List of Jewish economists
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This list of Jewish economists includes economists who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent.
A–G
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- Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist[1]
- George Akerlof, Nobel Prize (2001)[2]
- Joshua Angrist, Nobel Prize (2021)[3]
- Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize (1972)[2]
- Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize (2005)[2]
- Lord Bauer, economist[4]
- Gary Becker, Nobel Prize (1992)[2]
- Yoram Ben-Porat (died 1992), Israeli economist and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Ben Bernanke, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve[5]
- Jared Bernstein[6]
- Mario Blejer, Argentine economist and former President of the Central Bank of Argentina in 2002.
- Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans[7]
- Arthur Burns, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve[8]
- Otto Eckstein, a key developer of the idea of core inflation
- Richard Ehrenberg, economist[9]
- Martin Feldstein, Harvard Professor; Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Reagan Administration
- Amy Finkelstein, economist, John Bates Clark Medal (2012)[10]
- Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize (1993)[2]
- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize (1976)[2]
- Barry Goldwater, half-Jewish American economist
- Charles Goodhart,[11] Bank of England economist
- Alan Greenspan, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve[12]
H–L
- John Harsanyi, Nobel Prize (1994)[2]
- Henry Hazlitt, half-Jewish Austrian economist [citation needed]*Arnold Heertje, Dutch
- Rudolf Hilferding, Austrian-German marxist economist
- Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel Prize (2007)[2]
- Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, economist: multiplier
- Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize (2002)[2]
- Leonid Kantorovich, Nobel Prize (1975)[2]
- Israel Kirzner,[13] economist (UK-born)
- Lawrence Klein, Nobel Prize (1980)[2]
- János Kornai, Hungarian[12]
- Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize (2008)[14]
- Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize (1971)[2]
- Vladimir Kvint, economist and strategist[12]
- Ludwig Lachmann, economist[15]
- Harold Laski, economist[16]
- Emil Lederer, economist[17]
- Wassily Leontief, Nobel Prize (1973)[2]
- Abba P. Lerner, Russian-born British economist
- Leone Levi, political economist[18]
- Robert Liefmann, economist[19]
- Ephraim Lipson, economic historian[20]
- Adolph Lowe, German[21]
- Rosa Luxemburg, economist, co-founder of the KPD[22]
M–Z
- Stephen Marglin, American
- Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize (1990), John von Neumann Theory Prize (1989)[2]
- Karl Marx, inventor of Marxist economics[23] Karl Marx was ethnically Jewish. His maternal grandfather was a Dutch rabbi, while his paternal line had supplied Trier's rabbis since 1723, a role taken by his grandfather Meier Halevi Marx.
- Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize (2007)[24]
- Robert C. Merton, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1997)
- Paul Milgrom, Nobel Prize (2020)[2]
- Merton Miller, Nobel Prize (1990)[2]
- Hyman Minsky, American
- Frederic Mishkin, American
- Noreena Hertz,[25] economist and activist
- Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School
- Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize (1985)[2]
- Toby Moskowitz, financial economist, Fischer Black Prize (2007)[26]
- Roger Myerson, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2007)
- William Nordhaus, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2018)
- Alexander Nove[27]
- Arthur Melvin Okun, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1968-1969)
- Don Patinkin, Israeli
- Sigbert Prais, economist[28]
- Karl Polanyi, Austrian-Hungarian economist and economic historian
- Roy Radner, American who developed the Radner equilibrium concept
- David Ricardo,[29] economist (converted to Quakerism)
- Alvin E. Roth, Nobel prize (2012)[30]
- Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist, writer, libertarian, and father of anarcho-capitalism
- Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American[31]
- Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize (1970)[2]
- Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize (1997)[32]
- Anna Schwartz, economist who published A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 (1963), which laid a large portion of the blame for the Great Depression at the door of the Federal Reserve System.[33] President of the Western Economic Association International (1988)[34]
- Arthur Seldon,[35] economist
- Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Prize (1978)[2]
- Sir Hans Singer, known for the Prebisch–Singer thesis[36]
- Robert Solow, Nobel Prize (1987)[2]
- Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council (2011-2014)
- Piero Sraffa,[12] Italian economist
- Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1971-1974)
- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize (2001)[2]
- Lawrence Summers, economist, Treasury Secretary, Harvard President, former Chief Economist at the World Bank, John Bates Clark Medal (1993)
- Richard Thaler, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2017)
- Jacob Viner, Canadian economist[37]
- Leo Wolman, American economist.[38]
- Basil Yamey, South African economist[39]
- Janet Yellen, economist, former chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank