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.

A

Edith Abbott (1876–1957), US economist, social worker, educator and author
Daron Acemoglu (b. 1967), Turkish-born US economist, 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 (b. 1947), US professor at George Mason University, advocate of the importance of entrepreneurship for economic development
Henry Carter Adams (1851–1921), US economist
Walter Adams (1922–1998), US economist and college professor who served as an expert witness before 36 congressional committees
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 (b. 1943), Bangladeshi economist and environmentalist
George Akerlof (b. 1940), US professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
Armen Alchian (1914–2013), US emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles
Alberto Alesina (b. 1957), Italian political economist, author of much-cited books and articles in major economics journals
Sidney S. Alexander (1916 - 2005), US professor of economics at MIT, known for contributions to international trade and finance.
Maurice Allais (1911–2010), French economist, 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Franklin Allen (b. 1956), US economist
R. G. D. Allen (1906–1983), CBE, FBA, UK economist, mathematician and statistician
Gar Alperovitz (b. 1936)
Lee J. Alston (b. 1951)
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 (b. 1955)
George-Marios Angeletos (b. 1975)
Norman Angell (1872–1967), UK lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party
Joshua Angrist (b. 1960)
Kofi Annan (1938–2018)
Masahiko Aoki (1938–2015), Japanese economist
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Italian Dominican priest of the Roman Catholic Church who wrote about economics
Pérsio Arida (b. 1952), Brazilian economist
Dan Ariely (b. 1967)
Aristotle (384–322 BCE), Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great
Heinz Arndt (1915–2002)
Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017), US economist, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972
Orley Ashenfelter (b. 1942), US economist
William Ashley (1860–1927), UK economic historian
Cliff Asness (b. 1966)
Jeremy Atack (b. 1949)
Susan Athey (b. 1970), US economist
Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944–2017), UK economist, namesake of the Atkinson index, a measure of economic inequality
Orazio Attanasio (b. 1959), Italian economist
Thomas Attwood (1783–1856), UK economist, leading figure of the underconsumptionist Birmingham School
David B. Audretsch (b. 1954), US economist
Leonardo Auernheimer (1936–2010), Argentinian economist, professor, and international monetary consultant
Robert Aumann (b. 1930), Israeli-US mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2005
George Ayittey (b. 1945), Ghanaian economist
Clarence Ayres (1891–1972), US principal thinker in the Texas school of Institutional Economics

