Founded 1885 to promote economic research.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Richard A. Abdoo |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Wisconsin Energy, 1991-2004 |
| H. Gardner Ackley |
Economist |
30-Jun-1915 |
12-Feb-1998 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1968-69 |
| George A. Akerlof |
Economist |
17-Jun-1940 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Benjamin M. Anderson |
Economist |
1-May-1886 |
19-Jan-1949 |
Social Value |
| Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
| Robert J. Aumann |
Economist |
8-Jun-1930 |
|
Game theorist |
| Gary S. Becker |
Economist |
2-Dec-1930 |
3-May-2014 |
Human Capital |
| C. Fred Bergsten |
Economist |
23-Apr-1941 |
|
Institute for International Economics |
| Susan S. Bies |
Business |
5-May-1947 |
|
Former EVP, First Tennessee National Corp |
| Rebecca M. Blank |
Economist |
19-Sep-1955 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1998-99 |
| Alan S. Blinder |
Economist |
14-Oct-1945 |
|
Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve |
| Michael J. Boskin |
Economist |
23-Sep-1945 |
|
Economics Professor at Stanford |
| Kenneth E. Boulding |
Economist |
18-Jan-1910 |
18-Mar-1993 |
The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society |
| Joseph L. Bower |
Business |
21-Sep-1938 |
|
Professor, Harvard Business School |
| David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
| J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr. |
Economist |
8-Jul-1939 |
|
President of the Richmond Fed, 1993-2004 |
| James M. Buchanan |
Economist |
2-Oct-1919 |
9-Jan-2013 |
Public Choice Theory |
| Dennis W. Carlton |
Economist |
c. 1950 |
|
Economics Professor, University of Chicago |
| John Bates Clark |
Economist |
26-Jan-1847 |
21-Mar-1938 |
Philosophy of Wealth |
| Patrick L. Clawson |
Government |
30-Mar-1951 |
|
Washington Institute For Near East Policy |
| Charles Cooley |
Educator |
17-Aug-1864 |
8-May-1929 |
Looking-glass self |
| John Patrick Crecine |
Educator |
22-Aug-1939 |
28-Apr-2008 |
President of Georgia Tech, 1987-94 |
| Joseph S. Davis |
Economist |
5-Nov-1885 |
1975 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-58 |
| Gerard Debreu |
Economist |
4-Jul-1921 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Supply and demand theorist |
| Christopher DeMuth |
Activist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
| Peter Diamond |
Economist |
29-Apr-1940 |
|
Diamond paradox in economics |
| Frank H. Easterbrook |
Judge |
3-Sep-1948 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Richard T. Ely |
Economist |
13-Apr-1854 |
4-Oct-1943 |
Introduction to Political Economy |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| Franklin M. Fisher |
Economist |
13-Dec-1934 |
|
Economist at MIT |
| Irving Fisher |
Economist |
27-Feb-1867 |
29-Apr-1947 |
The Theory of Interest |
| Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
11-Jun-2013 |
Cliometrics |
| Richard Freeman |
Economist |
29-Jun-1943 |
|
Labor economist |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
Economist |
15-Oct-1908 |
29-Apr-2006 |
Modern economics renegade |
| Douglas H. Ginsburg |
Judge |
25-May-1946 |
|
US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit |
| Henry F. Grady |
Economist |
12-Feb-1882 |
14-Sep-1957 |
First US Ambassador to India, 1947-48 |
| Lyle Gramley |
Economist |
14-Jan-1927 |
22-Mar-2015 |
Former Federal Reserve governor |
| Clive W.J. Granger |
Economist |
4-Sep-1934 |
27-May-2009 |
Granger causality |
| Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
| Sanford J. Grossman |
Business |
21-Jul-1953 |
|
CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies |
| Joseph A. Grundfest |
Attorney |
8-Sep-1951 |
|
Stanford law professor |
| Frederick A. Halsey |
Engineer |
12-Jul-1856 |
20-Oct-1935 |
Kept America safe from the metric system |
| Patrick T. Harker |
Educator |
19-Nov-1958 |
|
President, University of Delaware |
| C. Lowell Harriss |
Economist |
2-Aug-1912 |
14-Dec-2009 |
Columbia University Economist |
| John C. Harsanyi |
Economist |
29-May-1920 |
9-Aug-2000 |
Game theory |
| Jerry A. Hausman |
Economist |
5-May-1946 |
|
Hausman Specification Test |
| Robert Heilbroner |
Economist |
24-Mar-1919 |
4-Jan-2005 |
The Worldly Philosophers |
| Walter W. Heller |
Economist |
27-Aug-1915 |
15-Jun-1987 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-64 |
| Hendrik S. Houthakker |
Economist |
31-Dec-1924 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
| Leonid Hurwicz |
Economist |
21-Aug-1917 |
24-Jun-2008 |
Mechanism design theory |
| Douglas A. Irwin |
Economist |
c. 1962 |
|
Free Trade Under Fire |
| Donald P. Jacobs |
Economist |
22-Jun-1927 |
|
Dean of the Kellogg School, 1975-2001 |
| Neil H. Jacoby |
Economist |
19-Sep-1909 |
31-May-1979 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55 |
| Jerry J. Jasinowski |
Business |
4-Jan-1939 |
|
National Association of Manufacturers |
| Dale W. Jorgenson |
Economist |
7-May-1933 |
|
Economist at Harvard |
| Paul L. Joskow |
Economist |
c. 1946 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| David M. Kennedy |
Government |
21-Jul-1905 |
1-May-1996 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1969-71 |
