List of economists

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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[]

Thomas Attwood
Sir William Ashley
B. R. Ambedkar
George Akerlof
Kenneth Arrow
Maurice Allais
Robert Aumann
Edmund Burke in 1771
Edmund Burke
Mikhail Bakunin
  • Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American economist and social worker
  • Daron Acemoglu (born 1967), Turkish/American economist
  • Nicola Acocella (born 1939), Italian economist
  • Zoltan Acs (born 1947), American economics professor
  • Henry Carter Adams (1851–1921), American economist
  • Walter Adams (1922–1998), American economist and congressional expert
  • Philippe Aghion (born 1956), French economist
  • Montek Singh Ahluwalia (born 1943), Indian economist
  • Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad (born 1943), Bangladeshi economist and environmentalist
  • George Akerlof (born 1940), American economist and shared winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
  • Armen Alchian (1914–2013), American economist
  • Alberto Alesina (born 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 (born 1956), American economist
  • R. G. D. Allen (1906–1983), English economist and statistician
  • Gar Alperovitz (born 1936), American political economist and historian
  • Lee J. Alston (born 1951), American economist
  • Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German economist, first woman university lecturer in Germany
  • Fernando Alvarez, Argentine economist
  • B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), Indian economist and jurist
  • Takeshi Amemiya (born 1935), Japanese economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece
  • Georges Anderla (1921–2005), Czechoslovak-born French economist
  • Donald Andrews (born 1955), Canadian economist
  • George-Marios Angeletos (born 1975), Greek/American economist
  • Norman Angell (1872–1967), English economist and politician
  • Joshua Angrist (born 1960), Israeli/American economist
  • Kofi Annan (1938–2018), Ghanaian economist and Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Masahiko Aoki (青木昌彦, 1938–2015), Japanese economist
  • Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Italian priest and writer on economics
  • Luis Arce (born 1963), Bolivian economist and president
  • Pérsio Arida (born 1952), Brazilian economist
  • Dan Ariely (born 1967), Israeli/American behavioral economist
  • Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), German-born Australian economist
  • Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017), American economist, joint 1972 winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
  • Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (born 1947), Philippine academic and politician
  • Enrique R. Arzac (born 1943), Argentine/American economist
  • Orley Ashenfelter (born 1942), American economist
  • William Ashley (1860–1927), English economic historian
  • Cliff Asness (born 1966), American economist and hedge -fund manager
  • Jeremy Atack (born 1949), Anglo-American economic historian
  • Susan Athey (born 1970), American economist
  • Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944–2017), Welsh/English economist
  • Orazio Attanasio (born 1959), Italian economist
  • Thomas Attwood (1783–1856), English economist
  • David B. Audretsch (born 1954), American economist
  • Leonardo Auernheimer (1936–2010), Argentine economist and international monetary consultant
  • Robert Aumann (born 1930), Israeli/American mathematician and 2005 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
  • George Ayittey (born 1945), Ghanaian economist
  • Clarence Ayres (1891–1972), American economist

B[]

