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), American economist and social worker
Daron Acemoglu (b. 1967), Turkish/American economist
Nicola Acocella (b. 1939), Italian economist
Zoltan Acs (b. 1947), American economics professor
Henry Carter Adams (1851–1921), American economist
Walter Adams (1922–1998), American economist and congressional expert
Philippe Aghion (b. 1956), French economist
Montek Singh Ahluwalia (b. 1943), Indian economist
Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad (b. 1943), Bangladeshi economist and environmentalist
George Akerlof (b. 1940), American economist and shared winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
Armen Alchian (1914–2013), American economist
Alberto Alesina (b. 1957), 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 (b. 1956), American economist
R. G. D. Allen (1906–1983), English economist and statistician
Gar Alperovitz (b. 1936), American political economist and historian
Lee J. Alston (b. 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 (b. 1935), Japanese economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece
Georges Anderla (1921–2005), Czechoslovak-born French economist
Donald Andrews (b. 1955), Canadian economist
George-Marios Angeletos (b. 1975), Greek/American economist
Norman Angell (1872–1967), English economist and politician
Joshua Angrist (b. 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
Pérsio Arida (b. 1952), Brazilian economist
Dan Ariely (b. 1967), Israeli/American behavioral economist
Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), German-born Australian economist
Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017), American economist, joint winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1972
Enrique R. Arzac (b. 1943), Argentine/American economist
Orley Ashenfelter (b. 1942), American economist
William Ashley (1860–1927), English economic historian
Cliff Asness (b. 1966) American economist and hedge -fund manager
Jeremy Atack (b. 1949) Anglo-American economic historian
Susan Athey (b. 1970), American economist
Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944–2017), Welsh/English economist
Orazio Attanasio (b. 1959), Italian economist
Thomas Attwood (1783–1856), English economist
David B. Audretsch (b. 1954), American economist
Leonardo Auernheimer (1936–2010), Argentine economist and international monetary consultant
Robert Aumann (b. 1930), Israeli/American mathematician and 2005 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
George Ayittey (b. 1945), Ghanaian economist
Clarence Ayres (1891–1972), American economist

B

Ali Babacan (b. 1967), Turkish economic minister
Roger Babson (1875–1967), American business theorist
Louis Bachelier (1870–1946), French mathematician
Roger Backhouse (b. 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 (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
Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), Russian revolutionary anarchist, socialist, and founder of collectivist anarchism
Leszek Balcerowicz (b. 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 (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/American, 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), 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 (b. 1944), American 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), 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 (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), English economist and statistician
Michael Baye (b. 1958), American business economist
Charlie Bean (b. 1953), English economist and academic
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
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), 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 (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 (b. 1953), American economist, former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
Jared Bernstein (1925–2005), American economist
Marianne Bertrand (b. c. 1970), Belgian economist
Tim Besley (b. 1960), English academic economist
William Beveridge (1879–1963), English economist and politician
Truman Bewley (b. 1941), American mathematician and economist
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), American founding president of the Center for Global Development
Kenneth Binmore (b. 1940), English economist and game theorist, professor emeritus of economics at University College, London
William K. Black (b. 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 (b. 1948), French, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund
Rebecca Blank (b. 1955), American economist and politician
Francine D. Blau (b. 1946), American economist and academic
Knut Blind (b. 1965), German innovation economist
Alan Blinder (b. 1945), American economist, serves at Princeton University
Walter Block (b. 1941), American free market economist and anarcho-capitalist
Barry Bluestone (b. 1944), American economist and academic
John Blundell (1952–2014), English economist
Richard Blundell (b. 1952), English economist and econometrician
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
Matilde Bombardini (living), Italian Canadian economist in Vancouver
Murray Bookchin (1921–2006), American political philosopher
Korkut Boratav (b. 1935), Turkish, marxist economist
George Borjas (b. 1950), American, 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 US Progress
Samuel Bowles (b. 1939), American Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marcel Boyer (living), Canadian industrial economist
David Boyle (b. 1958), English historian and economist
William Brainard (b. c. 1935), American economist
James Brander (b. 1953), Canadian economist
Avishay Braverman (b. 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 (b. 1946), English economist, professor of economics at the University of Oxford
Markus Brunnermeier (b. 1969) German/American economist
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 (b. 1937), English economist and central banker
Willem Buiter (b. 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

