List of economists

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Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American economist, social worker, educator, and author

Daron Acemoğlu (b. 1967), Turkish economist, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal

Nicola Acocella (b. 1939), Italian economist known for his holistic contribution to systematisation and development of Economic policy and for the innovations introduced in the theory of monetary and fiscal policy and the theory of social pacts

Zoltan Acs, professor at George Mason University, advocate of the importance of entrepreneurship for economic development

Henry Carter Adams (1851–1921), U.S. economist

Walter Adams (1922–1998), American economist and college professor who served as an expert witness before 36 congressional committees

Pérsio Arida (b. 1952), Brazilian economist

Philippe Aghion (b. 1956), French economist

Montek Singh Ahluwalia (b. 1943), Indian economist and former deputy chairman of the planning commission of the Republic of India

Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, Bangladeshi economist and environmentalist

George Akerlof (b. 1940), American professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics

Armen Alchian (1914–2013), American, emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles

Alberto Alesina (b. 1957), Italian political economist, author of many-cited books and articles in major economics journals

Maurice Allais (1911–2010), French economist, 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Franklin Allen (b. 1956), American economist

R. G. D. Allen, CBE, FBA (1906–1983), English economist, mathematician and statistician

Gar Alperovitz

Lee J. Alston

Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German economist, the first woman to become a university lecturer in Germany

Fernando Alvarez, Argentine economist

B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), Indian jurist, political leader, economist and Buddhist activist

Takeshi Amemiya (b. 1935), Japanese economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece

Georges Anderla (1921–2005), Czech-born French economist

Donald Andrews

George-Marios Angeletos

Norman Angell (1872–1967), English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party

Joshua Angrist

Kofi Annan

Masahiko Aoki (1938-2015), Japanese economist

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Italian Dominican priest of the Roman Catholic Church who wrote about economics

Dan Ariely

Aristotle (384–322 BCE), Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great

Martin A. Armstrong (b. 1949), American economist

Heinz Arndt

Kenneth Arrow (1921-2017), American economist, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972

Orley Ashenfelter (b. 1942), American economist

William Ashley (1860–1927), English economic historian

Cliff Asness (b. 1966)

Jeremy Atack

Susan Athey (b. 1970), American economist

Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944-2017), British economist, namesake of the Atkinson index, a measure of economic inequality

Orazio Attanasio (b. 1959), Italian economist

Thomas Attwood (1783–1856), British economist, the leading figure of the underconsumptionist Birmingham School

David B. Audretsch (b. 1954), American economist

Leonardo Auernheimer (1936–2010), Argentinian economist, professor, and international monetary consultant.

Robert Aumann (b. 1930), Israeli-American mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2005

George Ayittey (b. 1945), Ghanaian economist

Clarence Ayres (1891–1972), principal thinker in the Texas school of Institutional Economics

Ungku Abdul Aziz

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Ali Babacan (1967–), Turkish economic minister

Roger Babson (1875–1967), American business theorist

Louis Bachelier (1870–1946), French mathematician

Roger Backhouse, English economist

Walter Bagehot (1826–77), British journalist, businessman, and essayist; wrote extensively about government, economics, and literature

Nikolai Baibakov (1911–2008), Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor

Joe S. Bain (1912–1991), American economist, founder of Industrial organization economics

Dean Baker (b. 1958), American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

E. Wight Bakke (1903–1971), American industrial relations specialist and professor at Yale University

Leszek Balcerowicz (b. 1947), Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland

Richard Baldwin, American economist

Sir James Ball (b. 1933), British econometrician, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London Business School and a leader in the field of econometric modeling

Ludwig Bamberger (1823–1899), German economist, politician and writer

Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961), Indian economist, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paul A. Baran (1909–1964), Russian, American, was the only tenured Marxist economist in the United States until his death in 1964

William A. Barnett, American economist, works in chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity

Enrico Barone (1859–1924), Italian soldier, military historian, and economist

Nicholas Barr, British economist, professor of public economics at the London School of Economics

Raymond Barre (1924–2007), French economist and politician

Robert Barro (b. 1944), American classical macroeconomist, presently the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Yoram Barzel, Israeli economist, works in property rights, applied price theory, and political economy

Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850), French classical liberal theorist, political economist

Kaushik Basu (b. 1952), Indian economist and academic, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank

Ravi Batra (b. 1943), American economist, author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Peter Thomas Bauer (1915–2002), Hungarian developmental economist

William Baumol (b. 1922), American, New York University economics professor

Robert Dudley Baxter (1827–1875), English economist and statistician

Michael Baye

Charlie Bean

Gary Becker (1930-2014), American economist and Nobel laureate

Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer

Mahamudu Bawumia (b. 1963), Tamale, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana

Dwayne Benjamin (b. 1961), Canadian economist, managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics

Barbara Bergmann (b. 1927), American, forerunner in feminist economics with a passion for social policy and equality.

C. Fred Bergsten (b. 1941), American founder of the Peterson Institute for International Economics

Albert Rex Bergstrom, New Zealand econometrician recognized for his work in continuous time econometrics

Adolf Berle (1895–1971), American lawyer, educator, author, and US diplomat

Ben Bernanke (b. 1953), American economist, former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve

Jared Bernstein, American economist

Marianne Bertrand, Belgian economist

Tim Besley

William Beveridge

Truman Bewley

Jagdish Bhagwati (b. 1934), Indian economist and professor of economics and law at Columbia University

Mark Bils (b. 1958), macroeconomist at the University of Rochester

Nancy Birdsall (b. 1946), American, founding president of the Center for Global Development

Kenneth Binmore (b. 1940), British, economist and game theorist, professor emeritus of economics at University College, London.

Fischer Black (1938–1995), American economist, best known as one of the authors of the famous Black–Scholes equation.

William Blake (1774–1852), English classical economist

Olivier Blanchard (b. 1948), French, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund

Rebecca Blank

Francine D. Blau

Alan Blinder (b. 1945), American economist, serves at Princeton University

Walter Block (b. 1941), American free market economist and anarcho-capitalist

Barry Bluestone

John Blundell

Richard Blundell

Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk (1851–1914), Austrian, founder of the Austrian School of economics

Jean Bodin (1530–1596), French, early proponent of the Quantity Theory of Money

Tito Boeri (b. 1958), Italian economist, professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan

Peter J. Boettke (b. 1960), American, economist of the Austrian School

Michele Boldrin (b. 1956), Italian American economist, expert in economic growth

Tim Bollerslev (b. 1958), Danish economist

Murray Bookchin

Korkut Boratav (b. 1935), Turkish, marxist economist

George Borjas (b. 1950), American, at Harvard Kennedy School

Michael Boskin (b. 1945), American, T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution

Giovanni Botero (c. 1544–1617), Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat

Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993), American economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker

Heather Boushey (b. 1970), senior economist with the Center for American Progress

Samuel Bowles (b. 1939), American, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Marcel Boyer

David Boyle

William Brainard

James Brander

Harry Braverman (1920–1976), American Socialist, economist and political writer

John Francis Bray (1809–1897), American, radical, Chartist, writer on socialist economics

Richard A. Brealey

William Breit (1933–2011), professor of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas

Martin Browning (b. 1946), English economist, professor of economics at the University of Oxford

Markus Brunnermeier

James M. Buchanan (b. 1919), American economist known for his work on public choice theory, received the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Alan Budd

Willem Buiter (b. 1949), Dutch economist

Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944), Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist

Mahamudu Bawumia (1988 to present), Ghanaian Economist known to have worked at the Research Department of International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., United States

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Ricardo J. Caballero (b. 1959), Chilean macroeconomist, holds the Ford International chair of economics at MIT

