List of economists
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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.
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- Edith Abbott (1876–1957), American economist and social worker
- Daron Acemoglu (b. 1967), Turkish/American economist
- Nicola Acocella (b. 1939), Italian economist
- Zoltan Acs (b. 1947), American economics professor
- Henry Carter Adams (1851–1921), American economist
- Walter Adams (1922–1998), American economist and congressional expert
- Philippe Aghion (b. 1956), French economist
- Montek Singh Ahluwalia (b. 1943), Indian economist
- Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad (b. 1943), Bangladeshi economist and environmentalist
- George Akerlof (b. 1940), American economist and shared winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
- Armen Alchian (1914–2013), American economist
- Alberto Alesina (b. 1957), Italian political economist
- 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 (b. 1956), American economist
- R. G. D. Allen (1906–1983), English economist and statistician
- Gar Alperovitz (b. 1936), American political economist and historian
- Lee J. Alston (b. 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 (b. 1935), Japanese economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece
- Georges Anderla (1921–2005), Czechoslovak-born French economist
- Donald Andrews (b. 1955), Canadian economist
- George-Marios Angeletos (b. 1975), Greek/American economist
- Norman Angell (1872–1967), English economist and politician
- Joshua Angrist (b. 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
- Pérsio Arida (b. 1952), Brazilian economist
- Dan Ariely (b. 1967), Israeli/American behavioral economist
- Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), German-born Australian economist
- Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017), American economist, joint winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1972
- Orley Ashenfelter (b. 1942), American economist
- William Ashley (1860–1927), English economic historian
- Cliff Asness (b. 1966) American economist and hedge -fund manager
- Jeremy Atack (b. 1949) Anglo-American economic historian
- Susan Athey (b. 1970), American economist
- Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944–2017), British economist
- Orazio Attanasio (b. 1959), Italian economist
- Thomas Attwood (1783–1856), British economist
- David B. Audretsch (b. 1954), American economist
- Leonardo Auernheimer (1936–2010), Argentine economist and international monetary consultant
- Robert Aumann (b. 1930), Israeli/American mathematician and 2005 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
- George Ayittey (b. 1945), Ghanaian economist
- Clarence Ayres (1891–1972), American economist
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- Ali Babacan (b. 1967), Turkish economic minister
- Roger Babson (1875–1967), American business theorist
- Louis Bachelier (1870–1946), French mathematician
- Roger Backhouse (b. 1951), British economist
- Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), British 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 (b. 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 (b. 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), Aemrican economist
- Sir James Ball (1933–2018), British econometrician, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London Business School and a leader in the field of econometric modeling
- Ludwig Bamberger (1823–1899), German economist, politician and writer
- Abhijit Banerjee (b. 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 (b. 1939), Indian economist, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
- William A. Barnett (b. 1941), American economist, works in chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity
- Enrico Barone (1859–1924), Italian soldier, military historian, and economist
- Nicholas Barr (living), British economist, professor of public economics at the London School of Economics
- Raymond Barre (1924–2007), French economist and politician
- Robert Barro (b. 1944), American classical macroeconomist, presently the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University
- Yoram Barzel (b. 1931), Israeli economist, works in property rights, applied price theory, and political economy
- Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850), French classical liberal theorist, political economist
- Kaushik Basu (b. 1952), Indian economist and academic, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank
- Ravi Batra (b. 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 (b. 1963), Ghanaian economist; worked at the Research Department of International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., United States
- Eugen Boehm von Bawerk (1851–1914), Austrian, founder of the Austrian School of economics
- Robert Dudley Baxter (1827–1875), English economist and statistician
- Michael Baye (b. 1958)
- Charlie Bean (b. 1953)
- 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
- Mahamudu Bawumia (b. 1963), Tamale, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana
- Dwayne Benjamin (b. 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 (b. 1941), American founder of the Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Albert 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 (b. 1953), American economist, former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
