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NAME OCCUPATION SUMMARY BORN DIED  
H. Gardner Ackley Economist US Ambassador to Italy, 1968-69 30-Jun-1915 12-Feb-1998 DEAD
Henry Carter Adams Economist Public Debts 31-Dec-1851 11-Aug-1921 DEAD
George A. Akerlof Economist Asymmetric markets 17-Jun-1940 TBD ADD
Maurice Allais Economist Monopoly pricing and the Allais effect 31-May-1911 TBD ADD
Kenneth J. Arrow Economist Social Choice and Individual Values 23-Aug-1921 TBD ADD
Pedro Aspe Economist Mexican Minister of Finance, 1988-94 07-Jul-1950 TBD ADD
Robert J. Aumann Economist Game theorist 08-Jun-1930 TBD ADD
Roger Babson Economist Founder of Babson College 06-Jul-1875 05-Mar-1967 DEAD
Walter Bagehot Economist Editor of The Economist, 1860-77 03-Feb-1826 24-Mar-1877 DEAD
Katherine Baicker Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 2005-07 ? TBD ADD
Samuel Bailey Economist Formation and Publication of Opinions 1791 18-Jan-1870 DEAD
Martin N. Baily Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1995-96, 1999-2001 1945 TBD ADD
Dean Baker Economist Center for Economic and Policy Research 13-Jul-1958 TBD ADD
Paul A. Baran Economist Marxist economist 08-Dec-1910 26-Mar-1964 DEAD
Gary S. Becker Economist Human Capital 02-Dec-1940 TBD ADD
C. Fred Bergsten Economist Institute for International Economics 23-Apr-1941 TBD ADD
Ben Bernanke Economist Federal Reserve Chairman 13-Dec-1953 TBD ADD
Rebecca M. Blank Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1998-99 19-Sep-1955 TBD ADD
Alan S. Blinder Economist Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve 14-Oct-1945 TBD ADD
Roy Blough Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1950-52 1901 2000 DEAD
Jean Bodin Economist Six livres de la République 1530 1596 DEAD
Michael J. Boskin Economist Economics Professor, Stanford University 23-Sep-1945 TBD ADD
Kenneth E. Boulding Economist The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society 18-Jan-1910 18-Mar-1993 DEAD
David F. Bradford Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 08-Jan-1939 22-Feb-2005 DEAD
Karl Brandt Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1958-61 09-Jan-1899 08-Jul-1975 DEAD
Andrew Brimmer Economist Federal Reserve Governor, 1966-74 13-Sep-1926 TBD ADD
J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr. Economist President of the Richmond Fed, 1993-2004 08-Jul-1939 TBD ADD
James M. Buchanan Economist Public Choice Theory 02-Oct-1919 TBD ADD
Nikolai Bukharin Economist Soviet theoretical economist 09-Oct-1888 15-Mar-1938 DEAD
Arthur F. Burns Economist Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1970-78 27-Apr-1904 06-Jun-1987 DEAD
Henry C. Carey Economist The Principles of Social Science 15-Dec-1793 13-Oct-1879 DEAD
Dennis W. Carlton Economist Economics Professor, University of Chicago 1950 TBD ADD
John Cavanagh Economist Institute for Policy Studies ? TBD ADD
John Bates Clark Economist Philosophy of Wealth 26-Jan-1847 21-Mar-1938 DEAD
John D. Clark Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-53 26-Sep-1884 06-Nov-1961 DEAD
Ronald H. Coase Economist Transactions costs and property rights 29-Dec-1910 TBD ADD
George Douglas Howard Cole Economist British Labour theorist 25-Sep-1889 14-Jan-1959 DEAD
Kathleen B. Cooper Economist Dean, UNT Business School 1948 TBD ADD
Joseph S. Davis Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-58 05-Nov-1885 1975 DEAD
Gerard Debreu Economist Supply and demand theorist 04-Jul-1921 31-Dec-2004 DEAD
