Biographies: Notable Economists

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Notable Economists

Beatrice Potter Webb

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• Three Economists and Their Theories

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Biographies by Category

• Adams, Henry Carter, American economist
• Allais, Maurice, French economist
• Angell, Sir Norman (Ralph Norman Angell Lane), British internationalist and economist
• Arrow, Kenneth Joseph, American economist
• Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen, Austrian economist
• Babson, Roger Ward, American businessman and statistician
• Balch, Emily Greene, American economist and sociologist
• Bernanke, Ben Shalom, U.S. economist and government official
• Beveridge, William Henry, British economist
• Buchanan, James McGill, American economist
• Burns, Arthur Frank, American economist
• Carey, Henry Charles, American economist
• Cassel, Gustav, Swedish economist
• Chamberlin, Edward, American economist
• Clapham, Sir John Harold, English economic historian
• Clark, Colin, British economist
• Clark, John Bates, American economist
• Cleveland, Frederick Albert, American economist,
• Coase, Ronald H., American economist
• Cole, George Douglas Howard, English economist, labor historian, and socialist
• Colquhoun, Patrick, British economist and statistician
• Debreu, Gerard, French-American economist
• Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, American economist
• Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, French economist
• Duisenberg, Willem Frederik, Dutch banker and advocate of European monentary union
• Ely, Richard Theodore, American economist
• Fisher, Irving, American economist
• Friedman, Milton, American economist
• Frisch, Ragnar, Norwegian economist
• Galbraith, John Kenneth, American economist and public official
• Galiani, Ferdinando, Italian economist
• George, Henry, American economist
• Gide, Charles, French economist
• Greenspan, Alan, American economist
• Harsanyi, John Charles, economist, educator
• Harvey, William Hope, American writer on economics
• Hayek, Friedrich August von, British economist
• Heckscher, Eli Filip, Swedish economic historian
• Heilbroner, Robert Louis, American economist
• Hicks, Sir John Richard, British economist
• Hobson, John Atkinson, English economist and journalist
• Innis, Harold Adams, Canadian political economist
• Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple, American economist
• Kantorovich, Leonid Vitalyevich, Soviet economist and mathematician
• Kellogg, Edward, American economist
• Keynes, John Maynard, English economist and monetary expert
• Klein, Lawrence Robert, American economist
• Knight, Frank Hyneman, American economist
• Koopmans, Tjalling Charles, American economist
• Kuznets, Simon, American economist
• Laughlin, James Laurence, American economist
• Leontief, Wassily, American economist
• Levasseur, Émile, French economist
• Lewis, Sir Arthur, British economist
• List, Friedrich, German economist
• Malthus, Thomas Robert, English economist
• Marshall, Alfred, English economist
• Martin, William McChesney, Jr., U.S. banker
• Meade, James Edward, British economist
• Menger, Carl, Austrian economist
• Mitchell, Wesley Clair, American economist
• Modigliani, Franco, American economist
• Monnet, Jean, French economist and public official
• Myrdal, Gunnar, Swedish economist
• Pareto, Vilfredo, Italian economist and sociologist
• Pigou, Arthur Cecil, British economist
• Ricardo, David, British economist
• Robertson, Sir Dennis, British economist
• Robinson, Joan Violet, British economist
• Rogers, James Harvey, American economist
• Roscher, Wilhelm, German economist
• Samuelson, Paul A., American economist
• Schäffle, Albert, German economist and sociologist
• Schumpeter, Joseph Alois, Austrian-American economist
• Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson, American economist
• Simon, Herbert Alexander, American social scientist and economist
• Smith, Adam, Scottish economist
• Solow, Robert M., American economist
• Stamp, Josiah Charles, English economist and financier
• Stigler, George Joseph, American economist
• Thurow, Lester Carl, American economist
• Tinbergen, Jan, Dutch economist
• Tobin, James, American economist
• Toynbee, Arnold, English economic historian
• Veblen, Thorstein, American economist and social critic
• Volcker, Paul Adolph, American economist
• Walker, Francis Amasa, American economist
• Walras, Léon, French economist
• Webb, Beatrice Potter, English socialist economist
• Yunus, Muhammad, English socialist economist