Jean Bodin
Frédéric Bastiat
Eugen Böhm von Bawerk
Gary Becker
Fischer Black
James M. Buchanan
Ben Bernanke
Walter Block
Francine D. Blau
Olivier Blanchard
Willem Buiter
Ali Babacan
  • Ali Babacan (born 1967), Turkish economic minister
  • Roger Babson (1875–1967), American business theorist
  • Louis Bachelier (1870–1946), French mathematician
  • Roger Backhouse (born 1951), English economist
  • Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), English journalist, businessman, and essayist; wrote extensively on government, economics and literature
  • Nikolai Baibakov (1911–2008), Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor
  • Joe S. Bain (1912–1991), American economist, founder of Industrial organization economics
  • Dean Baker (born 1958), American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
  • E. Wight Bakke (1903–1971), American industrial relations specialist and professor at Yale University
  • Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), Russian revolutionary anarchist, socialist, and founder of collectivist anarchism
  • Leszek Balcerowicz (born 1947), Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland
  • Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American economist and peace activist (1946 Nobel Peace Prize)
  • Richard Baldwin (living), American economist
  • Sir James Ball (1933–2018), English econometrician, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London Business School and a leading figure in econometric modeling
  • Ludwig Bamberger (1823–1899), German economist, politician and writer
  • Abhijit Banerjee (born 1961), Indian economist, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Pratima Bansal (living), Canadian economist
  • Paul A. Baran (1909–1964), Russian/American, the only tenured Marxist economist in the United States until his death in 1964
  • Pranab Bardhan (born 1939), Indian economist, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
  • William A. Barnett (born 1941), American economist, works in chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity
  • Enrico Barone (1859–1924), Italian soldier, military historian, and economist
  • Nicholas Barr (living), English/American economist, professor of public economics at the London School of Economics
  • Raymond Barre (1924–2007), French economist and politician
  • Robert Barro (born 1944), American macroeconomist, presently the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University
  • Yoram Barzel (born 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 (born 1952), Indian economist and academic, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank
  • Ravi Batra (born 1943), American economist, author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas
  • Peter Thomas Bauer (1915–2002), Hungarian developmental economist
  • William Baumol (1922–2017), American, New York University economics professor
  • Mahamudu Bawumia (born 1963), Ghanaian economist; worked at the Research Department of International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., United States
  • Eugen Boehm von Bawerk (1851–1914), Austrian, founder of the Austrian School of economics
  • Robert Dudley Baxter (1827–1875), English economist and statistician
  • Michael Baye (born 1958), American business economist
  • Charlie Bean (born 1953), English economist and 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 (born 1963), Tamale, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana
  • Dwayne Benjamin (born 1961), Canadian economist, managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics
  • Barbara Bergmann (1927–2015), American, forerunner in feminist economics with a passion for social policy and equality
  • C. Fred Bergsten (born 1941), American founder of the Peterson Institute for International Economics
  • Rex Bergstrom (1925–2005), New Zealand econometrician recognized for his work in continuous time econometrics
  • Adolf Berle (1895–1971), American lawyer, educator, author, and US diplomat
  • Ben Bernanke (born 1953), American economist, former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
  • Jared Bernstein (1925–2005), American economist
  • Marianne Bertrand (b. c. 1970), Belgian economist
  • Tim Besley (born 1960), English academic economist
  • William Beveridge (1879–1963), English economist and politician
  • Truman Bewley (born 1941), American mathematician and economist
  • Jagdish Bhagwati (born 1934), Indian economist and professor of economics and law at Columbia University
  • Debapriya Bhattacharya (living), Bangladeshi economist and policy analyst
  • Mark Bils (born 1958), macroeconomist at the University of Rochester
  • Nancy Birdsall (born 1946), American founding president of the Center for Global Development
  • Kenneth Binmore (born 1940), English economist and game theorist, professor emeritus of economics at University College, London
  • William K. Black (born 1951), American professor of economics at UMKC
  • Fischer Black (1938–1995), American economist, best known as one author of the famous Black–Scholes equation
  • William Blake (1774–1852), English classical economist
  • Olivier Blanchard (born 1948), French, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund
  • Rebecca Blank (born 1955), American economist and politician
  • Francine D. Blau (born 1946), American economist and academic
  • Knut Blind (born 1965), German innovation economist
  • Alan Blinder (born 1945), American economist, serves at Princeton University
  • Walter Block (born 1941), American free market economist and anarcho-capitalist
  • Barry Bluestone (born 1944), American economist and academic
  • John Blundell (1952–2014), English economist
  • Richard Blundell (born 1952), English economist and econometrician
  • Jean Bodin (1530–1596), French, early proponent of the Quantity Theory of Money
  • Tito Boeri (born 1958), Italian economist, professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan
  • Peter J. Boettke (born 1960), American economist of the Austrian School
  • Michele Boldrin (born 1956), Italian-American economist, expert in economic growth
  • Tim Bollerslev (born 1958), Danish economist
  • Matilde Bombardini (living), Italian Canadian economist in Vancouver
  • Murray Bookchin (1921–2006), American political philosopher
  • Korkut Boratav (born 1935), Turkish, marxist economist
  • George Borjas (born 1950), American, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Michael Boskin (born 1945), American, T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
  • Giovanni Botero (c. 1544–1617), Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat
  • Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993), American economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker
  • Heather Boushey (born 1970), senior economist with the Center for US Progress
  • Samuel Bowles (born 1939), American Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Marcel Boyer (living), Canadian industrial economist
  • David Boyle (born 1958), English historian and economist
  • William Brainard (b. c. 1935), American economist
  • James Brander (born 1953), Canadian economist
  • Avishay Braverman (born 1948), Israeli president of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  • Harry Braverman (1920–1976), American socialist, economist and political writer
  • John Francis Bray (1809–1897), American radical, Chartist, writer on socialist economics
  • Richard A. Brealey (living), English economist and corporate finance expert
  • William Breit (1933–2011), American professor of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
  • George Ignatius Brizan (1942–2012), economics lecturer and later Prime Minister of Grenada
  • Martin Browning (born 1946), English economist, professor of economics at the University of Oxford
  • Markus Brunnermeier (born 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 (born 1937), English economist and central banker
  • Willem Buiter (born 1949), Dutch economist
  • Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944), Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist
  • Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher, known for writing A Vindication of Natural Society