James S. Duesenberry Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1966-68 18-Jul-1918 TBD ADD
George C. Eads Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1979-81 20-Aug-1942 TBD ADD
William Easterly Economist The White Man's Burden 1957 TBD ADD
Alexander Eckstein Economist Sinologist, China's Economic Revolution 09-Dec-1915 04-Dec-1976 DEAD
Otto Eckstein Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-66 01-Aug-1927 22-Mar-1984 DEAD
Richard T. Ely Economist Introduction to Political Economy 13-Apr-1854 04-Oct-1943 DEAD
Ernst Engel Economist Engel's Law 21-Mar-1821 08-Dec-1896 DEAD
Friedrich Engels Economist Communist Manifesto 28-Nov-1820 05-Aug-1895 DEAD
Robert F. Engle III Economist Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity 10-Nov-1942 TBD ADD
Paul Erdman Economist The Billion Dollar Sure Thing 19-May-1932 23-Apr-2007 DEAD
Charles L. Evans Economist President and CEO, Chicago Fed 15-Jan-1958 TBD ADD
Kathleen Foley Feldstein Economist Economics Studies, Inc. 1941 TBD ADD
Martin Feldstein Economist Reagan economist 25-Nov-1939 TBD ADD
William J. Fellner Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1973-75 31-May-1905 15-Sep-1983 DEAD
Franklin M. Fisher Economist Economist at MIT 13-Dec-1934 TBD ADD
Irving Fisher Economist The Theory of Interest 27-Feb-1867 29-Apr-1947 DEAD
Robert W. Fogel Economist Cliometrics 01-Jul-1926 TBD ADD
Kristin J. Forbes Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05 21-Aug-1970 TBD ADD
Gail D. Fosler Economist President, The Conference Board 1948 TBD ADD
Jeffrey A. Frankel Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1997-99 05-Nov-1952 TBD ADD
Richard Freeman Economist Labor economist 29-Jun-1943 TBD ADD
Milton Friedman Economist 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics 31-Jul-1912 16-Nov-2006 DEAD
Ragnar Frisch Economist Econometrics pioneer 03-Mar-1895 31-Jan-1973 DEAD
John Kenneth Galbraith Economist Modern economics renegade 15-Oct-1908 29-Apr-2006 DEAD
Henry George Economist Progress and Poverty 02-Sep-1839 29-Oct-1897 DEAD
Melchiorre Gioja Economist Filosofia della Statistica 20-Sep-1767 02-Jan-1829 DEAD
Stephen M. Goldfeld Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1980-81 09-Aug-1940 25-Aug-1995 DEAD
Austan Goolsbee Economist Obama economics advisor 1969 TBD ADD
Kermit Gordon Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-62 1916 1976 DEAD
Henry F. Grady Economist First US Ambassador to India, 1947-48 12-Feb-1882 14-Sep-1957 DEAD
Lyle Gramley Economist Former Federal Reserve governor 14-Jan-1927 TBD ADD
Clive W.J. Granger Economist Granger causality 04-Sep-1934 TBD ADD
Alan Greenspan Economist Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006 06-Mar-1926 TBD ADD
Zvi Griliches Economist Technology, Education, and Productivity 12-Sep-1930 04-Nov-1999 DEAD
Trygve Haavelmo Economist Economic forecasting 13-Dec-1911 28-Jul-1999 DEAD
Roy Harrod Economist Towards a Dynamic Economics 13-Feb-1900 09-Mar-1978 DEAD
John C. Harsanyi Economist Game theory 29-May-1920 09-Aug-2000 DEAD
Jerry A. Hausman Economist Hausman Specification Test 05-May-1946 TBD ADD
F. A. Hayek Economist Austrian economist 08-May-1899 23-Mar-1992 DEAD
James J. Heckman Economist Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior 19-Apr-1944 TBD ADD
Robert Heilbroner Economist The Worldly Philosophers 24-Mar-1919 04-Jan-2005 DEAD
Walter W. Heller Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-64 27-Aug-1915 15-Jun-1987 DEAD