Vince Cable (b. 1943), British economist

Federico Caffè (1914–1987), Italian, economist and Professor of Economic and Financial Policy at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome

Phillip D. Cagan (b. 1927), American scholar and author, Professor of Economics Emeritus at Columbia University

John Elliot Cairnes (1823–1875), Ireland, "last of the classical economists"

Guillermo Calvo (b. 1941), Argentine economist

John Y. Campbell (b. 1958), British-American economist, chairman of the Harvard economics department

Colin Camerer (b. 1959), American economist

Stephen Cameron (b. ca. 1960), American financial analyst, economist and Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

Richard Cantillon (c. 1680–1734), Irish-French, economist and author of Essay on the Nature of Trade in General

Edwin Cannan (1861–1935), British, economist and historian of economic thought

Bryan Caplan (b. 1971), professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia

David Card, Canadian, labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley

Henry Charles Carey (1793–1879), American, 19th century economist of the American School of Capitalism

Mark Carney (b. 1965), Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of England

Kevin Carson (b. 1963), American social and political theorist and scholar of political economy writing in the mutualist and individualist anarchist traditions

Agustín Carstens (b. 1958), Mexican economist, governor of the Bank of Mexico

Anne P. Carter (b. 1925), American economist, professor at Brandeis University

David Cass (1937–2008), American, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania

Gustav Cassel (1866–1945), Swedish, economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University

Attilio Celant (b. 1942), Italian economist, Dean of the Faculty of Economics (2002-2011) and Professor of Economic Geography at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome

es:Ramón Antonio Cereijo (1913-2003)

Seweryn Chajtman (1919–2012), Polish scientist, engineer, teacher of the Industrial Management, pioneered Computer Science in Poland, creator of the Alternative Theory of Organization and Management

Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847), Scottish mathematician, political economist and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland

Frank J. Chaloupka, American, distinguished professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Winston Chang (1941–1996), Chinese, president of Soochow University in Taipei

Edward Hastings Chamberlin (1899–1967), American economist

Neil W. Chamberlain (1915–2006), American economist at Yale University and Columbia University most known for work in industrial relations

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007), American, professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University

Ha-Joon Chang (b. 1963), Korean, one of the leading heterodox economists and institutional economists specialising in development economics

V. V. Chari (b. 1952), Indian-American economist

Raj Chetty (b. 1979), Indian-American economist

Steven N. S. Cheung (b. 1935), Chinese economist, specializes in the fields of transaction costs and property rights

Ajay Chhibber

Graciela Chichilnisky

Josiah Child (1630–1699), English mercantilist, politician and governor of the East India Company

Menzie Chinn

Lawrence J. Christiano (b. 1952), American economist

Richard Clarida

Colin Clark (1905–1989), British and Australian economist, pioneered the use of the gross national product ("GNP")

Gregory Clark (b. 1957), economic historian at the University of California, Davis

John Bates Clark (1847–1938), American neoclassical marginalist

John Maurice Clark (1884–1963), American marginalist

William D. Clark

Ronald Coase (1910-2013), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1991 for contributions including transaction costs and Coase theorem

Warren Coats (b. 1942), American economist specializing in monetary policy

John H. Cochrane

Luc Coene (b. 1947), Belgian economist, governor of the National Bank of Belgium

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), French King Louis XIV's Minister of Finances, known for protectionism and dirigisme

Paul Collier

John R. Commons (1862–1945), American institutional economist and labor historian

Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French philosopher, founder of sociology and positivism

Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), French enlightenment philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist known for the Condorcet method of voting

Tim Congdon (b. 1951), British economist and euro-sceptic politician

Alfred Haskell Conrad (1924-1970), Harvard professor of economics

Hugh E. Conway (b. 1942), American economist and professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces

Richard N. Cooper

Russell W. Cooper (b. 1955), American macroeconomist

Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801–1877), French philosopher and mathematician, influenced the use of mathematics in economics, known for oligopoly theory, Cournot competition is named for him