- Jared Bernstein (1925–2005), American economist
- Marianne Bertrand (b. c. 1970), Belgian economist
- Tim Besley (b. 1960)
- William Beveridge (1879–1963)
- Truman Bewley (b. 1941)
- Jagdish Bhagwati (b. 1934), Indian economist and professor of economics and law at Columbia University
- Debapriya Bhattacharya (living), Bangladeshi economist and policy analyst
- Mark Bils (b. 1958), macroeconomist at the University of Rochester
- Nancy Birdsall (b. 1946), American founding president of the Center for Global Development
- Kenneth Binmore (b. 1940), British economist and game theorist, professor emeritus of economics at University College, London
- William K. Black (b. 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 (b. 1948), French, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund
- Rebecca Blank (b. 1955)
- Francine D. Blau (b. 1946)
- Knut Blind (b. 1965), German
- Alan Blinder (b. 1945), American economist, serves at Princeton University
- Walter Block (b. 1941), Americanfree market economist and anarcho-capitalist
- Barry Bluestone (b. 1944)
- John Blundell (1952–2014)
- Richard Blundell (b. 1952)
- Jean Bodin (1530–1596), French, early proponent of the Quantity Theory of Money
- Tito Boeri (b. 1958), Italian economist, professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan
- Peter J. Boettke (b. 1960), American economist of the Austrian School
- Michele Boldrin (b. 1956), Italian-American economist, expert in economic growth
- Tim Bollerslev (b. 1958), Danish economist
- Matilde Bombardini (living), Italian Canadian economist in Vancouver
- Murray Bookchin (1921–2006)
- Korkut Boratav (b. 1935), Turkish, marxist economist
- George Borjas (b. 1950), American, Harvard Kennedy School
- Michael Boskin (b. 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
- Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993), American economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker
- Heather Boushey (b. 1970), senior economist with the Center for US Progress
- Samuel Bowles (b. 1939), American Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Marcel Boyer (living)
- David Boyle (b. 1958)
- William Brainard (b. c. 1935)
- James Brander (b. 1953)
- Avishay Braverman (b. 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)
- 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 (b. 1946), British economist, professor of economics at the University of Oxford
- Markus Brunnermeier (b. 1969)
- 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 (b. 1937)
- Willem Buiter (b. 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
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- Ricardo J. Caballero (b. 1959), Chilean macroeconomist, holds the Ford International chair of economics at MIT
- Vince Cable (b. 1943), British 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 (b. 1941), Argentine economist
- John Y. Campbell (b. 1958), British/American economist, chairman of the Harvard economics department
- Colin Camerer (b. 1959), American economist
- Lisa Cameron (b. 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), British economist and historian of economic thought
- Bryan Caplan (b. 1971), American professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
- David Card (b. 1956), Canadian labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
- Henry Charles Carey (1793–1879), American economist of the American School of Capitalism
- Mark Carney (b. 1965), Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of England
- Kevin Carson (b. 1963), American social and political theorist and scholar of political economy writing in the mutualist and individualist anarchist traditions
- Richard Carson (b. 1955), environmental economist
- Agustín Carstens (b. 1958), Mexican economist, governor of the Bank of Mexico
- Anne P. Carter (b. 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 (b. 1942), Italian economist, Dean of the Faculty of Economics (2002–2011) and Professor of Economic Geography at "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome
- es:Ramón Antonio Cereijo (1913–2003)
- Seweryn Chajtman (1919–2012), Polish scientist, engineer, teacher of the Industrial Management, pioneered Computer Science in Poland, 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 (b. 1963), Korean, one of the leading heterodox economists and institutional economists specialising in development economics
- V. V. Chari (b. 1952), Indian/American economist
- Raj Chetty (b. 1979), Indian/American economist
- Steven N. S. Cheung (b. 1935), Chinese economist specializing in transaction costs and property rights
- Ajay Chhibber (living)
- Graciela Chichilnisky (b. 1946)
- Victoria Chick (b. 1936)
- Josiah Child (1630–1699), English mercantilist, politician and governor of the East India Company
- Menzie Chinn (b. 1961)
- Lawrence J. Christiano (b. 1952), American economist
- Richard Clarida (b. 1957)
- Colin Clark (1905–1989), British/Australian economist, pioneered the use of the gross national product (GNP)
- Gregory Clark (b. 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)
- Ronald Coase (1910–2013), winner of the Swedish central bankers' "Nobel" prize in 1991, for contributions including transaction costs and Coase theorem
- Warren Coats (b. 1942), American economist specializing in monetary policy
- John H. Cochrane
