List of economists

This is an incomplete alphabetical list by surname of notable economists, experts in the social science of economics, past and present. For a history of economics, see the article History of economic thought. Only economists with biographical articles in Wikipedia are listed here.

A

• 
  Thomas Attwood
• 
  Sir William Ashley
• 
  B. R. Ambedkar
• 
  George Akerlof
• 
  Kenneth Arrow
• 
  Maurice Allais
• 
  Robert Aumann

• Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American economist and social worker
• Daron Acemoglu (born 1967), Turkish/American economist
• Nicola Acocella (born 1939), Italian economist
• Zoltan Acs (born 1947), American economics professor
• Henry Carter Adams (1851–1921), American economist
• Walter Adams (1922–1998), American economist and congressional expert
• Philippe Aghion (born 1956), French economist
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia (born 1943), Indian economist
• Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad (born 1943), Bangladeshi economist and environmentalist
• George Akerlof (born 1940), American economist and shared winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
• Armen Alchian (1914–2013), American economist
• Alberto Alesina (1957–2020), Italian political economist
• Sadie Alexander (1898–1989), American lawyer and first African American to receive a PhD in economics
• Sidney S. Alexander (1916–2005), American economist
• Maurice Allais (1911–2010), French economist and 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• Franklin Allen (born 1956), American economist
• R. G. D. Allen (1906–1983), English economist and statistician
• Gar Alperovitz (born 1936), American political economist and historian
• Lee J. Alston (born 1951), American economist
• Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (1874–1930), German economist, first woman university lecturer in Germany
• Fernando Alvarez, Argentine economist
• B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), Indian economist and jurist
• Takeshi Amemiya (born 1935), Japanese economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece
• Georges Anderla (1921–2005), Czechoslovak-born French economist
• Donald Andrews (born 1955), Canadian economist
• George-Marios Angeletos (born 1975), Greek/American economist
• Norman Angell (1872–1967), English economist and politician
• Joshua Angrist (born 1960), Israeli/American economist
• Kofi Annan (1938–2018), Ghanaian economist and Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Masahiko Aoki (青木昌彦, 1938–2015), Japanese economist
• Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Italian priest and writer on economics
• Luis Arce (born 1963), Bolivian economist and president
• Pérsio Arida (born 1952), Brazilian economist
• Dan Ariely (born 1967), Israeli/American behavioral economist
• Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), German-born Australian economist
• Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017), American economist, joint 1972 winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
• Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (born 1947), Philippine academic and politician
• Enrique R. Arzac (born 1943), Argentine/American economist
• Orley Ashenfelter (born 1942), American economist
• William Ashley (1860–1927), English economic historian
• Cliff Asness (born 1966), American economist and hedge-fund manager
• Jeremy Atack (born 1949), Anglo-American economic historian
• Susan Athey (born 1970), American economist
• Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944–2017), Welsh/English economist
• Orazio Attanasio (born 1959), Italian economist
• Thomas Attwood (1783–1856), English economist
• David B. Audretsch (born 1954), American economist
• Leonardo Auernheimer (1936–2010), Argentine economist and international monetary consultant
• Robert Aumann (born 1930), Israeli/American mathematician and 2005 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
• David Autor (born 1967), American economist, known for work on labor economics
• George Ayittey (1945–2022), Ghanaian economist
• Clarence Ayres (1891–1972), American economist

B

• 
  Ali Babacan
• 
  Mikhail Bakunin
• 
  Frédéric Bastiat
• 
  Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
• 
  Gary Becker
• 
  Fischer Black
• 
  James M. Buchanan
• 
  Ben Bernanke
• 
  Walter Block
• 
  Francine D. Blau
• 
  Olivier Blanchard
• 
  Jean Bodin
• 
  Willem Buiter
• 
  Edmund Burke

• Ali Babacan (born 1967), Turkish economic minister
• Roger Babson (1875–1967), American business theorist
• Lawrence Bacow (born 1951), American economist and university administrator
• Louis Bachelier (1870–1946), French mathematician
• Roger Backhouse (born 1951), English economist
• Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), English journalist, businessman, and essayist; wrote extensively on government, economics and literature
• Nikolai Baibakov (1911–2008), Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor
• Joe S. Bain (1912–1991), American economist, founder of Industrial organization economics
• Dean Baker (born 1958), American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
• E. Wight Bakke (1903–1971), American industrial relations specialist and professor at Yale University
• Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), Russian revolutionary anarchist, socialist, and founder of collectivist anarchism
• Leszek Balcerowicz (born 1947), Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland
• Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American economist and peace activist (1946 Nobel Peace Prize)
• Richard Baldwin (living), American economist
• Sir James Ball (1933–2018), English econometrician, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London Business School and a leading figure in econometric modeling
• Ludwig Bamberger (1823–1899), German economist, politician and writer
• Abhijit Banerjee (born 1961), Indian economist, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Pratima Bansal (living), Canadian economist
• Paul A. Baran (1909–1964), Russian/American, the only tenured Marxist economist in the United States until his death in 1964
• Pranab Bardhan (born 1939), Indian economist, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
• William A. Barnett (born 1941), American economist, works in chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity
• Enrico Barone (1859–1924), Italian soldier, military historian, and economist
• Nicholas Barr (living), English/American economist, professor of public economics at the London School of Economics
• Raymond Barre (1924–2007), French economist and politician
• Robert Barro (born 1944), American macroeconomist, presently the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University
• Yoram Barzel (1931–2022), Israeli economist, works in property rights, applied price theory, and political economy
• Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850), French classical liberal theorist, political economist
• Kaushik Basu (born 1952), Indian economist and academic, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank
• Ratan Lal Basu (born 1948), Indian economist
• Ravi Batra (born 1943), American economist, author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas
• Peter Thomas Bauer (1915–2002), Hungarian developmental economist
• William Baumol (1922–2017), American, New York University economics professor
• Mahamudu Bawumia (born 1963), Ghanaian economist; worked at the Research Department of International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., United States
• Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914), Austrian, founder of the Austrian School of economics
• Robert Dudley Baxter (1827–1875), English economist and statistician
• Michael Baye (born 1958), American business economist
• Charlie Bean (born 1953), English economist and professor at London School of Economics
• Gary Becker (1930–2014), American economist and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• Yoram Ben-Porat (died 1992), Israeli economist and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer
• Dwayne Benjamin (born 1961), Canadian economist, managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics
• Barbara Bergmann (1927–2015), American, forerunner in feminist economics with a passion for social policy and equality
• C. Fred Bergsten (born 1941), American founder of the Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Rex Bergstrom (1925–2005), New Zealand econometrician recognized for his work in continuous time econometrics
• Adolf Berle (1895–1971), American lawyer, educator, author, and US diplomat
• Ben Bernanke (born 1953), American economist, former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• Jared Bernstein (1925–2005), American economist
• Marianne Bertrand (b. c. 1970), Belgian economist
• Tim Besley (born 1960), English academic economist
• William Beveridge (1879–1963), English economist and politician
• Truman Bewley (born 1941), American mathematician and economist
• Jagdish Bhagwati (born 1934), Indian economist and professor of economics and law at Columbia University
• Debapriya Bhattacharya (living), Bangladeshi economist and policy analyst
• Mark Bils (born 1958), macroeconomist at the University of Rochester
• Nancy Birdsall (born 1946), American founding president of the Center for Global Development
• Kenneth Binmore (born 1940), English economist and game theorist, professor emeritus of economics at University College, London
• Mette Koefoed Bjørnsen (1920–2008), Danish economist at the Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College
• William K. Black (born 1951), American professor of economics at UMKC
• Fischer Black (1938–1995), American economist, best known as one author of the famous Black–Scholes equation
• William Blake (1774–1852), English classical economist
• Olivier Blanchard (born 1948), French, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund
• Rebecca Blank (born 1955), American economist and politician
• Francine D. Blau (born 1946), American economist and academic
• Knut Blind (born 1965), German innovation economist
• Alan Blinder (born 1945), American economist, serves at Princeton University
• Walter Block (born 1941), American free market economist and anarcho-capitalist
• Barry Bluestone (born 1944), American economist and academic
• John Blundell (1952–2014), English economist
• Richard Blundell (born 1952), English economist and econometrician
• Jean Bodin (1530–1596), French, early proponent of the Quantity Theory of Money
• Tito Boeri (born 1958), Italian economist, professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan
• Peter J. Boettke (born 1960), American economist of the Austrian School
• Michele Boldrin (born 1956), Italian-American economist, expert in economic growth
• Tim Bollerslev (born 1958), Danish economist
• Matilde Bombardini (living), Italian Canadian economist in Vancouver
• Murray Bookchin (1921–2006), American political philosopher
• Korkut Boratav (born 1935), Turkish, marxist economist
• George Borjas (born 1950), American, Harvard Kennedy School
• Michael Boskin (born 1945), American, T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
• Giovanni Botero (c. 1544–1617), Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat
• O. Fred Boucke (1881–1935), American economist
• Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993), American economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker
• Heather Boushey (born 1970), senior economist with the Center for US Progress
• Samuel Bowles (born 1939), American Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
• David Boyle (born 1958), English historian and economist
• William Brainard (b. c. 1935), American economist
• James Brander (born 1953), Canadian economist
• Avishay Braverman (born 1948), Israeli president of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Harry Braverman (1920–1976), American socialist, economist and political writer
• John Francis Bray (1809–1897), American radical, Chartist, writer on socialist economics
• Richard A. Brealey (living), English economist and corporate finance expert
• William Breit (1933–2011), American professor of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
• George Ignatius Brizan (1942–2012), economics lecturer and later Prime Minister of Grenada
• Martin Browning (born 1946), English economist, professor of economics at the University of Oxford
• Sylvie Brunel (born 1960), French economist
• Markus Brunnermeier (born 1969), German/American economist
• Michael Bruno (1932–1996), Israeli economist, governor of the Bank of Israel, World Bank Chief Economist
• Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962), American economist known for work on productivity and the economics of AI
• James M. Buchanan (1919–2013), American economist known for work on public choice theory, received the Swedish central bankers' "Nobel" prize in 1986
• Alan Budd (born 1937), English economist and central banker
• Willem Buiter (born 1949), Dutch economist
• Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944), Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist
• Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher, known for writing A Vindication of Natural Society

