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 day security ...

Bertil Gotthard Ohlin
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 movement proved ...

Franco Modigliani
Franco Modigliani was an eminent Italian Economist and Nobel Prize Laureate, who, with his great passion for economics, formulated many theories in his domain. ...

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 economist who ...

George Joseph Stigler
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 conduct ...

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 also justly ...

Gunnar Myrdal
Gunnar Myrdal, considered a leading economist and social scientist of his era, left an impression as a reformer, politician, fighter of inequality and ...

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 wrote and ...

Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon is recognized as one of the founding fathers of important scientific domains and the most renowned figure of the twentieth century. Apart from ...

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 economics has left ...

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 Dutch economist, ...

John C Harsanyi
John Charles Harsanyi, the conceptualist who proposed the ‘game theory’, was an American economist and recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize. Best known for his ...

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 Maynard ...

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 extraordinary ...

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 globalization, free ...

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 his commendable ...

Merton H. Miller
Nobel Prize recipient Merton Howard Miller contributed immensely in economic science. In terms of work, his biggest achievement was the Modigliani-Miller ...

Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman was a well-known American economist and professor of statistics at the University of Chicago. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic ...

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 great effort to ...

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 initiated econometric ...

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 comprehensive ...

Simone Weil
A renowned French philosopher, social activist and religious mystic, Simone Weil is recognized for her strong social commitments and extensive analysis of ...

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 normally barred ...

Sir Clive William John Granger
A Nobel Prize winner in economic science and a notable personality, Sir Clive Granger will be best remembered as someone who completely transformed the ...

Sir Richard Stone
Sir John Richard Nicholas (Dick) Stone was an outstanding figure in postwar British applied econometrics. He was one of the pioneering architects of national ...

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. He is believed ...

Wassily Leontief
Wassily Wassilyovich Leontief was a Russian-American economist renowned for his input–output theory of capital for which he received the Nobel Memorial Prize ...

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 by profession, ...