- 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 (b. 1951), British economist and euro-sceptic politician
- Alfred Haskell Conrad (1924–1970), American Harvard professor of economics
- Hugh E. Conway (b. 1942), American economist and professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces
- Richard N. Cooper (b. 1934)
- Russell W. Cooper (b. 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 (b. 1964)
- Christopher Coyne (b. 1977), F. A. Harper professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University
- Tyler Cowen (b. 1962), American economist and writer, one of the authors of the Marginal Revolution blog
- 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 (b. 1940)
- 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
- Jakša Cvitanić (b. 1962), Croatian/American economist, professor at Caltech
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- Uri Dadush (living), French scholar in Washington DC
- Hugh Dalton (1887–1962), British economist and politician
- Herman Daly (b. 1938), known as the 'father' of ecological economics
- George Dantzig (1914–2005), American mathematical scientist
- Sandy Darity, Jr. (b. 1953), American economist and researcher
- Partha Dasgupta (b. 1942), Bangladeshi/British development economist
- Charles Davenant (1656–1714), English mercantilist and politician
- Paul Davidson (b. 1930), American macroeconomist
- Antony Davies (b. 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 (b. 1945), Scottish-American economist and academic
- Gérard Debreu (1921–2004), French-American economist and mathematician
- Rajeev Dehejia (b. 1973), American professor of public policy
- J. Bradford DeLong (b. 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 (b. 1940), Indian/British economist and Labour Party politician
- Hernando de Soto Polar (b. 1941), Peruvian economist of the informal economy
- Pat Devine (living), British industrial economist
- Mathias Dewatripont (b. 1959), Belgian economist and professor
- Armando Di Filippo (living), Argentine economist and academic
- Douglas Diamond (b. 1953), American finance expert
- Peter Diamond (b. 1940), American social security expert
- Peter Dicken (b. 1938), British economic geographer
- Benjamin Diokno (b. 1948), Philippine central banker
- Avinash Dixit (b. 1944), Indian/American economist
- Huw Dixon (b. 1958), Welsh economist and academic
- Simeon Djankov (b. 1970), Bulgarian economist and politician
- Maurice Dobb (1900–1976), British Marxist economist
- David Dodd (1895–1988), American financial analyst
- Randall Dodd (living), American policy regulator
- Evsey Domar (1914–1997), Soviet/American economist
- Stephen J. Dubner (b. 1963), American economics author and broadcaster
- Esther Duflo (b. 1972), French/American economist
- Steven N. Durlauf (b. 1958), American economist and social scientist
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- Shlomo Eckstein (1929–2020), Israeli economist and academic
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926), Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist
- Sebastian Edwards (b. 1953), Chilean economist and academic
- Martin Eichenbaum (b. 1954), American professor of economics
- Barry Eichengreen (b. 1952), American economist and political scientist
- Alfred Eichner (1937–1988), American economist
- Ali M. El-Agraa (b. 1941), Sudanese/British economist
- Daniel Ellsberg (b. 1931), 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 (b. 1936), American economist and economic historian
- Robert F. Engle (b. 1942), American statistician and economist
- Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), German economist and politician
- Vanessa Erogbogbo (living), Ugandan/British development specialist
- José Luís Espert (b. 1961), Argentinian economist and politician
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- Marc Faber (b. 1946), Swiss investor based in Thailand
- Armin Falk (b. 1968), German economist and academic
- Günter Faltin (b. 1944), German economist and entrepreneur
- Eugene Fama b. 1939), American economist known for efficient-market hypothesis
- Emmanuel Farhi (1978–2020), French economist and academic
- Tacito Augusto Farias (b. 1958), Brazilian 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 (b. 1956), Austrian/Swiss behavioral economist
- Martin Feldstein (1939–2019), American economist and academic
- Randall K. Filer (b. 1952), American economist and researcher
- Amy Finkelstein (b. 1973), American economist and researcher
- Stanley Fischer (b. 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 (b. 1972), American entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Jean-Paul Fitoussi (1942), French economist and academic
- William Fleetwood (1656–1723), English statistician and bishop
- Marcus Fleming (1911–1976), British economist and stabilization expert
- Amelia Fletcher (b. 1966), British economist and singer
- John E. Floyd (b. 1937), Canadian economist and academic
- Karnit Flug (b. 1955), Polish/Israeli economist and bank governor
- Robert Fogel (1926–2013), American economic historian
- Charles Fourier (1772–1837), French philosopher and socialist thinker
- Joseph Francois (b. 1961), Swiss economist and academic
- Robert H. Frank (b. 1939), American economist and academic
- Jeffrey Frankel (b. 1952), American macroeconomist
- Bernie Fraser (b. 1941), Australian economist and bank governor
- Christopher Freeman (1921–2010), British economist and academic