| Charles P. Kindleberger |
Economist |
12-Oct-1910 |
7-Jul-2003 |
The World in Depression |
| Tjalling C. Koopmans |
Economist |
28-Aug-1910 |
26-Feb-1985 |
Linear programming |
| Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
| Simon Kuznets |
Economist |
30-Apr-1901 |
8-Jul-1985 |
National Income and Its Composition |
| Wassily Leontief |
Economist |
5-Aug-1906 |
5-Feb-1999 |
Structure of the American Economy |
| Abba Lerner |
Economist |
28-Oct-1903 |
27-Oct-1982 |
The Economics of Control |
| Richard C. Levin |
Educator |
7-Apr-1947 |
|
President of Yale University |
| Arthur Lewis |
Economist |
23-Jan-1915 |
15-Jun-1991 |
Economics of developing nations |
| Robert Lucas |
Economist |
15-Sep-1937 |
|
Theory of rational expectations |
| Katharine C. Lyall |
Business |
26-Apr-1941 |
|
President of the UW System, 1992-2004 |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| John McCallum |
Politician |
9-Apr-1950 |
|
Canadian MP, Markham--Unionville |
| James C. Miller III |
Economist |
25-Jun-1942 |
|
Conservative economist |
| Merton H. Miller |
Economist |
16-May-1923 |
3-Jun-2000 |
Modigliani-Miller theorem |
| Wesley Clair Mitchell |
Economist |
5-Aug-1874 |
29-Oct-1948 |
Business Cycles |
| Franco Modigliani |
Economist |
18-Jun-1918 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Life-cycle theory |
| Dale Mortensen |
Economist |
2-Feb-1939 |
9-Jan-2014 |
Job creation and destruction |
| Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
| Alicia H. Munnell |
Economist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1996-97 |
| Gunnar Myrdal |
Economist |
6-Dec-1898 |
17-May-1987 |
Monetary Equilibrium |
| Joseph P. Newhouse |
Economist |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Rand economist, Harvard professor |
| Edwin G. Nourse |
Economist |
20-May-1883 |
7-Apr-1974 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49 |
| Robert T. Parry |
Business |
16-May-1939 |
|
President, San Francisco Fed, 1986-2004 |
| Edmund S. Phelps |
Economist |
26-Jul-1933 |
|
Golden Rules of Economic Growth |
| Charles Plosser |
Economist |
19-Sep-1948 |
|
President and CEO, Philadelphia Fed |
| Bill Poole |
Economist |
19-Jun-1937 |
|
President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| Richard Posner |
Judge |
11-Jan-1939 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Edward C. Prescott |
Economist |
26-Dec-1940 |
|
Dynamic macroeconomics |
| John Raisian |
Economist |
c. 1953 |
|
Director, Hoover Institution |
| Donald B. Rice |
Business |
4-Jun-1939 |
|
Secretary of the US Air Force, 1989-93 |
| Alice Rivlin |
Economist |
4-Mar-1931 |
|
Founding director, Congressional Budget Office |
| Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
|
Harvard economist |
| Paul Samuelson |
Economist |
15-May-1915 |
13-Dec-2009 |
Theory of revealed preference |
| Thomas J. Sargent |
Economist |
19-Jul-1943 |
|
Rational expectations theory |
| Thomas C. Schelling |
Economist |
14-Apr-1921 |
|
The Strategy of Conflict |
| Richard L. Schmalensee |
Economist |
1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Myron S. Scholes |
Economist |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
Black-Scholes options pricing model |
| Theodore W. Schultz |
Economist |
30-Apr-1902 |
26-Feb-1998 |
Investment in Human Capital |
| Charles L. Schultze |
Economist |
12-Dec-1924 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1977-81 |
| Joseph Schumpeter |
Economist |
8-Feb-1883 |
8-Jan-1950 |
Creative Destruction |
| Anna J. Schwartz |
Economist |
11-Nov-1915 |
21-Jun-2012 |
A Monetary History of the United States |
| Martha R. Seger |
Government |
17-Feb-1932 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 1984-91 |
| Robert J. Shiller |
Economist |
29-Mar-1946 |
|
Irrational Exuberance |
| Christopher A. Sims |
Economist |
21-Oct-1942 |
|
Statistical theory of time series |
| Vernon L. Smith |
Economist |
1-Jan-1927 |
|
Experimental economics |
| Robert M. Solow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1924 |
|
Theory of economic growth |
| A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| George J. Stigler |
Economist |
17-Jan-1911 |
1-Dec-1991 |
Economic Theory of Regulation |
| Alfred Holt Stone |
Scholar |
16-Oct-1870 |
11-May-1955 |
Studies in the American Race Problem |
| John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Paul H. Todd, Jr. |
Politician |
22-Sep-1921 |
18-Nov-2008 |
Congressman from Michigan, 1965-67 |
| William Vickrey |
Economist |
21-Jun-1914 |
11-Oct-1996 |
Asymmetric information in economics |
| Ignazio Visco |
Economist |
21-Nov-1949 |
|
Governor, Bank of Italy |
| Ludwig von Mises |
Economist |
29-Sep-1881 |
10-Oct-1973 |
Libertarian Economist |
| Francis A. Walker |
Economist |
2-Jul-1840 |
5-Jan-1897 |
The Wages Question |
| Gail R. Wilensky |
Activist |
14-Jun-1943 |
|
Health care official |
| Walter E. Williams |
Economist |
31-Mar-1936 |
|
Conservative economist |
| Oliver E. Williamson |
Economist |
27-Sep-1932 |
|
Transaction cost economics |
| Edwin E. Witte |
Economist |
4-Jan-1887 |
20-May-1960 |
Father of Social Security |
| Janet L. Yellen |
Economist |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
Federal Reserve Chair |
