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.

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• Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American economist and social worker • Daron Acemoglu (born 1967), Turkish/American economist • Nicola Acocella (born 1939), Italian economist • Zoltan Acs (born 1947), American economics professor • Henry Carter Adams (1851–1921), American economist • Walter Adams (1922–1998), American economist and congressional expert • Philippe Aghion (born 1956), French economist • Montek Singh Ahluwalia (born 1943), Indian economist • Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad (born 1943), Bangladeshi economist and environmentalist • George Akerlof (born 1940), American economist and shared winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics • Armen Alchian (1914–2013), American economist • Alberto Alesina (1957–2020), Italian political economist • Sadie Alexander (1898–1989), American lawyer and first African American to receive a PhD in economics • Sidney S. Alexander (1916–2005), American economist • Maurice Allais (1911–2010), French economist and 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences • Franklin Allen (born 1956), American economist • R. G. D. Allen (1906–1983), English economist and statistician • Gar Alperovitz (born 1936), American political economist and historian • Lee J. Alston (born 1951), American economist • Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German economist, first woman university lecturer in Germany • Fernando Alvarez, Argentine economist • B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), Indian economist and jurist • Takeshi Amemiya (born 1935), Japanese economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece • Georges Anderla (1921–2005), Czechoslovak-born French economist • Donald Andrews (born 1955), Canadian economist • George-Marios Angeletos (born 1975), Greek/American economist • Norman Angell (1872–1967), English economist and politician • Joshua Angrist (born 1960), Israeli/American economist • Kofi Annan (1938–2018), Ghanaian economist and Secretary-General of the United Nations • Masahiko Aoki (青木昌彦, 1938–2015), Japanese economist • Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Italian priest and writer on economics • Luis Arce (born 1963), Bolivian economist and president • Pérsio Arida (born 1952), Brazilian economist • Dan Ariely (born 1967), Israeli/American behavioral economist • Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), German-born Australian economist • Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017), American economist, joint 1972 winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics • Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (born 1947), Philippine academic and politician • Enrique R. Arzac (born 1943), Argentine/American economist • Orley Ashenfelter (born 1942), American economist • William Ashley (1860–1927), English economic historian • Cliff Asness (born 1966), American economist and hedge-fund manager • Jeremy Atack (born 1949), Anglo-American economic historian • Susan Athey (born 1970), American economist • Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944–2017), Welsh/English economist • Orazio Attanasio (born 1959), Italian economist • Thomas Attwood (1783–1856), English economist • David B. Audretsch (born 1954), American economist • Leonardo Auernheimer (1936–2010), Argentine economist and international monetary consultant • Robert Aumann (born 1930), Israeli/American mathematician and 2005 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics • David Autor (born 1967), American economist, known for work on labor economics • George Ayittey (1945–2022), Ghanaian economist • Clarence Ayres (1891–1972), American economist

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• Ali Babacan (born 1967), Turkish economic minister • Roger Babson (1875–1967), American business theorist • Lawrence Bacow (born 1951), American economist and university administrator • Louis Bachelier (1870–1946), French mathematician • Roger Backhouse (born 1951), English economist • Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), English journalist, businessman, and essayist; wrote extensively on 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 (born 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 • Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), Russian revolutionary anarchist, socialist, and founder of collectivist anarchism • Leszek Balcerowicz (born 1947), Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland • Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American economist and peace activist (1946 Nobel Peace Prize) • Richard Baldwin (living), American economist • Sir James Ball (1933–2018), English econometrician, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London Business School and a leading figure in econometric modeling • Ludwig Bamberger (1823–1899), German economist, politician and writer • Abhijit Banerjee (born 1961), Indian economist, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Pratima Bansal (living), Canadian economist • Paul A. Baran (1909–1964), Russian/American, the only tenured Marxist economist in the United States until his death in 1964 • Pranab Bardhan (born 1939), Indian economist, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley • William A. Barnett (born 1941), American economist, works in chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity • Enrico Barone (1859–1924), Italian soldier, military historian, and economist • Nicholas Barr (living), English/American economist, professor of public economics at the London School of Economics • Raymond Barre (1924–2007), French economist and politician • Robert Barro (born 1944), American macroeconomist, presently the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University • Yoram Barzel (1931–2022), Israeli economist, works in property rights, applied price theory, and political economy • Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850), French classical liberal theorist, political economist • Kaushik Basu (born 1952), Indian economist and academic, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank • Ratan Lal Basu (born 1948), Indian economist • Ravi Batra (born 1943), American economist, author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas • Peter Thomas Bauer (1915–2002), Hungarian developmental economist • William Baumol (1922–2017), American, New York University economics professor • Mahamudu Bawumia (born 1963), Ghanaian economist; worked at the Research Department of International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., United States • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914), Austrian, founder of the Austrian School of economics • Robert Dudley Baxter (1827–1875), English economist and statistician • Michael Baye (born 1958), American business economist • Charlie Bean (born 1953), English economist and professor at London School of Economics • Gary Becker (1930–2014), American economist and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences • Yoram Ben-Porat (died 1992), Israeli economist and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem • Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer • Dwayne Benjamin (born 1961), Canadian economist, managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics • Barbara Bergmann (1927–2015), American, forerunner in feminist economics with a passion for social policy and equality • C. Fred Bergsten (born 1941), American founder of the Peterson Institute for International Economics • Rex Bergstrom (1925–2005), New Zealand econometrician recognized for his work in continuous time econometrics • Adolf Berle (1895–1971), American lawyer, educator, author, and US diplomat • Ben Bernanke (born 1953), American economist, former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences • Jared Bernstein (1925–2005), American economist • Marianne Bertrand (b. c. 1970), Belgian economist • Tim Besley (born 1960), English academic economist • William Beveridge (1879–1963), English economist and politician • Truman Bewley (born 1941), American mathematician and economist • Jagdish Bhagwati (born 1934), Indian economist and professor of economics and law at Columbia University • Debapriya Bhattacharya (living), Bangladeshi economist and policy analyst • Mark Bils (born 1958), macroeconomist at the University of Rochester • Nancy Birdsall (born 1946), American founding president of the Center for Global Development • Kenneth Binmore (born 1940), English economist and game theorist, professor emeritus of economics at University College, London • Mette Koefoed Bjørnsen (1920–2008), Danish economist at the Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College • William K. Black (born 1951), American professor of economics at UMKC • Fischer Black (1938–1995), American economist, best known as one author of the famous Black–Scholes equation • William Blake (1774–1852), English classical economist • Olivier Blanchard (born 1948), French, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund • Rebecca Blank (born 1955), American economist and politician • Francine D. Blau (born 1946), American economist and academic • Knut Blind (born 1965), German innovation economist • Alan Blinder (born 1945), American economist, serves at Princeton University • Walter Block (born 1941), American free market economist and anarcho-capitalist • Barry Bluestone (born 1944), American economist and academic • John Blundell (1952–2014), English economist • Richard Blundell (born 1952), English economist and econometrician • Jean Bodin (1530–1596), French, early proponent of the Quantity Theory of Money • Tito Boeri (born 1958), Italian economist, professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan • Peter J. Boettke (born 1960), American economist of the Austrian School • Michele Boldrin (born 1956), Italian-American economist, expert in economic growth • Tim Bollerslev (born 1958), Danish economist • Matilde Bombardini (living), Italian Canadian economist in Vancouver • Murray Bookchin (1921–2006), American political philosopher • Korkut Boratav (born 1935), Turkish, marxist economist • George Borjas (born 1950), American, Harvard Kennedy School • Michael Boskin (born 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 • O. Fred Boucke (1881–1935), American economist • Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993), American economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker • Heather Boushey (born 1970), senior economist with the Center for US Progress • Samuel Bowles (born 1939), American Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst • David Boyle (born 1958), English historian and economist • William Brainard (b. c. 1935), American economist • James Brander (born 1953), Canadian economist • Avishay Braverman (born 1948), Israeli president of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev • 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 (living), English economist and corporate finance expert • William Breit (1933–2011), American professor of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas • George Ignatius Brizan (1942–2012), economics lecturer and later Prime Minister of Grenada • Martin Browning (born 1946), English economist, professor of economics at the University of Oxford • Sylvie Brunel (born 1960), French economist • Markus Brunnermeier (born 1969), German/American economist • Michael Bruno (1932–1996), Israeli economist, governor of the Bank of Israel, World Bank Chief Economist • Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962), American economist known for work on productivity and the economics of AI • James M. Buchanan (1919–2013), American economist known for work on public choice theory, received the Swedish central bankers' "Nobel" prize in 1986 • Alan Budd (born 1937), English economist and central banker • Willem Buiter (born 1949), Dutch economist • Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944), Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist • Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher, known for writing A Vindication of Natural Society

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• Ricardo J. Caballero (born 1959), Chilean macroeconomist, holds the Ford International chair of economics at MIT • Vince Cable (born 1943), English economist • Federico Caffè (1914–1987), Italian, economist and Professor of Economic and Financial Policy at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome • Phillip D. Cagan (1927–2012), American scholar and author, Professor of Economics Emeritus at Columbia University • John Elliot Cairnes (1823–1875), Ireland, "last of the classical economists" • Guillermo Calvo (born 1941), Argentine economist • John Y. Campbell (born 1958), British/American economist, chairman of the Harvard economics department • Colin Camerer (born 1959), American economist • Lisa Cameron (born 1967), Australian, Professional Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research • Stephen Cameron (b. c. 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), English economist and historian of economic thought • Bryan Caplan (born 1971), American professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia • David Card (born 1956), Canadian labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley • Matias D. Cattaneo (born 1978), Argentine economist and professor at Princeton University • Henry Charles Carey (1793–1879), American economist of the American School of Capitalism • Mark Carney (born 1965), Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of England • Kevin Carson (born 1963), American social and political theorist and scholar of political economy writing in the mutualist and individualist anarchist traditions • Richard Carson (born 1955), American environmental economist • Agustín Carstens (born 1958), Mexican economist, governor of the Bank of Mexico • Anne P. Carter (born 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 (born 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, 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 (b. c. 1962), American professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research • 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 (born 1963), Korean, one of the leading heterodox economists and institutional economists specialising in development economics • V. V. Chari (born 1952), Indian/American economist • Raj Chetty (born 1979), Indian/American economist • Steven N. S. Cheung (born 1935), Chinese economist specializing in transaction costs and property rights • Ajay Chhibber (living), Indian economist and politician • Graciela Chichilnisky (born 1946), Argentine/American mathematical economist • Victoria Chick (born 1936) • Josiah Child (1630–1699), English mercantilist, politician and governor of the East India Company • Menzie Chinn (born 1961) • Lawrence J. Christiano (born 1952), American economist • Richard Clarida (born 1957) • Colin Clark (1905–1989), British/Australian economist, pioneered the use of the gross national product (GNP) • Gregory Clark (born 1957), American 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 (1916–1985), English economist and public servant • Michael Clemens (born 1972), American economist • Ronald Coase (1910–2013), winner of the Swedish central bankers' "Nobel" prize in 1991, for contributions including transaction costs and Coase theorem • Warren Coats (born 1942), American economist specializing in monetary policy • John H. Cochrane (born 1957), American financial economist and macroeconomist • Paul Cockshott (born 1952), Scottish economist and computer scientist • Luc Coene (1947–2017), 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 (born 1951), English economist and euro-sceptic politician • Alfred Haskell Conrad (1924–1970), American Harvard professor of economics • Hugh E. Conway (born 1942), American economist and professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces • Thomas F. Cooley (1943–2021), American economist • Richard N. Cooper (1934–2020), American economist and policy adviser • Russell W. Cooper (born 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 • Carol Corrado (living), American economist • Dora L. Costa (born 1964), American economist and academic • Christopher Coyne (born 1977), F. A. Harper professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University • Tyler Cowen (born 1962), American economist and writer, one of the authors of the Marginal Revolution blog • Vincent Crawford (born 1950), American economist and game theorist • 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 • James Crotty (born 1940), American macroeconomist • 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 • Benoit Crutzen (born 1972), Belgian economist and assistant university professor • Jakša Cvitanić (born 1962), Croatian/American economist, professor at Caltech

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• Uri Dadush (living), French scholar in Washington DC • Hugh Dalton (1887–1962), Welsh/English economist and politician • Herman Daly (born 1938), American "father" of ecological economics • George Dantzig (1914–2005), American mathematical scientist • William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. (born 1953), American economist and researcher • Partha Dasgupta (born 1942), Bangladeshi/British development economist • Charles Davenant (1656–1714), English mercantilist and politician • Paul Davidson (born 1930), American macroeconomist • Antony Davies (born 1965), American economist and author • D. J. Davies (1893–1956), Welsh economist and author • Lance E. Davis (1928–2014), American social science professor • Angus Deaton (born 1945), Scottish-American economist and academic • Gérard Debreu (1921–2004), French-American economist and mathematician • Rajeev Dehejia (born 1973), American professor of public policy • J. Bradford DeLong (born 1960), American economic historian • Harold Demsetz (1930–2019), American professor of economics • Isaac de Pinto (1717–1787), Dutch banker and scholar • Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai (born 1940), Indian/British economist and Labour Party politician • Hernando de Soto Polar (born 1941), Peruvian economist of the informal economy • Pat Devine (living), English industrial economist • Mathias Dewatripont (born 1959), Belgian economist and professor • Armando Di Filippo (living), Argentine economist and academic • Douglas Diamond (born 1953), American finance expert • Peter Diamond (born 1940), American social security expert • Gladys Dickason (1903–1971), American labor economist • Peter Dicken (born 1938), English economic geographer • Benjamin Diokno (born 1948), Philippine central banker • Avinash Dixit (born 1944), Indian/American economist • Huw Dixon (born 1958), Welsh economist and academic • Peter Dixon (born 1946), Australian economist and academic • Simeon Djankov (born 1970), Bulgarian economist and politician • Maurice Dobb (1900–1976), English Marxist economist • David Dodd (1895–1988), American financial analyst • Randall Dodd (living), American policy regulator • Jennifer Doleac (living), American economist • Evsey Domar (1914–1997), Soviet/American economist • Paul Donovan (born 1972), British economist • Stephen J. Dubner (born 1963), American economics author and broadcaster • Henda Ducados (born 1964), French/Angolan economist • Esther Duflo (born 1972), French/American economist • Steven N. Durlauf (born 1958), American economist and social scientist • Philip H. Dybvig (born 1955), American economist and professor at Olin Business School

E

• Shlomo Eckstein (1929–2020), Israeli economist and academic • Nicholas Economides, Greek economist • Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926), Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist • Sebastian Edwards (born 1953), Chilean economist and academic • Martin Eichenbaum (born 1954), American professor of economics • Barry Eichengreen (born 1952), American economist and political scientist • Alfred Eichner (1937–1988), American economist • Ali M. El-Agraa (born 1941), Sudanese/British economist • Daniel Ellsberg (1931–2023), American economist and politician • Richard T. Ely (1853–1943), American economist and social interventionist • Kenneth G. Elzinga (living), American economist and writer • Ernst Engel (1821–1896), German economist and statistician • Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German/British Marxist economist • Stanley Engerman (born 1936), American economist and economic historian • Robert F. Engle (born 1942), American statistician and economist • Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), German economist and politician • Vanessa Erogbogbo (living), Ugandan/British development specialist • José Luís Espert (born 1961), Argentinian economist and politician