- Richard B. Freeman (b. 1943), American economist and academic
- Bruno Frey (b. 1941), Swiss economist and academic
- Benjamin M. Friedman (b. 1944), American political economist
- David D. Friedman (b. 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 (b. 1977), American economist
- Drew Fudenberg (b. 1957), American economist and game-theory expert
- Masahisa Fujita (藤田昌久, b. 1943), Japanese economist and academic
- Connel Fullenkamp (b. 1965), American economist and academic
- Jason Furman (b. 1970), American economist and academic
- Celso Furtado (1920–2004), Brazilian economist and development expert
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- Xavier Gabaix (b. 1971), French/American economist
- Yegor Gaidar (1956–2009), Soviet/Russian economist and politician
- James Kenneth Galbraith (b. 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 (b. 1959), American economist and politician
- Jordi Galí (b. 1961), Spanish macroeconomist
- A. Ronald Gallant (b. 1942), American econometrician
- Mauro Gallegati (b. 1958), Italian economist and scholar
- Oded Galor (b. 1953), Israeli/American economist and academic
- Francisco Javier Carrillo Gamboa (living), Mexican knowledge-systems researcher
- László Garai (b. 1935), Hungarian psychologist and economist
- Gonzalo Garland (b. 1959), Peruvian economist and researcher
- Pierangelo Garegnani (1930–2011), Italian economist and academic
- Norton Garfinkle (b. 1931), American economist and economic historian
- Vusal Gasimli (b. 1975), Azerbaijani economist and academic
- Leonid Gatovsky (b. 1889, date of death unknown), Russian/Soviet economist
- John Geanakoplos (b. 1955), American economist and academic
- Jacques Généreux (b. 1956), French economist and politician
- Henry George (1839–1897), American political economist
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906–1994), Romanian statistician and economist
- Mark Gertler (b. 1951), American economist and academic
- Silvio Gesell (1862–1930), German economist and politician
- Jayati Ghosh (b. 1955), Indian development economist
- Eric Ghysels (b. 1956), Belgian economist and econometrician
- Francesco Giavazzi (b. 1949), Italian economist and academic
- Charles Gide (1847–1932), French economist and economic historian
- George Gilder (b. 1939), American economist and investor
- Richard T. Gill (b. 1927–2010), American economist and opera singer
- Victor Ginsburgh (b. 1939), Belgian economist
- Herbert Gintis (b. 1940), American economist and behavioral scientist
- Edward Glaeser (b. 1967), American economist and academic
- William Godwin (1756–1836), English economist and writer
- Claudia Goldin (b. 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 (b. 1936), British economist and academic
- George Goodman (aka "Adam Smith", 1930–2014), American economist and broadcaster
- Austan Goolsbee (b. 1969), American economist
- Myron J. Gordon (1920–2010), American/Canadian economist and academic
- Robert J. Gordon (b. 1940), American economist
- Gary Gorton (b. c. 1951), American economist and finance educator
- Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858), German economist
- Christian Gouriéroux (b. 1959), French econometrician
- Benjamin Graham (1894–1976), British/American economist and investor
- Phil Gramm (b. 1942), American economist and politician
- Clive Granger (1934–2009), Welsh/American econometrician
- George Grantham (b. 1941), American economist and academic
- Alan Greenspan (b. 1926), American economist and finance official
- Thomas Gresham (c. 1519–1579), English merchant and financier
- Stephany Griffith-Jones (b. 1947), British/American economist
- Zvi Griliches (1930–1999), Lithuanian/American economist
- Elgin Groseclose (1899–1983), American economist and statesman
- Gene Grossman (b. 1955), American economist and academic
- Henryk Grossman (1881–1950), Polish/German economist and revolutionary
- Jonathan Gruber (b. 1965), American economist and academic
- Rebeca Grynspan (b. 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
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- Trygve Haavelmo (1911–1999), Norwegian economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Gottfried Haberler (1900–1995), Austrian/American economist
- Charles Hall, (1740–1825), British/English social critic and physician
- Robert Hall (b. 1943), American economist and academic
- Andrew Hughes Hallett (1947–1919), British/Scottish economist and academic
- John Haltiwanger (b. 1955), American economist
- Daniel S. Hamermesh (b. 1943), American economist
- James D. Hamilton (b. 1954), American econometrician
- Steve H. Hanke (b. 1942), American applied economist
- Alvin Hansen (1887–1975), American economist and academic
- Lars Peter Hansen (b. 1952), American economist
- Eric Hanushek (b. 1943), American economist
- Mahbub ul Haq (1934–1998), Indian/Pakistani economist and politician
- Arnold Harberger (b. 1924), American economist
- Donald Harding (b. 1940), Australian expert in corporate law and securities regulation
- Tim Harford (b. 1973), English economist and broadcaster
- Charles Knickerbocker Harley (b. 1943), American economic historian
- Stephen Harper (b. 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 (b. 1948), British/American economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Campbell Harvey (b. 1958), Canadian/American economist and academic