C

• 
  Agustín Carstens
• 
  Ha-Joon Chang
• 
  Thomas Chalmers
• 
  Henry Charles Carey
• 
  John Bates Clark
• 
  Gustav Cassel
• 
  John R. Commons

• Ricardo J. Caballero (born 1959), Chilean macroeconomist, holds the Ford International chair of economics at MIT
• Vince Cable (born 1943), English economist
• Federico Caffè (1914–1987), Italian, economist and Professor of Economic and Financial Policy at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome
• Phillip D. Cagan (1927–2012), American scholar and author, Professor of Economics Emeritus at Columbia University
• John Elliot Cairnes (1823–1875), Ireland, "last of the classical economists"
• Guillermo Calvo (born 1941), Argentine economist
• John Y. Campbell (born 1958), British/American economist, chairman of the Harvard economics department
• Colin Camerer (born 1959), American economist
• Lisa Cameron (born 1967), Australian, Professional Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
• Stephen Cameron (b. c. 1960), American financial analyst, economist and Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
• Richard Cantillon (c. 1680–1734), Irish-French, economist and author of Essay on the Nature of Trade in General
• Edwin Cannan (1861–1935), English economist and historian of economic thought
• Bryan Caplan (born 1971), American professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
• David Card (born 1956), Canadian labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
• Matias D. Cattaneo (born 1978), Argentine economist and professor at Princeton University
• Henry Charles Carey (1793–1879), American economist of the American School of Capitalism
• Mark Carney (born 1965), Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of England
• Kevin Carson (born 1963), American social and political theorist and scholar of political economy writing in the mutualist and individualist anarchist traditions
• Richard Carson (born 1955), American environmental economist
• Agustín Carstens (born 1958), Mexican economist, governor of the Bank of Mexico
• Anne P. Carter (born 1925), American economist, professor at Brandeis University
• David Cass (1937–2008), American professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania
• Gustav Cassel (1866–1945), Swedish economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University
• Attilio Celant (born 1942), Italian economist, Dean of the Faculty of Economics (2002–2011) and Professor of Economic Geography at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome
• Seweryn Chajtman (1919–2012), Polish scientist, engineer, teacher of the Industrial Management, creator of the Alternative Theory of Organization and Management
• Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847), Scottish mathematician, political economist and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland
• Frank J. Chaloupka (b. c. 1962), American professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
• Edward Hastings Chamberlin (1899–1967), American economist
• Neil W. Chamberlain (1915–2006), American economist at Yale University and Columbia University most known for work in industrial relations
• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007), American professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University
• Ha-Joon Chang (born 1963), Korean, one of the leading heterodox economists and institutional economists specialising in development economics
• V. V. Chari (born 1952), Indian/American economist
• Raj Chetty (born 1979), Indian/American economist
• Steven N. S. Cheung (born 1935), Chinese economist specializing in transaction costs and property rights
• Ajay Chhibber (living), Indian economist and politician
• Graciela Chichilnisky (born 1946), Argentine/American mathematical economist
• Victoria Chick (born 1936)
• Josiah Child (1630–1699), English mercantilist, politician and governor of the East India Company
• Menzie Chinn (born 1961)
• Lawrence J. Christiano (born 1952), American economist
• Richard Clarida (born 1957)
• Colin Clark (1905–1989), British/Australian economist, pioneered the use of the gross national product (GNP)
• Gregory Clark (born 1957), American economic historian at the University of California, Davis
• John Bates Clark (1847–1938), American neoclassical marginalist
• John Maurice Clark (1884–1963), American marginalist
• William D. Clark (1916–1985), English economist and public servant
• Michael Clemens (born 1972), American economist
• Ronald Coase (1910–2013), winner of the Swedish central bankers' "Nobel" prize in 1991, for contributions including transaction costs and Coase theorem
• Warren Coats (born 1942), American economist specializing in monetary policy
• John H. Cochrane (born 1957), American financial economist and macroeconomist
• Paul Cockshott (born 1952), Scottish economist and computer scientist
• Luc Coene (1947–2017), Belgian economist, governor of the National Bank of Belgium
• Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), French King Louis XIV's Minister of Finances, known for protectionism and dirigisme
• Paul Collier
• John R. Commons (1862–1945), American institutional economist and labor historian
• Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French philosopher, founder of sociology and positivism
• Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), French enlightenment philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist known for the Condorcet method of voting
• Tim Congdon (born 1951), English economist and euro-sceptic politician
• Alfred Haskell Conrad (1924–1970), American Harvard professor of economics
• Hugh E. Conway (born 1942), American economist and professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces
• Thomas F. Cooley (1943–2021), American economist
• Richard N. Cooper (1934–2020), American economist and policy adviser
• Russell W. Cooper (born 1955), American macroeconomist
• Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801–1877), French philosopher and mathematician, influenced the use of mathematics in economics, known for oligopoly theory, Cournot competition is named for him
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), Polish mathematician and economist
• Carol Corrado (living), American economist
• Dora L. Costa (born 1964), American economist and academic
• Christopher Coyne (born 1977), F. A. Harper professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University
• Tyler Cowen (born 1962), American economist and writer, one of the authors of the Marginal Revolution blog
• Vincent Crawford (born 1950), American economist and game theorist
• August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome (1753–1833), German economist and statistician, known particularly for his Producten-Karte von Europa (1782), one of the first uses of cartograms
• James Crotty (born 1940), American macroeconomist
• Raymond Crotty (1925–1994), Irish economist and campaigner against Irish membership of the European Union; his 1987 successful legal challenge in the Irish Supreme Court is the basis for EU treaty changes having to be submitted to referendum in Ireland
• Benoit Crutzen (born 1972), Belgian economist and assistant university professor
• Jakša Cvitanić (born 1962), Croatian/American economist, professor at Caltech

D

• 
  Gérard Debreu
• 
  Harold Demsetz
• 
  Partha Dasgupta
• 
  Huw Dixon
• 
  Avinash Dixit
• 
  J. Bradford DeLong

• Uri Dadush (living), French scholar in Washington DC
• Hugh Dalton (1887–1962), Welsh/English economist and politician
• Herman Daly (born 1938), American "father" of ecological economics
• George Dantzig (1914–2005), American mathematical scientist
• William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. (born 1953), American economist and researcher
• Partha Dasgupta (born 1942), Bangladeshi/British development economist
• Charles Davenant (1656–1714), English mercantilist and politician
• Paul Davidson (born 1930), American macroeconomist
• Antony Davies (born 1965), American economist and author
• D. J. Davies (1893–1956), Welsh economist and author
• Lance E. Davis (1928–2014), American social science professor
• Angus Deaton (born 1945), Scottish-American economist and academic
• Gérard Debreu (1921–2004), French-American economist and mathematician
• Rajeev Dehejia (born 1973), American professor of public policy
• J. Bradford DeLong (born 1960), American economic historian
• Harold Demsetz (1930–2019), American professor of economics
• Isaac de Pinto (1717–1787), Dutch banker and scholar
• Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai (born 1940), Indian/British economist and Labour Party politician
• Hernando de Soto Polar (born 1941), Peruvian economist of the informal economy
• Pat Devine (living), English industrial economist
• Mathias Dewatripont (born 1959), Belgian economist and professor
• Armando Di Filippo (living), Argentine economist and academic
• Douglas Diamond (born 1953), American finance expert
• Peter Diamond (born 1940), American social security expert
• Gladys Dickason (1903–1971), American labor economist
• Peter Dicken (born 1938), English economic geographer
• Benjamin Diokno (born 1948), Philippine central banker
• Avinash Dixit (born 1944), Indian/American economist
• Huw Dixon (born 1958), Welsh economist and academic
• Peter Dixon (born 1946), Australian economist and academic
• Simeon Djankov (born 1970), Bulgarian economist and politician
• Maurice Dobb (1900–1976), English Marxist economist
• David Dodd (1895–1988), American financial analyst
• Randall Dodd (living), American policy regulator
• Jennifer Doleac (living), American economist
• Evsey Domar (1914–1997), Soviet/American economist
• Paul Donovan (born 1972), British economist
• Stephen J. Dubner (born 1963), American economics author and broadcaster
• Henda Ducados (born 1964), French/Angolan economist
• Esther Duflo (born 1972), French/American economist
• Steven N. Durlauf (born 1958), American economist and social scientist
• Philip H. Dybvig (born 1955), American economist and professor at Olin Business School