C

Ricardo J. Caballero (b. 1959), Chilean macroeconomist, holds the Ford International chair of economics at MIT
Vince Cable (b. 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 (b. 1941), Argentine economist
John Y. Campbell (b. 1958), British/American economist, chairman of the Harvard economics department
Colin Camerer (b. 1959), American economist
Lisa Cameron (b. 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 (b. 1971), American 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), American 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
Richard Carson (b. 1955), American environmental economist
Agustín Carstens (b. 1958), Mexican economist, governor of the Bank of Mexico
Anne P. Carter (b. 1925), American economist, professor at Brandeis University
David Cass (1937–2008), American professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania
Gustav Cassel (1866–1945), Swedish economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University
Attilio Celant (b. 1942), Italian economist, Dean of the Faculty of Economics (2002–2011) and Professor of Economic Geography at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome
Seweryn Chajtman (1919–2012), Polish scientist, engineer, teacher of the Industrial Management, 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 (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 specializing in transaction costs and property rights
Ajay Chhibber (living), Indian economist and politician
Graciela Chichilnisky (b. 1946) Argentine/American mathematical economist
Victoria Chick (b. 1936)
Josiah Child (1630–1699), English mercantilist, politician and governor of the East India Company
Menzie Chinn (b. 1961)
Lawrence J. Christiano (b. 1952), American economist
Richard Clarida (b. 1957)
Colin Clark (1905–1989), British/Australian economist, pioneered the use of the gross national product (GNP)
Gregory Clark (b. 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
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 (b. 1957), American financial economist and macroeconomist
Paul Cockshott (b. 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 (b. 1951), English economist and euro-sceptic politician
Alfred Haskell Conrad (1924–1970), American Harvard professor of economics
Hugh E. Conway (b. 1942), American economist and professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces
Richard N. Cooper (b. 1934), American economist and policy adviser
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
Carol Corrado (living), American economist
Dora L. Costa (b. 1964), American economist and academic
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
Vincent Crawford (b. 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 (b. 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
Jakša Cvitanić (b. 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 (b. 1938), American "father" of ecological economics
George Dantzig (1914–2005), American mathematical scientist
Sandy Darity, Jr. (b. 1953), American economist and researcher
Partha Dasgupta (b. 1942), Bangladeshi/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), Indian/British economist and Labour Party politician
Hernando de Soto Polar (b. 1941), Peruvian economist of the informal economy
Pat Devine (living), Englishindustrial 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
Jennifer Doleac (living), American economist
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), Anglo-Irish 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/British 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 economist and academic
Tacito Augusto Farias (b. 1958), Brazilian 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 (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), British economist and stabilization expert
Amelia Fletcher (b. 1966), British 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), British 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/British economist and program director
Jose Antonio Gomariz (1919–2005), Argentine economist and educator
Charles Goodhart (b. 1936), British economist and academic
George Goodman (aka "Adam Smith", 1930–2014), American economist and broadcaster
Austan Goolsbee (b. 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), British/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), British/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 laureate
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), Scottish economist and academic
John Haltiwanger (b. 1955), American economist
Daniel S. Hamermesh (b. 1943), American 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), British/American economist and Nobel laureate
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 laureate
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 laureate
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/Israeli 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), British 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 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 (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/British 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), British/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
Morris Kleiner (b.1948), American labor economist
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/British 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), American 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
Rajiv Kumar (b. 1951), Indian economist and politician
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

L

Ludwig Lachmann (1906–1890), German economist
Arthur Laffer (b. 1940), American economist
Jean-Jacques Laffont (1947–2004), French economist
Ricardo Lagos (b. 1938), Chilean economist and lawyer
David Laibson (b. 1966), American economist
David Laidler (b. 1938), English monetary economist
Domingo Laino (b. 1935), Paraguayan economist and politician
John A. Laitner (b. 1947), American economist and environmentalist
Naomi Lamoreaux (b. 1950), American economic historian
Steven Landsburg (b. 1954), American economist
Philip R. Lane (b. 1954), American economist
Lang Xianping (郎咸平, b. 1956), Hong Kong-based economist
Oskar Lange (1904–1965), Polish economist and diplomat
Serge Latouche (b. 1940), French economist
John Law (1671–1629), Scottish economist
Richard Layard (b. 1934), English labour economist
Edward Lazear (1948–2020), American economist
Edward E. Leamer (b. 1944), American economist
Stanley Lebergott (1918–2009), American economist
Lewis Lehrman (b. 1938), American economist and banker
Frederic Sterling Lee (1949–2014), American economist
Peter Leeson (b. 1979), American economist
Axel Leijonhufvud (b. 1933), Swedish economist
Manuela Ferreira Leite (b. 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 (b. 1947), American economist
David K. Levine (b. c. 1955), American economist
Lars Lefgren (b. 1972), American economist
Steven D. Levitt (b. 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 (b. 1975), Canadian economist
Evsei Liberman (1897–1981), Russian/Soviet economist
Justin Yifu Lin (林毅夫, born 1952), Chinese economist
Michael Lind (b. 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 (b. 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 (b. 1962), French economist and philosopher
Max O. Lorenz (1876–1959), American economist
Pascal Lorot (b. 1960), French economist and geo-politician
Andreas Löschel (living), German economist
John Lott (b. 1958), American economist and political commentator
Robert Lucas, Jr. (b. 1937), American economist
Stephen J. Luczo (b. 1957), American chief executive
Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), Polish-born economist and revolutionary socialist
Gerard Lyons (b. 1961), English political economist