Keith B. Hennessey Economist National Economic Council ? TBD ADD
John R. Hicks Economist Value and Capital 08-Apr-1904 20-May-1989 DEAD
Thomas M. Hoenig Economist President and CEO, Kansas City Fed 06-Sep-1946 TBD ADD
Douglas Holtz-Eakin Economist McCain chief economic advisor 03-Feb-1958 TBD ADD
Francis Horner Economist Bullion Report 12-Aug-1778 08-Feb-1817 DEAD
Hendrik S. Houthakker Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 31-Dec-1924 TBD ADD
Allan Hubbard Economist George W. Bush economist 08-Sep-1947 TBD ADD
Glenn Hubbard Economist George W. Bush economist 1958 TBD ADD
Leonid Hurwicz Economist Mechanism design theory 21-Aug-1917 24-Jun-2008 DEAD
Douglas A. Irwin Economist Free Trade Under Fire 1962 TBD ADD
Donald P. Jacobs Economist Dean of the Kellogg School, 1975-2001 22-Jun-1927 TBD ADD
Neil H. Jacoby Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55 19-Sep-1909 31-May-1979 DEAD
William Stanley Jevons Economist Theory of Political Economy 01-Sep-1835 13-Aug-1882 DEAD
Manuel H. Johnson Economist Federal Reserve Governor, 1986-90 10-Feb-1949 TBD ADD
Jerry L. Jordan Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1981-82 12-Dec-1941 TBD ADD
Dale W. Jorgenson Economist Economist at Harvard 07-May-1933 TBD ADD
Paul L. Joskow Economist Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 1946 TBD ADD
DeAnne S. Julius Economist Chairman, Royal Institute of International Affairs 14-Apr-1949 TBD ADD
John Maynard Keynes Economist Economist advocated deficit necessity 05-Jun-1883 21-Apr-1946 DEAD
Leon H. Keyserling Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-53 22-Jan-1908 09-Aug-1987 DEAD
Lawrence R. Klein Economist Macroeconometric modeling 14-Sep-1920 TBD ADD
Donald L. Kohn Economist Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve 07-Nov-1942 TBD ADD
Tjalling C. Koopmans Economist Linear programming 28-Aug-1910 26-Feb-1985 DEAD
Marie-Josée Kravis Economist President of MoMA 11-Sep-1949 TBD ADD
Randall S. Kroszner Economist Federal Reserve Governor 22-Jun-1962 TBD ADD
Lawrence Kudlow Economist Kudlow & Cramer 20-Aug-1947 TBD ADD
Simon Kuznets Economist National Income and Its Composition 30-Apr-1901 08-Jul-1985 DEAD
Finn E. Kydland Economist Dynamic macroeconomics 00-Dec-1943 TBD ADD
Jeffrey M. Lacker Economist President and CEO, Richmond Fed 27-Sep-1955 TBD ADD
Arthur B. Laffer Economist Reagan advisor, Laffer curve 14-Aug-1940 TBD ADD
Nicholas R. Lardy Economist Senior fellow, Institute for International Economics 1946 TBD ADD
Lyndon LaRouche Economist Eccentric economist politician 08-Sep-1922 TBD ADD
Robert Z. Lawrence Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001 1948 TBD ADD
Edward Lazear Economist Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors 1948 TBD ADD
Wassily Leontief Economist Structure of the American Economy 05-Aug-1906 05-Feb-1999 DEAD
David Lereah Economist National Association of Realtors ? TBD ADD
Abba Lerner Economist The Economics of Control 28-Oct-1903 27-Oct-1982 DEAD
Steven Levitt Economist Freakonomics 1968 TBD ADD
Theodore Levitt Economist Marketing Myopia 01-Mar-1925 28-Jun-2006 DEAD
Arthur Lewis Economist Economics of developing nations 23-Jan-1915 15-Jun-1991 DEAD
John P. Lewis Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1963-64 1921 TBD ADD
Larry Lindsey Economist Masterminded GWB's tax cut 18-Jul-1954 TBD ADD
John Lott Economist More Guns, Less Crime 08-May-1958 TBD ADD
Robert Lucas Economist Theory of rational expectations 15-Sep-1937 TBD ADD