B

Ali Babacan (b. 1967), Turkish economic minister
Roger Babson (1875–1967), US business theorist
Louis Bachelier (1870–1946), French mathematician
Roger Backhouse (b. 1951), UK economist
Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), UK 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), US economist, founder of Industrial organization economics
Dean Baker (b. 1958), US macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
E. Wight Bakke (1903–1971), US industrial relations specialist and professor at Yale University
Leszek Balcerowicz (b. 1947), Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland
Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), US economist and peace activist (1946 Nobel Peace Prize)
Richard Baldwin (living), US economist
Sir James Ball (1933–2018), UK 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
Pratima Bansal (living), Canadian economist
Paul A. Baran (1909–1964), Russian/US, the only tenured Marxist economist in the United States until his death in 1964
Pranab Bardhan (b. 1939), Indian economist, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
William A. Barnett (b. 1941), US economist, works in chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity
Enrico Barone (1859–1924), Italian soldier, military historian, and economist
Nicholas Barr (living), UK economist, professor of public economics at the London School of Economics
Raymond Barre (1924–2007), French economist and politician
Robert Barro (b. 1944), US classical macroeconomist, presently the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Yoram Barzel (b. 1931), 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), US economist, author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas
Peter Thomas Bauer (1915–2002), Hungarian developmental economist
William Baumol (1922–2017), US, New York University economics professor
Mahamudu Bawumia (b. 1963), Ghanaian economist; worked at the Research Department of International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., United States
Eugen Boehm von Bawerk (1851–1914), Austrian, founder of the Austrian School of economics
Robert Dudley Baxter (1827–1875), UK economist and statistician
Michael Baye (b. 1958)
Charlie Bean (b. 1953)
Gary Becker (1930–2014), US 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), UK 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 (1927–2015), US, forerunner in feminist economics with a passion for social policy and equality
C. Fred Bergsten (b. 1941), US founder of the Peterson Institute for International Economics
Albert Rex Bergstrom (1925–2005), New Zealand econometrician recognized for his work in continuous time econometrics
Adolf Berle (1895–1971), US lawyer, educator, author, and US diplomat
Ben Bernanke (b. 1953), US economist, former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
Jared Bernstein (1925–2005), US economist
Marianne Bertrand (b. c. 1970), Belgian economist
Tim Besley (b. 1960)
William Beveridge (1879–1963)
Truman Bewley (b. 1941)
Jagdish Bhagwati (b. 1934), Indian economist and professor of economics and law at Columbia University
Debapriya Bhattacharya (living), Bangladeshi economist and policy analyst
Mark Bils (b. 1958), macroeconomist at the University of Rochester
Nancy Birdsall (b. 1946), US founding president of the Center for Global Development
Kenneth Binmore (b. 1940), UK economist and game theorist, professor emeritus of economics at University College, London
William K. Black (b. 1951), US professor of economics at UMKC
Fischer Black (1938–1995), US economist, best known as one author of the famous Black–Scholes equation
William Blake (1774–1852), UK classical economist
Olivier Blanchard (b. 1948), French, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund
Rebecca Blank (b. 1955)
Francine D. Blau (b. 1946)
Knut Blind (b. 1965), German
Alan Blinder (b. 1945), US economist, serves at Princeton University
Walter Block (b. 1941), USfree market economist and anarcho-capitalist
Barry Bluestone (b. 1944)
John Blundell (1952–2014)
Richard Blundell (b. 1952)
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), US economist of the Austrian School
Michele Boldrin (b. 1956), Italian American economist, expert in economic growth
Tim Bollerslev (b. 1958), Danish economist
Matilde Bombardini (living), Italian Canadian economist in Vancouver
Murray Bookchin (1921–2006)
Korkut Boratav (b. 1935), Turkish, marxist economist
George Borjas (b. 1950), US, at Harvard Kennedy School
Michael Boskin (b. 1945), US, 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), US 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), US Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marcel Boyer (living)
David Boyle (b. 1958)
William Brainard (b. c. 1935)
James Brander (b. 1953)
Avishay Braverman (b. 1948), Israeli president of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Harry Braverman (1920–1976), US socialist, economist and political writer
John Francis Bray (1809–1897), US radical, Chartist, writer on socialist economics
Richard A. Brealey (living)
William Breit (1933–2011), US professor of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
George Ignatius Brizan (1942–2012), economics lecturer and later Prime Minister of Grenada
Martin Browning (b. 1946), UK economist, professor of economics at the University of Oxford
Markus Brunnermeier (b. 1969)
James M. Buchanan (1919–2013), US economist known for work on public choice theory, received the Swedish central bankers' "Nobel" prize in 1986
Alan Budd (b. 1937)
Willem Buiter (b. 1949), Dutch economist
Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944), Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist

C

Ricardo J. Caballero (b. 1959), Chilean macroeconomist, holds the Ford International chair of economics at MIT
Vince Cable (b. 1943), UK 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), US 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), UK/US economist, chairman of the Harvard economics department
Colin Camerer (b. 1959), US economist
Lisa Cameron (b. 1967), Australian, Professional Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Stephen Cameron (b. c. 1960), US 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), UK economist and historian of economic thought
Bryan Caplan (b. 1971), US professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
David Card (b. 1956), Canadian labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
Henry Charles Carey (1793–1879), US economist of the American School of Capitalism
Mark Carney (b. 1965), Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of England
Kevin Carson (b. 1963), US social and political theorist and scholar of political economy writing in the mutualist and individualist anarchist traditions
Richard Carson (b. 1955), environmental economist
Agustín Carstens (b. 1958), Mexican economist, governor of the Bank of Mexico
Anne P. Carter (b. 1925), US economist, professor at Brandeis University
David Cass (1937–2008), US, 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 (b. c. 1962), US 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), US economist
Neil W. Chamberlain (1915–2006), US economist at Yale University and Columbia University most known for work in industrial relations
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007), US 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/US economist
Raj Chetty (b. 1979), Indian/US economist
Steven N. S. Cheung (b. 1935), Chinese economist specializing in transaction costs and property rights
Ajay Chhibber (living)
Graciela Chichilnisky (b. 1946)
Victoria Chick (b. 1936)
Josiah Child (1630–1699), UK mercantilist, politician and governor of the East India Company
Menzie Chinn (b. 1961)
Lawrence J. Christiano (b. 1952), US economist
Richard Clarida (b. 1957)
Colin Clark (1905–1989), UK/Australian economist, pioneered the use of the gross national product (GNP)
Gregory Clark (b. 1957), US economic historian at the University of California, Davis
John Bates Clark (1847–1938), US neoclassical marginalist
John Maurice Clark (1884–1963), US marginalist
William D. Clark (1916–1985)
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), US economist specializing in monetary policy
John H. Cochrane
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), US 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), UK economist and euro-sceptic politician
Alfred Haskell Conrad (1924–1970), US Harvard professor of economics
Hugh E. Conway (b. 1942), US economist and professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces
Richard N. Cooper (b. 1934)
Russell W. Cooper (b. 1955), US 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), US economist
Dora L. Costa (b. 1964)
Christopher Coyne (b. 1977), F. A. Harper professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University
Tyler Cowen (b. 1962), US 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 (b. 1940)
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/US economist, professor at Caltech

D

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Uri Dadush (living), French scholar in Washington DC
Hugh Dalton (1887–1962), British Labour Party economist and politician
Herman Daly (b. 1938), known as the 'father' of ecological economics
George Dantzig (1914–2005), American mathematical scientist
Sandy Darity, Jr. (b. 1953), American economist and researcher
Partha Dasgupta (b. 1942), Indian/British development economist
Charles Davenant (1656–1714), English mercantilist and politician
Paul Davidson (b. 1930), American macroeconomist
Antony Davies (b. 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 (b. 1945), Scottish-American economist and academic
Gérard Debreu (1921–2004), French-American economist and mathematician
Rajeev Dehejia (b. 1973), American professor of public policy
J. Bradford DeLong (b. 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 (b. 1940), British economist and Labour Party politician
Hernando de Soto Polar (b. 1941), Peruvian economist of the informal economy
Pat Devine (living), English industrial economist
Mathias Dewatripont (b. 1959), Belgian economist and professor
Armando Di Filippo (living), Argentine economist and academic
Douglas Diamond (b. 1953), American finance expert
Peter Diamond (b. 1940), American social security expert
Peter Dicken (b. 1938), English economic geographer
Benjamin Diokno (b. 1948), Philippine central banker
Avinash Dixit (b. 1944), Indian/American economist
Huw Dixon (b. 1958), Welsh economist and academic
Simeon Djankov (b. 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
Evsey Domar (1914–1997), Soviet/American economist
Stephen J. Dubner (b. 1963), American economics author and broadcaster
Esther Duflo (b. 1972), French/American economist
Steven N. Durlauf (b. 1958), American economist and social scientist

E

Shlomo Eckstein (1929–2020), Israeli economist and academic
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926), Irish/English philosopher and political economist
Sebastian Edwards (b. 1953), Chilean economist and academic
Martin Eichenbaum (b. 1954), American professor of economics
Barry Eichengreen (b. 1952), American economist and political scientist
Alfred Eichner (1937–1988), American economist
Ali M. El-Agraa (b. 1941), Sudanese/English economist
Daniel Ellsberg (b. 1931), 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 (b. 1936), American economist and economic historian
Robert F. Engle (b. 1942), American statistician and economist
Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), German economist and politician
Vanessa Erogbogbo (living), Ugandan/British development specialist
José Luís Espert (b. 1961), Argentinian economist and politician