M

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (b. 1947), Philippines academic and politician
Donald MacDougall (1912–2004), Scottish economist
Mark J. Machina (b. 1954), American economist
Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías (b. 1955), Mexican academician and economist
Henry Dunning Macleod (1821–1902), Scottish economist
Adil Abdul-Mahdi (b. 1942), Iraqi economist and vice-president
Edmond Malinvaud (1923–2015), French economist
Burton Malkiel (b. 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 (b. 1958), American macroeconomist
Henry Manne (1928–2015), American economist and academic
Alan Manning (b. 1960), English economist and academic
Edwin Mansfield (1930–1997), American economist and academic
Charles Manski (b. 1948), American professor of economics
Mao Yushi (茅于轼;, born 1929), Chinese economist
Harry Markowitz (b. 1927), 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 (b. 1953), American economist and hedge-fund manager
Xavier Sala i Martin (b. 1962), Spanish-American economist
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English social theorist
Karl Marx (1818–1883), German founder of Marxian economics
Eric Maskin (b. 1950), American economist and Nobel laureate
Jason Gaverick Matheny (living), American expert on artificial intelligence
Paul Mattick (1904–1981), German social revolutionary
Richard Maybury (b. 1946), American educational economist
C. M. Mayo (living), American economist and writer
Preston McAfee (b. 1956), American managerial economist
Bennett McCallum (b. 1935), American monetary economist
Rachel McCleary (living), American economist
Deirdre McCloskey (b. 1942), American economist and academic
John Ramsey McCulloch (1789–1864), Scottish political economist
Paul McCulley (b. 1957), American economist and business executive
James McDonald (b. c. 1942), American econometrician
Daniel McFadden (b. 1937), American econometrician
Richard McKelvey (1944–2002), American political scientist
Lionel W. McKenzie (1919–2010), American economist
Warwick McKibbin (b. 1957), Australian economist and academic
David McWilliams (b. 1966), Irish economist and writer
James Meade (1907–1995), English economist and Nobel laureate
Gardiner Means (1896–1988), American economist
Marc Melitz (b. 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 (b. 1944), American economist and Nobel laureate
Albert J. Meyer (1919–1983), 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 (b. 1970), Argentinian libertarian economist
David Miles (b. 1959), Welsh/English economist
Murray Milgate (b. 1950), Australian/British economist
Paul Milgrom (b. 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 academic
James Mirrlees (1936–2018), Scottish/American economist and Nobel laureate
Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), Austrian economist and sociologist
Frederic Mishkin (b. 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 (b. 1946), Dutch/American economic historian
Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912), Belgian political economist
Solita Monsod (b. 1940), Philippines economist and writer
John Hardman Moore (b. 1954), English economic theorist
Jonathan Morduch (b. 1963), American economist and public service expert
Michio Morishima (1923–2004), Japanese economist
Stephen Morris (living), American game theorist
Dale Mortensen (1939–2014), American economist and Nobel laureate
Warren Mosler (b. 1949), American economist and hedge-fund manager
David C. Mowery (living), American economist
Dambisa Moyo (b. 1969), Zambian economist
Anu Muhammad (b. 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 (b. 1975), Indian/American economist
Richard Murnane (b. 1945), American economist
Kevin J. Murphy (b. 1957), American finance academic
Kevin M. Murphy (b. 1958), American economist
Robert P. Murphy (b. 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 (b. 1940), American financial economist
Roger Myerson (b. 1951), American economist and academic
Alva Myrdal (1902–1986), Swedish sociologist and Nobel laureate
Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Swedish economist and sociologist

