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List of Jewish economists is a list
that includes economists who are or were verifiably Jewish or of
Jewish descent.
A-G Albert Aftalion,
Bulgarian-born French economist [1]
George Akerlof, Nobel prize (2001) [2]
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel prize (1972) [2]
Robert Aumann, Nobel prize (2005) [2]
Lord Bauer, economist [1]
Gary Becker, Nobel prize (1992) [2]
Ben Bernanke, economist and current (2007) Chairman of the Federal
Reserve [2]
Eugene Birnbaum, economist
Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola
University in New Orleans [3]
George Dantzig, economist [4]
Richard Ehrenberg, economist [5]
Robert Fogel, Nobel prize (1993) [2]
Milton Friedman, Nobel prize (1976) [2]
Charles Goodhart,[3] Bank of England economist
Alan Greenspan, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
[6]
Zvi Griliches, economist [7]
H-L John Harsanyi, Nobel prize
(1994) [2]
Noreena Hertz [8], economist & activist
Hendrik Houthakker, economist [9]
Leonid Hurwicz, economist [10]
Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn [11], economist: multiplier
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel prize (2002) [2]
Nicholas Kaldor [12], economist
Leonid Kantorovich, Nobel prize (1975) [2]
Israel Kirzner [13], economist (UK-born)
Lawrence Klein, Nobel prize (1980) [2]
János Kornai, economist [14]
Paul Krugman, economist [15]
Simon Kuznets, Nobel prize (1971) [2]
Ludwig Lachmann, economist[4]
Harold Laski, economist (The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, ed
Geoffrey Wigoder, 5th ed 1977, pp. 1182-3)
Emil Lederer, economist [5]
Wassily Leontief, Nobel prize (1973) [2]
Leone Levi, political economist [16]
Robert Liefmann, economist[17]
Ephraim Lipson, economic historian [6]
Adolph Lowe, economist[18]
Rosa Luxemburg, economist, co-founder of the KPD[19]
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Harry Markowitz, Nobel prize (1990) [2]
Morton J. Marcus, economist
Jacob Marschak [20], economist
Karl Marx, inventor of Marxist economics [7]
Robert Merton, Nobel prize [21] (1997)
Merton Miller, Nobel prize (1990) [2]
Ludwig von Mises [22], economist
Franco Modigliani, Nobel prize (1985) [2]
Fritz Naphtali, economist, editor, later Israeli finance minister[8]
John von Neumann [23]
Alexander Nove, economist (JYB 1990 p202)
Sigbert Prais, economist (JYB 2005 p215)
David Ricardo [24], economist (converted to Quakerism)
Murray Rothbard [25], economist
Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American macroeconomist [26]
Paul Samuelson, Nobel prize (1970) [2]
Myron Scholes, Nobel prize (1997) [2]
Arthur Seldon [27], economist
Reinhard Selten, Nobel prize [28] (1994)
Herbert Simon, Nobel prize (1978) [2]
Sir Hans Singer, economist [9]
Robert Solow, Nobel prize (1987) [2]
Piero Sraffa [29], economist
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize (2001) [2]
Jacob Viner, Canadian economist (JYB 1975 p214)
Abraham Wald [30], economist
Basil Yamey, economist (JYB 2005 p215,315)
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