- Jerry A. Hausman (b. 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 (b. 1944), American economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), Swedish political economist and economic historian
- Robert Heilbroner (1919–2005), American economist and historian of economics
- Carolyn Heinrich (b. 1967), American historian and academic
- Christian Hellwig (living), German macroeconomist
- Elhanan Helpman (b. 1946), Israeli/American economist and academic
- Hazel Henderson (b. 1933), British economist, ecologist and broadcaster
- David Forbes Hendry (b. 1944), British econometrician and academic
- Noreena Hertz (b. 1967), English economist and broadcaster
- William Hewins (1865–1931), British economist and politician
- John Hicks (1904–1989), British economist and joint Nobel Prize winner
- Michael J. Hicks (b. 1962), American economist and academic
- Robert Higgs (b. 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 (b. 1937), British/Canadian economist
- Bengt Holmstrom (b. 1949), Finnish/American economist and academic
- Charles A. Holt (b. 1948), American behavioral economist
- Harry J. Holzer (b. 1957), American economist and educator
- Kevin Hoover (b. 1955), American economist and philosopher
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe (b. 1949), German/American economist and philosopher
- Charles Horioka (チャールズ・ユウジ・ホリオカ, b. 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 (b. 1946), Canadian economist
- William Hsiao (蕭慶倫m b. 1936), Chinese/American economist and academic
- Glenn Hubbard (b. 1958), American economist and academic
- Michael Hudson (b. 1939), American economist and analyst
- David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish economist and philosopher
- Thomas M. Humphrey (b. 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), British economist
I[edit]
- Sri Mulyani Indrawati (b. 1962), Indonesian economist, banker and politician
- Stefan Ingves (b. 1953), Swedish national bank governor and economist
- Douglas Irwin (living), American economist and academic
- Mugur Isărescu (b. 1949), Romanian national bank governor and economist
- Otmar Issing (b. 1936), German economist and economic policy-maker
J[edit]
- Matthew O. Jackson (b. 1962), American economist and academic
- Tim Jackson (b. 1957), British ecological economist
- David A. Jaeger (b. 1964), Scottish economist and researcher
- Ravi Jagannathan (b. 1949), American economist and academic
- Eliot Janeway (1913–1993), American economist and author
- William H. Janeway (b. 1943), American economist and venture capitalist
- Robert A. Jarrow (living), American economist and academic
- Peter Jay (diplomat) (b. 1937), English economist and diplomat
- Michael Jensen (b. 1939), American financial economist
- William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882), English economist and logician
- Søren Johansen (b. 1939), Danish statistician and econometrician
- Harry Gordon Johnson (1923–1977), Canadian economist
- Simon Johnson (b. 1963), British/American 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 (b. 1963), Swiss economist and central banker
- Dale W. Jorgenson (b. 1933), American economist and academic
- Boyan Jovanovic (b. 1952), American economist and academic
K[edit]
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- Daniel Kahneman (b. 1934), Palestinian/Israeli economist and psychologist
- Ehud Kalai (b. 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 (b. 1961), American educational economist
- Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), Soviet mathematician and economist
- Ethan Kaplan (living), American economist and academic
- Steven Kaplan (b. 1959), American business economist
- Dean Karlan (living), American development economist
- Michael Kaser (b. 1926), British economist
- Lawrence F. Katz (b. 1959), American economist and academic
- Steve Keen (b. 1953), Australian economist and educator
- Timothy J. Kehoe (b. 1953), American economist and academic
- Stephanie Kelton (b. 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, b. 1955), Chinese economist and politician
- Srgjan Kerim (b. 1948), Yugoslav/Macedonian economist and diplomat
- John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), English political economist
- Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), Arab social scientist
- Mushtaq Khan (b. 1961), British/Bangladeshi economist and academic
- Homi Kharas (living), American economist and UN executive
- Mwai Kibaki (b. 1931), Kenyan economist and politician
- Mervyn King, British economist and Bank of England governor
- Robert G. King (b. 1951), American macroeconomist
- Bruce Kingma (b. 1961), American economist and entrepreneur
- Israel Kirzner (b. 1930), British/American economist
- Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (清滝信宏, b. 1955), Japanese/American macroeconomist
- Lawrence Klein (1920–2013), American econometrician and Nobel Prize winner
- Morton Klein (b. 1947), German/American economist and statistician
- Morris Kleiner (b.1948), American labor economist
- Paul Klemperer (b. 1956), British economist and academic
- Arnold Kling (b. 1954), American economist and writer
- Teun Kloek (b. 1934), Dutch econometrician
- Jan Kmenta (1928–2016), Czech/American economist and statistician
- Frank Knight (1885–1972), American economist and academic
- Lilian Knowles (1870–1926), British economic historian