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish mathematician and economist

Dora L. Costa

Christopher Coyne (b. 1977), F.A. Harper professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University

Tyler Cowen (b. 1962), American economist and writer, one of the authors of the Marginal Revolution blog

August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome (1753–1833), German economist and statistician, known particularly for his Producten-Karte von Europa (1782), one of the first uses of cartograms

Raymond Crotty (1925–1994), Irish economist and campaigner against Irish membership of the European Union; his 1987 successful legal challenge in the Irish Supreme Court is the basis for EU treaty changes having to be submitted to referendum in Ireland

Jakša Cvitanić (b. 1962), Croatian American economist, professor at Caltech

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Uri Dadush

Hugh Dalton

Herman Daly

George Dantzig

Sandy Darity, Jr.

Partha Dasgupta

Charles Davenant

Paul Davidson

Antony Davies

D. J. Davies

Debapriya Bhattacharya

Lance E. Davis

Angus Deaton

Gérard Debreu

J. Bradford DeLong

Harold Demsetz

Isaac de Pinto

Biswajit Dhar

Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai

Hernando de Soto Polar

Pat Devine

Mathias Dewatripont

Armando Di Filippo

Douglas W. Diamond

Peter Diamond

Peter Dicken

Benjamin Diokno

Avinash Dixit

Huw Dixon

Simeon Djankov

Maurice Dobb

David Dodd

Randall Dodd

Evsey Domar

Biswajit Dhar

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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

Sebastian Edwards

Martin Eichenbaum

Barry Eichengreen

Alfred Eichner

Ali M. El-Agraa

Daniel Ellsberg

Richard T. Ely

Kenneth G. Elzinga

Ernst Engel

Friedrich Engels

Stanley Engerman

Robert F. Engle

Ludwig Erhard

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Marc Faber

Armin Falk

Günter Faltin

Eugene Fama

Emmanuel Farhi

Jeff Faux

Henry Fawcett

Nikolaj Prokofevich Fedorenko

Ernst Fehr

Martin Feldstein

Randall K. Filer

Stanley Fischer

Price V. Fishback

Irving Fisher

Jon Fisher

William Fleetwood

Marcus Fleming

Amelia Fletcher, former Chief Economist at the UK Office of Fair Trading

John E. Floyd

Karnit Flug

Robert Fogel

J. Fagg Foster

Charles Fourier

Robert H. Frank

Jeffrey Frankel

Bernie Fraser

Christopher Freeman

Richard B. Freeman

Bruno Frey

Benjamin M. Friedman

David D. Friedman

Milton Friedman

Rose Friedman

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch

Roland Fryer

Drew Fudenberg

Masahisa Fujita

Jason Furman

Celso Furtado

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Xavier Gabaix

Yegor Gaidar

James Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

David Gale

William G. Gale

Jordi Galí

A. Ronald Gallant

Mauro Gallegati

Oded Galor

Francisco Javier Carrillo Gamboa

Laszlo Garai

Gonzalo Garland

Pierangelo Garegnani

Norton Garfinkle

Leonid Gatovsky

John Geanakoplos

Jacques Généreux

Henry George

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

Mark Gertler

Silvio Gesell

Jayati Ghosh

Eric Ghysels

Francesco Giavazzi

Charles Gide

George Gilder

Richard T. Gill

Victor Ginsburgh

Herbert Gintis

Edward Glaeser

William Godwin

Claudia Goldin

Ian Goldin

Jose Antonio Gomariz

Charles Goodhart

George Goodman (a.k.a. "Adam Smith")

