PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

"The most prestigious learned society in the field of economics", founded 1930 in Cleveland, Ohio by Irving Fisher, Ragnar Frisch, and others.

Official Website:
http://www.econometricsociety.org/

Founding Date:
1930

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

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