N

John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015), American mathematician and Nobel laureate
Richard Nelson (b. 1930), American evolutionary economist and academic
Nikolay Nenovsky (b. 1963), Bulgarian/French economist
Marc Nerlove (b. 1933), American economist
John von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungarian/American mathematician and economist
David Neumark (b. 1959), American economist and academic
David Newbery (b. 1943), English applied economist
Francis William Newman (1805–1897), English moral philosopher
Stephen Nickell (b. 1944), English economist and academic
Peter Nijkamp (b. 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 (b. 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 (b. 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 academic
Nobuo Okishio (置塩信雄, 1927–2003), Japanese Marxian economist
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (b. 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 (b. 1996), Ghanaian-American activist and CEO of the Sadie Collective
Nicole Oresme (c. 1320–1382), French philosopher
Peter R. Orszag (b. 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 (b. 1954), American economist and business manager
Giancarlo Pallavicini (b. 1931), Italian economist and Soviet adviser
V. R. Panchamukhi (b. 1936), Indian economist and scholar
Thomas Palfrey (b. 1953), American economist and political scientist
Yadav Prasad Pant (1928–2007), Nepalese economist and politician
Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857–1924), Italian economist
Philippe Van Parijs (b. 1951), Belgian professor and political economist
Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian engineer and economist
Manuel V. Pangilinan (b. 1946), Philippines business executive
Jacques Parizeau (1930–2015), Canadian economist and politician
Luigi Pasinetti (b. 1930), Italian economist
Frédéric Passy (1822–1912), French economist and pacifist
I. G. Patel (1924–2005), Indian economist and central bank governor
Prabhat Patnaik (b. 1945), Indian economist and political commentator
William Paterson (1658–1719), Scottish trade and banker
Don Patinkin (1922–1995), American/Israeli monetary economist
Christina Paxson (b. 1960), American economist
Lasse Heje Pedersen (b. 1972), Danish financial economist
Edith Penrose (1914–1996), American/British economist
Émile and Isaac Péreire (1800–1875 and 1806–1880), French financiers
Carlota Perez (b. 1939), Venezuelan/British specialist in socio-economic development
Javier Perez-Capdevila (b. 1963), Cuban mathematician
Torsten Persson (b. 1954), Swedish economist
Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646–1714), French lawmaker and theorist
M. Hashem Pesaran (b. 1946), Iranian/British economist
Wolfgang Pesendorfer, American economist
Pierre Pestieau (b. 1943), Belgian economist
Maurice Peston, Baron Peston (1931–2016), English economist and politician
Robert Peston, (b. 1960), English writer on economics
Douglas Peters (1930–2016), Canadian banker and economist
William Petty (1623–1687), English economist and scientist
Edmund Phelps (b. 1933), American economist and Nobel laureate
Thomas Philippon (b. 1974), French/American economist and finance professor
Peter C. B. Phillips (b. 1948), N Zealand/Singapore econometrician
William Phillips (1914–1975), N Zealand/English economist
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), English welfare economist
Thomas Piketty (b. 1971), French economist
Christopher A. Pissarides (b. 1948), Cypriot economist
Arnold Plant (1898–1978), English economist
Plato (Platon, 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BCE), Greek philosopher
Charles Plott (b. 1938), American economist
Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), Austro-Hungarian/Canadian economic historian and political economist
Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), Hungarian/British polymath
Robert Pollin (b. 1950), American economist
Yuri Poluneev (b. 1956), Soviet/Ukrainian international economist
Dina Pomeranz (b. 1977), Swiss economist
Jean-Pierre Ponssard (b. 1946), French economist
Arden Pope (b. c. 1954), American environmental economist
Michael Porter (b. 1947), American business economist
Richard Portes (living), American/British economist
Arturo C. Porzecanski (b. 1949), Uruguayan/American economist
Richard Posner (b. 1939), American jurist and economist
James M. Poterba (b. 1958), American economist
Bernard van Praag (b. 1939), Dutch welfare economist
John W. Pratt (b. 1931), American business economist
Edward C. Prescott (b. 1940), American economist and Nobel laureate
Steven Pressman (b. 1952), American economist
Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr. (b. 1941), American labor economist
Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986), Argentinian structural economist
Cuno Pümpin (b. 1939), Swiss economist and entrepreneur

Q

Guy Quaden (b. 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 (b. 1956), Australian economist and government adviser