E

• 
  Friedrich Engels
• 
  Robert F. Engle
• 
  Vanessa Erogbogbo

• Shlomo Eckstein (1929–2020), Israeli economist and academic
• Nicholas Economides, Greek economist
• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926), Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist
• Sebastian Edwards (born 1953), Chilean economist and academic
• Martin Eichenbaum (born 1954), American professor of economics
• Barry Eichengreen (born 1952), American economist and political scientist
• Alfred Eichner (1937–1988), American economist
• Ali M. El-Agraa (born 1941), Sudanese/British economist
• Daniel Ellsberg (1931–2023), American economist and politician
• Richard T. Ely (1853–1943), American economist and social interventionist
• Kenneth G. Elzinga (living), American economist and writer
• Ernst Engel (1821–1896), German economist and statistician
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German/British Marxist economist
• Stanley Engerman (born 1936), American economist and economic historian
• Robert F. Engle (born 1942), American statistician and economist
• Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), German economist and politician
• Vanessa Erogbogbo (living), Ugandan/British development specialist
• José Luís Espert (born 1961), Argentinian economist and politician

F

• 
  William Fleetwood
• 
  Irving Fisher
• 
  Milton Friedman
• 
  Jason Furman
• 
  Robert Fogel

• Marc Faber (born 1946), Swiss investor based in Thailand
• Armin Falk (born 1968), German economist and academic
• Günter Faltin (born 1944), German economist and entrepreneur
• Eugene Fama born 1939), American economist known for efficient-market hypothesis
• Emmanuel Farhi (1978–2020), French economist and academic
• M. J. Farrell (1926–1975), British economist
• Jeff Faux (living), American economist and writer
• Henry Fawcett (1833–1884), British economist and statesman
• Nikolay Fedorenko (1917–2006), Soviet/Russian economist and chemist
• Ernst Fehr (born 1956), Austrian/Swiss behavioral economist
• Martin Feldstein (1939–2019), American economist and academic
• Edgar Fiedler (1929–2003), American economist
• Randall K. Filer (born 1952), American economist and researcher
• Amy Finkelstein (born 1973), American economist and researcher
• Stanley Fischer (born 1943), American/Israeli economist and bank governor
• Price V. Fishback (b. c. 1955), American economic historian
• Irving Fisher (1867–1947), American economist and social campaigner
• Jon Fisher (born 1972), American entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Jean-Paul Fitoussi (1942–2022), French economist and academic
• William Fleetwood (1656–1723), English statistician and bishop
• Marcus Fleming (1911–1976), British economist and stabilization expert
• Amelia Fletcher (born 1966), British economist and singer
• John E. Floyd (born 1937), Canadian economist and academic
• Karnit Flug (born 1955), Polish/Israeli economist and bank governor
• Robert Fogel (1926–2013), American economic historian
• Foster and Catchings, American economists William Trufant Foster and Waddill Catchings
• Charles Fourier (1772–1837), French philosopher and socialist thinker
• Joseph Francois (born 1961), Swiss economist and academic
• Robert H. Frank (born 1939), American economist and academic
• Jeffrey Frankel (born 1952), American macroeconomist
• Bernie Fraser (born 1941), Australian economist and bank governor
• Christopher Freeman (1921–2010), British economist and academic
• Richard B. Freeman (born 1943), American economist and academic
• Bruno Frey (born 1941), Swiss economist and academic
• Benjamin M. Friedman (born 1944), American political economist
• David D. Friedman (born 1945), American microeconomist and theorist
• Milton Friedman (1912–2006), American economist and Nobel Prize winner
• Rose Friedman (1910–2009), American free-market economist
• Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (1895–1973), Norwegian economist and Nobel Prize co-winner
• Roland Fryer (born 1977), American economist
• Drew Fudenberg (born 1957), American economist and game-theory expert
• Masahisa Fujita (藤田昌久, born 1943), Japanese economist and academic
• Connel Fullenkamp (born 1965), American economist and academic
• Jason Furman (born 1970), American economist and academic
• Celso Furtado (1920–2004), Brazilian economist and development expert

G

• 
  Charles Gide
• 
  Henry George
• 
  John Kenneth Galbraith
• 
  Edward Glaeser
• 
  Ian Goldin

• Xavier Gabaix (born 1971), French/American economist
• Yegor Gaidar (1956–2009), Soviet/Russian economist and politician
• James Kenneth Galbraith (born 1952), American economist and academic
• John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Canadian/American economist and politician
• David Gale (1921–2008), American mathematician and economist
• William G. Gale (born 1959), American economist and politician
• Jordi Galí (born 1961), Spanish macroeconomist
• A. Ronald Gallant (born 1942), American econometrician
• Mauro Gallegati (born 1958), Italian economist and scholar
• Oded Galor (born 1953), Israeli/American economist and academic
• Francisco Javier Carrillo Gamboa (living), Mexican knowledge-systems researcher
• László Garai (1935–2019), Hungarian psychologist and economist
• Gonzalo Garland (born 1959), Peruvian economist and researcher
• Pierangelo Garegnani (1930–2011), Italian economist and academic
• Norton Garfinkle (born 1931), American economist and economic historian
• Leonid Gatovsky (1903–1997), Russian/Soviet economist
• John Geanakoplos (born 1955), American economist and academic
• Jacques Généreux (born 1956), French economist and politician
• Henry George (1839–1897), American political economist
• Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906–1994), Romanian statistician and economist
• Mark Gertler (born 1951), American economist and academic
• Silvio Gesell (1862–1930), German economist and politician
• Jayati Ghosh (born 1955), Indian development economist
• Eric Ghysels (born 1956), Belgian economist and econometrician
• Francesco Giavazzi (born 1949), Italian economist and academic
• Charles Gide (1847–1932), French economist and economic historian
• George Gilder (born 1939), American economist and investor
• Richard T. Gill (1927–2010), American economist and opera singer
• Victor Ginsburgh (born 1939), Belgian economist
• Herbert Gintis (born 1940), American economist and behavioral scientist
• Edward Glaeser (born 1967), American economist and academic
• Rachel Glennerster (born 1965), British economist
• William Godwin (1756–1836), English economist and writer
• Claudia Goldin (born 1946), American economist and government official
• Ian Goldin (living), South African/British economist and program director
• Jose Antonio Gomariz (1919–2005), Argentine economist and educator
• Charles Goodhart (born 1936), British economist and academic
• George Goodman (aka "Adam Smith", 1930–2014), American economist and broadcaster
• Austan Goolsbee (born 1969), American economist
• Gita Gopinath (born 1971), Indian/American economist
• Myron J. Gordon (1920–2010), American/Canadian economist and academic
• Robert J. Gordon (born 1940), American economist
• Gary Gorton (b. c. 1951), American economist and finance educator
• Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858), German economist
• Christian Gouriéroux (born 1959), French econometrician
• Benjamin Graham (1894–1976), British/American economist and investor
• Phil Gramm (born 1942), American economist and politician
• Clive Granger (1934–2009), Welsh/American econometrician
• George Grantham (born 1941), American economist and academic
• William Greene (born 1951), American economist
• Alan Greenspan (born 1926), American economist and finance official
• Thomas Gresham (c. 1519–1579), English merchant and financier
• Stephany Griffith-Jones (born 1947), British/American economist
• Zvi Griliches (1930–1999), Lithuanian/American economist
• Elgin Groseclose (1899–1983), American economist and statesman
• Gene Grossman (born 1955), American economist and academic
• Henryk Grossman (1881–1950), Polish/German economist and revolutionary
• Jonathan Gruber (born 1965), American economist and academic
• Rebeca Grynspan (born 1955), Costa Rican economist
• Gu Zhun (顾准, 1915–1974), Chinese economist and post-Marxist
• Dominique Guellec (living), French economist and official
• Maria-Carmen Guisan (living), Spanish economist
• Faruk Gül (living), Turkish/American economist and academic

H

• 
  David Hume
• 
  Friedrich Hayek
• 
  Eli Heckscher
• 
  Trygve Haavelmo
• 
  James Heckman
• 
  Glenn Hubbard

