List of economists

This is an incomplete alphabetical list by surname of notable economists, experts in the social science of economics, past and present. For a history of economics, see the article History of economic thought. Only economists with biographical articles in Wikipedia are listed here.

Economists

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Thomas Attwood

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Sir William Ashley

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Edith Abbott

George Akerlof

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Kenneth Arrow

Maurice Allais

Robert Aumann

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.
Walter Adams (1922–1998), American economist and college professor who served as an expert witness before 36 congressional committees.
Philippe Aghion (b. 1956), French economist
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 (economist), 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) was an 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) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
Martin A. Armstrong (b. 1949), American economist.
Heinz Arndt
Kenneth Arrow (b. 1921), 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 (b. 1944), 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), Argentina, was an 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) was the principal thinker in the Texas school of Institutional Economics.
Ungku Abdul Aziz

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Jean Bodin

Frédéric Bastiat

Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk

Gary Becker

Fischer Black

James M. Buchanan

Ben Bernanke

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Walter Block

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Francine D. Blau

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Olivier Blanchard

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Willem Buiter

Ali Babacan

Ali Babacan (1967-), Turkish economic minister
Louis Bachelier (1870–1946), French mathematician
Roger Backhouse, English economist
Nikolai Baibakov (1911–2008) was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor.
Joe S. Bain (1912–91), 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, currently the 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, currently 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, work 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 who is 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, was a developmental economist.
William Baumol (b. 1922), American, is a New York University economics professor.
Robert Dudley Baxter (1827–1875), English economist and statistician.
Michael Baye
Charlie Bean
Gary Becker (b. 1930), American economist and a Nobel laureate.
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer.
Mahamudu Bawumia (b. 1963), Tamale, was a 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 U.S. 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 (CGD).
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.
Olivier Blanchard (b. 1948), French, currently the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.
Rebecca Blank
Francine D. Blau
Alan Blinder (b. 1945), American, economist. He 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), is an Italian economist, currently 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.
Korkut Boratav (b. 1935), Turkish, is a 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) is a 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, was a 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), an 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.

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Thomas Chalmers

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Henry Charles Carey

John Bates Clark

Gustav Cassel

John R. Commons

Attilio Celant

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Augustin Carstens

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Ha-Joon Chang

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 V. Cameron (b. ca. 1960) is an 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.
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, was a 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), Yugoslavian economist, professor at Caltech