R

Matthew Rabin (b. 1963), American behavioral economist
Roy Radner (b. 1927), American micro-economist
John Rae (1796–1872), Scottish/Canadian economist
Richard W. Rahn (b. 1942), American economist
Raghuram Rajan (b. 1963), Indian economist
Mihir Rakshit (b. 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 (b. 1952), Australian economist
Debra Ray (b. 1957), Indian/American development economist
Daniel Raymond (1786–1849), American political economist
Ralph Recto (b. 1964), Philippines economist and politician
Robert Reich (b. 1946), American economist and commentator
Carmen Reinhart (b. 1955), Cuban/American economist and academic
Ricardo Reis (b. 1988), Portuguese/British economist
George Reisman (b. 1937), American economist and academic
Philip J. Reny (living), Canadian/American economist
David Ricardo (1772–1823), English political economist
Frank-Jürgen Richter, German economist and entrepreneur
Jeremy Rifkin (b. 1945), American economist and social theorist
Alice Rivlin (1931–2019), American economist and budget official
Lionel Robbins (1898–1984), English economist
Donald John Roberts (b. 1945), Canadian/American economist
Paul Craig Roberts (b. 1939), American economist
Russ Roberts (b. 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 (b. 1957), Turkish/American economist
John Roemer (b. 1945), American economist and political scientist
Kenneth Rogoff (b. 1953), American economist
Gérard Roland (b. 1954), Belgian economist
Eric Roll (1907–2005), Austro-Hungarian/English economist and public servant
Richard Roll (b. 1939), American economist and finance expert
Christina Romer (b. 1958), American economist and policy adviser
David Romer (b. 1958), American economist and academic
Paul Romer (b. 1955), American economist and business academic
Raymond de Roover (1904–1972), Belgian/American economic historian
Harvey S. Rosen (b. 1949), American economist and public-finance adviser
Henry Rosovsky (b. 1927), German/American economist and academic
Sherwin Rosen (1938–2001), American labor economist
Nathan Rosenberg 1927–2015), American economist and technology historian
Stephen A. Ross (1944–2017), American financial economist and academic
Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003), American economist and political theorist
Julio Rotemberg (1953–2017), Argentine/American economist
Alvin E. Roth (b. 1951), American economist and academic
Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), American economist and political theorist
Nouriel Roubini (b. 1958), American economist
Cecilia Rouse (b. 1963), American economist and first African American chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
Ariel Rubinstein (b. 1951), Israeli economist
Isaak Russman (1938–2005), Soviet/Russian economist and mathematician
John Rust (b. 1955), American economist and econometrician
Justinian Rweyemamu (1942–1982), Tanzanian economist and political strategist
Tadeusz Rybczynski (1923–1998), Polish/English economist

