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This is an alphabetical list (by surname) of notable economists, that is, experts in the social science of economics.

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Edith Abbott, (September 26, 1876 – July 28, 1957) was an American economist, social worker, educator, and author.
Daron Acemoglu, (born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish economist, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal.
Zoltan Acs, professor at George Mason University, a leading advocate of the importance of entrepreneurship for economic development.
Walter Adams, (August 27, 1922 – September 8, 1998), American, economist and college professor, and served as an expert witness before 36 congressional committees.
George Akerlof, (born June 17, 1940), American, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Armen Alchian, (born April 12, 1914), American, emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Alberto Alesina, (born April 29, 1957), Italian political economist, author of many-cited books and articles in major economics journals.
Maurice Allais, (31 May 1911 – 9 October 2010), French economist, and was the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
R. G. D. Allen, CBE, FBA (1906–1983), English economist, mathematician and statistician.
Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner, (March 26, 1874 – March 30, 1930), German, the first woman to become a university lecturer in Germany.
Takeshi Amemiya, (born 29 March 1935), Japanese, an economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece.
Georges Anderla, (March 27, 1921 – April 26, 2005), Czech,was a French economist.
Norman Angell, (26 December 1872 – 7 October 1967) was an English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party.
Thomas Aquinas, (Aquino, 1225 – Fossanova, 7 March 1274), Italian, Dominican priest of the Catholic Church.
Dan Ariely
Aristotle, (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
Kenneth Arrow, (born August 23, 1921), American economist, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, (born April 5, 1947) is a Filipino economist who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010.
Anthony Barnes Atkinson, British, There is an inequality measure named after him: the Atkinson index.
Thomas Attwood, (6 October 1783–9 March 1859), British economist, the leading figure of the underconsumptionist Birmingham School.
David B. Audretsch, (born November 15, 1954), American, highly cited economist.
Leonardo Auernheimer, (1936–2010), Argetina, was an economist, professor, and international monetary consultant.
Robert Aumann, (born June 8, 1930), Israeli-American mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2005.
Clarence Ayres, (May 6, 1891 – July 24, 1972) was the principal thinker in the Texas school of Institutional Economics.