• Trygve Haavelmo (1911–1999), Norwegian economist and Nobel laureate
• Gottfried Haberler (1900–1995), Austrian/American economist
• Charles Hall (1740–1825), English social critic and physician
• Robert Hall (born 1943), American economist and academic
• Andrew Hughes Hallett (1947–1919), Scottish economist and academic
• John Haltiwanger (born 1955), American economist
• Daniel S. Hamermesh (born 1943), American economist
• James D. Hamilton (born 1954), American economist and academic
• Steve H. Hanke (born 1942), American applied economist
• Alvin Hansen (1887–1975), American economist and academic
• Lars Peter Hansen (born 1952), American economist and academic
• Peter Reinhard Hansen (born 1968), Danish economist and academic
• Eric Hanushek (born 1943), American economist
• Mahbub ul Haq (1934–1998), Indian/Pakistani economist and politician
• Arnold Harberger (born 1924), American economist
• Tim Harford (born 1973), English economist and broadcaster
• Charles Knickerbocker Harley (born 1943), American economic historian
• Stephen Harper (born 1959), Canadian economist and Prime Minister (2006–2015)
• Roy Harrod (1900–1978), English economist and biographer
• John Harsanyi (1920–2000), Hungarian/American economist and Nobel Prize winner
• Oliver Hart (born 1948), British/American economist and Nobel laureate
• Campbell Harvey (born 1958), Canadian/American economist and academic
• Jerry A. Hausman (born 1946), American econometrician
• Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (1926–2016), Ukrainian/Canadian economist and thinker
• Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), Austrian/American economist and philosopher
• Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993), American economics writer
• James Heckman (born 1944), American economist and Nobel laureate
• Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), Swedish political economist and economic historian
• Robert Heilbroner (1919–2005), American economist and historian of economics
• Carolyn Heinrich (born 1967), American historian and academic
• Christian Hellwig (living), German macroeconomist
• Elhanan Helpman (born 1946), Israeli economist and academic
• Hazel Henderson (1933–2022), English economist, ecologist and broadcaster
• David Forbes Hendry (born 1944), English econometrician and academic
• Peter Blair Henry, Jamaican-born economist
• Noreena Hertz (born 1967), English economist and broadcaster
• William Hewins (1865–1931), English economist and politician
• John Hicks (1904–1989), English economist and joint Nobel laureate
• Michael J. Hicks (born 1962), American economist and academic
• Robert Higgs (born 1944), American economic historian
• Jack Hirshleifer (1925–2005), American economist and academic
• John A. Hobson (1858–1940), English economist and social scientist
• Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869), English political economist and socialist
• Samuel Hollander (born 1937), English/Canadian/Israeli economist
• Bengt Holmström (born 1949), Finnish/American economist and academic
• Charles A. Holt (born 1948), American behavioral economist
• Harry J. Holzer (born 1957), American economist and educator
• Kevin Hoover (born 1955), American economist and philosopher
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born 1949), German/American economist and philosopher
• Charles Horioka (チャールズ・ユウジ・ホリオカ, born 1956), American/Japanese economist and academic
• Branko Horvat (1928–2003), Yugoslav/Croatian economist and politician
• Harold Hotelling (1895–1973), American statistician and theorist
• Peter Howitt (born 1946), Canadian economist
• William Hsiao (蕭慶倫m born 1936), Chinese/American economist and academic
• Yukon Huang (born 1944), Chinese/American economist
• Glenn Hubbard (born 1958), American economist and academic
• Michael Hudson (born 1939), American economist and analyst
• David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish economist and philosopher
• Thomas M. Humphrey (born 1935), American economist
• Jennifer Hunt (1913–2015), American economist and politician
• Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008), Polish/American economist and mathematician
• Terence Wilmot Hutchison (1912–2007), English economist

I

• Sri Mulyani Indrawati (born 1962), Indonesian economist, banker and politician
• Stefan Ingves (born 1953), Swedish national bank governor and economist
• Jay Inslee (born 1951), American economist and governor of Washington
• Douglas Irwin (living), American economist and academic
• Mugur Isărescu (born 1949), Romanian national bank governor and economist
• Otmar Issing (born 1936), German economist and economic policy-maker

J

• 
  William Stanley Jevons

• Matthew O. Jackson (born 1962), American economist and academic
• Tim Jackson (born 1957), British ecological economist
• David A. Jaeger (born 1964), American economist and researcher
• Davoud Danesh-Jafari, Iranian politician and economist
• Ravi Jagannathan (born 1949), American economist and academic
• Eliot Janeway (1913–1993), American economist and author
• William H. Janeway (born 1943), American economist and venture capitalist
• Robert A. Jarrow (living), American economist and academic
• Peter Jay (born 1937), English economist and diplomat
• Michael Jensen (born 1939), American financial economist
• William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882), English economist and logician
• Leif Johansen (1930–1982), Norwegian economist and academic
• Søren Johansen (born 1939), Danish statistician and econometrician
• Harry Gordon Johnson (1923–1977), Canadian economist
• Simon Johnson (born 1963), English/American and IMF economist
• Lewis Webster Jones (1899–1975), American economist and academic
• Richard Jones (1790–1855), English economist
• Dan Johnson (b. c. 1969), Canadian/American microeconomist and entrepreneur
• Thomas Jordan (born 1963), Swiss economist and central banker
• Dale W. Jorgenson (born 1933), American economist and academic
• Boyan Jovanovic (born 1952), American economist and academic

K

• 
  Ibn Khaldun
• 
  John Maynard Keynes
• 
  Nicholas Kaldor
• 
  Daniel Kahneman
• 
  Finn E. Kydland
• 
  Anne Osborn Krueger

• Daniel Kahneman (born 1934), Palestinian/Israeli economist and psychologist
• Ehud Kalai (born 1942), Israeli/American game theorist and mathematical economist
• Nicholas Kaldor (1908–1986), Hungarian/British economist and government advisor
• Michał Kalecki (1899–1970), Polish economist
• Thomas Kane (born 1961), American educational economist
• Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), Soviet mathematician and economist
• Ethan Kaplan (living), American economist and academic
• Steven Kaplan (born 1959), American business economist
• Dean Karlan (living), American development economist
• Michael Kaser (1926–2021), English economist
• Lawrence F. Katz (born 1959), American economist and academic
• Steve Keen (born 1953), Australian economist and educator
• Timothy J. Kehoe (born 1953), American economist and academic
• Stephanie Kelton (born 1969), American economist and academic
• A. R. Kemal (1946–2008), Pakistani economist and policy-maker
• Peter Kenen (1932–2012), American international economist
• Charles Kennedy (1923–1997), American theoretical economist
• Li Keqiang (李克强, born 1955), Chinese economist and politician
• Srgjan Kerim (born 1948), Yugoslav/Macedonian economist and diplomat
• John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), English political economist
• Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), Arab social scientist
• Mushtaq Khan (born 1961), British/Bangladeshi economist and academic
• Homi Kharas (living), American economist and UN executive
• Fahmida Khatun (living), Bangladeshi economist and policy analyst
• Mwai Kibaki (1931–2022), Kenyan economist and politician
• Robin Kibuuka (living), Ugandan economist
• Mervyn King, English economist and Bank of England governor
• Robert G. King (born 1951), American macroeconomist
• Bruce Kingma (born 1961), American economist and entrepreneur
• Israel Kirzner (born 1930), English/American economist
• Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (清滝信宏, born 1955), Japanese/American macroeconomist
• Lawrence Klein (1920–2013), American econometrician and Nobel Prize winner
• Morton Klein (born 1947), German/American economist and statistician
• Morris Kleiner (b.1948), American labor economist
• Paul Klemperer (born 1956), English economist and academic
• Arnold Kling (born 1954), American economist and writer
• Teun Kloek (born 1934), Dutch econometrician
• Jan Kmenta (1928–2016), Czech/American economist and statistician
• Frank Knight (1885–1972), American economist and academic
• Lilian Knowles (1870–1926), English economic historian
• Klaas Knot (born 1967), Dutch economist and central banker
• Narayana Kocherlakota (born 1963), American economist and academic
• Leopold Kohr (1909–1994), Austrian/British economist and political scientist
• John Komlos (born 1944), Hungarian/American economic historian
• Nikolai Kondratiev (1892–1938), Russian/Soviet economist and economic policy-maker
• Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985), Dutch/American economist and mathematician
• Roger C. Kormendi (1949–2009), American economist and finance expert
• János Kornai (1928–2021), Hungarian economist and theorist
• Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), Soviet/Russian economic historian and sociologist
• Naum Krasner (1924–1999), Soviet/Russian economist and mathematician
• Lawrence B. Krause (born 1929), American economist and economic advisor
• Jan Kregel (born 1944), American economist and UN executive
• Michael Kremer (born 1964), American development economist and academic
• David M. Kreps (born 1950), American game theorist and economist
• Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), American economist and political scientist
• Anne Osborn Krueger (born 1934), American economist and IMF executive
• Paul Krugman (born 1953), American economist, academic and Nobel Prize winner
• Per Krusell (born 1959), Swedish macroeconomist
• Lawrence Kudlow (born 1947), American finance analyst
• Adriana Kugler (born 1969), American economist and public-policy academic
• Maurice Kugler (born 1967), American economist and public-policy academic
• Rajiv Kumar (born 1951), Indian economist and politician
• Robert Kuttner (born 1943), American economic and economic-policy writer
• Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), Russian/American economist and statistician
• Vladimir Kvint (living), Soviet/Russian economist and strategist
• Finn E. Kydland (born 1943), Norwegian/American economist and academic