C[]

Thomas Chalmers
Henry Charles Carey
John Bates Clark
Gustav Cassel
John R. Commons
Attilio Celant
Agustín Carstens
Ha-Joon Chang
  • Ricardo J. Caballero (born 1959), Chilean macroeconomist, holds the Ford International chair of economics at MIT
  • Vince Cable (born 1943), English economist
  • Federico Caffè (1914–1987), Italian, economist and Professor of Economic and Financial Policy at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome
  • Phillip D. Cagan (1927–2012), American scholar and author, Professor of Economics Emeritus at Columbia University
  • John Elliot Cairnes (1823–1875), Ireland, "last of the classical economists"
  • Guillermo Calvo (born 1941), Argentine economist
  • John Y. Campbell (born 1958), British/American economist, chairman of the Harvard economics department
  • Colin Camerer (born 1959), American economist
  • Lisa Cameron (born 1967), Australian, Professional Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
  • Stephen Cameron (b. c. 1960), American financial analyst, economist and Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
  • Richard Cantillon (c. 1680–1734), Irish-French, economist and author of Essay on the Nature of Trade in General
  • Edwin Cannan (1861–1935), English economist and historian of economic thought
  • Bryan Caplan (born 1971), American professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
  • David Card (born 1956), Canadian labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Henry Charles Carey (1793–1879), American economist of the American School of Capitalism
  • Mark Carney (born 1965), Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of England
  • Kevin Carson (born 1963), American social and political theorist and scholar of political economy writing in the mutualist and individualist anarchist traditions
  • Richard Carson (born 1955), American environmental economist
  • Agustín Carstens (born 1958), Mexican economist, governor of the Bank of Mexico
  • Anne P. Carter (born 1925), American economist, professor at Brandeis University
  • David Cass (1937–2008), American professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Gustav Cassel (1866–1945), Swedish economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University
  • Attilio Celant (born 1942), Italian economist, Dean of the Faculty of Economics (2002–2011) and Professor of Economic Geography at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome
  • Seweryn Chajtman (1919–2012), Polish scientist, engineer, teacher of the Industrial Management, creator of the Alternative Theory of Organization and Management
  • Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847), Scottish mathematician, political economist and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland
  • Frank J. Chaloupka (b. c. 1962), American professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Edward Hastings Chamberlin (1899–1967), American economist
  • Neil W. Chamberlain (1915–2006), American economist at Yale University and Columbia University most known for work in industrial relations
  • Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007), American professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University
  • Ha-Joon Chang (born 1963), Korean, one of the leading heterodox economists and institutional economists specialising in development economics
  • V. V. Chari (born 1952), Indian/American economist
  • Raj Chetty (born 1979), Indian/American economist
  • Steven N. S. Cheung (born 1935), Chinese economist specializing in transaction costs and property rights
  • Ajay Chhibber (living), Indian economist and politician
  • Graciela Chichilnisky (born 1946), Argentine/American mathematical economist
  • Victoria Chick (born 1936)
  • Josiah Child (1630–1699), English mercantilist, politician and governor of the East India Company
  • Menzie Chinn (born 1961)
  • Lawrence J. Christiano (born 1952), American economist
  • Richard Clarida (born 1957)
  • Colin Clark (1905–1989), British/Australian economist, pioneered the use of the gross national product (GNP)
  • Gregory Clark (born 1957), American economic historian at the University of California, Davis
  • John Bates Clark (1847–1938), American neoclassical marginalist
  • John Maurice Clark (1884–1963), American marginalist
  • William D. Clark (1916–1985), English economist and public servant
  • Ronald Coase (1910–2013), winner of the Swedish central bankers' "Nobel" prize in 1991, for contributions including transaction costs and Coase theorem
  • Warren Coats (born 1942), American economist specializing in monetary policy
  • John H. Cochrane (born 1957), American financial economist and macroeconomist
  • Paul Cockshott (born 1952), Scottish economist and computer scientist
  • Luc Coene (1947–2017), Belgian economist, governor of the National Bank of Belgium
  • Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), French King Louis XIV's Minister of Finances, known for protectionism and dirigisme
  • Paul Collier
  • John R. Commons (1862–1945), American institutional economist and labor historian
  • Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French philosopher, founder of sociology and positivism
  • Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), French enlightenment philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist known for the Condorcet method of voting
  • Tim Congdon (born 1951), English economist and euro-sceptic politician
  • Alfred Haskell Conrad (1924–1970), American Harvard professor of economics
  • Hugh E. Conway (born 1942), American economist and professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces
  • Richard N. Cooper (1934–2020), American economist and policy adviser
  • Russell W. Cooper (born 1955), American macroeconomist
  • Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801–1877), French philosopher and mathematician, influenced the use of mathematics in economics, known for oligopoly theory, Cournot competition is named for him
  • Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), Polish mathematician and economist
  • Carol Corrado (living), American economist
  • Dora L. Costa (born 1964), American economist and academic
  • Christopher Coyne (born 1977), F. A. Harper professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University
  • Tyler Cowen (born 1962), American economist and writer, one of the authors of the Marginal Revolution blog
  • Vincent Crawford (born 1950), American economist and game theorist
  • August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome (1753–1833), German economist and statistician, known particularly for his Producten-Karte von Europa (1782), one of the first uses of cartograms
  • James Crotty (born 1940), American macroeconomist
  • Raymond Crotty (1925–1994), Irish economist and campaigner against Irish membership of the European Union; his 1987 successful legal challenge in the Irish Supreme Court is the basis for EU treaty changes having to be submitted to referendum in Ireland
  • Jakša Cvitanić (born 1962), Croatian/American economist, professor at Caltech