- Klaas Knot (b. 1967), Dutch economist and central banker
- Narayana Kocherlakota (b. 1963), American economist and academic
- Leopold Kohr (1909–1994), Austrian/British economist and political scientist
- John Komlos (b. 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 (b. 1928), Hungarian economist and theorist
- Andrey Korotayev (b. 1961), Soviet/Russian economic historian and sociologist
- Naum Krasner (1924–1999), Soviet/Russian economist and mathematician
- Lawrence B. Krause (b. 1929), American economist and economic advisor
- Jan Kregel (b. 1944), American economist and UN executive
- Michael Kremer (b. 1964), American development economist and academic
- David M. Kreps (b. 1950), American game theorist and economist
- Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), American economist and political scientist
- Anne Osborn Krueger (b. 1934), American economist and IMF executive
- Paul Krugman (b. 1953), American economist, academic and Nobel Prize winner
- Per Krusell (b. 1959), Swedish macroeconomist
- Lawrence Kudlow (b. 1947), American finance analyst
- Adriana Kugler (b. 1969), American economist and public-policy academic
- Maurice Kugler (b. 1967), American economist and public-policy academic
- Robert Kuttner (b. 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 (b. 1943), Norwegian/American economist and academic
L[edit]
- Ludwig Lachmann (1906–1890), German economist
- Arthur Laffer (b. 1940), American economist
- Jean-Jacques Laffont (1947–2004), French economist
- Ricardo Lagos (b. 1938), Chilean economist and lawyer
- David Laibson (b. 1966), American economist
- David Laidler (b. 1938), British economist
- Domingo Laino (b. 1935), Paraguayan economist and politician
- John A. Laitner (b. 1947), American economist and environmentalist
- Naomi Lamoreaux (b. 1950), American economic historian
- Steven Landsburg (b. 1954), American economist
- Philip R. Lane (b. 1954), American economist
- Lang Xianping (郎咸平, b. 1956), Hong Kong-based economist
- Oskar Lange (1904–1965), Polish economist and diplomat
- Serge Latouche (b. 1940), French economist
- John Law (1671–1629), Scottish economist
- Richard Layard (b. 1934), British economist
- Edward Lazear (1948–2020), American economist
- Edward E. Leamer (b. 1944), American economist
- Stanley Lebergott (1918–2009), American economist
- Lewis Lehrman (b. 1938), American economist and banker
- Frederic Sterling Lee (1949–2014), American economist
- Peter Leeson (b. 1979), American economist
- Axel Leijonhufvud (b. 1933), Swedish economist
- Manuela Ferreira Leite (b. 1940), Portuguese economist and politician
- Leonard Liggio
- Wassily Leontief
- Abba Lerner
- Leonardus Lessius
- Richard Levin
- David K. Levine
- Lars Lefgren
- Steven D. Levitt
- Arthur Lewbel
- Arthur Lewis
- Tracy R. Lewis
- Kevin Leyton-Brown
- Evsei Liberman
- Justin Yifu Lin
- Michael Lind
- Erik Lindahl
- Assar Lindbeck
- Friedrich List
- John A. List
- Andrew Lo
- John Locke
- William Forster Lloyd
- Bernard Lonergan
- Frédéric Lordon
- Max O. Lorenz
- Pascal Lorot
- Andreas Löschel
- John Lott
- Robert Lucas, Jr.
- Stephen J. Luczo
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Gerard Lyons
M[edit]
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Donald MacDougall
- Mark J. Machina
- Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías
- Henry Dunning Macleod
- Adil Abdul-Mahdi
- Edmond Malinvaud
- Burton Malkiel
- Thomas Malthus
- Gerard de Malynes
- N. Gregory Mankiw
- Henry Manne
- Alan Manning
- Edwin Mansfield
- Charles Manski
- Mao Yushi
- Harry Markowitz
- Karl Marlo
- Jacob Marschak
- Alfred Marshall
- Marsh Marshall
- Xavier Sala i Martin
- Harriet Martineau
- Karl Marx, founder of Marxian economics
- Eric Maskin
- Jason Gaverick Matheny
- Paul Mattick
- Richard Maybury
- C. M. Mayo
- Preston McAfee
- Bennett McCallum
- Rachel McCleary
- Deirdre McCloskey
- John Ramsey McCulloch
- Paul McCulley
- James McDonald
- Daniel McFadden
- Richard McKelvey
- Lionel W. McKenzie
- Warwick McKibbin
- David McWilliams
- James Meade
- Gardiner Means
- Marc Melitz
- Sir Leslie Melville
- Carl Menger
- Stanislav Menshikov
- Robert C. Merton
- Albert J. Meyer
- John R. Meyer
- Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk
- Leo Michelis
- Javier Milei (b. 1970), Argentinian libertarian economist
- David Miles
- Murray Milgate
- Paul Milgrom
- John Maynard Keynes
- John Stuart Mill
- Merton Miller
- Jacob Mincer
- Hyman Minsky
- James Mirrlees
- Ludwig von Mises
- Frederic Mishkin
- Baidyanath Misra
- Wesley Mitchell
- Alfred Mitchell-Innes
- Franco Modigliani
- Robert Moffit
- Semion Mogilevich
- Herbert Mohring
- Joel Mokyr
- Gustave de Molinari
- Winnie Monsod
- John Hardman Moore
- Jonathan Morduch
- Michio Morishima
- Stephen Morris
- Dale Mortensen
- Warren Mosler
- David C. Mowery
- Dambisa Moyo
- Anu Muhammad
- Sendhil Mullainathan
- Thomas Mun
- Mohan Munasinghe
- Robert Mundell
- Karthik Muralidharan
- Richard Murnane
- Kevin J. Murphy
- Kevin M. Murphy
- Robert P. Murphy
- Richard Musgrave
- Michael Mussa
- John Muth
- Bingu wa Mutharika
- Stewart Myers
- Roger Myerson
- Alva Myrdal
- Gunnar Myrdal
N[edit]
- John Forbes Nash
- Richard Nelson
- Nikolay Nenovsky
- Marc Nerlove
- John von Neumann
- David Neumark
- David Newbery
- Francis William Newman
- Stephen Nickell
- Peter Nijkamp
- Yew-Kwang Ng, Australian economist, best known for his contributions in welfare economics.