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Nikolai Baibakov, (6 March 1911 – 31 March 2008), Russian, was a Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor.
Dean Baker, (b. July 13, 1958), American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Leszek Balcerowicz, (born January 19, 1947), Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland.
Ludwig Bamberger, (July 22, 1823 – March 14, 1899), German economist, politician and writer.
Abhijit Banerjee, (born 1961), Indian, economist, currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Paul A. Baran, (25 August 1909– 26 March 1964), Russian, American, was the only tenured Marxist economist in the United States until his death in 1964.
William A. Barnett, American, economist work in chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity.
Nicholas Barr, British, economist, currently professor of public economics at the London School of Economics.
Robert Barro, (born September 28, 1944), American classical macroeconomist, presently the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
Enrico Barone, (December 22, 1859 – May 14, 1924), Italian, soldier, military historian, and economist.
Yoram Barzel, Israeli, economist, work in Property Rights, Applied Price Theory, and Political Economy.
Frederic Bastiat, (30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850), French, classical liberal theorist, political economist.
Kaushik Basu, (born 9 January 1952), Indian economist, chief economic adviser to the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi.
Ravi Batra, (born 27 June 1943), American economist, author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Peter Thomas Bauer, (6 November 1915 – 2 May 2002), Hungarian, was a developmental economist.
William Baumol, (born February 26, 1922), American, is a New York University economics professor.
Robert Dudley Baxter, (3 February 1827 – 1875), English economist and statistician.
Michael Baye
Gary Becker, (born December 2, 1930), American economist and a Nobel laureate.
Jeremy Bentham, (15 February 1748 – 6 June 1832), English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer.
Mahamudu Bawumia, (born October 7, 1963), Tamale, was a Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana.
Dwayne Benjamin, (born March 10, 1961), Canadian, economist, the managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics
Barbara Bergmann, (born 1927), American, forerunner in feminist economics with a passion for social policy and equality.
Albert Rex Bergstrom, New Zealand, econometrician recognised for his work in continuous time econometrics.
Adolf Berle, (January 27, 1895 – February 17, 1971), American, lawyer, educator, author, and U.S. diplomat.
Ben Bernanke, (born December 13, 1953), American, economist, Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve.
Jagdish Bhagwati,(born July 26, 1934), Indian, economist and Professor of economics and law at Columbia University.
Mark Bils, (December 1, 1958), macroeconomist at the University of Rochester.
Nancy Birdsall, (born February 6, 1946), American, founding president of the Center for Global Development (CGD).
Kenneth Binmore, CBE (born September 27, 1940), British, well-known economist, and game theorist, professor emeritus of economics at University College, London.
Fischer Black, (January 11, 1938 – August 30, 1995), American economist, best known as one of the authors of the famous Black–Scholes equation.
Olivier Blanchard, (born December 27, 1948), French, currently the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.
Alan Blinder, (born October 14, 1945), American, economist. He serves at Princeton University.
Walter Block, (born 21 August 1941), American, free market economist and anarcho-capitalist.
Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk, (February 12, 1851 – August 27, 1914), Austrian, founder of the Austrian School of economics.
Jean Bodin, (1530–1596), French, early proponent of the Quantity Theory of Money.
Tito Boeri, (born August 3, 1958), is an Italian economist, currently professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan.
Peter J. Boettke, (born January 3, 1960), American, economist of the Austrian School.
Michele Boldrin, (b. August 20, 1956), Italian American, economist, expert in economic growth.
Korkut Boratav, (born 1935), Turkish, is a marxist economist.
George Borjas, (born October 15, 1950), American, at Harvard Kennedy School.
Giovanni Botero, (c.1544–1617), Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat.
Kenneth E. Boulding, (January 18, 1910 – March 18, 1993), American, economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker.
Heather Boushey, (born 1970) is a senior economist with the Center for American Progress.
Samuel Bowles, (born 1939), American, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Harry Braverman, (9 December 1920 – 2 August 1976), American, Socialist, economist and political writer.
John Francis Bray, (1809–1897), American, was a radical, Chartist, writer on socialist economics.
William Breit, professors of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio.
Martin Browning, (born 1946) is an English economist. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford.
James M. Buchanan, (born October 3, 1919), American, known for his work on public choice theory, received the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Sergei Bulgakov, (28 June, 1871 – July 12, 1944) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist.
Bingu wa Mutharika, (born February 24, 1934), Malawi, politician, and the current President of Malawi.

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Ricardo J. Caballero, (born 20 October 1959), Chilean macroeconomist, holds the Ford International chair of economics at MIT.
Phillip D. Cagan, (born 1927), American scholar and author, Professor of Economics Emeritus at Columbia University.
John Elliot Cairnes, (1823-1875), Ireland, "last of the classical economists".
Richard Cantillon, (1680s – May 1734), Irish-French, economist and author of Essay on the Nature of Trade in General.
Edwin Cannan, (1861– 8 April 1935), British, economist and historian of economic thought.
Bryan Caplan, (born 1971) is a professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
David Card, Canadian, labour economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
David Cass, (January 19, 1937 – April 15, 2008), American, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Gustav Cassel,(20 October 1866 – 14 January 1945), Swedish, economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University.
Thomas Chalmers, (17 March 1780 – 31 May 1847), Scottish mathematician, political economist and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland.
Frank J. Chaloupka, American, distinguished professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Winston Chang, Chinese, (May 2, 1941 – February 24, 1996) was a president of Soochow University in Taipei.
Henry Charles Carey, (December 15, 1793 – October 13, 1879), American, 19th century economist of the American School of capitalism.
Edward Hastings Chamberlin, (May 18, 1899 – July 16, 1967) was an American economist.
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., (September 15, 1918 – May 9, 2007), American, professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University
Ha-Joon Chang, Korean, (born 1963) is one of the leading heterodox economists and institutional economists specialising in development economics.
Steven N. S. Cheung, (born December 1, 1935), Chinese, economist, specializes in the fields of transaction costs and property rights.
Josiah Child
Menzie Chinn
Colin Clark
Gregory Clark
John Bates Clark
John Maurice Clark
Ronald Coase
Jean Baptiste Colbert
John R. Commons
Auguste Comte
Marquis de Condorcet
Tim Congdon
Russell W. Cooper
Antoine Augustin Cournot
Christopher Coyne
Tyler Cowen
August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome
Raymond Crotty

