"The most prestigious learned society in the field of economics", founded 1930 in Cleveland, Ohio by Irving Fisher, Ragnar Frisch, and others.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| George A. Akerlof |
Economist |
17-Jun-1940 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Maurice Allais |
Economist |
31-May-1911 |
9-Oct-2010 |
Monopoly pricing and the Allais effect |
| 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 |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 2006-14 |
| Alan S. Blinder |
Economist |
14-Oct-1945 |
|
Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve |
| Dennis W. Carlton |
Economist |
c. 1950 |
|
Economics Professor, University of Chicago |
| Gerard Debreu |
Economist |
4-Jul-1921 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Supply and demand theorist |
| Peter Diamond |
Economist |
29-Apr-1940 |
|
Diamond paradox in economics |
| Robert F. Engle III |
Economist |
10-Nov-1942 |
|
Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity |
| 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 |
| Milton Friedman |
Economist |
31-Jul-1912 |
16-Nov-2006 |
1976 Nobel Prize for Economics |
| 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 |
| Trygve Haavelmo |
Economist |
13-Dec-1911 |
28-Jul-1999 |
Economic forecasting |
| John C. Harsanyi |
Economist |
29-May-1920 |
9-Aug-2000 |
Game theory |
| Jerry A. Hausman |
Economist |
5-May-1946 |
|
Hausman Specification Test |
| James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| 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 |
| Donald P. Jacobs |
Economist |
22-Jun-1927 |
|
Dean of the Kellogg School, 1975-2001 |
| Dale W. Jorgenson |
Economist |
7-May-1933 |
|
Economist at Harvard |
| Paul L. Joskow |
Economist |
c. 1946 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Daniel Kahneman |
Psychologist |
5-Mar-1934 |
|
The psychology of economics |
| Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich |
Mathematician |
19-Jan-1912 |
7-Apr-1986 |
Linear programming |
| John Maynard Keynes |
Economist |
5-Jun-1883 |
21-Apr-1946 |
Father of Keynesian economics |
| Paul Krugman |
Columnist |
28-Feb-1953 |
|
New York Times columnist/economist |
| Finn E. Kydland |
Economist |
Dec-1943 |
|
Dynamic macroeconomics |
| Edward Lazear |
Economist |
1948 |
|
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors |
| 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 |
| Steven Levitt |
Economist |
1968 |
|
Freakonomics |
| Robert Lucas |
Economist |
15-Sep-1937 |
|
Theory of rational expectations |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Fractal mathematician |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Robert C. Merton |
Economist |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Risk management and options |
| Merton H. Miller |
Economist |
16-May-1923 |
3-Jun-2000 |
Modigliani-Miller theorem |
| James A. Mirrlees |
Economist |
5-Jul-1936 |
|
Asymmetric information in economics |
| 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 |
| Roger B. Myerson |
Economist |
29-Mar-1951 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Gunnar Myrdal |
Economist |
6-Dec-1898 |
17-May-1987 |
Monetary Equilibrium |
| John Nash |
Mathematician |
13-Jun-1928 |
23-May-2015 |
Schizophrenic game theorist |
| Joseph P. Newhouse |
Economist |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Rand economist, Harvard professor |
| Øystein Ore |
Mathematician |
7-Oct-1899 |
13-Aug-1968 |
Ring theorist |
| Edmund S. Phelps |
Economist |
26-Jul-1933 |
|
Golden Rules of Economic Growth |
| Christopher Pissarides |
Economist |
c. 1948 |
|
Job creation and destruction |
| Charles Plosser |
Economist |
19-Sep-1948 |
|
President and CEO, Philadelphia Fed |
| Edward C. Prescott |
Economist |
26-Dec-1940 |
|
Dynamic macroeconomics |
| Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
|
Harvard economist |
| Harvey S. Rosen |
Economist |
29-Mar-1949 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05 |
| Stephen A. Ross |
Economist |
c. 1943 |
|
Professor of Financial Economics, MIT |
| Jeffrey Sachs |
Economist |
5-Nov-1954 |
|
The End of Poverty |
| Paul Samuelson |
Economist |
15-May-1915 |
13-Dec-2009 |
Theory of revealed preference |
| Thomas J. Sargent |
Economist |
19-Jul-1943 |
|
Rational expectations theory |
| Richard L. Schmalensee |
Economist |
1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Joseph Schumpeter |
Economist |
8-Feb-1883 |
8-Jan-1950 |
Creative Destruction |
| Amartya Sen |
Economist |
3-Nov-1933 |
|
Poverty and Famines |
| John Shoven |
Economist |
1947 |
|
Stanford economist |
| Christopher A. Sims |
Economist |
21-Oct-1942 |
|
Statistical theory of time series |
| Robert M. Solow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1924 |
|
Theory of economic growth |
| Hugo F. Sonnenschein |
Economist |
1941 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000 |
| A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Joseph Stiglitz |
Economist |
9-Feb-1943 |
|
Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
| Lawrence H. Summers |
Economist |
30-Nov-1954 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 |
| John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| William Vickrey |
Economist |
21-Jun-1914 |
11-Oct-1996 |
Asymmetric information in economics |
| Oliver E. Williamson |
Economist |
27-Sep-1932 |
|
Transaction cost economics |
| Sewall Wright |
Biologist |
21-Dec-1889 |
3-Mar-1988 |
Mathematics of evolution |
