robert G. King is a macroeconomist. He is currently Professor at the Department of Economics at Boston University, editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics, research consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research....
Lawrence Robert Klein is an American economics. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1980....
Frank Hyneman Knight was an important economist of the twentieth century. He was born in McLean County, Illinois in a devoutly Christian family of farmers....
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kondratiev , Russian language: ??????? ?????????? ?????????? was a Russian economist, who was a proponent of the New Economic Policy in the Soviet Union....
Tjalling Charles Koopmans was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.Koopmans was born in 's-Graveland, Netherlands....
J?nos Kornai, , born in Budapest, Hungary, is an economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the planned economy of Eastern European communist states....
Naum Krasner, 21 February 1924 - 5 March 1999, was a Russian mathematician and economist.A former colonel in the Soviet Army, he joined Voronezh State University as a student in 1957 and, on graduating in 1961, joined the faculty there....
Lawrence B. Krause is an economist.Krause received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1951; his M.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1952; and his Ph.D....
Jan A. Kregel is an eminent Post-Keynesian economics economist.Kregel currently serves, since 2006, as Professor of Finance and Development at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia....
Michael Robert Kremer is a development economist and is currently the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum....
Paul Robin Krugman is an United States economist, columnist, and author. He is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, a centenary professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times....
Per Lennart Krusell is a Swedish macroeconomic theorist who currently teaches at Princeton University and at the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm....
Simon Smith Kuznets was an American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvaniawho won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development"....
Finn Erling Kydland is a Norway economics. He is currently the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds the Richard P....
Srgjan Asan Kerim, PhD is a former President of the United Nations United Nations General Assembly. His term of office began on September 18, 2007 and ended on September 16, 2008....
Dr. Vladimir Kvint is an economist and strategist, the President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets, and a Professor at La Salle University's School of Business ....
Arthur Betz Laffer , is a supply-side economics economist who became influential during the Ronald Reagan administration as a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board ....
David Ernest William Laidler has been one of the foremost scholars of monetarism. He published major economics journal articles on the topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
Steven E. Landsburg is an United States professor of economics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, New York. From 1989 to 1995, he taught at Colorado State University....
Dr Philip R. Lane is Professor of International Macroeconomics and Director of the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College, Dublin....
Oskar Ryszard Lange was a Poland economist and diplomat. He was most known for advocating the use of market pricing tools in socialism and providing the earliest model of market socialism....
Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard is a United Kingdom economist. He was founder-director in 1990 of, and is a current programme director at, the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics....
Wassily Wassilyovitch Leontief , was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors....
David Knudsen Levine teaches economics at Washington University in St. Louis where his research includes the study of intellectual property and endogenous growth in dynamic general equilibrium models, the endogenous formation of preferences, social Norm and institutions, learning in games, and game theory applications to experimental econom...
Evsei Liberman was a Soviet Union economist who lived in Slavuta and in Moscow .He was a teacher at the Institutes of Work and Technology and at the University of Kharkov....
Justin Yifu Lin is a Chinese people economist and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank.He is the founder and director of the China Center for Economic Research, former professor of economics at Peking University, and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology....
Erik Robert Lindahl was a Sweden economist and a member of the Stockholm school .In 1919, Lindahl proposed a method of financing public goods that was close to a free market solution and is today known as benefit pricing....
Friedrich List was a leading 19th Century Germany and American economist who developed the "National System" or what some would call today the National System of Innovation....
John August List is a Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and his Ph.D....
Max Otto Lorenz was an United States economist who developed the Lorenz curve in 1905 to describe income inequalities. He published this paper while a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
Biography An economics PhD from the :fr:l'Institut d'?tudes politiques de Paris and a political science PhD from :fr:l'Universit? Paris II, Pascal Lorot has been the president of Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics since 2003 and has also been a member of the :fr:Commission_de_r%C3%A9gulation_de_l%27%C3%A9nergi...
Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr. is an United States economist at the University of Chicago. He was named among the 10 best economists, and received the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1995....
Edward Nicolae Luttwak is an United States military strategist and historian who has published works on military strategy, history and international relations....
Sir George Donald Alastair MacDougall was a United Kingdom economist and civil servant who held enormous influence over public policy during the 1960s....
Edmond Malinvaud was born on 25 April 1923 in Limoges. He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.Trained at the Ecole Polytechnique and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique in Paris, the eclectic Malinvaud was, together with Debreu, a student of France's greatest Walrasian...