F

• Marc Faber (born 1946), Swiss investor based in Thailand • Armin Falk (born 1968), German economist and academic • Günter Faltin (born 1944), German economist and entrepreneur • Eugene Fama born 1939), American economist known for efficient-market hypothesis • Emmanuel Farhi (1978–2020), French economist and academic • M. J. Farrell (1926–1975), British economist • Jeff Faux (living), American economist and writer • Henry Fawcett (1833–1884), British economist and statesman • Nikolay Fedorenko (1917–2006), Soviet/Russian economist and chemist • Ernst Fehr (born 1956), Austrian/Swiss behavioral economist • Martin Feldstein (1939–2019), American economist and academic • Edgar Fiedler (1929–2003), American economist • Randall K. Filer (born 1952), American economist and researcher • Amy Finkelstein (born 1973), American economist and researcher • Stanley Fischer (born 1943), American/Israeli economist and bank governor • Price V. Fishback (b. c. 1955), American economic historian • Irving Fisher (1867–1947), American economist and social campaigner • Jon Fisher (born 1972), American entrepreneur and philanthropist • Jean-Paul Fitoussi (1942–2022), French economist and academic • William Fleetwood (1656–1723), English statistician and bishop • Marcus Fleming (1911–1976), British economist and stabilization expert • Amelia Fletcher (born 1966), British economist and singer • John E. Floyd (born 1937), Canadian economist and academic • Karnit Flug (born 1955), Polish/Israeli economist and bank governor • Robert Fogel (1926–2013), American economic historian • Foster and Catchings, American economists William Trufant Foster and Waddill Catchings • Charles Fourier (1772–1837), French philosopher and socialist thinker • Joseph Francois (born 1961), Swiss economist and academic • Robert H. Frank (born 1939), American economist and academic • Jeffrey Frankel (born 1952), American macroeconomist • Bernie Fraser (born 1941), Australian economist and bank governor • Christopher Freeman (1921–2010), British economist and academic • Richard B. Freeman (born 1943), American economist and academic • Bruno Frey (born 1941), Swiss economist and academic • Benjamin M. Friedman (born 1944), American political economist • David D. Friedman (born 1945), American microeconomist and theorist • Milton Friedman (1912–2006), American economist and Nobel Prize winner • Rose Friedman (1910–2009), American free-market economist • Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (1895–1973), Norwegian economist and Nobel Prize co-winner • Roland Fryer (born 1977), American economist • Drew Fudenberg (born 1957), American economist and game-theory expert • Masahisa Fujita (藤田昌久, born 1943), Japanese economist and academic • Connel Fullenkamp (born 1965), American economist and academic • Jason Furman (born 1970), American economist and academic • Celso Furtado (1920–2004), Brazilian economist and development expert

G

• Xavier Gabaix (born 1971), French/American economist • Yegor Gaidar (1956–2009), Soviet/Russian economist and politician • James Kenneth Galbraith (born 1952), American economist and academic • John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Canadian/American economist and politician • David Gale (1921–2008), American mathematician and economist • William G. Gale (born 1959), American economist and politician • Jordi Galí (born 1961), Spanish macroeconomist • A. Ronald Gallant (born 1942), American econometrician • Mauro Gallegati (born 1958), Italian economist and scholar • Oded Galor (born 1953), Israeli/American economist and academic • Francisco Javier Carrillo Gamboa (living), Mexican knowledge-systems researcher • László Garai (1935–2019), Hungarian psychologist and economist • Gonzalo Garland (born 1959), Peruvian economist and researcher • Pierangelo Garegnani (1930–2011), Italian economist and academic • Norton Garfinkle (born 1931), American economist and economic historian • Leonid Gatovsky (1903–1997), Russian/Soviet economist • John Geanakoplos (born 1955), American economist and academic • Jacques Généreux (born 1956), French economist and politician • Henry George (1839–1897), American political economist • Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906–1994), Romanian statistician and economist • Mark Gertler (born 1951), American economist and academic • Silvio Gesell (1862–1930), German economist and politician • Jayati Ghosh (born 1955), Indian development economist • Eric Ghysels (born 1956), Belgian economist and econometrician • Francesco Giavazzi (born 1949), Italian economist and academic • Charles Gide (1847–1932), French economist and economic historian • George Gilder (born 1939), American economist and investor • Richard T. Gill (1927–2010), American economist and opera singer • Victor Ginsburgh (born 1939), Belgian economist • Herbert Gintis (born 1940), American economist and behavioral scientist • Edward Glaeser (born 1967), American economist and academic • Rachel Glennerster (born 1965), British economist • William Godwin (1756–1836), English economist and writer • Claudia Goldin (born 1946), American economist and government official • Ian Goldin (living), South African/British economist and program director • Jose Antonio Gomariz (1919–2005), Argentine economist and educator • Charles Goodhart (born 1936), British economist and academic • George Goodman (aka "Adam Smith", 1930–2014), American economist and broadcaster • Austan Goolsbee (born 1969), American economist • Gita Gopinath (born 1971), Indian/American economist • Myron J. Gordon (1920–2010), American/Canadian economist and academic • Robert J. Gordon (born 1940), American economist • Gary Gorton (b. c. 1951), American economist and finance educator • Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858), German economist • Christian Gouriéroux (born 1959), French econometrician • Benjamin Graham (1894–1976), British/American economist and investor • Phil Gramm (born 1942), American economist and politician • Clive Granger (1934–2009), Welsh/American econometrician • George Grantham (born 1941), American economist and academic • William Greene (born 1951), American economist • Alan Greenspan (born 1926), American economist and finance official • Thomas Gresham (c. 1519–1579), English merchant and financier • Stephany Griffith-Jones (born 1947), British/American economist • Zvi Griliches (1930–1999), Lithuanian/American economist • Elgin Groseclose (1899–1983), American economist and statesman • Gene Grossman (born 1955), American economist and academic • Henryk Grossman (1881–1950), Polish/German economist and revolutionary • Jonathan Gruber (born 1965), American economist and academic • Rebeca Grynspan (born 1955), Costa Rican economist • Gu Zhun (顾准, 1915–1974), Chinese economist and post-Marxist • Dominique Guellec (living), French economist and official • Maria-Carmen Guisan (living), Spanish economist • Faruk Gül (living), Turkish/American economist and academic

H

• Trygve Haavelmo (1911–1999), Norwegian economist and Nobel laureate • Gottfried Haberler (1900–1995), Austrian/American economist • Charles Hall (1740–1825), English social critic and physician • Robert Hall (born 1943), American economist and academic • Andrew Hughes Hallett (1947–1919), Scottish economist and academic • John Haltiwanger (born 1955), American economist • Daniel S. Hamermesh (born 1943), American economist • James D. Hamilton (born 1954), American economist and academic • Steve H. Hanke (born 1942), American applied economist • Alvin Hansen (1887–1975), American economist and academic • Lars Peter Hansen (born 1952), American economist and academic • Peter Reinhard Hansen (born 1968), Danish economist and academic • Eric Hanushek (born 1943), American economist • Mahbub ul Haq (1934–1998), Indian/Pakistani economist and politician • Arnold Harberger (born 1924), American economist • Tim Harford (born 1973), English economist and broadcaster • Charles Knickerbocker Harley (born 1943), American economic historian • Stephen Harper (born 1959), Canadian economist and Prime Minister (2006–2015) • Roy Harrod (1900–1978), English economist and biographer • John Harsanyi (1920–2000), Hungarian/American economist and Nobel Prize winner • Oliver Hart (born 1948), British/American economist and Nobel laureate • Campbell Harvey (born 1958), Canadian/American economist and academic • Jerry A. Hausman (born 1946), American econometrician • Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (1926–2016), Ukrainian/Canadian economist and thinker • Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), Austrian/American economist and philosopher • Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993), American economics writer • James Heckman (born 1944), American economist and Nobel laureate • Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), Swedish political economist and economic historian • Robert Heilbroner (1919–2005), American economist and historian of economics • Carolyn Heinrich (born 1967), American historian and academic • Christian Hellwig (living), German macroeconomist • Elhanan Helpman (born 1946), Israeli economist and academic • Hazel Henderson (1933–2022), English economist, ecologist and broadcaster • David Forbes Hendry (born 1944), English econometrician and academic • Peter Blair Henry, Jamaican-born economist • Noreena Hertz (born 1967), English economist and broadcaster • William Hewins (1865–1931), English economist and politician • John Hicks (1904–1989), English economist and joint Nobel laureate • Michael J. Hicks (born 1962), American economist and academic • Robert Higgs (born 1944), American economic historian • Jack Hirshleifer (1925–2005), American economist and academic • John A. Hobson (1858–1940), English economist and social scientist • Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869), English political economist and socialist • Samuel Hollander (born 1937), English/Canadian/Israeli economist • Bengt Holmström (born 1949), Finnish/American economist and academic • Charles A. Holt (born 1948), American behavioral economist • Harry J. Holzer (born 1957), American economist and educator • Kevin Hoover (born 1955), American economist and philosopher • Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born 1949), German/American economist and philosopher • Charles Horioka (チャールズ・ユウジ・ホリオカ, born 1956), American/Japanese economist and academic • Branko Horvat (1928–2003), Yugoslav/Croatian economist and politician • Harold Hotelling (1895–1973), American statistician and theorist • Peter Howitt (born 1946), Canadian economist • William Hsiao (蕭慶倫m born 1936), Chinese/American economist and academic • Yukon Huang (born 1944), Chinese/American economist • Glenn Hubbard (born 1958), American economist and academic • Michael Hudson (born 1939), American economist and analyst • David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish economist and philosopher • Thomas M. Humphrey (born 1935), American economist • Jennifer Hunt (1913–2015), American economist and politician • Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008), Polish/American economist and mathematician • Terence Wilmot Hutchison (1912–2007), English economist