- William A. Niskanen
- William Nordhaus
- Montagu Norman
- Douglass North
- Dudley North
- Oscar Nuccio
O[edit]
P[edit]
- Krishna Palepu
- Giancarlo Pallavicini
- V. R. Panchamukhi
- Thomas Palfrey
- Yadav Prasad Pant
- Maffeo Pantaleoni
- Philippe Van Parijs
- Vilfredo Pareto
- Manuel V. Pangilinan
- Jacques Parizeau
- Luigi Pasinetti
- Frédéric Passy
- Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel
- Prabhat Patnaik
- William Paterson
- Don Patinkin
- Christina Paxson
- Lasse Heje Pedersen
- Edith Penrose
- Émile Péreire
- Carlota Perez
- Javier Perez-Capdevila
- Torsten Persson
- Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert
- Mohammad Hashem Pesaran
- Wolfgang Pesendorfer
- Pierre Pestieau
- Maurice Peston, Baron Peston
- Douglas Peters
- Sir William Petty
- Edmund Phelps
- Thomas Philippon
- Peter C. B. Phillips
- William Phillips
- Arthur Cecil Pigou
- Thomas Piketty
- Christopher A. Pissarides
- Arnold Plant
- Plato
- Charles Plott
- Karl Polanyi
- Michael Polanyi
- Robert Pollin
- Yuri Poluneev
- Jean-Pierre Ponssard
- Arden Pope
- Michael Porter
- Richard Portes
- Arturo C. Porzecanski
- Richard Posner
- James M. Poterba
- Bernard van Praag
- John W. Pratt
- Edward C. Prescott
- Steven Pressman
- Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
- Raúl Prebisch
- Cuno Pümpin
Q[edit]
R[edit]
- Matthew Rabin
- Roy Radner
- John Rae
- Richard W. Rahn
- Raghuram Rajan
- Mihir Rakshit
- Rogelio Ramírez de la O
- Frank Plumpton Ramsey
- Ajit Ranade
- Leonard Rapping
- Martin Ravallion
- Debraj Ray
- Daniel Raymond
- Ralph Recto
- Rajiv Kumar
- Robert Reich
- Carmen Reinhart
- Ricardo Reis
- George Reisman
- Philip J. Reny
- David Ricardo
- Jeremy Rifkin
- Alice Rivlin
- Lionel Robbins
- Donald John Roberts
- Paul Craig Roberts
- Russ Roberts (b. 1954), Stanford University Hoover Institution research fellow and host of the EconTalk podcast
- Denis Robertson
- Abraham Robinson
- Austin Robinson
- Joan Robinson
- Johann Karl Rodbertus
- Dani Rodrik
- John Roemer
- Kenneth Rogoff
- Gérard Roland
- Eric Roll
- Richard Roll
- Christina Romer
- David Romer
- Paul Romer
- Raymond de Roover
- Harvey S. Rosen
- Henry Rosovsky
- Sherwin Rosen
- Nathan Rosenberg
- Stephen A. Ross
- Walt Whitman Rostow
- Julio Rotemberg
- Alvin E. Roth
- Murray Rothbard
- Nouriel Roubini
- Ariel Rubinstein
- Isaak Russman
- John Rust
- Justinian Rweyemamu
- Tadeusz Rybczynski
- Frank-Jürgen Richter, German economist and entrepreneur
S[edit]
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- Fabrizio Saccomanni
- Alexander Sachs
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Emmanuel Saez
- Gilles Saint-Paul
- Henri de Saint-Simon
- António de Oliveira Salazar
- Arthur Salz
- Paul Samuelson
- Chris William Sanchirico
- José Santana
- Diego Abad de Santillán
- Juan Manuel Santos
- Gopal Krishna Sarangi
- Thomas J. Sargent
- Mark Satterthwaite
- Anthony Saunders
- Jean-Baptiste Say
- Louis Say
- Herbert Scarf
- Hjalmar Schacht
- José Scheinkman
- Thomas Schelling
- Peter Schiff
- Christoph M. Schmidt
- Helmut Schmidt
- John Schmitt
- Gustav von Schmoller
- Myron Scholes
- Stephan Schulmeister
- Theodore Schultz
- Ernst Schumacher
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Anna Schwartz
- Tibor Scitovsky
- Molly Scott Cato (b. 1963), British green economist
- Jules Sedney
- L. William Seidman
- Arthur Seldon
- Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman
- Reinhard Selten
- Amartya Sen
- Hans Sennholz
- Nassau William Senior
- Andrew Sentance
- Brad Setser
- Ernest Seyd
- G. L. S. Shackle
- Anwar Shaikh
- David Shapiro
- Lloyd Shapley
- William F. Sharpe
- Neil Shephard
- Shouyong Shi
- Robert Shiller
- Gary Shilling
- Robert Shimer
- Hyun-Song Shin
- Yongcheol Shin
- D Shina (1957–)
- Masaaki Shirakawa
- Andrei Shleifer
- Artyom Shneyerov
- Martin Shubik
- Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqui
- Henry Sidgwick
- Miguel Sidrauski
- Ota Šik
- Aníbal Cavaco Silva
- Herbert A. Simon
- Julian Lincoln Simon
- Christopher A. Sims
- Hans Singer
- Kurt Singer
- Manmohan Singh
- Hans-Werner Sinn
- Mark Skousen
- Margaret Slade
- Andrzej Sławiński
- Joel Slemrod
- Eugen Slutsky
- Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment era
- Alasdair Smith
- Thomas Smith
- Vernon L. Smith
- Dennis Snower
- Robert Solow
- Werner Sombart
- Willem Somermeyer
- Hugo F. Sonnenschein
- Thomas Sowell
- Michael Spence
- Barbara J. Spencer
- Gene Sperling
- Piero Sraffa
- T. N. Srinivasan
- Guy Standing
- Ross Starr, American economist at the University of California, San Diego
- Richard H. Steckel
- Herbert Stein
- Jeremy C. Stein
- Nicholas Stern
- George Stigler
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
- James H. Stock
- George W. Stocking, Sr.