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Uri Dadush
Herman E. Daly
Charles Davenant
D.J. Davies
Partha Dasgupta
Paul Davidson
Hernando de Soto
Gérard Debreu
J. Bradford DeLong
Harold Demsetz
Isaac de Pinto
Pat Devine
Armando Di Filippo
Peter Diamond
Peter Dicken
Benjamin Diokno
Avinash Dixit
Simeon Djankov
Maurice Dobb
Evsey Domar
Peter Donaldson
Rudi Dornbusch
Giovanni Dosi
Paul Douglas
Mario Draghi (born September 3, 1947) is an Italian banker and economist who has been governor of the Banca d'Italia since January 16, 2006.
Axel Dreher
Jacques Drèze
Pradeep Dubey
Esther Duflo
Wim Duisenberg
Jules Dupuit

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Daniel Kahneman

John Maynard Keynes

Tjalling Koopmans

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Donald MacDougall
Edmond Malinvaud
Thomas Malthus
Gerard de Malynes
N. Gregory Mankiw
Charles Manski
Harry Markowitz
Karl Marlo
Alfred Marshall
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Harriet Martineau
Karl Marx
Eric Maskin
Richard Maybury
Elizabeth Mays
Deirdre McCloskey
John Ramsey McCulloch
James McDonald
Daniel McFadden
Lionel W. McKenzie
David McWilliams
Gardiner Means
Sir Leslie Melville
Carl Menger
Stanislav Menshikov
Robert C. Merton
Albert J. Meyer
Leo Michelis
David Miles
Murray Milgate
Paul Milgrom
John Stuart Mill
Merton Miller
Jacob Mincer
Hyman Minsky
James Mirrlees
Ludwig von Mises
Wesley Mitchell
Franco Modigliani (June 18, 1918 – September 25, 2003) was an Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.
Ghulam Mohey-ud-din
Herbert Mohring
Gustave de Molinari
Winnie Monsod
Jonathan Morduch
Michio Morishima
Dale Mortensen
Warren Mosler
Anu Muhammad
Thomas Mun
Mohan Munasinghe
Robert Mundell
Richard Murnane
Tim Murray
John Muth
Roger Myerson
Alva Myrdal
Gunnar Myrdal

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Yadav Prasad Pant
Vilfredo Pareto
Manuel V. Pangilinan
Jacques Parizeau
Luigi Pasinetti (born September 12, 1930) is an Italian economist of the Post-Keynesians school.
Prabhat Patnaik
William Paterson
Edith Penrose
Mohammad Hashem Pesaran
Emile Pereire
Carlota Perez
Torsten Persson
Douglas Peters
Sir William Petty
William Phillips
Ernesto Piedras
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Christopher A. Pissarides
Plato
Michael Polanyi
Robert Pollin
Jean-Pierre Ponssard
Arden Pope
Richard Posner
Edward C. Prescott
Steven Pressman
Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
Raúl Prebisch

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W. Allen Wallis
Léon Walras
Carl Walsh
John Glen Wardrop
Beatrice Webb
Sidney Webb
Alfred Weber
Max Weber
Sidney Weintraub
Burton Weisbrod
Mark Weisbrot
Brian Wesbury
Richard Whatley
Edward Lawrence Wheelwright
Knut Wicksell
Philip H Wicksteed
Friedrich von Wieser
Clair Wilcox
Walter E. Williams
Oliver E. Williamson
Ulrich Witt
Martin Wolf
Michael Wolf
Myrna Wooders
Michael Woodford
Holbrook Working
Randall Wright, (born August 4, 1956), Canadian macroeconomist, advanced the fields of monetary economics, labor economics through his role in the development of matching theory.

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Xenophon, (c. 430 – 354 BC), Ancient Greek, author of Oeconomicus

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Janet Yellen, (born August 13, 1946), American economist and professor, who is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Allyn Abbott Young, (1876–1929) was a celebrated American economist.
Alwyn Young, professor of economics and the Leili & Johannes Huth Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Arthur Young, (11 September 1741 – 12 April 1820), English writer on agriculture, economics and social statistics.
Linda Yueh
Muhammad Yunus, (born 28 June 1940), Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank.

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Arnold Zellner, (January 2, 1927 – August 11, 2010), American, economist and statistician specializing in the fields of Bayesian probability and econometrics.

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