F

Marc Faber (b. 1946), Swiss investor based in Thailand
Armin Falk (b. 1968), German economist and academic
Günter Faltin (b. 1944), German economist and entrepreneur
Eugene Fama b. 1939), American economist known for efficient-market hypothesis
Emmanuel Farhi (1978–2020), French/American economist and academic
Tacito Augusto Farias (b. 1958), Brazilian economist and academic
M. J. Farrell (1926–1975), English economist
Jeff Faux (living), American economist and writer
Henry Fawcett (1833–1884), English economist and statesman
Nikolay Fedorenko (1917–2006), Soviet/Russian economist and chemist
Ernst Fehr (b. 1956), Austrian/Swiss behavioral economist
Martin Feldstein (1939–2019), American economist and academic
Randall K. Filer (b. 1952), American economist and researcher
Amy Finkelstein (b. 1973), American economist and researcher
Stanley Fischer (b. 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 (b. 1972), American entrepreneur and philanthropist
Jean-Paul Fitoussi (1942), French economist and academic
William Fleetwood (1656–1723), English statistician and bishop
Marcus Fleming (1911–1976), English economist and stabilization expert
Amelia Fletcher (b. 1966), English economist and singer
John E. Floyd (b. 1937), Canadian economist and academic
Karnit Flug (b. 1955), Polish/Israeli economist and bank governor
Robert Fogel (1926–2013), American economic historian
Charles Fourier (1772–1837), French philosopher and socialist thinker
Joseph Francois (b. 1961), Swiss economist and academic
Robert H. Frank (b. 1939), American economist and academic
Jeffrey Frankel (b. 1952), American macroeconomist
Bernie Fraser (b. 1941), Australian economist and bank governor
Christopher Freeman (1921–2010), English economist and academic
Richard B. Freeman (b. 1943), American economist and academic
Bruno Frey (b. 1941), Swiss economist and academic
Benjamin M. Friedman (b. 1944), American political economist
David D. Friedman (b. 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 (b. 1977), American economist
Drew Fudenberg (b. 1957), American economist and game-theory expert
Masahisa Fujita (藤田昌久, b. 1943), Japanese economist and academic
Connel Fullenkamp (b. 1965), American economist and academic
Jason Furman (b. 1970), American economist and academic
Celso Furtado (1920–2004), Brazilian economist and development expert