D[]

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

E[]

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

F[]

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

G[]

Charles Gide
Henry George
John Kenneth Galbraith
Edward Glaeser
Ian Goldin
  • Xavier Gabaix (born 1971), French/American economist
  • Yegor Gaidar (1956–2009), Soviet/Russian economist and politician
  • James Kenneth Galbraith (born 1952), American economist and academic
  • John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Canadian/American economist and politician
  • David Gale (1921–2008), American mathematician and economist
  • William G. Gale (born 1959), American economist and politician
  • Jordi Galí (born 1961), Spanish macroeconomist
  • A. Ronald Gallant (born 1942), American econometrician
  • Mauro Gallegati (born 1958), Italian economist and scholar
  • Oded Galor (born 1953), Israeli/American economist and academic
  • Francisco Javier Carrillo Gamboa (living), Mexican knowledge-systems researcher
  • László Garai (born 1935), Hungarian psychologist and economist
  • Gonzalo Garland (born 1959), Peruvian economist and researcher
  • Pierangelo Garegnani (1930–2011), Italian economist and academic
  • Norton Garfinkle (born 1931), American economist and economic historian
  • Vusal Gasimli (born 1975), Azerbaijani economist and academic
  • Leonid Gatovsky (born 1889, date of death unknown), Russian/Soviet economist
  • John Geanakoplos (born 1955), American economist and academic
  • Jacques Généreux (born 1956), French economist and politician
  • Henry George (1839–1897), American political economist
  • Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906–1994), Romanian statistician and economist
  • Mark Gertler (born 1951), American economist and academic
  • Silvio Gesell (1862–1930), German economist and politician
  • Jayati Ghosh (born 1955), Indian development economist
  • Eric Ghysels (born 1956), Belgian economist and econometrician
  • Francesco Giavazzi (born 1949), Italian economist and academic
  • Charles Gide (1847–1932), French economist and economic historian
  • George Gilder (born 1939), American economist and investor
  • Richard T. Gill (1927–2010), American economist and opera singer
  • Victor Ginsburgh (born 1939), Belgian economist
  • Herbert Gintis (born 1940), American economist and behavioral scientist
  • Edward Glaeser (born 1967), American economist and academic
  • William Godwin (1756–1836), English economist and writer
  • Claudia Goldin (born 1946), American economist and government official
  • Ian Goldin (living), South African/British economist and program director
  • Jose Antonio Gomariz (1919–2005), Argentine economist and educator
  • Charles Goodhart (born 1936), British economist and academic
  • George Goodman (aka "Adam Smith", 1930–2014), American economist and broadcaster
  • Austan Goolsbee (born 1969), American economist
  • Myron J. Gordon (1920–2010), American/Canadian economist and academic
  • Robert J. Gordon (born 1940), American economist
  • Gary Gorton (b. c. 1951), American economist and finance educator
  • Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858), German economist
  • Christian Gouriéroux (born 1959), French econometrician
  • Benjamin Graham (1894–1976), British/American economist and investor
  • Phil Gramm (born 1942), American economist and politician
  • Clive Granger (1934–2009), Welsh/American econometrician
  • George Grantham (born 1941), American economist and academic
  • Alan Greenspan (born 1926), American economist and finance official
  • Thomas Gresham (c. 1519–1579), English merchant and financier
  • Stephany Griffith-Jones (born 1947), British/American economist
  • Zvi Griliches (1930–1999), Lithuanian/American economist
  • Elgin Groseclose (1899–1983), American economist and statesman
  • Gene Grossman (born 1955), American economist and academic
  • Henryk Grossman (1881–1950), Polish/German economist and revolutionary
  • Jonathan Gruber (born 1965), American economist and academic
  • Rebeca Grynspan (born 1955), Costa Rican economist
  • Gu Zhun (顾准, 1915–1974), Chinese economist and post-Marxist
  • Dominique Guellec (living), French economist and official
  • Maria-Carmen Guisan (living), Spanish economist
  • Faruk Gül (living), Turkish/American economist and academic