Myron J. Gordon

Robert J. Gordon

Gary Gorton

Hermann Heinrich Gossen

Christian Gouriéroux

Benjamin Graham

Phil Gramm

Clive Granger

George Grantham

Alan Greenspan

Sir Thomas Gresham

Stephany Griffith-Jones

Zvi Griliches

Elgin Groseclose

Gene Grossman

Henryk Grossman

Jonathan Gruber

Rebeca Grynspan

Dominique Guellec

Faruk Gül

Faruk Gül

Gopal Krishna Sarangi

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Trygve Haavelmo

Gottfried Haberler

Charles Hall

Robert Hall

John Haltiwanger

Daniel S. Hamermesh

James D. Hamilton

Steve H. Hanke

Alvin Hansen

Lars Peter Hansen

Eric Hanushek

Mahbub ul Haq

Arnold Harberger

Donald Harding

Tim Harford

Charles Knickerbocker Harley

Roy Harrod

John Harsanyi

Oliver Hart

Campbell Harvey

Espen Gaarder Haug

Jerry A. Hausman

Bohdan Hawrylyshyn

Friedrich Hayek

Henry Hazlitt

James Heckman

Eli Heckscher

Robert Heilbroner

Carolyn Heinrich

Christian Hellwig

Elhanan Helpman

Hazel Henderson

David Forbes Hendry

Noreena Hertz

William Hewins

John Hicks

Michael J. Hicks

Robert Higgs

Jack Hirshleifer

John A. Hobson

Thomas Hodgskin

Samuel Hollander

Bengt Holmstrom

Charles A. Holt

Harry J. Holzer

Kevin Hoover

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Charles Horioka

Branko Horvat

Harold Hotelling

Peter Howitt

William Hsiao

Glenn Hubbard

Michael Hudson

Jennifer Hunt

Thomas M. Humphrey

Leonid Hurwicz

David Hume

Terence Wilmot Hutchison

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Stefan Ingves

Mugur Isărescu

Otmar Issing

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Matthew O. Jackson

Tim Jackson

Ravi Jagannathan

Eliot Janeway

Robert A. Jarrow

Michael Jensen

William Stanley Jevons

Søren Johansen

Harry Gordon Johnson

Simon Johnson

Lewis Webster Jones

Richard Jones

Dan Johnson

Thomas Jordan

Dale W. Jorgenson

Boyan Jovanovic

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Daniel Kahneman

Ehud Kalai

Nicholas Kaldor

Michał Kalecki

Thomas Kane

Leonid Kantorovich

Ethan Kaplan

Steven Kaplan

Dean Karlan

Michael Kaser

Lawrence F. Katz

Steve Keen

Timothy J. Kehoe

Peter Kenen

Charles Kennedy

Srgjan Kerim

John Maynard Keynes

Ibn Khaldun

Mushtaq Khan

Homi Kharas

Mwai Kibaki

Mervyn King

Robert G. King

Bruce Kingma

Israel Kirzner

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

Lawrence Klein

Morton Klein

Paul Klemperer

Arnold Kling

Teun Kloek

