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Comprehensive directory containing biographies of world's most famous economists.
Economists
Benjamin Graham Benjamin Graham is known to have grown the seeds of investment in America’s Wall Street. Graham was a great economist who introduced the present ...
Bertil Gotthard Ohli... Born on April 23, 1899, Bertil Ohlin was the founder of the modern theory of dynamics of trade. His research on international trade and capital ...
Franco Modigliani Franco Modigliani was an eminent Italian Economist and Nobel Prize Laureate, who, with his great passion for economics, formulated many theories ...
Friedrich von Hayek If there is one twentieth-century economist who can be tagged as the Renaissance man, it has to be Friedrich Hayek, the Austrian born British ...
George Joseph Stigle... One of the most popular economists the 20th century has seen, George Stigler was bestowed with a rare gift to write as well as the capability to ...
Gerard Debreu Gerard Debreu was an economist born in France who became famous for his path breaking work in general equilibrium theory. A humble man, he was ...
Gunnar Myrdal Gunnar Myrdal, considered a leading economist and social scientist of his era, left an impression as a reformer, politician, fighter of ...
Henry George Henry George is remembered as an economist who brought significant changes in politics and eco-political theories. George was a great writer who ...
Herbert Simon Herbert Simon is recognized as one of the founding fathers of important scientific domains and the most renowned figure of the twentieth ...
James Tobin Sometimes the true worth of a person can be gauged from the legacy he/she leaves behind. James Tobin is one such man whose lifelong work in ...
Jan Tinbergen If there ever was an economist who contributed quite significantly to the field of economics, it has to be Jan Tinbergen. Jan Tinbergen was a ...
John C Harsanyi John Charles Harsanyi, the conceptualist who proposed the ‘game theory’, was an American economist and recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize. Best ...
John Maynard Keynes Keynesian economics gets its name, theories and principles from the great Economist, John Maynard Keynes who changed the world of economics. ...
John R Hicks Sir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and Nobel Laureate, who had made many important contributions to economic science. He had an ...
Joseph E. Stiglitz Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is known for his critical view of the management of ...
Maurice Allais Maurice Felix Charles Allais was a French economist and a proud recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was conferred this honor for ...
Merton H. Miller Nobel Prize recipient Merton Howard Miller contributed immensely in economic science. In terms of work, his biggest achievement was the ...
Milton Friedman Milton Friedman was a well-known American economist and professor of statistics at the University of Chicago. He received the Nobel Memorial ...
Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and banker who established the Grameen bank in his country in 1983. The Grameen bank and Yunus were ...
Paul Samuelson Paul Anthony Samuelson is recognized as the father of modern economics. He is the first American economist to win a Nobel Prize. Samuelson put ...
Ragnar Frisch A Nobel Prize winner and a renowned economist, Ragnar Frisch is best celebrated for co-finding econometrics as a new discipline. One who ...
Simon Kuznets Simon Kuznets is known to set a standard that made him stand special among all the other economists of his time because of his meticulous and ...
Simone Weil A renowned French philosopher, social activist and religious mystic, Simone Weil is recognized for her strong social commitments and extensive ...
Sir Arthur Lewis Sir Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist who was well known for his contributions in the field of economic development. When blacks were ...
Sir Clive William Jo... A Nobel Prize winner in economic science and a notable personality, Sir Clive Granger will be best remembered as someone who completely ...
Sir Richard Stone Sir John Richard Nicholas (Dick) Stone was an outstanding figure in postwar British applied econometrics. He was one of the pioneering ...
Trygve Haavelmo Trygve Haavelmo was a Norwegian economist and a professor who received the Nobel Prize in 1989 for his contributions in the field of economics. ...
Wassily Leontief Wassily Wassilyovich Leontief was a Russian-American economist renowned for his input–output theory of capital for which he received the Nobel ...
William Vickrey Renowned post Keynesian economist and Nobel Laureate William Spencer Vickrey has is a name to reckon with in the field of economics. A professor ...