L

• 
  John Law
• 
  Abba Lerner
• 
  Oskar Lange
• 
  Rosa Luxemburg

• Ludwig Lachmann (1906–1990), German economist
• Arthur Laffer (born 1940), American economist
• Jean-Jacques Laffont (1947–2004), French economist
• Ricardo Lagos (born 1938), Chilean economist and lawyer
• David Laibson (born 1966), American economist
• David Laidler (born 1938), English monetary economist
• Domingo Laino (born 1935), Paraguayan economist and politician
• John A. Laitner (born 1947), American economist and environmentalist
• Naomi Lamoreaux (born 1950), American economic historian
• Steven Landsburg (born 1954), American economist
• Philip R. Lane (born 1954), American economist
• Lang Xianping (郎咸平, born 1956), Hong Kong-based economist
• Oskar Lange (1904–1965), Polish economist and diplomat
• Serge Latouche (born 1940), French economist
• John Law (1671–1629), Scottish economist
• Richard Layard (born 1934), English labour economist
• Edward Lazear (1948–2020), American economist
• Edward E. Leamer (born 1944), American economist
• Stanley Lebergott (1918–2009), American economist
• Lewis Lehrman (born 1938), American economist and banker
• Frederic Sterling Lee (1949–2014), American economist
• Peter Leeson (born 1979), American economist
• Axel Leijonhufvud (1933–2022), Swedish economist
• Manuela Ferreira Leite (born 1940), Portuguese economist and politician
• Leonard Liggio (1933–2014), American writer and academic
• Wassily Leontief (1905–1999), American economist
• Abba P. Lerner (1903–1982), Russian/British economist
• Leonardus Lessius (1554–1623), Flemish moral theologian
• Richard Levin (born 1947), American economist
• David K. Levine (b. c. 1955), American economist
• Lars Lefgren (born 1972), American economist
• Steven D. Levitt (born 1967), American economist
• Arthur Lewbel (c. 1956), American economist
• Arthur Lewis (1915–1991), Saint Lucia economist
• Tracy R. Lewis (living), American economist
• Kevin Leyton-Brown (born 1975), Canadian economist
• Evsei Liberman (1897–1981), Russian/Soviet economist
• Justin Yifu Lin (林毅夫, born 1952), Chinese economist
• Michael Lind (born 1962), American writer and academic
• Erik Lindahl (1891–1960), Swedish economist
• Assar Lindbeck (1930–2020), Swedish economist
• Friedrich List (1789–1846), German/American economist
• John A. List (born 1968), American economist
• Andrew Lo (羅聞全, born 1960), Hong Kong/American financial economist
• John Locke (1632–1704), English philosopher
• William Forster Lloyd (1794–1852), English writer on economics
• Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984), Canadian philosopher
• Frédéric Lordon (born 1962), French economist and philosopher
• Max O. Lorenz (1876–1959), American economist
• Pascal Lorot (born 1960), French economist and geo-politician
• Andreas Löschel (living), German economist
• John R. Lott (born 1958), American economist and political commentator
• Robert Lucas, Jr. (1937–2023), American economist
• Stephen J. Luczo (born 1957), American chief executive
• Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), Polish-born economist and revolutionary socialist
• Gerard Lyons (born 1961), English political economist

M

• 
  Thomas Malthus
• 
  John Stuart Mill
• 
  Alfred Marshall
• 
  Karl Marx
• 
  Ludwig von Mises
• 
  Gunnar Myrdal
• 
  Roger Myerson
• 
  Dale Mortensen
• 
  Xavier Sala i Martin
• 
  Dambisa Moyo

• Donald MacDougall (1912–2004), Scottish economist
• Mark J. Machina (born 1954), American economist
• Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías (born 1955), Mexican academician and economist
• Henry Dunning Macleod (1821–1902), Scottish economist
• Adil Abdul-Mahdi (born 1942), Iraqi economist and vice-president
• Edmond Malinvaud (1923–2015), French economist
• Burton Malkiel (born 1932), American economist and writer on finance
• Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), English political economist and demographer
• Gerard de Malynes (fl. 1585–1627), English foreign trader and government advisor
• N. Gregory Mankiw (born 1958), American macroeconomist
• Henry Manne (1928–2015), American economist and academic
• Alan Manning (born 1960), English economist and academic
• Edwin Mansfield (1930–1997), American economist and academic
• Charles Manski (born 1948), American professor of economics
• Mao Yushi (茅于轼;, born 1929), Chinese economist
• Ruy Mauro Marini (1932–1997), Brazilian economist
• Harry Markowitz (1927–2023), American economist
• Karl Marlo (1810–1865), German economist and academic
• Jacob Marschak (1898–1977), American economist
• Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), English neoclassical economist
• Marsh Marshall (born 1953), American economist and hedge-fund manager
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English social theorist
• Karl Marx (1818–1883), German founder of Marxian economics
• Eric Maskin (born 1950), American economist and Nobel laureate
• Mariana Mazzucato (born 2016), Italian–American-British economist and academic
• Jason Gaverick Matheny (living), American expert on artificial intelligence
• Paul Mattick (1904–1981), German social revolutionary
• Richard Maybury (born 1946), American educational economist
• C. M. Mayo (living), American economist and writer
• Preston McAfee (born 1956), American managerial economist
• Bennett McCallum (born 1935), American monetary economist
• Rachel McCleary (living), American economist
• Deirdre McCloskey (born 1942), American economist and academic
• John Ramsey McCulloch (1789–1864), Scottish political economist
• Paul McCulley (born 1957), American economist and business executive
• James McDonald (b. c. 1942), American econometrician
• Daniel McFadden (born 1937), American econometrician
• Richard McKelvey (1944–2002), American political scientist
• Lionel W. McKenzie (1919–2010), American economist
• Warwick McKibbin (born 1957), Australian economist and academic
• David McWilliams (born 1966), Irish economist and writer
• James Meade (1907–1995), English economist and Nobel laureate
• Gardiner Means (1896–1988), American economist
• J. K. Mehta (1901–1980), Indian economist
• Marc Melitz (born 1968), American economist
• Leslie Melville (1902–2002), Australian economist and public servant
• Carl Menger (1840–1921), Austrian economist
• Karl Menger (1902–1985), Austrian/American mathematician
• Stanislav Menshikov (1927–2014), Soviet/Russian economist
• Robert C. Merton (born 1944), American economist and Nobel laureate
• Albert J. Meyer (1919–1983), American economist
• Hugo Richard Meyer (1866–1923), American economist
• John R. Meyer (1927–2009), American transport economist
• Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk (1893–1938), Soviet planning official
• Leo Michelis (living), Greek/Canadian economist
• Javier Milei (born 1970), Argentinian libertarian economist
• David Miles (born 1959), Welsh/English economist
• Murray Milgate (born 1950), Australian/British economist
• Paul Milgrom (born 1948), American economist
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), English philosopher and political economist
• Merton Miller (1923–2000), American economist and Nobel laureate
• Jacob Mincer (1922–2006), American labor economist
• Hyman Minsky (1919–1996), American economist and professor at Washington University in St. Louis
• James Mirrlees (1936–2018), Scottish economist and Nobel laureate
• Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), Austrian economist and sociologist
• Frederic Mishkin (born 1951), American economist and academic
• Baidyanath Misra (20th c.), Indian economist and administrator
• Wesley Mitchell (1874–1948), American economist
• Alfred Mitchell-Innes (1864–1950), English economist and diplomat
• Franco Modigliani (1918–2003), Italian/American economist and Nobel laureate
• Robert Moffit (living), American economist and government official
• Herbert Mohring (1928–2012), American transportation economist
• Joel Mokyr (born 1946), Dutch/American economic historian
• Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912), Belgian political economist
• Solita Monsod (born 1940), Philippines economist and writer
• John Hardman Moore (born 1954), English economic theorist
• Jonathan Morduch (born 1963), American economist and public service expert
• Peter Morici (born 1948), American economist
• Michio Morishima (1923–2004), Japanese economist
• Stephen Morris (living), American game theorist
• Dale Mortensen (1939–2014), American economist and Nobel laureate
• Warren Mosler (born 1949), American economist and hedge-fund manager
• Rowland Percy Moss (born 1928), English development economist
• David C. Mowery (living), American economist
• Dambisa Moyo (born 1969), Zambian economist
• Anu Muhammad (born 1956), Bangladeshi economist
• Sendhil Mullainathan (b. c. 1973), Indian/American economist and academic
• Thomas Mun (1571–1641), English writer on economics
• Mohan Munasinghe (living), Sri Lankan economist and physicist
• Robert Mundell (1932–2021), Canadian economist and academic
• Karthik Muralidharan (born 1975), Indian/American economist
• Richard Murnane (born 1945), American economist
• Kevin J. Murphy (born 1957), American finance academic
• Kevin M. Murphy (born 1958), American economist
• Robert P. Murphy (born 1976), American economist
• Richard Musgrave (1910–2007), American economist and public finance theorist
• Michael Mussa (1944–2012), American economist and academic
• John Muth (1930–2005), American economist
• Bingu wa Mutharika (1934–2012), Malawi economist and politician
• Stewart Myers (born 1940), American financial economist
• Roger Myerson (born 1951), American economist and academic
• Alva Myrdal (1902–1986), Swedish sociologist and Nobel laureate
• Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Swedish economist and sociologist

N

• 
  Dudley North
• 
  John Forbes Nash

• John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015), American mathematician and Nobel laureate
• Richard Nelson (born 1930), American evolutionary economist and academic
• Nikolay Nenovsky (born 1963), Bulgarian/French economist
• Marc Nerlove (born 1933), American economist
• John von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungarian/American mathematician and economist
• David Neumark (born 1959), American economist and academic
• David Newbery (born 1943), English applied economist
• Francis William Newman (1805–1897), English moral philosopher
• Stephen Nickell (born 1944), English economist and academic
• Peter Nijkamp (born 1946), Dutch economist
• Yew-Kwang Ng (黄有光, born 1942), Malaysian/Australian welfare economist
• William A. Niskanen (1933–2011), American economist and adviser
• William Nordhaus (born 1941), American economist and climate-change expert
• Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman (1871–1950), English central banker
• Douglass North (1920–2015), American economic historian
• Dudley North (1641–1691), English merchant and economist
• Oscar Nuccio (1931–2004), Italian economic historian

O

• 
  Robert Owen
• 
  Bertil Ohlin
• 
  Elinor Ostrom

• William Oakland (1939–2007), American economist and academic
• Maurice Obstfeld (born 1952), American economist and academic
• William Ogilvie (1736–1819), Scottish academic
• Sharyn O'Halloran (living), American political scientist and economist
• Bertil Ohlin (1899–1979), Swedish economist and politician
• Walter Oi (1929–2013), American economist and professor at University of Rochester
• Nobuo Okishio (置塩信雄, 1927–2003), Japanese Marxian economist
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 1954), Nigerian/American economist and Director-General of the World Trade Organization
• Arthur Melvin Okun (1928–1980), American economist and adviser
• Mancur Olson (1932–1998), American economist and political scientist
• Redvers Opie (1900–1984), English/Mexican economist
• Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (born 1996), Ghanaian-American activist and CEO of the Sadie Collective
• Nicole Oresme (c. 1320–1382), French philosopher
• Peter R. Orszag (born 1968), American financial adviser
• Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012), American political economist and Nobel laureate
• Andrew Oswald (living), Australian/British economist and behavioural scientist
• Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer

P

• 
  V. R. Panchamukhi
• 
  Javier Perez-Capdevila
• 
  Vilfredo Pareto
• 
  Arthur Cecil Pigou
• 
  Thomas Piketty
• 
  Edward C. Prescott
• 
  Christina Paxson

• Krishna Palepu (born 1954), American economist and business manager
• Giancarlo Pallavicini (born 1931), Italian economist and Soviet adviser
• V. R. Panchamukhi (born 1936), Indian economist and scholar
• Thomas Palfrey (born 1953), American economist and political scientist
• Yadav Prasad Pant (1928–2007), Nepalese economist and politician
• Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857–1924), Italian economist
• Philippe Van Parijs (born 1951), Belgian professor and political economist
• Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian engineer and economist
• Manuel V. Pangilinan (born 1946), Philippines business executive
• Jacques Parizeau (1930–2015), Canadian economist and politician
• Luigi Pasinetti (1930–2023), Italian economist
• Frédéric Passy (1822–1912), French economist and pacifist
• I. G. Patel (1924–2005), Indian economist and central bank governor
• Prabhat Patnaik (born 1945), Indian economist and political commentator
• William Paterson (1658–1719), Scottish trade and banker
• Don Patinkin (1922–1995), American/Israeli monetary economist
• Christina Paxson (born 1960), American economist
• Alan T. Peacock (1922-2914), British economist
• Lasse Heje Pedersen (born 1972), Danish financial economist
• Edith Penrose (1914–1996), American/British economist
• Émile and Isaac Péreire (1800–1875 and 1806–1880), French financiers
• Carlota Perez (born 1939), Venezuelan/British specialist in socio-economic development
• Javier Perez-Capdevila (born 1963), Cuban mathematician
• Torsten Persson (born 1954), Swedish economist
• Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646–1714), French lawmaker and theorist
• M. Hashem Pesaran (born 1946), Iranian/British economist
• Wolfgang Pesendorfer, American economist
• Pierre Pestieau (born 1943), Belgian economist
• Maurice Peston, Baron Peston (1931–2016), English economist and politician
• Robert Peston (born 1960), English writer on economics
• Douglas Peters (1930–2016), Canadian banker and economist
• William Petty (1623–1687), English economist and scientist
• Edmund Phelps (born 1933), American economist and Nobel laureate
• Thomas Philippon (born 1974), French/American economist and finance professor
• Peter C. B. Phillips (born 1948), New Zealand/Singapore econometrician
• William Phillips (1914–1975), New Zealand/English economist
• Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), English welfare economist
• Thomas Piketty (born 1971), French economist
• Christopher A. Pissarides (born 1948), Cypriot economist
• Arnold Plant (1898–1978), English economist
• Plato (Platon, 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BCE), Greek philosopher
• Steven Plaut (1951–2017), Israeli economist
• Charles Plott (born 1938), American economist
• Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), Austro-Hungarian/Canadian economic historian and political economist
• Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), Hungarian/British polymath
• Robert Pollin (born 1950), American economist
• Yuri Poluneev (born 1956), Soviet/Ukrainian international economist
• Dina Pomeranz (born 1977), Swiss economist
• Jean-Pierre Ponssard (born 1946), French economist
• Gale Pooley (living), American economist, professor, and author
• Arden Pope (b. c. 1954), American environmental economist
• Michael Porter (born 1947), American business economist
• Richard Portes (living), American/British economist
• Arturo C. Porzecanski (born 1949), Uruguayan/American economist
• Richard Posner (born 1939), American jurist and economist
• James M. Poterba (born 1958), American economist
• Bernard van Praag (born 1939), Dutch welfare economist
• John W. Pratt (born 1931), American business economist
• Edward C. Prescott (born 1940), American economist and Nobel laureate
• Steven Pressman (born 1952), American economist
• Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr. (born 1941), American labor economist
• Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986), Argentinian structural economist
• Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886–1937), Soviet/Russian economist, revolutionary, and politician
• Cuno Pümpin (born 1939), Swiss economist and entrepreneur

Q

• 
  François Quesnay

• Guy Quaden (born 1945), Belgian economist and central bank governor
• Danny Quah (柯成兴, born 1958), Singapore development economist
• François Quesnay (1694–1774), French economist
• John Quiggin (born 1956), Australian economist and government adviser

R

• 
  David Ricardo
• 
  Joan Robinson
• 
  Murray Rothbard
• 
  Christina Romer
• 
  Matthew Rabin

• Matthew Rabin (born 1963), American behavioral economist
• Roy Radner (1927–2022), American micro-economist
• John Rae (1796–1872), Scottish/Canadian economist
• Richard W. Rahn (born 1942), American economist
• Raghuram Rajan (born 1963), Indian economist
• Mihir Rakshit (born 1936), Indian economist
• Rogelio Ramírez de la O (living), Mexican economist
• Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930), English mathematician and economist
• Ajit Ranade (living), Indian economist and political analyst
• Leonard Rapping (1934–1991), American economist and government adviser
• Martin Ravallion (1952–2022), Australian economist
• Debra Ray (born 1957), Indian/American development economist
• Daniel Raymond (1786–1849), American political economist
• Riccardo Realfonzo (born 1964), Italian economist
• Ralph Recto (born 1964), Philippines economist and politician
• Daniel Rees American economist and professor at Charles III University of Madrid
• Robert Reich (born 1946), American economist and commentator
• Carmen Reinhart (born 1955), Cuban/American economist and academic
• Ricardo Reis (born 1988), Portuguese/British economist
• George Reisman (born 1937), American economist and academic
• Philip J. Reny (living), Canadian/American economist
• David Ricardo (1772–1823), English political economist
• Matthew Richardson, American economist
• Frank-Jürgen Richter (born 1967), German economist and entrepreneur
• Jeremy Rifkin (born 1945), American economist and social theorist
• Alice Rivlin (1931–2019), American economist and budget official
• Lionel Robbins (1898–1984), English economist
• Donald John Roberts (born 1945), Canadian/American economist
• Paul Craig Roberts (born 1939), American economist
• Russ Roberts (born 1954), American economist and broadcaster
• Denis Robertson (1890–1963), English economist and academic
• Abraham Robinson (1918–1974), German/American mathematician
• Austin Robinson (1897–1993), English economist and academic
• Joan Robinson (1903–1983), English economist
• Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805–1875), German economist and political theorist
• Dani Rodrik (born 1957), Turkish/American economist
• John Roemer (born 1945), American economist and political scientist
• Kenneth Rogoff (born 1953), American economist
• Gérard Roland (born 1954), Belgian economist
• Eric Roll (1907–2005), Austro-Hungarian/English economist and public servant
• Richard Roll (born 1939), American economist and finance expert
• Christina Romer (born 1958), American economist and policy adviser
• David Romer (born 1958), American economist and academic
• Paul Romer (born 1955), American economist and business academic
• Alessandro Roncaglia (born 1947), Italian economist
• Ivar Rooth (1888–1972), Swedish lawyer and economist
• Raymond de Roover (1904–1972), Belgian/American economic historian
• Harvey S. Rosen (born 1949), American economist and public-finance adviser
• Henry Rosovsky (1927–2022), German/American economist and academic
• Sherwin Rosen (1938–2001), American labor economist
• Nathan Rosenberg 1927–2015), American economist and technology historian
• Eric S. Rosengren (born 1957), American economist
• Mark Rosenzweig, American economist and academic
• Stephen A. Ross (1944–2017), American financial economist and academic
• J. Barkley Rosser Jr. (1948–2023), American economist and academic
• Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (born 1973), Mexican-American economist
• Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003), American economist and political theorist
• Julio Rotemberg (1953–2017), Argentine/American economist
• Alvin E. Roth (born 1951), American economist and academic and Nobel Prize laureate
• Timothy P. Roth (born 1943), American economist and academic
• Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), American economist and political theorist
• Erwin Rothbarth (1913–1944), German economist
• Michael Rothschild (born 1942), American economist and academic
• Nouriel Roubini (born 1958), American economist
• Cecilia Rouse (born 1963), American economist and first African American chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
• Heather Royer (born 1974), American economist and academic
• Scott Rozelle (born 1955), American economist and academic
• Paul Rubin (born 1942), American economist and academic
• Daniel L. Rubinfeld, American economist and academic
• Ariel Rubinstein (born 1951), Israeli economist
• Richard Rumelt (born 1942), American economist and academic
• Isaak Russman (1938–2005), Soviet/Russian economist and mathematician
• John Rust (born 1955), American economist and econometrician
• Justinian Rweyemamu (1942–1982), Tanzanian economist and political strategist
• Tadeusz Rybczynski (1923–1998), Polish/English economist

S

• 
  Jean-Baptiste Say
• 
  Thomas J. Sargent
• 
  Adam Smith
• 
  Joseph Schumpeter
• 
  Anna Schwartz
• 
  Paul Samuelson
• 
  Tharman Shanmugaratnam
• 
  Robert Solow
• 
  Joseph E. Stiglitz
• 
  Michael Spence
• 
  Mark Skousen
• 
  Hans-Werner Sinn
• 
  Robert Shiller
• 
  Lawrence Summers