Jan Kmenta

Frank Knight

Klaas Knot

Narayana Kocherlakota

Leopold Kohr

John Komlos

Nikolai Kondratiev

Tjalling Koopmans

János Kornai

Andrey Korotayev

Naum Krasner

Lawrence B. Krause

Jan Kregel

Michael Kremer

David M. Kreps

Peter Kropotkin

Anne Osborn Krueger

Paul Krugman

Per Krusell

Lawrence Kudlow

Adriana Kugler

Maurice Kugler

Robert Kuttner

Simon Kuznets

Vladimir Kvint

Finn E. Kydland

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Ludwig Lachmann

Arthur Laffer

Jean-Jacques Laffont

Ricardo Lagos

David Laibson

David Laidler

Domingo Laino

John A. "Skip" Laitner

Naomi Lamoreaux

Steven Landsburg

Philip R. Lane

Oskar Lange

Lyndon LaRouche

Serge Latouche

John Law

Richard Layard

Edward Lazear

Edward E. Leamer

Stanley Lebergott

Lewis Lehrman

Frederic S. Lee

Peter Leeson

Axel Leijonhufvud

Manuela Ferreira Leite

Leonard Liggio

Wassily Leontief

Abba Lerner

Leonardus Lessius

Richard Levin

David K. Levine

Lars Lefgren

Steven D. Levitt

Arthur Lewbel

Arthur Lewis

Tracy R. Lewis

Kevin Leyton-Brown

Evsei Liberman

Justin Yifu Lin

Michael Lind

Erik Lindahl

Assar Lindbeck

Adam Lintz

Friedrich List

John A. List

Lidia Liu

Andrew Lo

John Locke

William Forster Lloyd

Bernard Lonergan

Frédéric Lordon

Max O. Lorenz

Pascal Lorot

John Lott

Robert Lucas, Jr.

Stephen J. Luczo

Rosa Luxemburg

Gerard Lyons

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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Donald MacDougall

Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías

Henry Dunning Macleod

Adil Abdul-Mahdi

Edmond Malinvaud

Thomas Malthus

Gerard de Malynes

N. Gregory Mankiw

Henry Manne

Alan Manning

Edwin Mansfield

Charles Manski

Harry Markowitz

Karl Marlo

Jacob Marschak

Alfred Marshall

Xavier Sala i Martin

Harriet Martineau

Karl Marx

Eric Maskin

Paul Mattick

Richard Maybury

C. M. Mayo

Elizabeth Mays

Preston McAfee

Bennett McCallum

Rachel McCleary

Deirdre McCloskey

John Ramsey McCulloch

Paul McCulley

James McDonald

Daniel McFadden

Richard McKelvey

Lionel W. McKenzie

Warwick McKibbin

David McWilliams

James Meade

Gardiner Means

Marc Melitz

Sir Leslie Melville

Carl Menger

Stanislav Menshikov

Robert C. Merton

Albert J. Meyer

John R. Meyer

Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk

Leo Michelis

Peter Middlebrook (b. 1965), British growth economist and expert on stabilization