H[]

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

I[]

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

J[]

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

K[]

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

L[]

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

M[]

Thomas Malthus
John Stuart Mill
Alfred Marshall
Karl Marx
Ludwig von Mises
Gunnar Myrdal
Roger Myerson
Dale Mortensen
Xavier Sala i Martin
Dambisa Moyo
  • Donald MacDougall (1912–2004), Scottish economist
  • Mark J. Machina (born 1954), American economist
  • Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías (born 1955), Mexican academician and economist
  • Henry Dunning Macleod (1821–1902), Scottish economist
  • Adil Abdul-Mahdi (born 1942), Iraqi economist and vice-president
  • Edmond Malinvaud (1923–2015), French economist
  • Burton Malkiel (born 1932), American economist and writer on finance
  • Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), English political economist and demographer
  • Gerard de Malynes (fl. 1585–1627), English foreign trader and government advisor
  • N. Gregory Mankiw (born 1958), American macroeconomist
  • Henry Manne (1928–2015), American economist and academic
  • Alan Manning (born 1960), English economist and academic
  • Edwin Mansfield (1930–1997), American economist and academic
  • Charles Manski (born 1948), American professor of economics
  • Mao Yushi (茅于轼;, born 1929), Chinese economist
  • Harry Markowitz (born 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 (born 1953), American economist and hedge-fund manager
  • Xavier Sala i Martin (born 1962), Spanish-American economist
  • Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English social theorist
  • Karl Marx (1818–1883), German founder of Marxian economics
  • Eric Maskin (born 1950), American economist and Nobel laureate
  • Jason Gaverick Matheny (living), American expert on artificial intelligence
  • Paul Mattick (1904–1981), German social revolutionary
  • Richard Maybury (born 1946), American educational economist
  • C. M. Mayo (living), American economist and writer
  • Preston McAfee (born 1956), American managerial economist
  • Bennett McCallum (born 1935), American monetary economist
  • Rachel McCleary (living), American economist
  • Deirdre McCloskey (born 1942), American economist and academic
  • John Ramsey McCulloch (1789–1864), Scottish political economist
  • Paul McCulley (born 1957), American economist and business executive
  • James McDonald (b. c. 1942), American econometrician
  • Daniel McFadden (born 1937), American econometrician
  • Richard McKelvey (1944–2002), American political scientist
  • Lionel W. McKenzie (1919–2010), American economist
  • Warwick McKibbin (born 1957), Australian economist and academic
  • David McWilliams (born 1966), Irish economist and writer
  • James Meade (1907–1995), English economist and Nobel laureate
  • Gardiner Means (1896–1988), American economist
  • J. K. Mehta (1901–1980), Indian economist
  • Marc Melitz (born 1968), American economist
  • Leslie Melville (1902–2002), Australian economist and public servant
  • Carl Menger (1840–1921), Austrian economist
  • Karl Menger (1902–1985), Austrian/American mathematician
  • Stanislav Menshikov (1927–2014), Soviet/Russian economist
  • Robert C. Merton (born 1944), American economist and Nobel laureate
  • Albert J. Meyer (1919–1983), American economist
  • John R. Meyer (1927–2009), American transport economist
  • Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk (1893–1938), Soviet planning official
  • Leo Michelis (living), Greek/Canadian economist
  • Javier Milei (born 1970), Argentinian libertarian economist
  • David Miles (born 1959), Welsh/English economist
  • Murray Milgate (born 1950), Australian/British economist
  • Paul Milgrom (born 1948), American economist
  • John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), English philosopher and political economist
  • Merton Miller (1923–2000), American economist and Nobel laureate
  • Jacob Mincer (1922–2006), American labor economist
  • Hyman Minsky (1919–1996), American economist and academic
  • James Mirrlees (1936–2018), Scottish/American economist and Nobel laureate
  • Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), Austrian economist and sociologist
  • Frederic Mishkin (born 1951), American economist and academic
  • Baidyanath Misra (20th c.), Indian economist and administrator
  • Wesley Mitchell (1874–1948), American economist
  • Alfred Mitchell-Innes (1864–1950), English economist and diplomat
  • Franco Modigliani (1918–2003), Italian/American economist and Nobel laureate
  • Robert Moffit (living), American economist and government official
  • Herbert Mohring (1928–2012), American transportation economist
  • Joel Mokyr (born 1946), Dutch/American economic historian
  • Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912), Belgian political economist
  • Solita Monsod (born 1940), Philippines economist and writer
  • John Hardman Moore (born 1954), English economic theorist
  • Jonathan Morduch (born 1963), American economist and public service expert
  • Michio Morishima (1923–2004), Japanese economist
  • Stephen Morris (living), American game theorist
  • Dale Mortensen (1939–2014), American economist and Nobel laureate
  • Warren Mosler (born 1949), American economist and hedge-fund manager
  • David C. Mowery (living), American economist
  • Dambisa Moyo (born 1969), Zambian economist
  • Anu Muhammad (born 1956), Bangladeshi economist
  • Sendhil Mullainathan (b. c. 1973), Indian/American economist and academic
  • Thomas Mun (1571–1641), English writer on economics
  • Mohan Munasinghe (living), Sri Lankan economist and physicist
  • Robert Mundell (1932–2021), Canadian economist and academic
  • Karthik Muralidharan (born 1975), Indian/American economist
  • Richard Murnane (born 1945), American economist
  • Kevin J. Murphy (born 1957), American finance academic
  • Kevin M. Murphy (born 1958), American economist
  • Robert P. Murphy (born 1976), American economist
  • Richard Musgrave (1910–2007), American economist and public finance theorist
  • Michael Mussa (1944–2012), American economist and academic
  • John Muth (1930–2005), American economist
  • Bingu wa Mutharika (1934–2012), Malawi economist and politician
  • Stewart Myers (born 1940), American financial economist
  • Roger Myerson (born 1951), American economist and academic
  • Alva Myrdal (1902–1986), Swedish sociologist and Nobel laureate
  • Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Swedish economist and sociologist