The The Reverend. Thomas Robert Malthus Royal Society was an England political economy and demography.His main contribution was to draw attention to the potential dangers of population growth:...
Gerard de Malynes was an independent merchant in foreign trade, an England commissioner in the Spanish Netherlands, a government advisor on trade matters, assay master of the mint, and commissioner of mint affairs....
Nicholas Gregory "Greg" Mankiw is an American macroeconomics. From 2003 to 2005, Mankiw was the chairman of George W. Bush Council of Economic Advisors....
Harry Max Markowitz is a professor at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his pioneering work in Modern Portfolio Theory, studying the effects of asset risk, correlation and Diversification on expected investment portfolio returns....
Alfred Marshall was an England economist and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics , brings the ideas of supply and demand, of marginal utility and of the costs of production into a coherent whole....
Xavier Sala-i-Martin is a Spanish Catalonia professor of economics at Columbia University.Sala-i-Martin earned his Llicenciatura from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1985 and his Doctorate from Harvard University in 1990, both in economics....
Harriet Martineau was an England writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist....
Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
Eric Stark Maskin is a United States economist and Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." He is the Albert O....
Deirdre N. McCloskey is an united States economics professor. Her job title at the University of Illinois at Chicago is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication....
Daniel Little McFadden is an econometrics who won the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; McFadden's share of the prize was "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing Discrete Choice Modelling"....
Lionel Wilfred McKenzie is the Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Rochester. He was born in Montezuma, Georgia. He completed undergraduate studies at Duke University in 1939 and subsequently moved to Oxford that year as a Rhodes Scholar....
David McWilliams is an Republic of Ireland journalist and economist. McWilliams has worked with the Central Bank of Ireland, UBS AG, and the Banque Nationale de Paris....
Carl Menger was the founder of the Austrian School of economics, famous for contributing to the development of the theory of marginal utility that refuted the cost-of-production theories of value developed by the classical economics such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo....
Albert Julius Meyer was an United States economist who taught at Harvard University for 28 years. Meyers specialized in the economies of the Middle East....
Leo Michelis is a Greeks-Canadian economist. He is a Professor of Economics at Ryerson University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Queen's University and his B.A....
This piece is about the economist. For the radio announcer and newsreader and former TV announcer, see David Miles .David Miles is a professor of Imperial College London and a United Kingdom economist who produced a report in 2003 for the Chancellor to examine why long-term fixed rate mortgages are so popular....
Paul Robert Milgrom is an American economist. He is currently the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987....
John Stuart Mill , United Kingdom philosopher, political economy, civil servant and Parliament of the United Kingdom, was an influential liberalism thinker of the 19th century....
Jacob Mincer , was a father of modern labor economics. He was Joseph L. Buttenwiser Professor of Economics and Social Relations at Columbia University for most of his active life....
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees, British Academy is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was British Honours System in 1998....
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian economics, philosopher, and liberalism who had a major influence on the modern libertarianism movement....
Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985....
Herbert Dick Mohring is a transportation economist who taught at the University of Minnesota for many years.He is widely known for his identification of what was dubbed the Mohring effect of increasing returns in public transportation....
Gustave de Molinari was an economics born in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands associated with France classical liberalism economists such as Fr?d?ric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille....
Michio Morishima was Japanese economist and emeritus professor of London School of Economics , John Hicks Professor of LSE. He was also emeritus professor of Osaka University and a member of the British Academy....
Robert Alexander Mundell, Order of Canada is a professor of economics at Columbia University. Mundell was born in Canada and is a graduate of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver....
Richard Murnane is an economist and the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education....
John Fraser Muth was an American economist. He is known as "the father of the rational expectations revolution in economics", primarily due to his article "Rational Expectations and the Theory of Price Movements" from 1961....
Alva Reimer Myrdal was a Sweden sociologist and politician. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924.Born in Uppsala, she first came to public notice in the 1930s, and was one of the main driving forces in the creation of the Swedish welfare state....
Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Sweden economist, politician, and Nobel laureate. In 1974, with Friedrich Hayek, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena."...
John Forbes Nash, Jr. , is an American mathematician and economist whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations provided insight into the forces that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life....
Richard R. Nelson is an American professor of economics at Columbia University. He is one of the leading figures in the revival of evolutionary economics thanks to his seminal book An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change written jointly with Sidney G....