David Miles

Murray Milgate

Paul Milgrom

John Stuart Mill

Merton Miller

Jacob Mincer

Hyman Minsky

James Mirrlees

Ludwig von Mises

Frederic Mishkin

Wesley Mitchell

Alfred Mitchell-Innes

Franco Modigliani

Robert Moffit

Semion Mogilevich

Herbert Mohring

Joel Mokyr

Gustave de Molinari

Winnie Monsod

John Hardman Moore

Stephen Moore

Jonathan Morduch

Michio Morishima

Stephen Morris

Dale Mortensen

Warren Mosler

David C. Mowery

Dambisa Moyo

Anu Muhammad

Sendhil Mullainathan

Thomas Mun

Mohan Munasinghe

Robert Mundell

Richard Murnane

Kevin J. Murphy

Kevin M. Murphy

Michael Mussa

John Muth

Bingu wa Mutharika

Stewart Myers

Roger Myerson

Alva Myrdal

Gunnar Myrdal

Marsh Marshall

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John Forbes Nash

Richard Nelson

Nikolay Nenovsky

Marc Nerlove

John von Neumann

David Neumark

David Newbery

Francis William Newman

Stephen Nickell

Peter Nijkamp

William Nordhaus

Montagu Norman

Douglass North

Dudley North

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William Oakland

Maurice Obstfeld

William Ogilvie

Lee E. Ohanian

Bertil Ohlin

Walter Oi

Nobuo Okishio

Arthur Melvin Okun

Mancur Olson

Redvers Opie

Nicole Oresme

Peter Orszag

Elinor Ostrom

Andrew Oswald

Robert Owen

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Olorunfemi sola

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Javier Perez-Capdevila

Krishna Palepu

V. R. Panchamukhi

Thomas Palfrey

Yadav Prasad Pant

Maffeo Pantaleoni

Philippe Van Parijs

Vilfredo Pareto

Manuel V. Pangilinan

Jacques Parizeau

Luigi Pasinetti

Frédéric Passy

Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel

Prabhat Patnaik

William Paterson

Christina Paxson

Lasse Heje Pedersen

Edith Penrose

Mohammad Hashem Pesaran

Émile Péreire

Carlota Perez

Torsten Persson

Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert

Mohammad Hashem Pesaran

Wolfgang Pesendorfer

Pierre Pestieau

Maurice Peston, Baron Peston

Douglas Peters

Sir William Petty

Edmund Phelps

Thomas Philippon

Peter C. B. Phillips

William Phillips

Arthur Cecil Pigou

Thomas Piketty

Christopher A. Pissarides

Arnold Plant

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Charles Plott

Karl Polanyi

Michael Polanyi

Robert Pollin

Yuri Poluneev

Jean-Pierre Ponssard

Arden Pope

Michael Porter

Richard Portes

Arturo C. Porzecanski

Richard Posner

James M. Poterba

Bernard van Praag

John W. Pratt

Edward C. Prescott

Steven Pressman

Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.

Raúl Prebisch

Cuno Pümpin

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Guy Quaden

Danny Quah

François Quesnay

John Quiggin

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Matthew Rabin

Roy Radner

John Rae

Richard W. Rahn

Raghuram Rajan

Mihir Rakshit

Rogelio Ramírez de la O

Frank Plumpton Ramsey

Ajit Ranade

Leonard Rapping

Martin Ravallion

Debraj Ray

Daniel Raymond

Ralph Recto

Robert Reich

Carmen Reinhart

Ricardo Reis

George Reisman

Philip J. Reny

David Ricardo

Alice Rivlin

Lionel Robbins

Donald John Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts

Russ Roberts (b. 1954), Stanford University Hoover Institution research fellow and host of the EconTalk podcast

Denis Robertson

Abraham Robinson

Austin Robinson

Joan Robinson

Johann Karl Rodbertus

Dani Rodrik

John Roemer

Kenneth Rogoff

Gérard Roland

Eric Roll

Richard Roll

Christina Romer

David Romer

Paul Romer

Raymond de Roover

Harvey S. Rosen

Henry Rosovsky

Sherwin Rosen

Nathan Rosenberg

Stephen A. Ross

Walt Whitman Rostow

Julio Rotemberg

Alvin E. Roth

Murray Rothbard

Nouriel Roubini

Ariel Rubinstein

Isaak Russman

John Rust

Justinian Rweyemamu

Tadeusz Rybczynski

Rana Naseeb Khan (1940–1998), Pakistani economist, educator, and author of more than 50 books

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Fabrizio Saccomanni

Alexander Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs

Emmanuel Saez

Gilles Saint-Paul

Henri de Saint-Simon

Arthur Salz

Paul Samuelson

Chris William Sanchirico

José Santana

Diego Abad de Santillán

Juan Manuel Santos

Thomas J. Sargent

Mark Satterthwaite

Anthony Saunders

Jean-Baptiste Say

Louis Say

Herbert Scarf

Hjalmar Schacht

José Scheinkman

Thomas Schelling

Peter Schiff

Christoph M. Schmidt

Helmut Schmidt

John Schmitt

Gustav von Schmoller

Myron Scholes

Ken Schoolland

Stephan Schulmeister

Theodore Schultz

Ernst Schumacher

Joseph Schumpeter

Anna Schwartz

Tibor Scitovsky

Molly Scott Cato (born 1963), English green economist

L. William Seidman

Arthur Seldon

Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman

Reinhard Selten

Amartya Sen

Nassau William Senior

Andrew Sentance

Brad Setser

Ernest Seyd

G. L. S. Shackle

Anwar Shaikh

David Shapiro

Lloyd Shapley

William F. Sharpe

Neil Shephard

Shouyong Shi

Robert Shiller

Gary Shilling

Robert Shimer

Hyun-Song Shin

Yongcheol Shin

D Shina (1957-)

Masaaki Shirakawa

Andrei Shleifer

Artyom Shneyerov

Martin Shubik

Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqui

Henry Sidgwick

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Ota Šik

Cavaco Silva

Herbert A. Simon

Julian Lincoln Simon

Hans Singer

Kurt Singer

Manmohan Singh

Hans-Werner Sinn

Mark Skousen

Andrzej Sławiński

Joel Slemrod

Eugen Slutsky

Adam Smith

Alasdair Smith

Thomas Smith

Vernon L. Smith

Dennis Snower

Robert Solow

Werner Sombart

Willem Somermeyer

Hugo F. Sonnenschein

Thomas Sowell

Michael Spence

Barbara J. Spencer

Gene Sperling

Piero Sraffa

T. N. Srinivasan

Richard H. Steckel

Herbert Stein

Jeremy C. Stein

Nicholas Stern

George Stigler

Joseph E. Stiglitz

James H. Stock

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Nancy Stokey

Richard Stone

Benjamin Strong

Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin

Robert Sugden

Paul Sultan

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Lawrence Summers

Robert Summers

William Graham Sumner

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Arun Sundararajan

Richard Sutch

Kotaro Suzumura

Jan Švejnar

Lars E. O. Svensson

Subramanian Swamy

Trevor Swan

Paul Sweezy

Syahrir

Richard Sylla

Edward Szczepanik

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Alex Tabarrok

Guido Tabellini

Nassim Taleb

Naim Talu

Yair Tauman

Frank William Taussig

R.H. Tawney

Henry Charles Taylor

Fred M. Taylor

Mark P. Taylor

Lester G. Telser

Richard Thaler

William Thompson

Christopher Thornberg (b. 1967), American economist and founding partner of Beacon Economics, LLC, a Los Angeles based economic research firm

Henry Thornton (1760–1815)

Johann Heinrich von Thünen

Lester Thurow

Richard Timberlake

Jan Tinbergen

Jean Tirole

Sheridan Titman

James Tobin

Michael Todaro

Richard Tol

Alejandro Toledo

Robert Torrens

Robert M. Townsend

Kenneth E. Train

Rodrigue Tremblay

Giulio Tremonti

Jean-Claude Trichet

Robert Triffin

Sho-Chieh Tsiang

Catherine Tucker

Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky

Gordon Tullock

Anne Turgot

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

Amos Tversky

Laura D'Andrea Tyson

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Kazuhide Uekusa

Hirofumi Uzawa

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Alexander Van der Bellen

John Van Reenen

Eugen Varga

Hal Varian

Antoaneta Vassileva

Thorstein Veblen

Richard Vedder

Carlos A. Vegh

Anthony Venables

Fernando Vianello

William Vickrey

Jacob Viner

Ignazio Visco

Robert W. Vishny

Xavier Vives

Paul Volcker

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Sushil Wadhwani

Jim Walker

Neil Wallace

Phyllis Ann Wallace

Henry Wallich

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Carl Walsh

Alan Walters

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Clair Wilcox

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Oliver E. Williamson

Walter E. Williams

Ulrich Witt

Charles Wolf, Jr

Martin Wolf

Michael Wolf

Justin Wolfers

Edward Wolff

Myrna Wooders

Michael Woodford

Holbrook Working

Stephen T. Worland, taught at the University of Notre Dame; author of Scholasticism and Welfare Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis

Gavin Wright

Randall Wright

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Xenophon (c. 430–354 BCE), Ancient Greek, author of Oeconomicus

Y

Basil Yamey

Janet Yellen

Allyn Abbott Young

Alwyn Young

Arthur Young

Peyton Young

Linda Yueh

Muhammad Yunus

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Richard Zeckhauser

Zeine Ould Zeidane

Milan Zeleny

Jeffrey Zients

Arnold Zellner

Zhou Xiaochuan

Fabrizio Zilibotti

Luigi Zingales