G

Xavier Gabaix (b. 1971), French/American economist
Yegor Gaidar (1956–2009), Soviet/Russian economist and politician
James Kenneth Galbraith (b. 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 (b. 1959), American economist and politician
Jordi Galí (b. 1961), Spanish macroeconomist
A. Ronald Gallant (b. 1942), American econometrician
Mauro Gallegati (b. 1958), Italian economist and scholar
Oded Galor (b. 1953), Israeli/American economist and academic
Francisco Javier Carrillo Gamboa (living), Mexican knowledge-systems researcher
László Garai (b. 1935), Hungarian psychologist and economist
Gonzalo Garland (b. 1959), Peruvian economist and researcher
Pierangelo Garegnani (1930–2011), Italian economist and academic
Norton Garfinkle (b. 1931), American economist and economic historian
Vusal Gasimli (b. 1975), Azerbaijani economist and academic
Leonid Gatovsky (b. 1889, date of death unknown), Russian/Soviet economist
John Geanakoplos (b. 1955), American economist and academic
Jacques Généreux (b. 1956), French economist and politician
Henry George (1839–1897), American political economist
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906–1994), Romanian statistician and economist
Mark Gertler (b. 1951), American economist and academic
Silvio Gesell (1862–1930), German economist and politician
Jayati Ghosh (b. 1955), Indian development economist
Eric Ghysels (b. 1956), Belgian economist and econometrician
Francesco Giavazzi (b. 1949), Italian economist and academic
Charles Gide (1847–1932), French economist and economic historian
George Gilder (b. 1939), American economist and investor
Richard T. Gill (b. 1927–2010), American economist and opera singer
Victor Ginsburgh (b. 1939), Belgian economist
Herbert Gintis (b. 1940), American economist and behavioral scientist
Edward Glaeser (b. 1967), American economist and academic
William Godwin (1756–1836), English economist and writer
Claudia Goldin (b. 1946), American economist and government official
Ian Goldin (living), South African/English economist and program director
Jose Antonio Gomariz (1919–2005), Argentine economist and educator
Charles Goodhart (b. 1936), English economist and academic
George Goodman (aka "Adam Smith", 1930–2014), American economist and broadcaster
Austan Goolsbee (born 1969), American economist
Myron J. Gordon (1920–2010), American/Canadian economist and academic
Robert J. Gordon (b. 1940), American economist
Gary Gorton (b. c. 1951), American economist and finance educator
Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858), German economist
Christian Gouriéroux (b. 1959), French econometrician
Benjamin Graham (1894–1976), English/American economist and investor
Phil Gramm (b. 1942), American economist and politician
Clive Granger (1934–2009), Welsh/American econometrician
George Grantham (b. 1941), American economist and academic
Alan Greenspan (b. 1926), American economist and finance official
Thomas Gresham (c. 1519–1579), English merchant and financier
Stephany Griffith-Jones (b. 1947), English/American economist
Zvi Griliches (1930–1999), Lithuanian/American economist
Elgin Groseclose (1899–1983), American economist and statesman
Gene Grossman (b. 1955), American economist and academic
Henryk Grossman (1881–1950), Polish/German economist and revolutionary
Jonathan Gruber (b. 1965), American economist and academic
Rebeca Grynspan (b. 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 Prize winner
Gottfried Haberler (1900–1995), Austrian/American economist
Charles Hall, (1740–1825), English social critic and physician
Robert Hall (b. 1943), American economist and academic
Andrew Hughes Hallett (1947–1919), English/Scottish economist and academic
John Haltiwanger (b. 1955), American economist
Daniel S. Hamermesh (b. 1943), American/English economist
James D. Hamilton (b. 1954), American econometrician
Steve H. Hanke (b. 1942), American applied economist
Alvin Hansen (1887–1975), American economist and academic
Lars Peter Hansen (b. 1952), American economist
Eric Hanushek (b. 1943), American economist
Mahbub ul Haq (1934–1998), Indian/Pakistani economist and politician
Arnold Harberger (b. 1924), American economist
Donald Harding (b. 1940), Australian expert in corporate law and securities regulation
Tim Harford (b. 1973), English economist and broadcaster
Charles Knickerbocker Harley (b. 1943), American economic historian
Stephen Harper (b. 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 (b. 1948), English/American economist and Nobel Prize winner
Campbell Harvey (b. 1958), Canadian/American economist and academic
Jerry A. Hausman (b. 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 (b. 1944), American economist and Nobel Prize winner
Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), Swedish political economist and economic historian
Robert Heilbroner (1919–2005), American economist and historian of economics
Carolyn Heinrich (b. 1967), American historian and academic
Christian Hellwig (living), German macroeconomist
Elhanan Helpman (b. 1946), Israeli/American economist and academic
Hazel Henderson (b. 1933), English economist, ecologist and broadcaster
David Forbes Hendry (b. 1944), English econometrician and academic
Noreena Hertz (b. 1967), English economist and broadcaster
William Hewins (1865–1931), English economist and politician
John Hicks (1904–1989), English economist and joint Nobel Prize winner
Michael J. Hicks (b. 1962), American economist and academic
Robert Higgs (b. 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 (b. 1937), English/Canadian economist
Bengt Holmstrom (b. 1949), Finnish/American economist and academic
Charles A. Holt (b. 1948), American behavioral economist
Harry J. Holzer (b. 1957), American economist and educator
Kevin Hoover (b. 1955), American economist and philosopher
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (b. 1949), German/American economist and philosopher
Charles Horioka (チャールズ・ユウジ・ホリオカ, b. 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 (b. 1946), Canadian economist
William Hsiao (蕭慶倫m b. 1936), Chinese/American economist and academic
Glenn Hubbard (b. 1958), American economist and academic
Michael Hudson (b. 1939), American economist and analyst
David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish economist and philosopher
Thomas M. Humphrey (b. 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 (b. 1962), Indonesian economist, banker and politician
Stefan Ingves (b. 1953), Swedish national bank governor and economist
Douglas Irwin (living), American economist and academic
Mugur Isărescu (b. 1949), Romanian national bank governor and economist
Otmar Issing (b. 1936), German economist and economic policy-maker