I

• Sri Mulyani Indrawati (born 1962), Indonesian economist, banker and politician • Stefan Ingves (born 1953), Swedish national bank governor and economist • Jay Inslee (born 1951), American economist and governor of Washington • Douglas Irwin (living), American economist and academic • Mugur Isărescu (born 1949), Romanian national bank governor and economist • Otmar Issing (born 1936), German economist and economic policy-maker

J

• Matthew O. Jackson (born 1962), American economist and academic • Tim Jackson (born 1957), British ecological economist • David A. Jaeger (born 1964), American economist and researcher • Davoud Danesh-Jafari, Iranian politician and economist • Ravi Jagannathan (born 1949), American economist and academic • Eliot Janeway (1913–1993), American economist and author • William H. Janeway (born 1943), American economist and venture capitalist • Robert A. Jarrow (living), American economist and academic • Peter Jay (born 1937), English economist and diplomat • Michael Jensen (born 1939), American financial economist • William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882), English economist and logician • Leif Johansen (1930–1982), Norwegian economist and academic • Søren Johansen (born 1939), Danish statistician and econometrician • Harry Gordon Johnson (1923–1977), Canadian economist • Simon Johnson (born 1963), English/American and IMF economist • Lewis Webster Jones (1899–1975), American economist and academic • Richard Jones (1790–1855), English economist • Dan Johnson (b. c. 1969), Canadian/American microeconomist and entrepreneur • Thomas Jordan (born 1963), Swiss economist and central banker • Dale W. Jorgenson (born 1933), American economist and academic • Boyan Jovanovic (born 1952), American economist and academic

K

• Daniel Kahneman (born 1934), Palestinian/Israeli economist and psychologist • Ehud Kalai (born 1942), Israeli/American game theorist and mathematical economist • Nicholas Kaldor (1908–1986), Hungarian/British economist and government advisor • Michał Kalecki (1899–1970), Polish economist • Thomas Kane (born 1961), American educational economist • Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), Soviet mathematician and economist • Ethan Kaplan (living), American economist and academic • Steven Kaplan (born 1959), American business economist • Dean Karlan (living), American development economist • Michael Kaser (1926–2021), English economist • Lawrence F. Katz (born 1959), American economist and academic • Steve Keen (born 1953), Australian economist and educator • Timothy J. Kehoe (born 1953), American economist and academic • Stephanie Kelton (born 1969), American economist and academic • A. R. Kemal (1946–2008), Pakistani economist and policy-maker • Peter Kenen (1932–2012), American international economist • Charles Kennedy (1923–1997), American theoretical economist • Li Keqiang (李克强, born 1955), Chinese economist and politician • Srgjan Kerim (born 1948), Yugoslav/Macedonian economist and diplomat • John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), English political economist • Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), Arab social scientist • Mushtaq Khan (born 1961), British/Bangladeshi economist and academic • Homi Kharas (living), American economist and UN executive • Fahmida Khatun (living), Bangladeshi economist and policy analyst • Mwai Kibaki (1931–2022), Kenyan economist and politician • Robin Kibuuka (living), Ugandan economist • Mervyn King, English economist and Bank of England governor • Robert G. King (born 1951), American macroeconomist • Bruce Kingma (born 1961), American economist and entrepreneur • Israel Kirzner (born 1930), English/American economist • Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (清滝信宏, born 1955), Japanese/American macroeconomist • Lawrence Klein (1920–2013), American econometrician and Nobel Prize winner • Morton Klein (born 1947), German/American economist and statistician • Morris Kleiner (b.1948), American labor economist • Paul Klemperer (born 1956), English economist and academic • Arnold Kling (born 1954), American economist and writer • Teun Kloek (born 1934), Dutch econometrician • Jan Kmenta (1928–2016), Czech/American economist and statistician • Frank Knight (1885–1972), American economist and academic • Lilian Knowles (1870–1926), English economic historian • Klaas Knot (born 1967), Dutch economist and central banker • Narayana Kocherlakota (born 1963), American economist and academic • Leopold Kohr (1909–1994), Austrian/British economist and political scientist • John Komlos (born 1944), Hungarian/American economic historian • Nikolai Kondratiev (1892–1938), Russian/Soviet economist and economic policy-maker • Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985), Dutch/American economist and mathematician • Roger C. Kormendi (1949–2009), American economist and finance expert • János Kornai (1928–2021), Hungarian economist and theorist • Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), Soviet/Russian economic historian and sociologist • Naum Krasner (1924–1999), Soviet/Russian economist and mathematician • Lawrence B. Krause (born 1929), American economist and economic advisor • Jan Kregel (born 1944), American economist and UN executive • Michael Kremer (born 1964), American development economist and academic • David M. Kreps (born 1950), American game theorist and economist • Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), American economist and political scientist • Anne Osborn Krueger (born 1934), American economist and IMF executive • Paul Krugman (born 1953), American economist, academic and Nobel Prize winner • Per Krusell (born 1959), Swedish macroeconomist • Lawrence Kudlow (born 1947), American finance analyst • Adriana Kugler (born 1969), American economist and public-policy academic • Maurice Kugler (born 1967), American economist and public-policy academic • Rajiv Kumar (born 1951), Indian economist and politician • Robert Kuttner (born 1943), American economic and economic-policy writer • Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), Russian/American economist and statistician • Vladimir Kvint (living), Soviet/Russian economist and strategist • Finn E. Kydland (born 1943), Norwegian/American economist and academic

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• Ludwig Lachmann (1906–1990), German economist • Arthur Laffer (born 1940), American economist • Jean-Jacques Laffont (1947–2004), French economist • Ricardo Lagos (born 1938), Chilean economist and lawyer • David Laibson (born 1966), American economist • David Laidler (born 1938), English monetary economist • Domingo Laino (born 1935), Paraguayan economist and politician • John A. Laitner (born 1947), American economist and environmentalist • Naomi Lamoreaux (born 1950), American economic historian • Steven Landsburg (born 1954), American economist • Philip R. Lane (born 1954), American economist • Lang Xianping (郎咸平, born 1956), Hong Kong-based economist • Oskar Lange (1904–1965), Polish economist and diplomat • Serge Latouche (born 1940), French economist • John Law (1671–1629), Scottish economist • Richard Layard (born 1934), English labour economist • Edward Lazear (1948–2020), American economist • Edward E. Leamer (born 1944), American economist • Stanley Lebergott (1918–2009), American economist • Lewis Lehrman (born 1938), American economist and banker • Frederic Sterling Lee (1949–2014), American economist • Peter Leeson (born 1979), American economist • Axel Leijonhufvud (1933–2022), Swedish economist • Manuela Ferreira Leite (born 1940), Portuguese economist and politician • Leonard Liggio (1933–2014), American writer and academic • Wassily Leontief (1905–1999), American economist • Abba P. Lerner (1903–1982), Russian/British economist • Leonardus Lessius (1554–1623), Flemish moral theologian • Richard Levin (born 1947), American economist • David K. Levine (b. c. 1955), American economist • Lars Lefgren (born 1972), American economist • Steven D. Levitt (born 1967), American economist • Arthur Lewbel (c. 1956), American economist • Arthur Lewis (1915–1991), Saint Lucia economist • Tracy R. Lewis (living), American economist • Kevin Leyton-Brown (born 1975), Canadian economist • Evsei Liberman (1897–1981), Russian/Soviet economist • Justin Yifu Lin (林毅夫, born 1952), Chinese economist • Michael Lind (born 1962), American writer and academic • Erik Lindahl (1891–1960), Swedish economist • Assar Lindbeck (1930–2020), Swedish economist • Friedrich List (1789–1846), German/American economist • John A. List (born 1968), American economist • Andrew Lo (羅聞全, born 1960), Hong Kong/American financial economist • John Locke (1632–1704), English philosopher • William Forster Lloyd (1794–1852), English writer on economics • Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984), Canadian philosopher • Frédéric Lordon (born 1962), French economist and philosopher • Max O. Lorenz (1876–1959), American economist • Pascal Lorot (born 1960), French economist and geo-politician • Andreas Löschel (living), German economist • John R. Lott (born 1958), American economist and political commentator • Robert Lucas, Jr. (1937–2023), American economist • Stephen J. Luczo (born 1957), American chief executive • Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), Polish-born economist and revolutionary socialist • Gerard Lyons (born 1961), English political economist