S

Fabrizio Saccomanni (1942–2019), Italian economist and central banker
Alexander Sachs (1893–1973), American economist and financier
Jeffrey Sachs (b. 1954), American development economist
Emmanuel Saez (b. 1972), French/American economist, known for work on taxation and inequality
Claudia Sahm (living), American macroeconomist
Gilles Saint-Paul (b. 1963), French economist
Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French political and economic theorist
António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970), Portuguese dictator and economist, Prime Minister of Portugal 1932–1968
Arthur Salz (1881–1963), German economist and sociologist
Paul Samuelson, American economist and Nobel laureate
Chris William Sanchirico (living), American tax law expert
José Santana (b. 1962), Dominican economist
Diego Abad de Santillán (1897–1983), Spanish/Argentinian economist, author and anarcho-syndicalist activist
Juan Manuel Santos (b. 1951), Colombian politician, economist and journalist, President of Colombia 2010–2018
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
José Scheinkman (b. 1948), Brazilian/American economist
Thomas Schelling (1921–2016), American game theorist and Nobel laureate
Peter Schiff (b. 1963), American stockbroker and financial commentator
Christoph M. Schmidt (b. 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 (b. 1941), Canadian-American financial economist
Stephan Schulmeister (b. 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
Tibor Scitovsky (1910–2002), Hungarian/American economist
Molly Scott Cato (b. 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 (b. 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 (b. 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
Anwar Shaikh (b. 1945, Pakistani/American economist
David Shapiro (b. 1946), American economist
Lloyd Shapley (1923–2016), American game theorist and Nobel laureate
William F. Sharpe (b. 1934), American economist and Nobel laureate
Neil Shephard (b. 1964), English econometrician
Shouyong Shi (b. 1965), Canadian macroeconomist
Robert Shiller (b. 1946), American economist and Nobel laureate
Gary Shilling (living), American financial analyst and commentator
Robert Shimer (b. 1968), American macroeconomist and labor economist
Hyun-Song Shin (신현송, living), S Korean economic theorist and financial economist
Yongcheol Shin (b. 1960), S Korea/British economist
Masaaki Shirakawa (白川方明, b. 1949), Japanese economist and central banker
Andrei Shleifer (b. 1961), Soviet/American economist and academic
Artyom Shneyerov (living), Canadian microeconomist
Martin Shubik (1926–2018), American economist
Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqui (b. 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 (b. 1939), Portuguese economist and president
Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), American economist and political scientist
Julian Lincoln Simon (1932–1998), American business administration academic
Christopher A. Sims (b. 1942), American econometrician and macroeconomist
Hans Singer (1910–2006), German/British development economist
Kurt Singer (1886–1962), German economist and philosopher
Manmohan Singh (b. 1932), Indian economist and politician
Hans-Werner Sinn (b. 1948), German economist and government adviser
Mark Skousen (b. 1947), American economist and writer
Margaret Slade (living), Canadian industrial economist
Andrzej Sławiński (b. 1951), Polish economist and academic
Joel Slemrod (b. 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 (b. 1949), Scottish/English economist and academic
Thomas Smith (1631–1699), English banker
Vernon L. Smith (b. 1927), American economist and lawyer
Dennis Snower (b. 1950), Austrian/American macroeconomist
Robert Solow (b. 1924), American economist and growth theorist
Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German economist and sociologist
Willem Somermeyer (1919–1982), Dutch economist and econometrician
Hugo F. Sonnenschein (b. 1940), American economist and educationist
Thomas Sowell (b. 1930), American economist and social theorist
Michael Spence (b. 1943), Canadian/American economist and Nobel laureate
Barbara J. Spencer (living), Australian/Canadian economist
Gene Sperling (b. 1958), American economist and presidential adviser
Piero Sraffa (1898–1983), Italian/British economist and academic
T. N. Srinivasan (1933–2018), Indian economist
Guy Standing (b. 1948), English labor economist
Ross Starr (b. 1945), American economist and academic
Richard H. Steckel (b. 1944), American heterodox economist
Herbert Stein (1916–1999), American economist and presidential adviser
Jeremy C. Stein (b. 1960), American macroeconomist
Nicholas Stern (b. 1946), English economist and academic
George Stigler (1911–1991), American economist and Nobel laureate
Joseph E. Stiglitz (b. 1943), American economist and public policy analyst
James H. Stock (b. 1955), American economist and academic
George W. Stocking, Sr. (1892–1975), American economist of industrial organization
Nancy Stokey (b. 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 (b. 1958), American investment adviser
Stanislav Strumilin (1877–1974), Russian/Soviet economist and statistician
Robert Sugden (b. 1949), English cognitive and behavioral economist
Paul Sultan (b. 1924), Canadian labor economist
Lawrence Summers (b. 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 (b. 1952), Malaysian economist and government adviser
Arun Sundararajan (living), British/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 (b. 1952), Czechoslovak/American economist
Lars E. O. Svensson (b. 1947), Swedish economist and academic
Subramanian Swamy (b. 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

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Alex Tabarrok (b. 1966), Canadian/American economist
Guido Tabellini (b. 1956), Italian economist
Naim Talu (1919–1998), Turkish economist and prime minister
Yair Tauman (b. 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
John B. Taylor (b. 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 (b. 1931), American economist and academic
Richard Thaler (b. 1945), American behavioral economist and academic
Asher Tishler (b. 1947), Israeli economist and college president
William Thompson (1775–1833), Irish philosopher and social reformer
Christopher Thornberg (b. 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 (b. 1953), French economist and academic
Sheridan Titman (b. 1954), American finance academic
James Tobin (1918–2002), American economist and government adviser
Michael Todaro (b. 1942), American development economist
Richard Tol (b. 1969), Dutch/English economist and academic
Alejandro Toledo (b. 1946), Peruvian politician and writer on economics
Robert Torrens (1780–1864), Irish/English political economist and writer
Robert M. Townsend (b. 1948), American economist and academic
Kenneth E. Train (b. 1951), American economist and academic
Daniel Trefler (b. 1959), Canadian economist and academic
Rodrigue Tremblay (b. 1939), Canadian economist and politician
Giulio Tremonti (b. 1947), Italian economic politician
Jean-Claude Trichet (b. 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 (b. 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 (b. 1955), English economist and business executive
Amos Tversky (1937–1996), Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist
Laura D'Andrea Tyson (b. 1947), American economist and presidential adviser