Nikolay Nenovsky is a Bulgarians economist and Professor of economics and finance.He graduated from the Moscow State University, Russia , received his Ph.D in economics from the Bulgarian Academy of Science ....
John von Neumann was a Hungarian American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics , and statistics, as well as many other mathematical...
Stephen John Nickell CBE is a United Kingdom economist and currently Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford.Nickell was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and Pembroke College, Cambridge....
William Dawbney "Bill" Nordhaus is the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. Nordhaus lives in New Haven, Connecticut, Connecticut, with his wife Barbara....
Dan North is the Chief Economist for Euler Hermes ACI, a provider of B-to-B accounts receivable management solutions in North America.Dan North has been with Euler Hermes ACI since 1996, using macroeconomic and quantitative analyses to help develop, price, and manage EH ACI?s risk and insurance portfolio of more than $150 billion in annual...
Douglass Cecil North is an United States economist known for his work in the history of economic thought. He is the co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin was a Sweden economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965....
Walter Yasuo Oi is the Elmer B. Millman Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, New York. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a distinguished fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service....
Arthur Melvin "Art" Okun was a United States of America economist. He served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors between 1968 and 1969....
Mancur Lloyd Olson, Jr. was a leading United States of America economics and social scientist who, at the time of his death, worked at the University of Maryland, College Park....
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto , born Wilfried Fritz Pareto, was an Italy industrialist, sociologist, economist, and philosopher, who developed a somewhat jaundiced view of the human enterprise....
Jacques Parizeau, National Order of Quebec is an economist and noted Quebec sovereignist who served as Premier of Quebec of Quebec, Canada, from September 26, 1994 to January 29, 1996....
Edith Elura Tilton Penrose was an American-born UK economist whose best known work is "The Theory of the Growth of the Firm", which describes the ways which firms grow and how fast they do....
Professor Mohammad Hashem Pesaran is a United Kingdom-Iranian economist.He received his BSc in Economics at the University of Salford and his PhD in Economics at Cambridge University....
Carlota Perez is a Venezuelan scholar and expert on technology and socio-economic development most famous for her concept of Techno-Economic Paradigm Shifts and her theory of great surges, a further development of the Kondratieff waves....
Douglas Dennison Peters, Queen's Privy Council for Canada in Brandon, Manitoba is a Canada banker, economist and politician. In 1954, he married Audrey Catherine Clark ....
Alban William Housego "A. W." "Bill" Phillips, MBE was an influential New Zealand economist who spent most of his academic career at the London School of Economics ....
Arthur Cecil Pigou was an England economist. As a teacher and builder of the school of economics at Cambridge University he trained and influenced the many Cambridge economists who went on to fill chairs of economics around the world....
Christopher Antoniou Pissarides is a British and Greek Cypriot economist. He currently holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics....
Michael Polanyi, Fellow of the Royal Society was a Hungary?United Kingdom polymath whose thought and work extended across physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy....
Jean-Pierre Ponssard is a France Economy, senior research fellow of the CNRS, and professor of economics and research vice president of the economic department of the ?cole Polytechnique....
Richard Allen Posner is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He helped start the law and economics movement while a professor at the University of Chicago Law School; he currently serves as a senior lecturer at the Law School....
Edward Christian Prescott is an American economist. He received the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E....
Clyde Prestowitz, founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute, served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration....
Ra?l Prebisch was an Argentina economist known for his contribution to structuralist economics, in particular the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis that formed the basis of economic dependency theory....
Prabhat Patnaik is an Indian Economist and political commentator, who has achieved international acclaim with his incisive analyses of economics and politics....
Danny Quah, born July 26 1958 in Malaysia, is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and is currently the Head of Department of Economics at the same school....
Fran?ois Quesnay was a France economist of the Physiocrats school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau ?conomique" in 1758 , which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats....
Debraj Ray is Julius Silver Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies in Economics at New York University. He has held long-term positions at Stanford University, the Indian Statistical Institute, and at Boston University, where he was Director of the Institute for Economic Development....
Daniel Raymond was the first important political economist to appear in the United States.He authored Thoughts on Political Economy and The Elements of Political Economy ....
George Gerald Reisman is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and author of Capitalism . He is also the author of an earlier book, The Government Against the Economy , which was praised by F.A....
David Ricardo was a political economy, often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economicss, along with Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith....