• Fabrizio Saccomanni (1942–2019), Italian economist and central banker
• Alexander Sachs (1893–1973), American economist and financier
• Jeffrey Sachs (born 1954), American development economist
• Emmanuel Saez (born 1972), French/American economist, known for work on taxation and inequality
• Claudia Sahm (living), American macroeconomist
• Gilles Saint-Paul (born 1963), French economist
• Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French political and economic theorist
• Xavier Sala i Martin (born 1962), Spanish-American economist
• António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970), Portuguese dictator and economist, Prime Minister of Portugal 1932–1968
• Lise Salvas-Bronsard (1940–1995), Canadian economist and writer
• Arthur Salz (1881–1963), German economist and sociologist
• Paul Samuelson (1915–2009), American economist and Nobel laureate
• Chris William Sanchirico (living), American tax law expert
• José Santana (born 1962), Dominican economist
• Diego Abad de Santillán (1897–1983), Spanish/Argentinian economist, author and anarcho-syndicalist activist
• Juan Manuel Santos (born 1951), Colombian politician, economist and journalist, President of Colombia 2010–2018
• Theotônio dos Santos (1936–2018), Brazilian economist
• Gopal Krishna Sarangi (living), Indian economist specializing in energy economics and climate change
• Thomas J. Sargent, American macroeconomist, econometrician and Nobel laureate
• Mark Satterthwaite (living), American economist
• Anthony Saunders (living), American financial economist
• Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832), French businessman known for Say's law
• Louis Auguste Say (1774–1840), French businessman and economist
• Herbert Scarf (1930–2015), American mathematical economist
• Hjalmar Schacht (1877–1970), German economist and politician
• Morton O. Schapiro (born 1953), American economist and university president
• José Scheinkman (born 1948), Brazilian/American economist
• Thomas Schelling (1921–2016), American game theorist and Nobel laureate
• Peter Schiff (born 1963), American stockbroker and financial commentator
• Alexander Schlichter (1868–1940), Soviet economist
• Christoph M. Schmidt (born 1962), German economist
• Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), German finance expert and politician
• John Schmitt (born 1962), American economist
• Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917), German economist of the historical school
• Myron Scholes (born 1941), Canadian-American financial economist
• Stephan Schulmeister (born 1947), Austrian jurist and economist
• Theodore Schultz (1902–1998), American economist
• Ernst Schumacher (1911–1977), German/British statistician and economist
• Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), Austrian political economist
• Anna Schwartz (1915–2012), American monetarist economist
• Anne A. Scitovsky (1915–2012), German American health economist
• Tibor Scitovsky (1910–2002), Hungarian/American economist
• Molly Scott Cato (born 1963), English green economist and politician
• Jules Sedney (1922–2020), Surinam economist and prime minister
• L. William Seidman (1921–2009), American economist and commentator
• Arthur Seldon (1916–2005), English economist
• Edwin R. A. Seligman (1861–1939), American economist
• Reinhard Selten (1930–2016), German economist and Nobel laureate
• Amartya Sen (born 1933), Indian economist, philosopher and Nobel laureate
• Hans Sennholz (1922–2007), German/American economist and author
• Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), English lawyer and economist
• Andrew Sentance (born 1958), English business economist
• Brad Setser (living), American economist and government official
• Ernest Seyd (1830–1881), German/British banker and economist
• G. L. S. Shackle (1903–1992), English economist
• Mehdi Shafaeddin (born 1945), Swiss Iranian development economist
• Anwar Shaikh (born 1945), Pakistani/American economist
• Tharman Shanmugaratnam (born 1957), Singapore economist/politician
• David Shapiro (born 1946), American economist
• Lloyd Shapley (1923–2016), American game theorist and Nobel laureate
• William F. Sharpe (born 1934), American economist and Nobel laureate
• Neil Shephard (born 1964), English econometrician
• Shouyong Shi (born 1965), Canadian macroeconomist
• Robert Shiller (born 1946), American economist and Nobel laureate
• Gary Shilling (living), American financial analyst and commentator
• Robert Shimer (born 1968), American macroeconomist and labor economist
• Hyun-Song Shin (신현송, living), S Korean economic theorist and financial economist
• Yongcheol Shin (born 1960), S Korea/British economist
• Masaaki Shirakawa (白川方明, born 1949), Japanese economist and central banker
• Andrei Shleifer (born 1961), Soviet/American economist and academic
• Artyom Shneyerov (living), Canadian microeconomist
• Martin Shubik (1926–2018), American economist
• Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqui (born 1939), Indian/Jeddah economist and writer
• Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), English utilitarian philosopher and economist
• Miguel Sidrauski (1939–1968), Argentine economist
• Ota Šik (1919–2004), Czechoslovak/Czech economist and politician
• Aníbal Cavaco Silva (born 1939), Portuguese economist and president
• Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), American economist and political scientist
• Julian Lincoln Simon (1932–1998), American business administration academic
• Robert Simons, American economist and professor at Harvard Business School
• Christopher A. Sims (born 1942), American econometrician and macroeconomist
• Hans Singer (1910–2006), German/British development economist
• Kurt Singer (1886–1962), German economist and philosopher
• Manmohan Singh (born 1932), Indian economist and politician
• Hans-Werner Sinn (born 1948), German economist and government adviser
• Mark Skousen (born 1947), American economist and writer
• Margaret Slade (living), Canadian industrial economist
• Andrzej Sławiński (born 1951), Polish economist and academic
• Joel Slemrod (born 1951), American economist and academic
• Eugen Slutsky (1880–1948), Russian/Soviet statistician and economist
• Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist, philosopher and moral philosopher
• Alasdair Smith (born 1949), Scottish/English economist and academic
• Thomas Smith (1631–1699), English banker
• Vernon L. Smith (born 1927), American economist and lawyer
• Dennis Snower (born 1950), Austrian/American macroeconomist
• Robert Solow (1924–2023), American economist and growth theorist
• Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German economist and sociologist
• Willem Somermeyer (1919–1982), Dutch economist and econometrician
• Hugo F. Sonnenschein (1940–2021), American economist and educationist
• Thomas Sowell (born 1930), American economist and social theorist
• Michael Spence (born 1943), Canadian/American economist and Nobel laureate
• Barbara J. Spencer (living), Australian/Canadian economist
• Gene Sperling (born 1958), American economist and presidential adviser
• Piero Sraffa (1898–1983), Italian/British economist and academic
• T. N. Srinivasan (1933–2018), Indian economist
• Guy Standing (born 1948), English labor economist
• Ross Starr (born 1945), American economist and academic
• Richard H. Steckel (born 1944), American heterodox economist
• Herbert Stein (1916–1999), American economist and presidential adviser
• Jeremy C. Stein (born 1960), American macroeconomist
• Nicholas Stern (born 1946), English economist and academic
• Beth Stetson, American economist
• George Stigler (1911–1991), American economist and Nobel laureate
• Joseph E. Stiglitz (born 1943), American economist and public policy analyst
• James H. Stock (born 1955), American economist and academic
• George W. Stocking, Sr. (1892–1975), American economist of industrial organization
• Nancy Stokey (born 1950), American economist, known for work on economic growth
• Richard Stone (1913–1991), English economist and Nobel laureate
• Benjamin Strong (1872–1928), American banker
• Steve Strongin (born 1958), American investment adviser
• Stanislav Strumilin (1877–1974), Russian/Soviet economist and statistician
• Robert Sugden (born 1949), English cognitive and behavioral economist
• Paul Sultan (1924–2019), Canadian labor economist
• Lawrence Summers (born 1954), American economist and World Bank vice-president
• Robert Summers (1922–2012), American economist and academic
• William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), American social scientist
• Sun Yefang (孙冶方, 1908–1983), Chinese economist
• Jomo Kwame Sundaram (born 1952), Malaysian economist and government adviser
• Arun Sundararajan (living), British/Indian/American economist and academic
• Richard Sutch (1942–2019), American economist and academic
• Kotaro Suzumura (鈴村興太郎, 1944–2020), Japanese economist and academic
• Jan Švejnar (born 1952), Czechoslovak/American economist
• Lars E. O. Svensson (born 1947), Swedish economist and academic
• Subramanian Swamy (born 1939), Indian politician, economist and statistician
• Trevor Swan (1918–1989), Australian economist
• Paul Sweezy (1910–2004), American economist and political activist
• Syahrir (1945–2008), Indonesian political economist
• Richard Sylla (living), American economist and museum trustee
• Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005), Polish economist and politician
• Maria Szécsi (1914–1984), Austrian economist

T

• 
  Anne Turgot
• 
  Frank William Taussig
• 
  Jan Tinbergen
• 
  Gordon Tullock

