1. Thomas Malthus (1766)

Economist

English economist who said The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

2. Johann Heinrich Von-thunen (1783)

Economist

Johann Heinrich Von-thunen is a famous Economist, who was born on June 24, 1783 in Germany. Remembered best for his theory of The Isolated State, this economist and economic geographer...

3. John Commons (1862)

Economist

One of the most noted authorities on labor in the first decades of the 20th century. He helped develop policies like unemployment insurance and did important research into the history...

4. Ludwig von Mises (1881)

Economist

Ludwig von Mises is a famous Economist, who was born on September 29, 1881 in Ukraine. A prominent twentieth-century economic and political philosopher, he is remembered for his association with...

5. W Brian Arthur (1946)

Economist

W Brian Arthur is a famous Economist, who was born on July 21, 1946 in Ireland. Irish economist known for influencing and defining the modern concept of increasing returns. He...

6. Myles Mace (1911)

Economist

Longtime Harvard Business School professor who was one of the founders of the field of entrepreneurship. He published his revolutionary book Directors: Myth and Reality in 1971 after conducting in-depth...

7. Williams Phillips (1914)

Economist

Economist famous for what has come to be known as the "Phillips curve," which describes the relationships between unemployment and inflation. He is also known for having constructed the economics...

8. Herbert A. Simon (1916)

Economist

Herbert A. Simon is a famous Economist, who was born on June 15, 1916 in United States. Nobel Prize-winning economist who formed the theory of satisficing, that posits that humans...

9. Richard Murphy (1958)

Economist

Richard Murphy is a famous Economist, who was born on March 21, 1958 in United Kingdom. British economist known for his work with the Trades Union Congress and Tax Justice...

10. Amartya Sen (1933)

Economist

Eminent Nobel prize-winning economist known for his work with welfare economics, social choice theory, and social justice.

11. Mahbub Ul Haq (1934)

Economist

Mahbub Ul Haq is a famous Economist, who was born on February 24, 1934 in Pakistan. Economist known for his work with game theory and for establishing the Human Development...

12. Tyler Cowen (1962)

Economist

Served as the Holbert C. Harris Chair of economics at George Mason University and co-authored economics blog Marginal Revolution.

13. Luis Abinader (1967)

Economist

Dominican economist and businessman who ran for the Modern Revolutionary Party during the 2016 general elections. He also sat on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants.

14. Simon Johnson (1963)

Economist

Notable for his work with the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, he is also recognized for his...

15. Daniel McFadden (1937)

Economist

Known for his work in the choice modelling sub-field of econometrics, this American scientist was one of two recipients of the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He taught...

16. Talal Abughazaleh (1938)

Economist

Arab economist who was called the Godfather of Arab Accounting.

17. Edward Prescott (1940)

Economist

Nobel-Prize-winning economist who is widely cited on matters of economic policy. He became a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

18. Robert Engle (1942)

Economist

Economist who won a Nobel Memorial Prize in 2003 in the field of Economic Science and also taught at the New York University School of Business.

19. Christina Romer (1958)

Economist

Distinguished professor of economics who served as the Chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.

20. Matt Ridley (1958)

Economist

A British journalist, businessman, politician, and author, he is known for his many popular science books, which include The Red Queen (1994), Genome (1999), and Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience,...

21. Emilio Lozoya Austin (1974)

Economist

Emilio Lozoya Austin is a famous Economist, who was born on December 9, 1974 in Mexico. Mexican politician and economist who is best recognized for having served as the CEO...

22. Sebastián Edwards (1953)

Economist

Professor who served as Chief Economist for the Latin American and Caribbean region of the World Bank.

23. R Mark Isaac (1954)

Economist

R Mark Isaac is a famous Economist, who was born on July 27, 1954 in United States. Notable for his work in the field of microeconomics, this American scholar taught...

24. Jason Furman (1970)

Economist

American economist who was appointed the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers by President Barack Obama in June 2013. He had previously been the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council...

25. Teck-Hua Ho (1961)

Economist

Teck-Hua Ho is the William Halford Jr. Family Professor of Marketing and the Chair of the Marketing Department at the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley....

26. Ardo Hansson (1958)

Economist

Ardo Hillar Hansson is an Estonian economist. Ardo Hansson is currently the Governor of Bank of Estonia. Hansson worked as an economist in the World Bank from 1998 to 2012...

