List of Jewish American economists
From Wikinfo
This is a list of famous Jewish American Economists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans. For other economists, see List of Jewish economists.
- George Akerlof**, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2001)
- Kenneth Arrow**, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Clark Medal (1957), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1972)
- Gary Becker**, economist, Clark Medal (1967), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1992)
- Ben Bernanke*, chairman of the Federal Reserve (2006–present)
- Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans [1]
- Benjamin Jerry Cohen, Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Martin S. Feldstein*, economist, Clark Medal (1977)
- Robert Fogel**, new economic history, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1993)
- Milton Friedman**, monetarist economist, Clark Medal (1951), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1976)
- Alan Greenspan*, former chairman of the Federal Reserve (1987–2006)
- Zvi Griliches*, econometrist, Clark Medal (1965)
- Sanford J. Grossman*, economics of information, Clark Medal (1987)
- John Harsanyi*, game theorist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1994)
- Jerry A. Hausman*, econometrist, Clark Medal (1985)
- Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard Professor and Former Venezuelan Minister
- Robert Heilbroner*, leftist economist
- Leonid Hurwicz*, economist, Nobel Prize (2007)
- Daniel Kahneman**, Nobel Prize (2002)
- Israel Kirzner*, Austrian School economist
- Lawrence Klein**, econometric models, Clark Medal (1959), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1980)
- David M. Kreps*, economist, Clark Medal (1989)
- Paul Krugman*, economist and journalist, Clark Medal (1991)
- Simon Kuznets*, econometrics, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1971)
- Emil Lederer, economist [1]
- Wassily Leontief**, Input-Output method, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1973)
- Steven Levitt*, economist, Clark Medal (2003)
- Harry Markowitz**, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1990)
- Jacob Marschak*, economist
- Robert Merton**, Black-Scholes equation, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1997)
- Merton Miller**, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1990)
- Jacob Mincer*, labor economics
- Ludwig von Mises*, Austrian School economist
- Franco Modigliani**, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1985)
- Oskar Morgenstern, game theorist
- Harvey Pitt, former SEC chairman
- Matthew Rabin*, economist, Clark Medal (2001)
- Russell Roberts, economist, Professor at George Mason University in Virginia, commentator on Morning Edition heard on National Public Radio
- Murray Rothbard*, Austrian School economist
- Jeffrey Sachs*, economic shock therapy
- Paul Samuelson**, economic analysis, Clark Medal (1947), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1970)
- Andrei Shleifer*, economist, Clark Medal (1999)
- Myron Scholes**, Black-Scholes equation, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1997)
- Herbert Simon**, political, social scientist
- Robert Solow**, economic growth, Clark Medal (1961), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1987)
- Joseph Stiglitz**, economist and author, Clark Medal (1979), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2001)
- Lawrence Summers*, economist, Clark Medal (1993)
- Jacob Viner**, economist
See also
References
- ^ JInfo list of economists accessed 17 May 2007
External links
- Jewish winners of the Nobel Prize** are listed in the Jewish Virtual Library
- Starred* names are listed in Jinfo
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