List of Jewish economists

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• Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economistEncyclopædia Britannica, 2nd ed., art. "Aftalion, Albert"
• George Akerlof, Nobel Prize (2001){{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html |title=Virtual Jewish Library, list of Nobel Prizewinners |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |date= |accessdate=2010-09-14}}
• Joshua Angrist, Nobel Prize (2021){{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2021/angrist/biographical/ |title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 |date= |accessdate=2022-09-09}}
• Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize (1972)
• Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize (2005)
• Lord Bauer, economist{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F05%2F06%2Fdb0601.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020618053808/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/06/db0601.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 18, 2002 |title=Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday |publisher=Telegraph |date= |accessdate=May 12, 2010}}
• Gary Becker, Nobel Prize (1992)
• Yoram Ben-Porat (died 1992), Israeli economist and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Ben Bernanke, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/14/AR2005111401544_2.html |title=Bernanke Unwrapped |work=washingtonpost.com |date= November 15, 2005|accessdate=May 12, 2010 | first=Ben | last=White}}
• Jared Bernstein{{Cite news|first= Gabe|last=Friedman |authorlink= |title= Jared Bernstein is 'verklempt' to join Biden's council of economic advisers |newspaper=Jewish Telegraph Agency|date= November 30, 2020|url=https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/jared-bernstein-is-verklempt-to-join-bidens-council-of-economic-advisers |via=}}
• 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{{cite web|url=http://archive.lewrockwell.com/block/block67.html |title=The Libertarian Big Tent by Walter Block and Tennyson McCalla |publisher=Lewrockwell.com |date=December 6, 2006 |accessdate=May 12, 2010}}
• Arthur Burns, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve{{cite news|url=http://www.federalreserve.gov/bios/boardmembership.htm |title=FRB Membership of Board of Governors |publisher=federalreserve.gov |date=October 4, 2010 |accessdate=Jul 15, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218113200/http://www.federalreserve.gov/bios/boardmembership.htm |archivedate=February 18, 2012 }}
• Otto Eckstein, a key developer of the idea of core inflation
• Richard Ehrenberg, economist{{cite web|url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/speccoll/cgjs/archive/elton_item.php?item_id=144 |title=University of Sussex: Special Collections – Elton/Ehrenberg Papers: Item details |publisher=Sussex.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=May 12, 2010}}
• Martin Feldstein, Harvard Professor; Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Reagan Administration
• Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize (1993)
• Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize (1976)
• Barry Goldwater, half-Jewish American economist
• Charles Goodhart,Flade, Roland. The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History, 2nd Enlarged Ed., 1999; reviewed by the [http://www.ajhs.org/about/Newsletter/2003_spring/AJHS_newsletter_spring_03.pdf?bcsi_scan_22F071C7F07ABBC7=0&bcsi_scan_filename=AJHS_newsletter_spring_03.pdf American Jewish Historical Society]. Accessed 14 Nov 2006. Bank of England economist
• Alan Greenspan, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve{{cite web|author=JINFO |url=http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html |title=Jewish Economists |publisher=Jinfo.org |date= |accessdate=May 12, 2010}}

• John Harsanyi, Nobel Prize (1994)
• Henry Hazlitt, half-Jewish Austrian economist {{fact|date=October 2017}}*Arnold Heertje, Dutch
• Rudolf Hilferding, Austrian-German marxist economist
• Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel Prize (2007)
• Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, economist: multiplier
• Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize (2002)
• Leonid Kantorovich, Nobel Prize (1975)

• Israel Kirzner,{{cite web|url=http://www.fff.org/freedom/0400f.asp |title=Making Sense of Jewish Stereotypes |publisher=Fff.org |accessdate=May 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310070921/http://www.fff.org/freedom/0400f.asp |archivedate=March 10, 2007 }} economist (UK-born)
• Lawrence Klein, Nobel Prize (1980)
• János Kornai, Hungarian
• Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize (2008){{cite news |author=Paul Krugman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/28/opinion/a-willful-ignorance.html |title=A Willful Ignorance |date=2003-10-28 |accessdate=2010-04-17 |work=New York Times |quote=Sure enough, I was accused in various places not just of 'tolerance for anti-Semitism' (yes, I'm Jewish) [...]}}
• Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize (1971)
• Vladimir Kvint, economist and strategist
• Ludwig Lachmann, economistHayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek – Pg 145
• Harold Laski, economistThe New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, ed. Geoffrey Wigoder, 5th ed 1977, pp. 1182–3
• Emil Lederer, economist[http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html JInfo list of economists] accessed 17 May 2007
• Wassily Leontief, Nobel Prize (1973)
• Abba P. Lerner, Russian-born British economist
• Leone Levi, political economist{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Levi, Leone |volume=16 |page=511}}
• Robert Liefmann, economist{{cite web |url=http://www.io.uni-freiburg.de/visiting-scholars/living.html?set_language=en |title=Living — International Office |publisher=Io.uni-freiburg.de |accessdate=May 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128034427/http://www.io.uni-freiburg.de/visiting-scholars/living.html?set_language=en |archivedate=November 28, 2010 }}
• Ephraim Lipson, economic historianEncyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Historians"
• Adolph Lowe, German{{cite web|url=http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/findaids/ger022.htm |title=Adolph Lowe Papers |publisher=Library.albany.edu |date= |accessdate=May 12, 2010}}
• Rosa Luxemburg, economist, co-founder of the KPD{{cite web|url=http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/l/u.htm |title=Glossary of People: L |publisher=Marxists.org |date= |accessdate=May 12, 2010}}

• Stephen Marglin, American
• Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize (1990), John von Neumann Theory Prize (1989)
• Karl Marx, inventor of Marxist economicsEncyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Marx, Karl" 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 (2007){{cite web|title=Eric S. Maskin - Facts|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2007/maskin-facts.html|publisher= Nobel Prize}}
• Robert C. Merton, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1997)
• Paul Milgrom, Nobel Prize (2020)
• Merton Miller, Nobel Prize (1990)
• Hyman Minsky, American
• Frederic Mishkin, American
• Noreena Hertz,{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishartsfest.org/index.cfm?page=single.cfm§ionid=226|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030425151954/http://www.jewishartsfest.org/index.cfm?page=single.cfm§ionid=226|url-status=dead|archive-date=2003-04-25|title=Jewish Arts Festival 2003|date=2003-04-25|access-date=2018-11-30}} economist and activist
• Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School
• Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Toby Moskowitz, financial economist, Fischer Black Prize (2007){{cite book | last1 = Moskowitz | first1 = Tobias J. | last2 = Wertheim | first2 = L. Jon | title = Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won | publisher = Crown Archetype | year = 2011}}
• Roger Myerson, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2007)
• William Nordhaus, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2018)
• Alexander NoveJYB 1990 p202
• Arthur Melvin Okun, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1968-1969)
• Don Patinkin, Israeli
• Sigbert Prais, economistJYB 2005 p215
• Karl Polanyi, Austrian-Hungarian economist and economic historian
• Roy Radner, American who developed the Radner equilibrium concept
• David Ricardo,{{cite web|url=http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/ricardo.htm |title=David Ricardo |publisher=Cepa.newschool.edu |accessdate=May 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070315092648/http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/ricardo.htm |archivedate=March 15, 2007 }} economist (converted to Quakerism)
• Alvin E. Roth, Nobel prize (2012)[https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2012/ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012], Nobel Prize official site (accessed 2012-10-15).
• Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist, writer, libertarian, and father of anarcho-capitalism
• Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American[http://www.janera.com/janera_words.php?id=44 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220041244/http://www.janera.com/janera_words.php?id=44 |date=February 20, 2008 }}
• Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize (1970)
• Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize (1997){{cite web|title=Myron Scholes (1941 - )|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myron-scholes|publisher= Jewish Virtual Library}}
• Anna Schwartz, economist who published A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 (1963), which laid a large portion of the blame for the Great Depression at the door of the Federal Reserve System.{{cite web |url=http://www.policonomics.com/milton-friedman/ |title=Milton Friedman |publisher=Policonomics |year=2012}} President of the Western Economic Association International (1988){{cite web |url=http://www.weai.org/Content/Files/Past_WEAI_Presidents.pdf |title=Past Presidents |publisher=Western Economic Association International |accessdate=June 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524145139/http://www.weai.org/Content/Files/Past_WEAI_Presidents.pdf |archive-date=May 24, 2013 |url-status=dead }}
• Arthur Seldon,{{cite news|author=Alfred Sherman |url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries/story/0,1441,1590862,00.html |title=Obituary: Arthur Seldon | Business | The Guardian |publisher=Politics.guardian.co.uk |date= October 13, 2005|accessdate=May 12, 2010 | location=London}} economist
• Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Prize (1978)
• Sir Hans Singer, known for the Prebisch–Singer thesisThe Economist, March 11th 2006 p95: "born a Jew"
• Robert Solow, Nobel Prize (1987)
• Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council (2011-2014)
• Piero Sraffa, Italian economist
• Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1971-1974)
• Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize (2001)
• Lawrence Summers, economist, Treasury Secretary, Harvard President, former Chief Economist at the World Bank, John Bates Clark Medal (1993)
• Richard Thaler, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2017)
• Jacob Viner, Canadian economistJYB 1975 p214
• Leo Wolman, American economist."Dr. Leo Woman, Economist, Dies." New York Times. October 3, 1961.
• Basil Yamey, South African economistJYB 2005 p215, 315
• Janet Yellen, economist, former chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank

• List of Jewish American economists

• JYB = Jewish Year Book

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