M

• Donald MacDougall (1912–2004), Scottish economist • Mark J. Machina (born 1954), American economist • Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías (born 1955), Mexican academician and economist • Henry Dunning Macleod (1821–1902), Scottish economist • Adil Abdul-Mahdi (born 1942), Iraqi economist and vice-president • Edmond Malinvaud (1923–2015), French economist • Burton Malkiel (born 1932), American economist and writer on finance • Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), English political economist and demographer • Gerard de Malynes (fl. 1585–1627), English foreign trader and government advisor • N. Gregory Mankiw (born 1958), American macroeconomist • Henry Manne (1928–2015), American economist and academic • Alan Manning (born 1960), English economist and academic • Edwin Mansfield (1930–1997), American economist and academic • Charles Manski (born 1948), American professor of economics • Mao Yushi (茅于轼;, born 1929), Chinese economist • Ruy Mauro Marini (1932–1997), Brazilian economist • Harry Markowitz (1927–2023), American economist • Karl Marlo (1810–1865), German economist and academic • Jacob Marschak (1898–1977), American economist • Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), English neoclassical economist • Marsh Marshall (born 1953), American economist and hedge-fund manager • Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English social theorist • Karl Marx (1818–1883), German founder of Marxian economics • Eric Maskin (born 1950), American economist and Nobel laureate • Mariana Mazzucato (born 2016), Italian–American-British economist and academic • Jason Gaverick Matheny (living), American expert on artificial intelligence • Paul Mattick (1904–1981), German social revolutionary • Richard Maybury (born 1946), American educational economist • C. M. Mayo (living), American economist and writer • Preston McAfee (born 1956), American managerial economist • Bennett McCallum (born 1935), American monetary economist • Rachel McCleary (living), American economist • Deirdre McCloskey (born 1942), American economist and academic • John Ramsey McCulloch (1789–1864), Scottish political economist • Paul McCulley (born 1957), American economist and business executive • James McDonald (b. c. 1942), American econometrician • Daniel McFadden (born 1937), American econometrician • Richard McKelvey (1944–2002), American political scientist • Lionel W. McKenzie (1919–2010), American economist • Warwick McKibbin (born 1957), Australian economist and academic • David McWilliams (born 1966), Irish economist and writer • James Meade (1907–1995), English economist and Nobel laureate • Gardiner Means (1896–1988), American economist • J. K. Mehta (1901–1980), Indian economist • Marc Melitz (born 1968), American economist • Leslie Melville (1902–2002), Australian economist and public servant • Carl Menger (1840–1921), Austrian economist • Karl Menger (1902–1985), Austrian/American mathematician • Stanislav Menshikov (1927–2014), Soviet/Russian economist • Robert C. Merton (born 1944), American economist and Nobel laureate • Albert J. Meyer (1919–1983), American economist • Hugo Richard Meyer (1866–1923), American economist • John R. Meyer (1927–2009), American transport economist • Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk (1893–1938), Soviet planning official • Leo Michelis (living), Greek/Canadian economist • Javier Milei (born 1970), Argentinian libertarian economist • David Miles (born 1959), Welsh/English economist • Murray Milgate (born 1950), Australian/British economist • Paul Milgrom (born 1948), American economist • John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), English philosopher and political economist • Merton Miller (1923–2000), American economist and Nobel laureate • Jacob Mincer (1922–2006), American labor economist • Hyman Minsky (1919–1996), American economist and professor at Washington University in St. Louis • James Mirrlees (1936–2018), Scottish economist and Nobel laureate • Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), Austrian economist and sociologist • Frederic Mishkin (born 1951), American economist and academic • Baidyanath Misra (20th c.), Indian economist and administrator • Wesley Mitchell (1874–1948), American economist • Alfred Mitchell-Innes (1864–1950), English economist and diplomat • Franco Modigliani (1918–2003), Italian/American economist and Nobel laureate • Robert Moffit (living), American economist and government official • Herbert Mohring (1928–2012), American transportation economist • Joel Mokyr (born 1946), Dutch/American economic historian • Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912), Belgian political economist • Solita Monsod (born 1940), Philippines economist and writer • John Hardman Moore (born 1954), English economic theorist • Jonathan Morduch (born 1963), American economist and public service expert • Peter Morici (born 1948), American economist • Michio Morishima (1923–2004), Japanese economist • Stephen Morris (living), American game theorist • Dale Mortensen (1939–2014), American economist and Nobel laureate • Warren Mosler (born 1949), American economist and hedge-fund manager • Rowland Percy Moss (born 1928), English development economist • David C. Mowery (living), American economist • Dambisa Moyo (born 1969), Zambian economist • Anu Muhammad (born 1956), Bangladeshi economist • Sendhil Mullainathan (b. c. 1973), Indian/American economist and academic • Thomas Mun (1571–1641), English writer on economics • Mohan Munasinghe (living), Sri Lankan economist and physicist • Robert Mundell (1932–2021), Canadian economist and academic • Karthik Muralidharan (born 1975), Indian/American economist • Richard Murnane (born 1945), American economist • Kevin J. Murphy (born 1957), American finance academic • Kevin M. Murphy (born 1958), American economist • Robert P. Murphy (born 1976), American economist • Richard Musgrave (1910–2007), American economist and public finance theorist • Michael Mussa (1944–2012), American economist and academic • John Muth (1930–2005), American economist • Bingu wa Mutharika (1934–2012), Malawi economist and politician • Stewart Myers (born 1940), American financial economist • Roger Myerson (born 1951), American economist and academic • Alva Myrdal (1902–1986), Swedish sociologist and Nobel laureate • Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Swedish economist and sociologist

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• John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015), American mathematician and Nobel laureate • Richard Nelson (born 1930), American evolutionary economist and academic • Nikolay Nenovsky (born 1963), Bulgarian/French economist • Marc Nerlove (born 1933), American economist • John von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungarian/American mathematician and economist • David Neumark (born 1959), American economist and academic • David Newbery (born 1943), English applied economist • Francis William Newman (1805–1897), English moral philosopher • Stephen Nickell (born 1944), English economist and academic • Peter Nijkamp (born 1946), Dutch economist • Yew-Kwang Ng (黄有光, born 1942), Malaysian/Australian welfare economist • William A. Niskanen (1933–2011), American economist and adviser • William Nordhaus (born 1941), American economist and climate-change expert • Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman (1871–1950), English central banker • Douglass North (1920–2015), American economic historian • Dudley North (1641–1691), English merchant and economist • Oscar Nuccio (1931–2004), Italian economic historian

O

• William Oakland (1939–2007), American economist and academic • Maurice Obstfeld (born 1952), American economist and academic • William Ogilvie (1736–1819), Scottish academic • Sharyn O'Halloran (living), American political scientist and economist • Bertil Ohlin (1899–1979), Swedish economist and politician • Walter Oi (1929–2013), American economist and professor at University of Rochester • Nobuo Okishio (置塩信雄, 1927–2003), Japanese Marxian economist • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 1954), Nigerian/American economist and Director-General of the World Trade Organization • Arthur Melvin Okun (1928–1980), American economist and adviser • Mancur Olson (1932–1998), American economist and political scientist • Redvers Opie (1900–1984), English/Mexican economist • Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (born 1996), Ghanaian-American activist and CEO of the Sadie Collective • Nicole Oresme (c. 1320–1382), French philosopher • Peter R. Orszag (born 1968), American financial adviser • Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012), American political economist and Nobel laureate • Andrew Oswald (living), Australian/British economist and behavioural scientist • Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer

P

• Krishna Palepu (born 1954), American economist and business manager • Giancarlo Pallavicini (born 1931), Italian economist and Soviet adviser • V. R. Panchamukhi (born 1936), Indian economist and scholar • Thomas Palfrey (born 1953), American economist and political scientist • Yadav Prasad Pant (1928–2007), Nepalese economist and politician • Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857–1924), Italian economist • Philippe Van Parijs (born 1951), Belgian professor and political economist • Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian engineer and economist • Manuel V. Pangilinan (born 1946), Philippines business executive • Jacques Parizeau (1930–2015), Canadian economist and politician • Luigi Pasinetti (1930–2023), Italian economist • Frédéric Passy (1822–1912), French economist and pacifist • I. G. Patel (1924–2005), Indian economist and central bank governor • Prabhat Patnaik (born 1945), Indian economist and political commentator • William Paterson (1658–1719), Scottish trade and banker • Don Patinkin (1922–1995), American/Israeli monetary economist • Christina Paxson (born 1960), American economist • Alan T. Peacock (1922-2914), British economist • Lasse Heje Pedersen (born 1972), Danish financial economist • Edith Penrose (1914–1996), American/British economist • Émile and Isaac Péreire (1800–1875 and 1806–1880), French financiers • Carlota Perez (born 1939), Venezuelan/British specialist in socio-economic development • Javier Perez-Capdevila (born 1963), Cuban mathematician • Torsten Persson (born 1954), Swedish economist • Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646–1714), French lawmaker and theorist • M. Hashem Pesaran (born 1946), Iranian/British economist • Wolfgang Pesendorfer, American economist • Pierre Pestieau (born 1943), Belgian economist • Maurice Peston, Baron Peston (1931–2016), English economist and politician • Robert Peston (born 1960), English writer on economics • Douglas Peters (1930–2016), Canadian banker and economist • William Petty (1623–1687), English economist and scientist • Edmund Phelps (born 1933), American economist and Nobel laureate • Thomas Philippon (born 1974), French/American economist and finance professor • Peter C. B. Phillips (born 1948), New Zealand/Singapore econometrician • William Phillips (1914–1975), New Zealand/English economist • Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), English welfare economist • Thomas Piketty (born 1971), French economist • Christopher A. Pissarides (born 1948), Cypriot economist • Arnold Plant (1898–1978), English economist • Plato (Platon, 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BCE), Greek philosopher • Steven Plaut (1951–2017), Israeli economist • Charles Plott (born 1938), American economist • Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), Austro-Hungarian/Canadian economic historian and political economist • Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), Hungarian/British polymath • Robert Pollin (born 1950), American economist • Yuri Poluneev (born 1956), Soviet/Ukrainian international economist • Dina Pomeranz (born 1977), Swiss economist • Jean-Pierre Ponssard (born 1946), French economist • Gale Pooley (living), American economist, professor, and author • Arden Pope (b. c. 1954), American environmental economist • Michael Porter (born 1947), American business economist • Richard Portes (living), American/British economist • Arturo C. Porzecanski (born 1949), Uruguayan/American economist • Richard Posner (born 1939), American jurist and economist • James M. Poterba (born 1958), American economist • Bernard van Praag (born 1939), Dutch welfare economist • John W. Pratt (born 1931), American business economist • Edward C. Prescott (born 1940), American economist and Nobel laureate • Steven Pressman (born 1952), American economist • Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr. (born 1941), American labor economist • Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986), Argentinian structural economist • Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886–1937), Soviet/Russian economist, revolutionary, and politician • Cuno Pümpin (born 1939), Swiss economist and entrepreneur

Q

• Guy Quaden (born 1945), Belgian economist and central bank governor • Danny Quah (柯成兴, born 1958), Singapore development economist • François Quesnay (1694–1774), French economist • John Quiggin (born 1956), Australian economist and government adviser

R

• Matthew Rabin (born 1963), American behavioral economist • Roy Radner (1927–2022), American micro-economist • John Rae (1796–1872), Scottish/Canadian economist • Richard W. Rahn (born 1942), American economist • Raghuram Rajan (born 1963), Indian economist • Mihir Rakshit (born 1936), Indian economist • Rogelio Ramírez de la O (living), Mexican economist • Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930), English mathematician and economist • Ajit Ranade (living), Indian economist and political analyst • Leonard Rapping (1934–1991), American economist and government adviser • Martin Ravallion (1952–2022), Australian economist • Debra Ray (born 1957), Indian/American development economist • Daniel Raymond (1786–1849), American political economist • Riccardo Realfonzo (born 1964), Italian economist • Ralph Recto (born 1964), Philippines economist and politician • Daniel Rees American economist and professor at Charles III University of Madrid • Robert Reich (born 1946), American economist and commentator • Carmen Reinhart (born 1955), Cuban/American economist and academic • Ricardo Reis (born 1988), Portuguese/British economist • George Reisman (born 1937), American economist and academic • Philip J. Reny (living), Canadian/American economist • David Ricardo (1772–1823), English political economist • Matthew Richardson, American economist • Frank-Jürgen Richter (born 1967), German economist and entrepreneur • Jeremy Rifkin (born 1945), American economist and social theorist • Alice Rivlin (1931–2019), American economist and budget official • Lionel Robbins (1898–1984), English economist • Donald John Roberts (born 1945), Canadian/American economist • Paul Craig Roberts (born 1939), American economist • Russ Roberts (born 1954), American economist and broadcaster • Denis Robertson (1890–1963), English economist and academic • Abraham Robinson (1918–1974), German/American mathematician • Austin Robinson (1897–1993), English economist and academic • Joan Robinson (1903–1983), English economist • Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805–1875), German economist and political theorist • Dani Rodrik (born 1957), Turkish/American economist • John Roemer (born 1945), American economist and political scientist • Kenneth Rogoff (born 1953), American economist • Gérard Roland (born 1954), Belgian economist • Eric Roll (1907–2005), Austro-Hungarian/English economist and public servant • Richard Roll (born 1939), American economist and finance expert • Christina Romer (born 1958), American economist and policy adviser • David Romer (born 1958), American economist and academic • Paul Romer (born 1955), American economist and business academic • Alessandro Roncaglia (born 1947), Italian economist • Ivar Rooth (1888–1972), Swedish lawyer and economist • Raymond de Roover (1904–1972), Belgian/American economic historian • Harvey S. Rosen (born 1949), American economist and public-finance adviser • Henry Rosovsky (1927–2022), German/American economist and academic • Sherwin Rosen (1938–2001), American labor economist • Nathan Rosenberg 1927–2015), American economist and technology historian • Eric S. Rosengren (born 1957), American economist • Mark Rosenzweig, American economist and academic • Stephen A. Ross (1944–2017), American financial economist and academic • J. Barkley Rosser Jr. (1948–2023), American economist and academic • Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (born 1973), Mexican-American economist • Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003), American economist and political theorist • Julio Rotemberg (1953–2017), Argentine/American economist • Alvin E. Roth (born 1951), American economist and academic and Nobel Prize laureate • Timothy P. Roth (born 1943), American economist and academic • Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), American economist and political theorist • Erwin Rothbarth (1913–1944), German economist • Michael Rothschild (born 1942), American economist and academic • Nouriel Roubini (born 1958), American economist • Cecilia Rouse (born 1963), American economist and first African American chair of the Council of Economic Advisers • Heather Royer (born 1974), American economist and academic • Scott Rozelle (born 1955), American economist and academic • Paul Rubin (born 1942), American economist and academic • Daniel L. Rubinfeld, American economist and academic • Ariel Rubinstein (born 1951), Israeli economist • Richard Rumelt (born 1942), American economist and academic • Isaak Russman (1938–2005), Soviet/Russian economist and mathematician • John Rust (born 1955), American economist and econometrician • Justinian Rweyemamu (1942–1982), Tanzanian economist and political strategist • Tadeusz Rybczynski (1923–1998), Polish/English economist

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• Fabrizio Saccomanni (1942–2019), Italian economist and central banker • Alexander Sachs (1893–1973), American economist and financier • Jeffrey Sachs (born 1954), American development economist • Emmanuel Saez (born 1972), French/American economist, known for work on taxation and inequality • Claudia Sahm (living), American macroeconomist • Gilles Saint-Paul (born 1963), French economist • Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French political and economic theorist • Xavier Sala i Martin (born 1962), Spanish-American economist • António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970), Portuguese dictator and economist, Prime Minister of Portugal 1932–1968 • Lise Salvas-Bronsard (1940–1995), Canadian economist and writer • Arthur Salz (1881–1963), German economist and sociologist • Paul Samuelson (1915–2009), American economist and Nobel laureate • Chris William Sanchirico (living), American tax law expert • José Santana (born 1962), Dominican economist • Diego Abad de Santillán (1897–1983), Spanish/Argentinian economist, author and anarcho-syndicalist activist • Juan Manuel Santos (born 1951), Colombian politician, economist and journalist, President of Colombia 2010–2018 • Theotônio dos Santos (1936–2018), Brazilian economist • Gopal Krishna Sarangi (living), Indian economist specializing in energy economics and climate change • Thomas J. Sargent, American macroeconomist, econometrician and Nobel laureate • Mark Satterthwaite (living), American economist • Anthony Saunders (living), American financial economist • Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832), French businessman known for Say's law • Louis Auguste Say (1774–1840), French businessman and economist • Herbert Scarf (1930–2015), American mathematical economist • Hjalmar Schacht (1877–1970), German economist and politician • Morton O. Schapiro (born 1953), American economist and university president • José Scheinkman (born 1948), Brazilian/American economist • Thomas Schelling (1921–2016), American game theorist and Nobel laureate • Peter Schiff (born 1963), American stockbroker and financial commentator • Alexander Schlichter (1868–1940), Soviet economist • Christoph M. Schmidt (born 1962), German economist • Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), German finance expert and politician • John Schmitt (born 1962), American economist • Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917), German economist of the historical school • Myron Scholes (born 1941), Canadian-American financial economist • Stephan Schulmeister (born 1947), Austrian jurist and economist • Theodore Schultz (1902–1998), American economist • Ernst Schumacher (1911–1977), German/British statistician and economist • Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian political economist • Anna Schwartz (1915–2012), American monetarist economist • Anne A. Scitovsky (1915–2012), German American health economist • Tibor Scitovsky (1910–2002), Hungarian/American economist • Molly Scott Cato (born 1963), English green economist and politician • Jules Sedney (1922–2020), Surinam economist and prime minister • L. William Seidman (1921–2009), American economist and commentator • Arthur Seldon (1916–2005), English economist • Edwin R. A. Seligman (1861–1939), American economist • Reinhard Selten (1930–2016), German economist and Nobel laureate • Amartya Sen (born 1933), Indian economist, philosopher and Nobel laureate • Hans Sennholz (1922–2007), German/American economist and author • Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), English lawyer and economist • Andrew Sentance (born 1958), English business economist • Brad Setser (living), American economist and government official • Ernest Seyd (1830–1881), German/British banker and economist • G. L. S. Shackle (1903–1992), English economist • Mehdi Shafaeddin (born 1945), Swiss Iranian development economist • Anwar Shaikh (born 1945), Pakistani/American economist • Tharman Shanmugaratnam (born 1957), Singapore economist/politician • David Shapiro (born 1946), American economist • Lloyd Shapley (1923–2016), American game theorist and Nobel laureate • William F. Sharpe (born 1934), American economist and Nobel laureate • Neil Shephard (born 1964), English econometrician • Shouyong Shi (born 1965), Canadian macroeconomist • Robert Shiller (born 1946), American economist and Nobel laureate • Gary Shilling (living), American financial analyst and commentator • Robert Shimer (born 1968), American macroeconomist and labor economist • Hyun-Song Shin (신현송, living), S Korean economic theorist and financial economist • Yongcheol Shin (born 1960), S Korea/British economist • Masaaki Shirakawa (白川方明, born 1949), Japanese economist and central banker • Andrei Shleifer (born 1961), Soviet/American economist and academic • Artyom Shneyerov (living), Canadian microeconomist • Martin Shubik (1926–2018), American economist • Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqui (born 1939), Indian/Jeddah economist and writer • Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), English utilitarian philosopher and economist • Miguel Sidrauski (1939–1968), Argentine economist • Ota Šik (1919–2004), Czechoslovak/Czech economist and politician • Aníbal Cavaco Silva (born 1939), Portuguese economist and president • Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), American economist and political scientist • Julian Lincoln Simon (1932–1998), American business administration academic • Robert Simons, American economist and professor at Harvard Business School • Christopher A. Sims (born 1942), American econometrician and macroeconomist • Hans Singer (1910–2006), German/British development economist • Kurt Singer (1886–1962), German economist and philosopher • Manmohan Singh (born 1932), Indian economist and politician • Hans-Werner Sinn (born 1948), German economist and government adviser • Mark Skousen (born 1947), American economist and writer • Margaret Slade (living), Canadian industrial economist • Andrzej Sławiński (born 1951), Polish economist and academic • Joel Slemrod (born 1951), American economist and academic • Eugen Slutsky (1880–1948), Russian/Soviet statistician and economist • Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist, philosopher and moral philosopher • Alasdair Smith (born 1949), Scottish/English economist and academic • Thomas Smith (1631–1699), English banker • Vernon L. Smith (born 1927), American economist and lawyer • Dennis Snower (born 1950), Austrian/American macroeconomist • Robert Solow (1924–2023), American economist and growth theorist • Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German economist and sociologist • Willem Somermeyer (1919–1982), Dutch economist and econometrician • Hugo F. Sonnenschein (1940–2021), American economist and educationist • Thomas Sowell (born 1930), American economist and social theorist • Michael Spence (born 1943), Canadian/American economist and Nobel laureate • Barbara J. Spencer (living), Australian/Canadian economist • Gene Sperling (born 1958), American economist and presidential adviser • Piero Sraffa (1898–1983), Italian/British economist and academic • T. N. Srinivasan (1933–2018), Indian economist • Guy Standing (born 1948), English labor economist • Ross Starr (born 1945), American economist and academic • Richard H. Steckel (born 1944), American heterodox economist • Herbert Stein (1916–1999), American economist and presidential adviser • Jeremy C. Stein (born 1960), American macroeconomist • Nicholas Stern (born 1946), English economist and academic • Beth Stetson, American economist • George Stigler (1911–1991), American economist and Nobel laureate • Joseph E. Stiglitz (born 1943), American economist and public policy analyst • James H. Stock (born 1955), American economist and academic • George W. Stocking, Sr. (1892–1975), American economist of industrial organization • Nancy Stokey (born 1950), American economist, known for work on economic growth • Richard Stone (1913–1991), English economist and Nobel laureate • Benjamin Strong (1872–1928), American banker • Steve Strongin (born 1958), American investment adviser • Stanislav Strumilin (1877–1974), Russian/Soviet economist and statistician • Robert Sugden (born 1949), English cognitive and behavioral economist • Paul Sultan (1924–2019), Canadian labor economist • Lawrence Summers (born 1954), American economist and World Bank vice-president • Robert Summers (1922–2012), American economist and academic • William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), American social scientist • Sun Yefang (孙冶方, 1908–1983), Chinese economist • Jomo Kwame Sundaram (born 1952), Malaysian economist and government adviser • Arun Sundararajan (living), British/Indian/American economist and academic • Richard Sutch (1942–2019), American economist and academic • Kotaro Suzumura (鈴村興太郎, 1944–2020), Japanese economist and academic • Jan Švejnar (born 1952), Czechoslovak/American economist • Lars E. O. Svensson (born 1947), Swedish economist and academic • Subramanian Swamy (born 1939), Indian politician, economist and statistician • Trevor Swan (1918–1989), Australian economist • Paul Sweezy (1910–2004), American economist and political activist • Syahrir (1945–2008), Indonesian political economist • Richard Sylla (living), American economist and museum trustee • Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005), Polish economist and politician • Maria Szécsi (1914–1984), Austrian economist

T

• Alex Tabarrok (born 1966), Canadian/American economist • Guido Tabellini (born 1956), Italian economist • Hossein Abdoh Tabrizi (born 1951), Iranian professor and financial practitioner • Naim Talu (1919–1998), Turkish economist and prime minister • Yair Tauman (born 1948), Israeli/American economist and academic • Frank William Taussig (1859–1940), American trade-theory economist • R. H. Tawney (1880–1962), English economic historian and socialist • Fred M. Taylor (1855–1932), American economist and educator • Henry Charles Taylor (1873–1969), American agricultural economist • Alan M. Taylor (born 1964), American economist and academic • John B. Taylor (born 1946), American economist and academic • Mark P. Taylor (living), American business-school dean • Paul Schuster Taylor (1895–1984), American agricultural economist and academic • Lester G. Telser (born 1931), American economist and academic • Richard Thaler (born 1945), American behavioral economist and academic • Henri Theil (1924–2000), Dutch econometrician and academic • Asher Tishler (born 1947), Israeli economist and college president • William Thompson (1775–1833), Irish philosopher and social reformer • Christopher Thornberg (born 1967), American economist • Henry Thornton (1760–1815), English economist, banker and parliamentarian • Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783–1850), German economist and landowner • Lester Thurow (1938–2016), American political economist and author • Richard Timberlake (1922–2020), American economist and academic • Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994), Dutch economist and Nobel laureate • Jean Tirole (born 1953), French economist and academic • Sheridan Titman (born 1954), American finance academic • James Tobin (1918–2002), American economist and government adviser • Michael Todaro (born 1942), American development economist • Richard Tol (born 1969), Dutch/English economist and academic • Alejandro Toledo (born 1946), Peruvian politician and writer on economics • Robert Torrens (1780–1864), Irish/English political economist and writer • Robert M. Townsend (born 1948), American economist and academic • Kenneth E. Train (born 1951), American economist and academic • Daniel Trefler (born 1959), Canadian economist and academic • Rodrigue Tremblay (born 1939), Canadian economist and politician • Giulio Tremonti (born 1947), Italian economic politician • Jean-Claude Trichet (born 1942), French economist and European Central Bank president • Robert Triffin (1911–1993), Belgian/American economist • Sho-Chieh Tsiang (蔣碩傑, 1918–1993), Chinese/American economist • Catherine Tucker (born 1977), management academic • Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865–1919), Russian economist and politician • Gordon Tullock (1922–2014), American economist and professor of law • Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781), French economist and politician • Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell (born 1955), English economist and business executive • Amos Tversky (1937–1996), Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist • Laura D'Andrea Tyson (born 1947), American economist and presidential adviser

U

V

• Natacha Valla (born 1976), French economist and management expert • Alexander Van der Bellen (born 1944), Austrian economist and president • John Van Reenen (born 1965), English economist and academic • Eugen Varga (1879–1964), Austro-Hungarian/Soviet Marxian economist • Hal Varian (born 1947), American microeconomist and Google executive • Yanis Varoufakis (born 1961), Greek/Australian economist and politician • Antoaneta Vassileva (born 1960), Bulgarian economist and academic • Kerrin Vautier, New Zealand economist • Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American economist and sociologist • Richard Vedder (born 1940), American economist and historian • Carlos A. Vegh (born 1951), Uruguayan academic economist • Anthony Venables (born 1953), English economist and academic • Fernando Vianello (1939–2009), Italian economist and academic • William Vickrey (1914–1996), Canadian/American economist and Nobel laureate • Thomas Vietorisz (1926–2019), Hungarian-born American economist and urban planner • Jacob Viner (1892–1970), American economist • Ignazio Visco (born 1949), Italian economist and central-bank governor • Robert W. Vishny (b. c. 1959), American economist and finance academic • Eva Vivalt (living), Canadian economist • Xavier Vives (born 1955), Spanish microeconomist • Paul Volcker (1927–2019), American economist and presidential adviser

W

• Romain Wacziarg (born 1970), American economist and academic • Sushil Wadhwani (born 1959), Indian/British economist and monetary policy expert • Adolph Wagner (1835–1917), German economist and politician • Jim Walker (living), American economist and fund manager • Neil Wallace (born 1939), American economist and academic • Phyllis Ann Wallace (1921–1993), American economist and political activist • Henry Wallich (1914–1988), German/American economist and central banker • W. Allen Wallis (1912–1998), American economist and statistician • Léon Walras (1834–1910), French mathematical economist • Carl Walsh (born 1949), American economist and academic • Alan Walters (1926–2009), English economist and government adviser • John Glen Wardrop (1922–1989), English mathematician and transport analyst • Marilyn Waring (born 1952), New Zealand international development consultant • Mark Watson (born 1952), American econometrician and macroeconomist • Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), English sociologist and economist • Sidney Webb (1859–1947), English socialist, economist and academic • Alfred Weber (1868–1958), German economist and geographer • Isabella Weber (born 1987), German economist active in the United States • Max Weber (1864–1920), German sociologist and political economist • Dorothy Wedderburn (1925–2012), English academic • Beatrice Weder di Mauro (born 1965), Swiss economist and policy adviser • Jens Weidmann (born 1968), German economist and central banker • Burton Weisbrod (born 1931), American economist and academic • Mark Weisbrot (living), American economist and writer • Thomas J. Weiss (born 1942), American economist and academic • Martin Weitzman (1942–2019), American economist and academic • Richard Werner (born 1967), German/English banker and economist • Brian Wesbury (born 1958), American macroeconomist and forecaster • Richard Whately (1787–1863), English philosopher and economist • Edward Lawrence Wheelwright (1921–2007), Australian economist and radio host • Halbert White (1950–2012), American economist and academic • Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), Swedish economist • Philip H Wicksteed (1844–1927), English economist and theologian • Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926), Austrian economist • Clair Wilcox (1898–1970), American economist • E.L.R. Williamson (1911-2000), Canadian economist and environmentalist • John Williamson (1937–2021), English/American economist • Oliver E. Williamson (1932–2020), American economist and academic • Walter E. Williams (1936–2020), American economist and academic • Ulrich Witt (born 1946), German economist and academic • Charles Wolf, Jr (1924–2016), American economic adviser and researcher • Martin Wolf (born 1946), English writer on economics • Arnold Wolfers (1892–1968), Swiss/American economist and lawyer • Justin Wolfers (born 1972), Australian economist and public policy expert • Edward Wolff (born 1946), American economist and academic • Richard D. Wolff (born 1942), American Marxian economist • Myrna Wooders (born 1950), Canadian economist and game theorist • Michael Dean Woodford (born 1955), American macroeconomist and monetary theorist • Jeffrey Wooldridge (born 1960), American econometrician • Lawrence Wong Shyun Tsai (黄循财, born 1972), Singaporean economist and politician • Holbrook Working (1895–1985), American economist and statistician • Stephen T. Worland (1923–2017, American economist and economic historian • L. Randall Wray (born 1953), American economist and academic • Simon Wren-Lewis (living), English economist and economic policy expert • Gavin Wright (born 1943), American economic historian • Philip Green Wright (1861–1934), American economist and econometrician • Randall Wright (born 1956), Canadian macroeconomist • Wu Jinglian (吴敬琏, born 1940), Chinese economist

X

Y

• Menahem Yaari (born 1935), Israeli economist • Basil Yamey (1919–2020), S African economist • Xiaokai Yang (杨小凯, 1948–2004), Chinese/Australian economist and analyst • Janet Yellen (born 1946), American economist and policy-maker • Allyn Abbott Young (1876–1929), American/British economist and statistician • Alwyn Young (living), English economist and academic • Arthur Young (1741–1820), English agriculturalist • Peyton Young (born 1945), American game theorist and economist • Yu Guangyuan (于光遠, 1915–2013), Chinese economist and philosopher • Linda Yueh (born 1977), Taiwanese/American economist and broadcaster • Muhammad Yunus (born 1940), Bangladeshi entrepreneur and economist

Z

• Richard Zeckhauser (born 1940), American economist and academic • Zeine Ould Zeidane (born 1966), Mauritanian economist and politician • Milan Zeleny (born 1942), Czechoslovak/American politician • Arnold Zellner (1927–2010), American economist and statistician • Yves Zenou (living), French/Swedish economist and academic • Zhang Weiying (张维迎, born 1959), Chinese economist and academic • Zhou Xiaochuan (周小川, born 1948), Chinese economist and banking official • Jeffrey Zients (born 1966), American business executive and government official • Fabrizio Zilibotti (born 1964), Italian/American economist and academic • Luigi Zingales (born 1963), Italian economist and finance professor • Xenophon Zolotas (1904–2004), Greek economist and prime minister