N[]

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

O[]

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

P[]

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

Q[]

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

R[]

David Ricardo
Joan Robinson
Murray Rothbard
Christina Romer
Matthew Rabin
  • Matthew Rabin (born 1963), American behavioral economist
  • Roy Radner (born 1927), American micro-economist
  • John Rae (1796–1872), Scottish/Canadian economist
  • Richard W. Rahn (born 1942), American economist
  • Raghuram Rajan (born 1963), Indian economist
  • Mihir Rakshit (born 1936), Indian economist
  • Rogelio Ramírez de la O (living), Mexican economist
  • Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930), English mathematician and economist
  • Ajit Ranade (living), Indian economist and political analyst
  • Leonard Rapping (1934–1991), American economist and government adviser
  • Martin Ravallion (born 1952), Australian economist
  • Debra Ray (born 1957), Indian/American development economist
  • Daniel Raymond (1786–1849), American political economist
  • Ralph Recto (born 1964), Philippines economist and politician
  • Robert Reich (born 1946), American economist and commentator
  • Carmen Reinhart (born 1955), Cuban/American economist and academic
  • Ricardo Reis (born 1988), Portuguese/British economist
  • George Reisman (born 1937), American economist and academic
  • Philip J. Reny (living), Canadian/American economist
  • David Ricardo (1772–1823), English political economist
  • Frank-Jürgen Richter, German economist and entrepreneur
  • Jeremy Rifkin (born 1945), American economist and social theorist
  • Alice Rivlin (1931–2019), American economist and budget official
  • Lionel Robbins (1898–1984), English economist
  • Donald John Roberts (born 1945), Canadian/American economist
  • Paul Craig Roberts (born 1939), American economist
  • Russ Roberts (born 1954), American economist and broadcaster
  • Denis Robertson (1890–1963), English economist and academic
  • Abraham Robinson (1918–1974), German/American mathematician
  • Austin Robinson (1897–1993), English economist and academic
  • Joan Robinson (1903–1983), English economist
  • Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805–1875), German economist and political theorist
  • Dani Rodrik (born 1957), Turkish/American economist
  • John Roemer (born 1945), American economist and political scientist
  • Kenneth Rogoff (born 1953), American economist
  • Gérard Roland (born 1954), Belgian economist
  • Eric Roll (1907–2005), Austro-Hungarian/English economist and public servant
  • Richard Roll (born 1939), American economist and finance expert
  • Christina Romer (born 1958), American economist and policy adviser
  • David Romer (born 1958), American economist and academic
  • Paul Romer (born 1955), American economist and business academic
  • Raymond de Roover (1904–1972), Belgian/American economic historian
  • Harvey S. Rosen (born 1949), American economist and public-finance adviser
  • Henry Rosovsky (born 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 (born 1951), American economist and academic
  • Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), American economist and political theorist
  • Nouriel Roubini (born 1958), American economist
  • Cecilia Rouse (born 1963), American economist and first African American chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
  • Ariel Rubinstein (born 1951), Israeli economist
  • Isaak Russman (1938–2005), Soviet/Russian economist and mathematician
  • John Rust (born 1955), American economist and econometrician
  • Justinian Rweyemamu (1942–1982), Tanzanian economist and political strategist
  • Tadeusz Rybczynski (1923–1998), Polish/English economist