Paul W. MacAvoy Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1975-76 21-Apr-1934 TBD ADD
Burton Malkiel Economist A Random Walk Down Wall Street 28-Aug-1932 TBD ADD
Thomas Malthus Economist Essay on the Principle of Population 13-Feb-1766 29-Dec-1834 DEAD
Greg Mankiw Economist George W Bush economist 03-Feb-1958 TBD ADD
Harry M. Markowitz Economist Portfolio theory 24-Aug-1927 TBD ADD
William McChesney Martin Economist Federal Reserve Chairman, 1951-70 17-Dec-1906 29-Jul-1998 DEAD
Karl Marx Economist Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto 05-May-1818 14-Mar-1883 DEAD
Eric Maskin Economist Mechanism design theory 12-Dec-1950 TBD ADD
Paul W. McCracken Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 29-Dec-1915 TBD ADD
Daniel L. McFadden Economist Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior 29-Jul-1937 TBD ADD
James Edward Meade Economist Theory of International Economic Policy 23-Jun-1907 22-Dec-1995 DEAD
Robert C. Merton Economist Risk management and options 31-Jul-1944 TBD ADD
Laurence H. Meyer Economist Federal Reserve Governor, 1996-2002 08-Mar-1944 TBD ADD
James C. Miller III Economist Conservative economist 25-Jun-1942 TBD ADD
Merton H. Miller Economist Modigliani-Miller theorem 16-May-1923 03-Jun-2000 DEAD
James A. Mirrlees Economist Asymmetric information in economics 05-Jul-1936 TBD ADD
Frederic S. Mishkin Economist Federal Reserve Governor 11-Jan-1951 TBD ADD
Wesley Clair Mitchell Economist Business Cycles 05-Aug-1874 29-Oct-1948 DEAD
Franco Modigliani Economist Life-cycle theory 18-Jun-1918 25-Sep-2003 DEAD
Thomas Gale Moore Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1985-89 06-Nov-1930 TBD ADD
Oskar Morgenstern Economist Game theorist 24-Jan-1902 26-Jul-1977 DEAD
Robert A. Mundell Economist Floating exchange rates 24-Oct-1932 TBD ADD
Alicia H. Munnell Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1996-97 12-Jun-1942 TBD ADD
Michael L. Mussa Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1986-88 15-Apr-1944 TBD ADD
Roger B. Myerson Economist Mechanism design theory 29-Mar-1951 TBD ADD
Gunnar Myrdal Economist Monetary Equilibrium 06-Dec-1898 17-May-1987 DEAD
Rick Nevin Economist ICF Consulting Group ? TBD ADD
Joseph P. Newhouse Economist Rand economist, Harvard professor 24-Feb-1942 TBD ADD
Douglass C. North Economist Cliometrics 05-Nov-1920 TBD ADD
Edwin G. Nourse Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49 20-May-1883 07-Apr-1974 DEAD
Shijuro Ogata Economist Trilateral Commission's Pacific Asia deputy ? TBD ADD
Bertil Ohlin Economist Hecksher-Ohlin model of free trade 23-Apr-1899 03-Aug-1979 DEAD
Arthur M. Okun Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-69 28-Nov-1928 23-Mar-1980 DEAD
Mark W. Olson Economist Chairman, PCAOB 17-Mar-1943 TBD ADD
Mollie Orshansky Economist Orshansky Index 09-Jan-1915 18-Dec-2006 DEAD
Frédéric Passy Economist Nobel Prize recipient 20-May-1822 12-Jun-1912 DEAD
Merton J. Peck Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1968-69 1926 TBD ADD
Edmund S. Phelps Economist Golden Rules of Economic Growth 26-Jul-1933 TBD ADD
Sandra Pianalto Economist President and CEO, Cleveland Fed 04-Aug-1954 TBD ADD
Charles Plosser Economist President and CEO, Philadelphia Fed 19-Sep-1948 TBD ADD
Bill Poole Economist President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 19-Jun-1937 TBD ADD
Edward C. Prescott Economist Dynamic macroeconomics 26-Dec-1940 TBD ADD