J

Matthew O. Jackson (b. 1962), American economist and academic
Tim Jackson (b. 1957), English ecological economist
David A. Jaeger (b. 1964), Scottish economist and researcher
Ravi Jagannathan (b. 1949), American economist and academic
Eliot Janeway (1913–1993), American economist and author
William H. Janeway (b. 1943), American economist and venture capitalist
Robert A. Jarrow (living), American economist and academic
Peter Jay (diplomat) (b. 1937), English economist and diplomat
Michael Jensen (b. 1939), American financial economist
William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882), English economist and logician
Søren Johansen (b. 1939), Danish statistician and econometrician
Harry Gordon Johnson (1923–1977), Canadian economist
Simon Johnson (b. 1963), English/American 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 (b. 1963), Swiss economist and central banker
Dale W. Jorgenson (b. 1933), American economist and academic
Boyan Jovanovic (b. 1952), American economist and academic

K

Daniel Kahneman (b. 1934), Palestinian/Israeli economist and psychologist
Ehud Kalai (b. 1942), Israeli/American game theorist and mathematical economist
Nicholas Kaldor (1908–1986), Hungarian/English economist and government advisor
Michał Kalecki (1899–1970), Polish economist
Thomas Kane (b. 1961), American educational economist
Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), Soviet mathematician and economist
Ethan Kaplan (living), American economist and academic
Steven Kaplan (b. 1959), American business economist
Dean Karlan (living), American development economist
Michael Kaser (b. 1926), English economist
Lawrence F. Katz (b. 1959), American economist and academic
Steve Keen (b. 1953), Australian economist and educator
Timothy J. Kehoe (b. 1953), American economist and academic
Stephanie Kelton (b. 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, b. 1955), Chinese economist and politician
Srgjan Kerim (b. 1948), Yugoslav/Macedonian economist and diplomat
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), English political economist
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), Arab social scientist
Mushtaq Khan (b. 1961), English/Bangladeshi economist and academic
Homi Kharas (living), American economist and UN executive
Mwai Kibaki (b. 1931), Kenyan economist and politician
Mervyn King, English economist and Bank of England governor
Robert G. King (b. 1951), American macroeconomist
Bruce Kingma (b. 1961), American economist and entrepreneur
Israel Kirzner (b. 1930), English/American economist
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (清滝信宏, b. 1955), Japanese/American macroeconomist
Lawrence Klein (1920–2013), American econometrician and Nobel Prize winner
Morton Klein (b. 1947), German/American economist and statistician
Paul Klemperer (b. 1956), English economist and academic
Arnold Kling (b. 1954), American economist and writer
Teun Kloek (b. 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 (b. 1967), Dutch economist and central banker
Narayana Kocherlakota (b. 1963), American economist and academic
Leopold Kohr (1909–1994), Austrian/English economist and political scientist
John Komlos (b. 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 (b. 1928), Hungarian economist and theorist
Andrey Korotayev (b. 1961), Soviet/Russian economic historian and sociologist
Naum Krasner (1924–1999), Soviet/Russian economist and mathematician
Lawrence B. Krause (b. 1929), American economist and economic advisor
Jan Kregel (b. 1944), American economist and UN executive
Michael Kremer (b. 1964), American development economist and academic
David M. Kreps (b. 1950), American game theorist and economist
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russian economist and political scientist
Anne Osborn Krueger (b. 1934), American economist and IMF executive
Paul Krugman (b. 1953), American economist, academic and Nobel Prize winner
Per Krusell (b. 1959), Swedish macroeconomist
Lawrence Kudlow (b. 1947), American finance analyst
Adriana Kugler (b. 1969), American economist and public-policy academic
Maurice Kugler (b. 1967), American economist and public-policy academic
Robert Kuttner (b. 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 (b. 1943), Norwegian/American economist and academic