Lionel Charles Robbins was a British economics and adherent to the Austrian School of Economics. He is known for his proposed definition of economics, and for his instrumental efforts in shifting Anglo-Saxon economics from its Alfred Marshall direction....
Abraham Robinson was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and transfinite number numbers were incorporated into mathematics....
Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as the "Father of Reaganomics"....
Joan Violet Robinson was a Post-Keynesian economics who was well known for her knowledge of monetary economics and wide-ranging contributions to economic theory....
Paul Michael Romer is an economist and Senior Fellow at Stanford University Center for International Development and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research....
Henry Rosovsky is an American List_of_economists and university administrator. From 1973 to 1987 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University....
Sherwin Rosen was an American labour economist. He had ties with many American universities and academic institutions including the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, Stanford University and its Hoover Institution....
Murray Newton Rothbard was an American economics of the Austrian School who helped define modern libertarianism and founded a form of free-market anarchism he termed "anarcho-capitalism"....
Nouriel Roubini is a professor of economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University and chairman of RGE Monitor, an economic consultancy firm....
Ariel Rubinstein is an Israeli economist who works in game theory. He was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972-1979, in both mathematics and economics....
Tadeusz Rybczynski was a Polish-born English economist who is known for the development of the Rybczynski theorem .He studied in the London School of Economics....
Justinian F. Rweyemamu was a Tanzanian economist, mathematician, philosopher and author.Rweyemamu was born in Katoma, Bukoba, in what was then called Tanganyika....
Jeffrey David Sachs is an United States economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's Columbia Mailman School of Public Health....
Paul Anthony Samuelson is an United States neoclassical economist economist known for his contributions to many fields of economics, beginning with his general statement of the comparative statics method in his 1947 book Foundations of Economic Analysis....
Jos? Manuel Santana Silvestre, is the Executive Director of the Dominican Republic Presidential Government agency of Science and Technology and Research Associate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
Thomas John "Tom" Sargent is an United States economist specializing in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series econometrics....
Jean-Baptiste Say was a France economics and businessman. He had classically liberal views and argued in favour of competition, free trade, and lifting restraints on business....
Thomas Crombie Schelling is an American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College Park....
Peter Schiff is an American economic commentator, author and licensed stock broker who currently serves as president of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a fully accredited broker dealer firm based in Darien, Connecticut, Connecticut....
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany politician who served as Chancellor of Germany of West Germany from 1974 to 1982....
For the football player of the same name see John Schmitt .John Schmitt is an USA economist, who serves as a senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC....
Gustav von Schmoller was the leader of the "younger" Germany historical school of economics and probably the most distinguished Continental economist of the time around 1900....
Theodore William Schultz was the 1979 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.He was born in Arlington, South Dakota, enrolled in South Dakota State University in 1921 to study agriculture, graduated in 1927, then entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison earning his doctorate in economics in 1930....
Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher was an internationally influential economic thinker with a professional background as a statistician and economist in United Kingdom....
Joseph Alois Schumpeter was an economist and political scientist born in Moravia, then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics....
Anna Jacobson Schwartz is an economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City. She is a past president of the Western Economic Association ....
Paul-L?on Seitz was a France bishop in the Catholic Church. He was ordained as a bishop in 1952 and named as the titular bishop of the church's Catula titular see....
Reinhard Selten is a German economics.Selten was born in Wroclaw in Province of Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father and protestant mother....
Amartya Kumar Sen Order of the Companions of Honour , is a Bengali people Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998, "for his contributions to welfare economics" for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political C...
S?reyya Serdenge?ti is a Turkey economist and former Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. He is currently working as an instructor in Turkish and world economics at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara....
Brad Setser is an American economist and blogger. A former staff economist at the United States Department of the Treasury, Setser is currently a fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations....
George Lennox Sharman Shackle was an England economist. He made a practical attempt to challenge classical rational choice theory and has been characterised as a "Post-Keynesian economics"....
Lloyd Stowell Shapley is a distinguished American mathematician and economist. He is a Professor Emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles, affiliated with departments of Mathematics and Economics....
This page refers to David Shapiro, the economist. For others with this name, please see David Shapiro.David Shapiro is an American economist at the Pennsylvania State University....
Neil Shephard , British Academy, is a British economist, currently Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Research Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance....
Robert James "Bob" Shiller is an United States economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management....
Artyom Shneyerov is a microeconomist working at Concordia University in Montreal,Canada.His current research is in the fields of Game theory, Industrial organization and applied Econometrics....