S[]

Jean-Baptiste Say
Thomas J. Sargent
Adam Smith
Joseph Schumpeter
Anna Schwartz
Paul Samuelson
Robert Solow
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Michael Spence
Mark Skousen
Hans-Werner Sinn
Robert Shiller
Lawrence Summers
D. Shina
  • Fabrizio Saccomanni (1942–2019), Italian economist and central banker
  • Alexander Sachs (1893–1973), American economist and financier
  • Jeffrey Sachs (born 1954), American development economist
  • Emmanuel Saez (born 1972), French/American economist, known for work on taxation and inequality
  • Claudia Sahm (living), American macroeconomist
  • Gilles Saint-Paul (born 1963), French economist
  • Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French political and economic theorist
  • António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970), Portuguese dictator and economist, Prime Minister of Portugal 1932–1968
  • Lise Salvas-Bronsard (1940–1995), Canadian economist and writer
  • Arthur Salz (1881–1963), German economist and sociologist
  • Paul Samuelson, American economist and Nobel laureate
  • Chris William Sanchirico (living), American tax law expert
  • José Santana (born 1962), Dominican economist
  • Diego Abad de Santillán (1897–1983), Spanish/Argentinian economist, author and anarcho-syndicalist activist
  • Juan Manuel Santos (born 1951), Colombian politician, economist and journalist, President of Colombia 2010–2018
  • 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 (born 1948), Brazilian/American economist
  • Thomas Schelling (1921–2016), American game theorist and Nobel laureate
  • Peter Schiff (born 1963), American stockbroker and financial commentator
  • Christoph M. Schmidt (born 1962), German economist
  • Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), German finance expert and politician
  • John Schmitt (born 1962), American economist
  • Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917), German economist of the historical school
  • Myron Scholes (born 1941), Canadian-American financial economist
  • Stephan Schulmeister (born 1947), Austrian jurist and economist
  • Theodore Schultz (1902–1998), American economist
  • Ernst Schumacher (1911–1977), German/British statistician and economist
  • Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian political economist
  • Anna Schwartz (1915–2012), American monetarist economist
  • Tibor Scitovsky (1910–2002), Hungarian/American economist
  • Molly Scott Cato (born 1963), English green economist and politician
  • Jules Sedney (1922–2020), Surinam economist and prime minister
  • L. William Seidman (1921–2009), American economist and commentator
  • Arthur Seldon (1916–2005), English economist
  • Edwin R. A. Seligman (1861–1939), American economist
  • Reinhard Selten (1930–2016), German economist and Nobel laureate
  • Amartya Sen (born 1933), Indian economist, philosopher and Nobel laureate
  • Hans Sennholz (1922–2007), German/American economist and author
  • Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), English lawyer and economist
  • Andrew Sentance (born 1958), English business economist
  • Brad Setser (living), American economist and government official
  • Ernest Seyd (1830–1881), German/British banker and economist
  • G. L. S. Shackle (1903–1992), English economist
  • Anwar Shaikh (born 1945, Pakistani/American economist
  • David Shapiro (born 1946), American economist
  • Lloyd Shapley (1923–2016), American game theorist and Nobel laureate
  • William F. Sharpe (born 1934), American economist and Nobel laureate
  • Neil Shephard (born 1964), English econometrician
  • Shouyong Shi (born 1965), Canadian macroeconomist
  • Robert Shiller (born 1946), American economist and Nobel laureate
  • Gary Shilling (living), American financial analyst and commentator
  • Robert Shimer (born 1968), American macroeconomist and labor economist
  • Hyun-Song Shin (신현송, living), S Korean economic theorist and financial economist
  • Yongcheol Shin (born 1960), S Korea/British economist
  • Masaaki Shirakawa (白川方明, born 1949), Japanese economist and central banker
  • Andrei Shleifer (born 1961), Soviet/American economist and academic
  • Artyom Shneyerov (living), Canadian microeconomist
  • Martin Shubik (1926–2018), American economist
  • Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqui (born 1939), Indian/Jeddah economist and writer
  • Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), English utilitarian philosopher and economist
  • Miguel Sidrauski (1939–1968), Argentine economist
  • Ota Šik (1919–2004), Czechoslovak/Czech economist and politician