27. Dean Baker (1958)

Economist

Dean Baker is an American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research with Mark Weisbrot. He previously was a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute...

28. Michael Munger (1958)

Economist

Michael Curtis Mike Munger is an economist and a former chair of the political science department at Duke University where he continues to teach political science public policy and economics....

29. Imre Menyhay (1931)

Economist

Imre Menyhay is a Hungarian Austrian economist pedagogue sociologist and economic psychologist. His fields of research are pedagogy economic psychology and economic sociology development.

30. Serge-Christophe Kolm (1932)

Economist

Serge-Christophe Kolm is a French economist. His work in economics and related social science includes his analyses concepts and results in Public Economics and Normative Economics and in other fields...

31. Martina Dalić (1967)

Economist

Martina Dalić is a Croatian economist and finance official who served as Croatia's Minister of Finance the first woman to hold that office having been appointed to the office on...

32. Abel Aganbegyan (1932)

Economist

Abel Gyozevich Aganbegyan is a leading Soviet and Russian economist of Armenian descent a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an honorary doctor of business administration of...

33. Jagdish Bhagwati (1934)

Economist

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati is an India-born naturalized American economist. He is a professor of economics and law at Columbia University. Bhagwati is notable for his researches in international trade and...

34. Roberto de Oliveira Campos (1917)

Economist

Roberto de Oliveira Campos was a Brazilian economist writer diplomat right-wing politician and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He served in a number of capacities including Brazilian ambassador...

35. Peter Thomas Bauer (1915)

Economist

Peter Thomas Bauer Baron Bauer was a development economist. Bauer is best remembered for his opposition to the widely held notion that the most effective manner to help developing countries...

36. Maílson da Nóbrega (1942)

Economist

Maílson Ferreira da Nóbrega is a Brazilian economist. He was Finance minister in José Sarney's administration during a period of hyperinflation in the late 1980s. He is married and has...

37. Gérard Labrune (1943)

Economist

Gérard Labrune is a French syndicalist

38. Richard Grossman (1959)

Economist

Richard Grossman is a famous Economist, who was born on November 28, 1959 in Australia. According to Astrologers, Richard Grossman's zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Richard Grossman (born 1959) is an Australian...

39. Gary H. Stern (1944)

Economist

Gary Hilton Stern is an American economist and banker. On March 16 1985 he took office as the eleventh chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and retired...

40. Alan Blinder (1945)

Economist

Alan Stuart Blinder is an American economist. He serves at Princeton University as the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs in the Economics Department and vice...

41. Michael Reich (1945)

Economist

Michael Reich is a Polish-born economist who primarily focuses on labor economics and political economy. Currently Reich is a professor of economics and director of the Institute for Research on...

42. Thomas G. Osenton (1953)

Economist

Thomas George Osenton nicknamed Tom is an American publisher and author. He was president chief executive officer and publisher of The Sporting News Publishing Company.

43. Francine D. Blau (1946)

Economist

Dee Blau is an American economist and professor of economics at Cornell University. In 2010 Blau was the first woman to receive the prestigious IZA Prize in Labor Economics for...

44. Claudia Goldin (1946)

Economist

Claudia Goldin is an American economist and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Goldin is a director of the Development of the American Economy Program and is a...

45. Abul Barkat (Economist) (1954)

Economist

Abul Barkat PhD is a Bangladeshi renowned Economist Professor Department of Economics Dhaka University. He was the immediate past Chairmen of this department. In addition to his teaching since 2009...

46. Russ Roberts (1954)

Economist

Russell David Russ Roberts is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution well known for communicating economics to non-economists as host of the EconTalk podcast.

47. Thomas DiLorenzo (1954)

Economist

Thomas James DiLorenzo is an American economics professor at Loyola University Maryland Sellinger School of Business. He identifies himself as an adherent of the Austrian School of economics. He is...

48. Manuel Trajtenberg (1950)

Economist

Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg is an Israeli economist chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel. He was appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

49. W. Michael Cox (1950)

Economist

. Michael Cox is an American economist speaker and consultant. An outspoken libertarian he comments on society politics and the benefits of a free market society. Cox is currently the...

50. Faisal Basri (1959)

Economist

sal Basri is an Indonesian economist and politician. He is a faculty member at University of Indonesia specializing in political economics and a member of KPPU Indonesian competition regulator.