• Alex Tabarrok (born 1966), Canadian/American economist
• Guido Tabellini (born 1956), Italian economist
• Hossein Abdoh Tabrizi (born 1951), Iranian professor and financial practitioner
• Naim Talu (1919–1998), Turkish economist and prime minister
• Yair Tauman (born 1948), Israeli/American economist and academic
• Frank William Taussig (1859–1940), American trade-theory economist
• R. H. Tawney (1880–1962), English economic historian and socialist
• Fred M. Taylor (1855–1932), American economist and educator
• Henry Charles Taylor (1873–1969), American agricultural economist
• Alan M. Taylor (born 1964), American economist and academic
• John B. Taylor (born 1946), American economist and academic
• Mark P. Taylor (living), American business-school dean
• Paul Schuster Taylor (1895–1984), American agricultural economist and academic
• Lester G. Telser (born 1931), American economist and academic
• Richard Thaler (born 1945), American behavioral economist and academic
• Henri Theil (1924–2000), Dutch econometrician and academic
• Asher Tishler (born 1947), Israeli economist and college president
• William Thompson (1775–1833), Irish philosopher and social reformer
• Christopher Thornberg (born 1967), American economist
• Henry Thornton (1760–1815), English economist, banker and parliamentarian
• Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783–1850), German economist and landowner
• Lester Thurow (1938–2016), American political economist and author
• Richard Timberlake (1922–2020), American economist and academic
• Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994), Dutch economist and Nobel laureate
• Jean Tirole (born 1953), French economist and academic
• Sheridan Titman (born 1954), American finance academic
• James Tobin (1918–2002), American economist and government adviser
• Michael Todaro (born 1942), American development economist
• Richard Tol (born 1969), Dutch/English economist and academic
• Alejandro Toledo (born 1946), Peruvian politician and writer on economics
• Robert Torrens (1780–1864), Irish/English political economist and writer
• Robert M. Townsend (born 1948), American economist and academic
• Kenneth E. Train (born 1951), American economist and academic
• Daniel Trefler (born 1959), Canadian economist and academic
• Rodrigue Tremblay (born 1939), Canadian economist and politician
• Giulio Tremonti (born 1947), Italian economic politician
• Jean-Claude Trichet (born 1942), French economist and European Central Bank president
• Robert Triffin (1911–1993), Belgian/American economist
• Sho-Chieh Tsiang (蔣碩傑, 1918–1993), Chinese/American economist
• Catherine Tucker (born 1977), management academic
• Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865–1919), Russian economist and politician
• Gordon Tullock (1922–2014), American economist and professor of law
• Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781), French economist and politician
• Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell (born 1955), English economist and business executive
• Amos Tversky (1937–1996), Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist
• Laura D'Andrea Tyson (born 1947), American economist and presidential adviser

U

• Kazuhide Uekusa (植草一秀, born 1960), Japanese economist
• Kuzo Uno (宇野 弘蔵, 1897–1977), Japanese economist
• Hirofumi Uzawa (宇沢弘文, 1928–2014), Japanese economist

V

• 
  Thorstein Veblen
• 
  Paul Volcker

• Natacha Valla (born 1976), French economist and management expert
• Alexander Van der Bellen (born 1944), Austrian economist and president
• John Van Reenen (born 1965), English economist and academic
• Eugen Varga (1879–1964), Austro-Hungarian/Soviet Marxian economist
• Hal Varian (born 1947), American microeconomist and Google executive
• Yanis Varoufakis (born 1961), Greek/Australian economist and politician
• Antoaneta Vassileva (born 1960), Bulgarian economist and academic
• Kerrin Vautier, New Zealand economist
• Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American economist and sociologist
• Richard Vedder (born 1940), American economist and historian
• Carlos A. Vegh (born 1951), Uruguayan academic economist
• Anthony Venables (born 1953), English economist and academic
• Fernando Vianello (1939–2009), Italian economist and academic
• William Vickrey (1914–1996), Canadian/American economist and Nobel laureate
• Thomas Vietorisz (1926–2019), Hungarian-born American economist and urban planner
• Jacob Viner (1892–1970), American economist
• Ignazio Visco (born 1949), Italian economist and central-bank governor
• Robert W. Vishny (b. c. 1959), American economist and finance academic
• Eva Vivalt (living), Canadian economist
• Xavier Vives (born 1955), Spanish microeconomist
• Paul Volcker (1927–2019), American economist and presidential adviser

W

• 
  Léon Walras
• 
  Max Weber
• 
  Knut Wicksell
• 
  Marilyn Waring
• 
  Martin Wolf
• 
  Lawrence Wong

• Romain Wacziarg (born 1970), American economist and academic
• Sushil Wadhwani (born 1959), Indian/British economist and monetary policy expert
• Adolph Wagner (1835–1917), German economist and politician
• Jim Walker (living), American economist and fund manager
• Neil Wallace (born 1939), American economist and academic
• Phyllis Ann Wallace (1921–1993), American economist and political activist
• Henry Wallich (1914–1988), German/American economist and central banker
• W. Allen Wallis (1912–1998), American economist and statistician
• Léon Walras (1834–1910), French mathematical economist
• Carl Walsh (born 1949), American economist and academic
• Alan Walters (1926–2009), English economist and government adviser
• John Glen Wardrop (1922–1989), English mathematician and transport analyst
• Marilyn Waring (born 1952), New Zealand international development consultant
• Mark Watson (born 1952), American econometrician and macroeconomist
• Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), English sociologist and economist
• Sidney Webb (1859–1947), English socialist, economist and academic
• Alfred Weber (1868–1958), German economist and geographer
• Isabella Weber (born 1987), German economist active in the United States
• Max Weber (1864–1920), German sociologist and political economist
• Dorothy Wedderburn (1925–2012), English academic
• Beatrice Weder di Mauro (born 1965), Swiss economist and policy adviser
• Jens Weidmann (born 1968), German economist and central banker
• Burton Weisbrod (born 1931), American economist and academic
• Mark Weisbrot (living), American economist and writer
• Thomas J. Weiss (born 1942), American economist and academic
• Martin Weitzman (1942–2019), American economist and academic
• Richard Werner (born 1967), German/English banker and economist
• Brian Wesbury (born 1958), American macroeconomist and forecaster
• Richard Whately (1787–1863), English philosopher and economist
• Edward Lawrence Wheelwright (1921–2007), Australian economist and radio host
• Halbert White (1950–2012), American economist and academic
• Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), Swedish economist
• Philip H Wicksteed (1844–1927), English economist and theologian
• Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926), Austrian economist
• Clair Wilcox (1898–1970), American economist
• E.L.R. Williamson (1911-2000), Canadian economist and environmentalist
• John Williamson (1937–2021), English/American economist
• Oliver E. Williamson (1932–2020), American economist and academic
• Walter E. Williams (1936–2020), American economist and academic
• Ulrich Witt (born 1946), German economist and academic
• Charles Wolf, Jr (1924–2016), American economic adviser and researcher
• Martin Wolf (born 1946), English writer on economics
• Arnold Wolfers (1892–1968), Swiss/American economist and lawyer
• Justin Wolfers (born 1972), Australian economist and public policy expert
• Edward Wolff (born 1946), American economist and academic
• Richard D. Wolff (born 1942), American Marxian economist
• Myrna Wooders (born 1950), Canadian economist and game theorist
• Michael Dean Woodford (born 1955), American macroeconomist and monetary theorist
• Jeffrey Wooldridge (born 1960), American econometrician
• Lawrence Wong Shyun Tsai (黄循财, born 1972), Singaporean economist and politician
• Holbrook Working (1895–1985), American economist and statistician
• Stephen T. Worland (1923–2017, American economist and economic historian
• L. Randall Wray (born 1953), American economist and academic
• Simon Wren-Lewis (living), English economist and economic policy expert
• Gavin Wright (born 1943), American economic historian
• Philip Green Wright (1861–1934), American economist and econometrician
• Randall Wright (born 1956), Canadian macroeconomist
• Wu Jinglian (吴敬琏, born 1940), Chinese economist

X

• 
  Xenophon of Athens

• Xenophon (c. 430–354 BCE), Ancient Greek, author of Oeconomicus

Y

• 
  Janet Yellen
• 
  Muhammad Yunus

• Menahem Yaari (born 1935), Israeli economist
• Basil Yamey (1919–2020), S African economist
• Xiaokai Yang (杨小凯, 1948–2004), Chinese/Australian economist and analyst
• Janet Yellen (born 1946), American economist and policy-maker
• Allyn Abbott Young (1876–1929), American/British economist and statistician
• Alwyn Young (living), English economist and academic
• Arthur Young (1741–1820), English agriculturalist
• Peyton Young (born 1945), American game theorist and economist
• Yu Guangyuan (于光遠, 1915–2013), Chinese economist and philosopher
• Linda Yueh (born 1977), Taiwanese/American economist and broadcaster
• Muhammad Yunus (born 1940), Bangladeshi entrepreneur and economist

Z

• Richard Zeckhauser (born 1940), American economist and academic
• Zeine Ould Zeidane (born 1966), Mauritanian economist and politician
• Milan Zeleny (born 1942), Czechoslovak/American politician
• Arnold Zellner (1927–2010), American economist and statistician
• Yves Zenou (living), French/Swedish economist and academic
• Zhang Weiying (张维迎, born 1959), Chinese economist and academic
• Zhou Xiaochuan (周小川, born 1948), Chinese economist and banking official
• Jeffrey Zients (born 1966), American business executive and government official
• Fabrizio Zilibotti (born 1964), Italian/American economist and academic
• Luigi Zingales (born 1963), Italian economist and finance professor
• Xenophon Zolotas (1904–2004), Greek economist and prime minister

See also

• History of economic thought
• Schools of economic thought
• List of Austrian-school economists
• List of business theorists
• List of feminist economists
• List of game theorists
• List of Jewish economists
• List of Marxian economists
• List of Nobel laureates in Economics
• List of socialist economists
• List of Slovenian economists
• List of think tanks
• List of Uruguayan economists

External links

• Media related to Economists at Wikimedia Commons
• Overview: History of Economic Thought – Famous Economists
• Tom Coupé's list of the top 1000 contemporary economists, ranked by publication impact, at IDEAS/RePEc
• List of top 5% of contemporary economists, ranked by current research impact, at IDEAS/RePEc