List of Jewish economists
This list of Jewish economists includes economists who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent.
A–G
- Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist
- George Akerlof, Nobel Prize
- Joshua Angrist, Nobel Prize
- Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize
- Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize
- Lord Bauer, economist
- Gary Becker, Nobel Prize
- Yoram Ben-Porat, Israeli economist and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Ben Bernanke, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- Jared Bernstein
- Mario Blejer, Argentine economist and former President of the Central Bank of Argentina in 2002.
- Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans
- Arthur Burns, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- Otto Eckstein, a key developer of the idea of core inflation
- Richard Ehrenberg, economist
- Martin Feldstein, Harvard Professor; Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Reagan Administration
- Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize
- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize
- Barry Goldwater, half-Jewish American economist
- Charles Goodhart, Bank of England economist
- Alan Greenspan, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
H–L
- John Harsanyi, Nobel Prize
- Henry Hazlitt, half-Jewish Austrian economist *Arnold Heertje, Dutch
- Rudolf Hilferding, Austrian-German marxist economist
- Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel Prize
- Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, economist: multiplier
- Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize
- Leonid Kantorovich, Nobel Prize
- Israel Kirzner, economist
- Lawrence Klein, Nobel Prize
- János Kornai, Hungarian
- Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize
- Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize
- Vladimir Kvint, economist and strategist
- Ludwig Lachmann, economist
- Harold Laski, economist
- Emil Lederer, economist
- Wassily Leontief, Nobel Prize
- Abba P. Lerner, Russian-born British economist
- Leone Levi, political economist
- Robert Liefmann, economist
- Ephraim Lipson, economic historian
- Adolph Lowe, German
- Rosa Luxemburg, economist, co-founder of the KPD
M–Z
- Stephen Marglin, American
- Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize, John von Neumann Theory Prize
- Karl Marx, inventor of Marxist economics Karl Marx was ethnically Jewish. His maternal grandfather was a Dutch rabbi, while his paternal line had supplied Trier's rabbis since 1723, a role taken by his grandfather Meier Halevi Marx.
- Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize
- Robert C. Merton, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Paul Milgrom, Nobel Prize
- Merton Miller, Nobel Prize
- Hyman Minsky, American
- Frederic Mishkin, American
- Noreena Hertz, economist and activist
- Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School
- Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize
- Toby Moskowitz, financial economist, Fischer Black Prize
- Roger Myerson, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- William Nordhaus, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Alexander Nove
- Arthur Melvin Okun, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
- Don Patinkin, Israeli
- Sigbert Prais, economist
- Karl Polanyi, Austrian-Hungarian economist and economic historian
- Roy Radner, American who developed the Radner equilibrium concept
- David Ricardo, economist
- Alvin E. Roth, Nobel prize
- Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist, writer, libertarian, and father of anarcho-capitalism
- Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American
- Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize
- Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize
- Anna Schwartz, economist who published A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960, which laid a large portion of the blame for the Great Depression at the door of the Federal Reserve System. President of the Western Economic Association International
- Arthur Seldon, economist
- Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Prize
- Sir Hans Singer, known for the Prebisch–Singer thesis
- Robert Solow, Nobel Prize
- Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council
- Piero Sraffa, Italian economist
- Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize
- Lawrence Summers, economist, Treasury Secretary, Harvard President, former Chief Economist at the World Bank, John Bates Clark Medal
- Richard Thaler, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Jacob Viner, Canadian economist
- Leo Wolman, American economist.
- Basil Yamey, South African economist
- Janet Yellen, economist, former chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank