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[edit]

A[edit]

Thomas Attwood

Sir William Ashley

Edith Abbott

B. R. Ambedkar

George Akerlof

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
Henry Carter Adams (1851–1921), U.S. economist
Walter Adams (1922–1998), American economist and college professor who served as an expert witness before 36 congressional committees
Pérsio Arida (b. 1952), Brazilian economist
Philippe Aghion (b. 1956), French economist
Montek Singh Ahluwalia (b. 1943), Indian economist and former deputy chairman of the planning commission of the Republic of India
Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, Bangladeshi economist and environmentalist
George Akerlof (b. 1940), American professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
Armen Alchian (1914–2013), American, emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles
Alberto Alesina (b. 1957), Italian political economist, author of many-cited books and articles in major economics journals
Maurice Allais (1911–2010), French economist, 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Franklin Allen (b. 1956), American economist
R. G. D. Allen, CBE, FBA (1906–1983), English economist, mathematician and statistician
Gar Alperovitz
Lee J. Alston
Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German economist, the first woman to become a university lecturer in Germany
Fernando Alvarez, Argentine economist
B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), Indian jurist, political leader, economist and Buddhist activist
Takeshi Amemiya (b. 1935), Japanese economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece
Georges Anderla (1921–2005), Czech-born French economist
Donald Andrews
George-Marios Angeletos
Norman Angell (1872–1967), English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party
Joshua Angrist
Kofi Annan
Masahiko Aoki (1938-2015), Japanese economist
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Italian Dominican priest of the Roman Catholic Church who wrote about economics
Dan Ariely
Aristotle (384–322 BCE), Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great
Martin A. Armstrong (b. 1949), American economist
Heinz Arndt
Kenneth Arrow (1921-2017), American economist, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972
Orley Ashenfelter (b. 1942), American economist
William Ashley (1860–1927), English economic historian
Cliff Asness (b. 1966)
Jeremy Atack
Susan Athey (b. 1970), American economist
Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944-2017), British economist, namesake of the Atkinson index, a measure of economic inequality
Orazio Attanasio (b. 1959), Italian economist
Thomas Attwood (1783–1856), British economist, the leading figure of the underconsumptionist Birmingham School
David B. Audretsch (b. 1954), American economist
Leonardo Auernheimer (1936–2010), Argentinian economist, professor, and international monetary consultant.
Robert Aumann (b. 1930), Israeli-American mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2005
George Ayittey (b. 1945), Ghanaian economist
Clarence Ayres (1891–1972), principal thinker in the Texas school of Institutional Economics

B[edit]

Jean Bodin

Frédéric Bastiat

Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk

Gary Becker

Fischer Black

James M. Buchanan

Ben Bernanke

Walter Block

Francine D. Blau

Olivier Blanchard

Willem Buiter

Ali Babacan

Ali Babacan (1967–), Turkish economic minister
Roger Babson (1875–1967), American business theorist
Louis Bachelier (1870–1946), French mathematician
Roger Backhouse, English economist
Walter Bagehot (1826–77), British journalist, businessman, and essayist; wrote extensively about government, economics, and literature
Nikolai Baibakov (1911–2008), Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor
Joe S. Bain (1912–1991), American economist, founder of Industrial organization economics
Dean Baker (b. 1958), American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
E. Wight Bakke (1903–1971), American industrial relations specialist and professor at Yale University
Leszek Balcerowicz (b. 1947), Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland
Richard Baldwin, American economist
Sir James Ball (b. 1933), British econometrician, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London Business School and a leader in the field of econometric modeling
Ludwig Bamberger (1823–1899), German economist, politician and writer
Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961), Indian economist, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul A. Baran (1909–1964), Russian, American, was the only tenured Marxist economist in the United States until his death in 1964
William A. Barnett, American economist, works in chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity
Enrico Barone (1859–1924), Italian soldier, military historian, and economist
Nicholas Barr, British economist, professor of public economics at the London School of Economics
Raymond Barre (1924–2007), French economist and politician
Robert Barro (b. 1944), American classical macroeconomist, presently the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Yoram Barzel, Israeli economist, works in property rights, applied price theory, and political economy
Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850), French classical liberal theorist, political economist
Kaushik Basu (b. 1952), Indian economist and academic, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank
Ravi Batra (b. 1943), American economist, author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Peter Thomas Bauer (1915–2002), Hungarian developmental economist
William Baumol (b. 1922), American, New York University economics professor
Robert Dudley Baxter (1827–1875), English economist and statistician
Michael Baye
Charlie Bean
Gary Becker (1930-2014), American economist and winner of the Swedish central bankers' "Nobel" prize
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer
Mahamudu Bawumia (b. 1963), Tamale, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana
Dwayne Benjamin (b. 1961), Canadian economist, managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics
Barbara Bergmann (b. 1927), American, forerunner in feminist economics with a passion for social policy and equality.
C. Fred Bergsten (b. 1941), American founder of the Peterson Institute for International Economics
Albert Rex Bergstrom, New Zealand econometrician recognized for his work in continuous time econometrics
Adolf Berle (1895–1971), American lawyer, educator, author, and US diplomat
Ben Bernanke (b. 1953), American economist, former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
Jared Bernstein, American economist
Marianne Bertrand, Belgian economist
Tim Besley
William Beveridge
Truman Bewley
Jagdish Bhagwati (b. 1934), Indian economist and professor of economics and law at Columbia University
Mark Bils (b. 1958), macroeconomist at the University of Rochester
Nancy Birdsall (b. 1946), American, founding president of the Center for Global Development
Kenneth Binmore (b. 1940), British, economist and game theorist, professor emeritus of economics at University College, London.
William K. Black, professor of economics at UMKC
Fischer Black (1938–1995), American economist, best known as one of the authors of the famous Black–Scholes equation.
William Blake (1774–1852), English classical economist
Olivier Blanchard (b. 1948), French, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund
Rebecca Blank
Francine D. Blau
Alan Blinder (b. 1945), American economist, serves at Princeton University
Walter Block (b. 1941), American free market economist and anarcho-capitalist
Barry Bluestone
John Blundell
Richard Blundell
Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk (1851–1914), Austrian, founder of the Austrian School of economics
Jean Bodin (1530–1596), French, early proponent of the Quantity Theory of Money
Tito Boeri (b. 1958), Italian economist, professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan
Peter J. Boettke (b. 1960), American, economist of the Austrian School
Michele Boldrin (b. 1956), Italian American economist, expert in economic growth
Tim Bollerslev (b. 1958), Danish economist
Murray Bookchin
Korkut Boratav (b. 1935), Turkish, marxist economist
George Borjas (b. 1950), American, at Harvard Kennedy School
Michael Boskin (b. 1945), American, T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
Giovanni Botero (c. 1544–1617), Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993), American economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker
Heather Boushey (b. 1970), senior economist with the Center for American Progress
Samuel Bowles (b. 1939), American, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marcel Boyer
David Boyle
William Brainard
James Brander
Harry Braverman (1920–1976), American Socialist, economist and political writer
John Francis Bray (1809–1897), American, radical, Chartist, writer on socialist economics
Richard A. Brealey
William Breit (1933–2011), professor of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Martin Browning (b. 1946), English economist, professor of economics at the University of Oxford
Markus Brunnermeier
James M. Buchanan (b. 1919), American economist known for his work on public choice theory, received the Swedish central bankers' "Nobel" prize in 1986
Alan Budd
Willem Buiter (b. 1949), Dutch economist
Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944), Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist
Mahamudu Bawumia (1988 to present), Ghanaian Economist known to have worked at the Research Department of International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., United States

C[edit]

Thomas Chalmers

Henry Charles Carey

John Bates Clark

Gustav Cassel

John R. Commons

Attilio Celant

Augustin Carstens

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 Cameron (b. ca. 1960), American financial analyst, economist and Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Richard Cantillon (c. 1680–1734), Irish-French, economist and author of Essay on the Nature of Trade in General
Edwin Cannan (1861–1935), British, economist and historian of economic thought
Bryan Caplan (b. 1971), professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
David Card, Canadian, labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
Henry Charles Carey (1793–1879), American, 19th century economist of the American School of Capitalism
Mark Carney (b. 1965), Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of England
Kevin Carson (b. 1963), American social and political theorist and scholar of political economy writing in the mutualist and individualist anarchist traditions
Agustín Carstens (b. 1958), Mexican economist, governor of the Bank of Mexico
Anne P. Carter (b. 1925), American economist, professor at Brandeis University
David Cass (1937–2008), American, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania
Gustav Cassel (1866–1945), Swedish, economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University
Attilio Celant (b. 1942), Italian economist, Dean of the Faculty of Economics (2002-2011) and Professor of Economic Geography at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome
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Seweryn Chajtman (1919–2012), Polish scientist, engineer, teacher of the Industrial Management, pioneered Computer Science in Poland, creator of the Alternative Theory of Organization and Management
Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847), Scottish mathematician, political economist and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland
Frank J. Chaloupka, American, distinguished professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
Winston Chang (1941–1996), Chinese, president of Soochow University in Taipei
Edward Hastings Chamberlin (1899–1967), American economist
Neil W. Chamberlain (1915–2006), American economist at Yale University and Columbia University most known for work in industrial relations
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007), American, professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University
Ha-Joon Chang (b. 1963), Korean, one of the leading heterodox economists and institutional economists specialising in development economics
V. V. Chari (b. 1952), Indian-American economist
Raj Chetty (b. 1979), Indian-American economist
Steven N. S. Cheung (b. 1935), Chinese economist, specializes in the fields of transaction costs and property rights
Ajay Chhibber
Graciela Chichilnisky
Josiah Child (1630–1699), English mercantilist, politician and governor of the East India Company
Menzie Chinn
Lawrence J. Christiano (b. 1952), American economist
Richard Clarida
Colin Clark (1905–1989), British and Australian economist, pioneered the use of the gross national product ("GNP")
Gregory Clark (b. 1957), economic historian at the University of California, Davis
John Bates Clark (1847–1938), American neoclassical marginalist
John Maurice Clark (1884–1963), American marginalist
William D. Clark
Ronald Coase (1910-2013), winner of the Swedish central bankers' "Nobel" prize 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
James Crotty
Raymond Crotty (1925–1994), Irish economist and campaigner against Irish membership of the European Union; his 1987 successful legal challenge in the Irish Supreme Court is the basis for EU treaty changes having to be submitted to referendum in Ireland
Jakša Cvitanić (b. 1962), Croatian American economist, professor at Caltech