Martin Shubik is the Seymour H. Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Princeton University....
Herbert Alexander Simon was an United States psychologist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science and sociology and was a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University....
Julian Lincoln Simon was a professor of business administration at the University of Maryland, College Park and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute....
Eugen E. Slutsky or Evgeny Evgenievich Slutsky was an early-twentieth-century Ukrainians-Russian/Soviet mathematical statistician, economist and political economist....
Adam Smith was a Scotland Ethics and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations....
Andrzej Slawinski is a Polish economist and Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics. He is a member of the Council of Monetary Policies since 2004....
Vernon Lomax Smith is professor of economics at Chapman University School of Law and School of Business in Orange, California, a research scholar at George Mason University Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, and a Fellow of the Mercatus Center, all in Arlington, Virginia....
Robert Merton Solow is an United States economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal and the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
Werner Sombart was a Germany economics and sociology, the head of the ?Youngest Historical School? and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century....
Hugo Freund Sonnenschein is a prominent United States economist and educational administrator. Currently the Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, his specialty is microeconomics; with a particular interest in game theory....
Thomas Sowell , is an United States economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective....
Andrew Michael Spence is an United States-born, Canada-raised economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, along with George Akerlof and Joseph E....
Piero Sraffa was an influential Italy economist whose book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the Neo-Ricardian school of Economics....
Thirukodikaval Nilakanta "T. N." Srinivasan is the Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University. He was formerly chairman of the department of economics at Yale University....
Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, British Academy is a United Kingdom economist and academic. He was the World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, and was recently a British Civil Service and government economic advisor in the United Kingdom....
George Joseph Stigler was a United States of America economist. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1982, and was a key leader of the Chicago School of Economics, along with his close friend Milton Friedman....
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is an United States economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ....
Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin was a Soviet Union economist. He played a leading role in the analysis of the planned economy of theSoviet type, including modeling, development of the five year plans and calculation of national income....
Robert Summers is an U.S. economist and professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1960. A widely early work by Summers is on the small-sample statistical properties of alternate Regression analysis estimators where analytical measures are unavailable....
William Graham Sumner was an United States academic and professor at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most influential teachers there....
Lars E. O. Svensson is an economist on the faculty of Princeton University. He published significant research in macroeconomics, especially monetary economics, international trade and general equilibrium theory....
Syahrir was a prominent Indonesian political economist. He was officially appointed by President of the Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as Economic Adviser in the Council of Presidential Advisers on 11 April 2007....
Yair Tauman is a Leading Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and the Director of the at Stony Brook. He studied in Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he obtained his Ph.D....
Lester Greenspan Telser is an United States economist and Professor Emeritus in Economics at the College of the University of Chicago.He received his Ph.D....
Richard H. Thaler is an USA economics perhaps best known as a theorist in behavioral finance and for his collaboration with Daniel Kahneman and others in further defining that field....
Lester Carl Thurow is a former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of numerous bestsellers on economic topics.Thurow was born in Livingston, Montana....
Jan Tinbergen , The Netherlands economist, was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes....
Jean Marcel Tirole is a France professor of economics. He works on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology....
James Tobin was an United States economist. Tobin advocated and developed the ideas of Keynesian economics. He believed that governments should intervene in the economy in order to stabilize output and avoid recessions....
Michael P. Todaro is an American economist and is a pioneer in the field of transportation economics and Economic Development.Michael P. Todaro was Professor of Economics at New York University for eighteen years and Senior Associate at the Population Council for thirty years....
Richard S.J. Tol is a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland, where he is responsible for the research areas and ....
Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a Peruvian politician and economist. He was List of Presidents of Peru of Peru from 2001 to 2006. He was elected in 2001 defeating former President Alan Garc?a....
Kenneth E. Train is an American professor of Economics and Public Policy. Train also serves as Vice President of National Economic Research Associates , Inc....
Rodrigue Tremblay is a Canadian-born economist, humanist and political figure. He teaches economics at the Universit? de Montr?al. He specializes in macroeconomics, international trade and finance, and public finance....
Giulio Tremonti is an Italy politician. He is the current Minister of Economy and Finance in the Italian government, presided over by Silvio Berlusconi....
Jean-Claude Trichet is a French civil servant who is the current president of the European Central Bank since 2003. Trichet ranks 5th on the world's most powerful by Newsweek along with economic triumverates Ben Bernanke and Masaaki Shirakawa....