- Nancy Stokey
- Richard Stone
- Benjamin Strong
- Steve Strongin
- Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin
- Robert Sugden
- Paul Sultan
- Lawrence Summers
- Robert Summers
- William Graham Sumner
- Sun Yefang
- Jomo Kwame Sundaram
- Arun Sundararajan
- Richard Sutch
- Kotaro Suzumura
- Jan Švejnar
- Lars E. O. Svensson
- Subramanian Swamy
- Trevor Swan
- Paul Sweezy
- Syahrir
- Richard Sylla
- Edward Szczepanik
T[edit]
- Alex Tabarrok
- Guido Tabellini
- Naim Talu
- Yair Tauman
- Frank William Taussig
- R.H. Tawney
- Fred M. Taylor
- Henry Charles Taylor
- John B. Taylor
- Mark P. Taylor
- Paul Schuster Taylor
- Lester G. Telser
- Richard Thaler
- Asher Tishler (b. 1947), Israeli economist; president of the College of Management Academic Studies
- William Thompson
- Christopher Thornberg (b. 1967), American economist
- Henry Thornton (1760–1815)
- Johann Heinrich von Thünen
- Lester Thurow
- Richard Timberlake
- Jan Tinbergen
- Jean Tirole
- Sheridan Titman
- James Tobin
- Michael Todaro
- Richard Tol
- Alejandro Toledo
- Robert Torrens
- Robert M. Townsend
- Kenneth E. Train
- Daniel Trefler, Canadian economist, Douglas and Ruth Canada Research Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity at the University of Toronto
- Rodrigue Tremblay
- Giulio Tremonti
- Jean-Claude Trichet
- Robert Triffin
- Sho-Chieh Tsiang
- Catherine Tucker
- Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky
- Gordon Tullock
- Anne Turgot
- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
- Amos Tversky
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson
U[edit]
V[edit]
- Natacha Valla
- Alexander Van der Bellen
- John Van Reenen
- Eugen Varga
- Hal Varian
- Yanis Varoufakis
- Antoaneta Vassileva
- Thorstein Veblen
- Richard Vedder
- Carlos A. Vegh
- Anthony Venables
- Fernando Vianello
- William Vickrey
- Thomas Vietorisz
- Jacob Viner
- Ignazio Visco
- Robert W. Vishny
- Eva Vivalt
- Xavier Vives
- Paul Volcker
W[edit]
- Romain Wacziarg
- Sushil Wadhwani
- Adolph Wagner
- Jim Walker
- Neil Wallace
- Phyllis Ann Wallace
- Henry Wallich
- W. Allen Wallis
- Léon Walras
- Carl Walsh
- Alan Walters
- John Glen Wardrop
- Marilyn Waring
- Mark Watson
- Beatrice Webb
- Sidney Webb
- Alfred Weber
- Max Weber
- Dorothy Wedderburn
- Beatrice Weder di Mauro
- Jens Weidmann
- Burton Weisbrod
- Mark Weisbrot
- Thomas J. Weiss
- Martin Weitzman
- Richard Werner
- Brian Wesbury
- Richard Whately
- Edward Lawrence Wheelwright
- Halbert White
- Knut Wicksell
- Philip H. Wicksteed
- Friedrich von Wieser
- Clair Wilcox
- John Williamson
- Oliver E. Williamson
- Walter E. Williams
- Ulrich Witt
- Charles Wolf, Jr
- Martin Wolf
- Arnold Wolfers
- Justin Wolfers
- Edward Wolff
- Richard D. Wolff
- Myrna Wooders
- Michael Woodford
- Jeffrey Wooldridge
- Holbrook Working
- Stephen T. Worland, taught at the University of Notre Dame; author of Scholasticism and Welfare Economics
- L. Randall Wray
- Simon Wren-Lewis
- Gavin Wright
- Philip Green Wright
- Randall Wright
- Wu Jinglian
X[edit]
- Xenophon (c. 430–354 BCE), Ancient Greek, author of Oeconomicus
Y[edit]
Z[edit]
See also[edit]
- 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