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American Economic Association

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1885 to promote economic research.

Official Website:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/

Location:
Nashville, TN

Founding Date:
1885

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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


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