Robert Triffin was a Belgian economist best known for his critique of the Bretton Woods system, later known as Triffin's dilemma.He received his Ph.D....
Gordon Tullock is a retired Professor of Law and Economics at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia.A native of Rockford, Illinois, Tullock received his J.D....
Fatafehi Tupoumalohi is a heterodox economics specializing in development economics. Schooled in England at the University of Cambridge and later garnered honors as a law student at Columbia University in New York....
Amos Nathan Tversky, was a cognitive psychology and mathematical psychology, and a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk....
Laura D'Andrea Tyson is an United States economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Presidency of Bill Clinton....
was born December 18, 1960 in Edogawa, Tokyo, Tokyo. He is a Japanese economist, economic analyst, a former senior economist at Nomura Research Institute, and chairman of the Three-Nations Research Institute....
Hirofumi Uzawa is a Japanese people economist, professor emeritus of Tokyo University, and a member of the Japan Academy.Uzawa was born in Yonago, Tottori....
Alexander Van der Bellen is an Austrian economist and politician, chairman of the parliamentary club and federal spokesperson of the Austrian Green Party from 1997 to 2008....
Eugen Samuilovich Varga was a Marxism economist of Hungarian people origin.He studied philosophy and economic geography at the E?tv?s Lor?nd University....
Hal Ronald Varian is an economist specialising in microeconomics and information technology. He is currently on leave from the University of California, Berkeley UC Berkeley School of Information, and is Chief Economist at Google....
Thorstein Bunde Veblen was a Norwegian-American sociology and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement....
William Spencer Vickrey was a Canadian professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. Vickrey was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with James Mirrlees for their research into the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information....
Jacob Viner is best known for his enduring economic modelling of the wiktionary:firm, including the long- and short-run cost curves used by economists to this day....
Robert Ward Vishny is an American economist and was the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business....
Paul Adolph Volcker is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under President of the United Statess Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan ....
Marie-Esprit-L?on Walras was a French economics, considered by Joseph Schumpeter as "the greatest of all economists". He was a mathematical economics associated with the creation of the general equilibrium theory....
John Glen Wardrop was an English transport analyst who developed Wardrop's first and second principles of equilibrium.The concepts are related to the idea of Nash equilibrium in game theory developed separately....
James Webb, Jim Webb or Jimmy Webb may refer to:Public service*James E. Webb, , American official, the second Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Alfred Weber was a Germany economist, sociologist and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography....
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Germany, Weber became a lawyer, politician, scholar, political economy, and sociology....
Mark Weisbrot is an United States economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D....
Brian S. Wesbury is a prominent United States economist and economic forecaster.He holds an M.B.A. from Northwestern University?s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and a B.A....
Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser was an early member of the Austrian School of economics. Born in Vienna the son of a high official in the war ministry, he first trained in sociology and law....
Walter E. Williams, Ph. D. is an United States economics and Professor at George Mason University. He is also a Print syndication columnist and author known for his libertarian and sometimes Conservatism in the United States views....
Oliver Eaton Williamson is a prominent author in the area of transaction cost economics, a student of Ronald Coase, Herbert Simon and Richard Cyert....
Michael Dean Woodford is an American macroeconomics who currently teaches at Columbia University. His early research topics included sunspot equilibrium and imperfect competition....
Michael Wolf currently serves on the boards of Entercom Communications ., the fourth-largest broadcasting company in the United States and iAmplify.com, a Web-based content publisher and syndication network and the world's largest selection of expert video and audio downloads....
Holbrook Working , a professor of economics and statistics at Stanford University?s FoodResearch Institute, is known for his contributions on hedge , the theory of Futures contract prices ? which anticipated the efficient market hypothesis, an early theory of market maker behavior, and the theory of storage ....
Janet Louise Yellen is an economist and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Dr. Yellen is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where she was the Eugene E....
File:Arnold Zellner.jpgArnold Zellner is an American economist and statistician specializing in the fields of Bayesian probability and econometrics....
An economist is an expert in the social science of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy....
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
The economists aligned with the Austrian School are sometimes colloquially called "the Austrians" even though not all hold Austrian citizenship, and not all economists from Austria subscribe to the ideas of the Austrian School....
This is a list of economists who are also politicians, statesman, central bankers, entrepreneurs, journalists, world leaders, and other notable persons with an academic background in economics....
This is an annotated list of important business theorists. It is in alphabetical order based on last name. To facilitate reading, only names are hyperlinked....