  • Aníbal Cavaco Silva (born 1939), Portuguese economist and president
  • Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), American economist and political scientist
  • Julian Lincoln Simon (1932–1998), American business administration academic
  • Christopher A. Sims (born 1942), American econometrician and macroeconomist
  • Hans Singer (1910–2006), German/British development economist
  • Kurt Singer (1886–1962), German economist and philosopher
  • Manmohan Singh (born 1932), Indian economist and politician
  • Hans-Werner Sinn (born 1948), German economist and government adviser
  • Mark Skousen (born 1947), American economist and writer
  • Margaret Slade (living), Canadian industrial economist
  • Andrzej Sławiński (born 1951), Polish economist and academic
  • Joel Slemrod (born 1951), American economist and academic
  • Eugen Slutsky (1880–1948), Russian/Soviet statistician and economist
  • Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist, philosopher and moral philosopher
  • Alasdair Smith (born 1949), Scottish/English economist and academic
  • Thomas Smith (1631–1699), English banker
  • Vernon L. Smith (born 1927), American economist and lawyer
  • Dennis Snower (born 1950), Austrian/American macroeconomist
  • Robert Solow (born 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 (1940–2021), American economist and educationist
  • Thomas Sowell (born 1930), American economist and social theorist
  • Michael Spence (born 1943), Canadian/American economist and Nobel laureate
  • Barbara J. Spencer (living), Australian/Canadian economist
  • Gene Sperling (born 1958), American economist and presidential adviser
  • Piero Sraffa (1898–1983), Italian/British economist and academic
  • T. N. Srinivasan (1933–2018), Indian economist
  • Guy Standing (born 1948), English labor economist
  • Ross Starr (born 1945), American economist and academic
  • Richard H. Steckel (born 1944), American heterodox economist
  • Herbert Stein (1916–1999), American economist and presidential adviser
  • Jeremy C. Stein (born 1960), American macroeconomist
  • Nicholas Stern (born 1946), English economist and academic
  • George Stigler (1911–1991), American economist and Nobel laureate
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz (born 1943), American economist and public policy analyst
  • James H. Stock (born 1955), American economist and academic
  • George W. Stocking, Sr. (1892–1975), American economist of industrial organization
  • Nancy Stokey (born 1950), American economist, known for work on economic growth
  • Richard Stone (1913–1991), English economist and Nobel laureate
  • Benjamin Strong (1872–1928), American banker
  • Steve Strongin (born 1958), American investment adviser
  • Stanislav Strumilin (1877–1974), Russian/Soviet economist and statistician
  • Robert Sugden (born 1949), English cognitive and behavioral economist
  • Paul Sultan (1924–2019), Canadian labor economist
  • Lawrence Summers (born 1954), American economist and World Bank vice-president
  • Robert Summers (1922–2012), American economist and academic
  • William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), American social scientist
  • Sun Yefang (孙冶方, 1908–1983), Chinese economist
  • Jomo Kwame Sundaram (born 1952), Malaysian economist and government adviser
  • Arun Sundararajan (living), British/American economist and academic
  • Richard Sutch (1942–2019), American economist and academic
  • Kotaro Suzumura (鈴村興太郎, 1944–2020), Japanese economist and academic
  • Jan Švejnar (born 1952), Czechoslovak/American economist
  • Lars E. O. Svensson (born 1947), Swedish economist and academic
  • Subramanian Swamy (born 1939), Indian politician, economist and statistician
  • Trevor Swan (1918–1989), Australian economist
  • Paul Sweezy (1910–2004), American economist and political activist
  • Syahrir (1945–2008), Indonesian political economist
  • Richard Sylla (living), American economist and museum trustee
  • Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005), Polish economist and politician

T[]

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

U[]

  • Kazuhide Uekusa (植草一秀, born 1960), Japanese economist
  • Hirofumi Uzawa (宇沢弘文, 1928–2014), Japanese economist

V[]

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

W[]

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

X[]

Xenophon of Athens
  • Xenophon (c. 430–354 BCE), Ancient Greek, author of Oeconomicus

Y[]

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

Z[]

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

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