Richard W. Rahn Economist The End of Money 1941 TBD ADD
John Raisian Economist Director, Hoover Institution 1953 TBD ADD
David Ricardo Economist Principles of Political Economy 18-Apr-1772 11-Sep-1823 DEAD
Alice Rivlin Economist Founding director, Congressional Budget Office 04-Mar-1931 TBD ADD
Paul Craig Roberts Economist The Supply-Side Revolution 1939 TBD ADD
Kenneth S. Rogoff Economist Harvard economist 22-Mar-1953 TBD ADD
Harvey S. Rosen Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05 29-Mar-1949 TBD ADD
Eric S. Rosengren Economist President and CEO, Boston Fed 03-Jun-1957 TBD ADD
Jeffrey A. Rosensweig Economist Finance Professor at Emory 1957 TBD ADD
Stephen A. Ross Economist Professor of Financial Economics, MIT 1943 TBD ADD
Murray Rothbard Economist Anarcho-capitalist 02-Mar-1926 07-Jan-1995 DEAD
Jeffrey Sachs Economist The End of Poverty 05-Nov-1954 TBD ADD
Paul Samuelson Economist 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics 15-May-1915 TBD ADD
Raymond J. Saulnier Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-61 20-Sep-1908 TBD DEAD
Thomas C. Schelling Economist The Strategy of Conflict 14-Apr-1921 TBD ADD
Richard L. Schmalensee Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 1944 TBD ADD
Myron S. Scholes Economist Black-Scholes options pricing model 01-Jul-1941 TBD ADD
Theodore W. Schultz Economist Investment in Human Capital 30-Apr-1902 26-Feb-1998 DEAD
Charles L. Schultze Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1977-81 1924 TBD ADD
Klaus Schwab Economist Founder, World Economic Forum 30-Mar-1938 TBD ADD
Anna J. Schwartz Economist A Monetary History of the United States 1915 TBD ADD
Gary L. Seevers Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1973-75 1938 TBD ADD
L. William Seidman Economist CNBC chief commentator 29-Apr-1921 TBD ADD
Reinhard Selten Economist Game theory 05-Oct-1930 TBD ADD
Amartya Sen Economist Poverty and Famines 03-Nov-1933 TBD ADD
William F. Sharpe Economist Capital asset pricing model 16-Jun-1934 TBD ADD
Kathryn L. Shaw Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001 1954 TBD ADD
Robert Shiller Economist Irrational Exuberance 1946 TBD ADD
Martin Shubik Economist Economist 24-Mar-1926 TBD ADD
Herbert A. Simon Economist Administrative Behavior 15-Jun-1916 09-Feb-2001 DEAD
Mark Skousen Economist Forecasts & Strategies 1948 TBD ADD
Matthew J. Slaughter Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 2005-07 1968 TBD ADD
Adam Smith Economist Wealth of Nations 05-Jun-1723 17-Jul-1790 DEAD
Vernon L. Smith Economist Experimental economics 01-Jan-1927 TBD ADD
Warren L. Smith Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1968-69 1914 20-Apr-1972 DEAD
Lewis C. Solmon Economist Education reformer 17-Jul-1942 17-Dec-2007 DEAD
Ezra Solomon Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1971-73 1920 09-Dec-2002 DEAD
Robert M. Solow Economist Theory of economic growth 23-Aug-1924 TBD ADD
Hugo F. Sonnenschein Economist President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000 1941 TBD ADD
Thomas Sowell Economist Conservative economist, Hoover fellow 30-Jul-1930 TBD ADD
A. Michael Spence Economist Asymmetric markets 07-Nov-1943 TBD ADD
Gene Sperling Economist Chief Economic Advisor, 1996-2000 24-Dec-1958 TBD ADD
Beryl W. Sprinkel Economist Council of Economic Advisers, 1985-89 20-Nov-1923 TBD ADD
Herbert Stein Economist Economic adviser for Nixon 27-Aug-1916 08-Sep-1999 DEAD
Gary H. Stern Economist President and CEO, Minneapolis Fed 03-Nov-1944 TBD