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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 (2001)
• Joshua Angrist, Nobel Prize (2021)
• Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize (1972)
• Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize (2005)
• Lord Bauer, economist
• 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
• 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 (1993)
• Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize (1976)
• 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 (1994)
• Henry Hazlitt, half-Jewish Austrian economist *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, economist (UK-born)
• Lawrence Klein, Nobel Prize (1980)
• János Kornai, Hungarian
• Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize (2008)
• Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize (1971)
• Vladimir Kvint, economist and strategist
• Ludwig Lachmann, economist
• Harold Laski, economist
• Emil Lederer, economist
• Wassily Leontief, Nobel Prize (1973)
• 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 (1990), John von Neumann Theory Prize (1989)
• 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 (2007)
• 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, economist and activist
• Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School
• Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Toby Moskowitz, financial economist, Fischer Black Prize (2007)
• 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 Nove
• Arthur Melvin Okun, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1968-1969)
• 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 (converted to Quakerism)
• Alvin E. Roth, Nobel prize (2012)
• Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist, writer, libertarian, and father of anarcho-capitalism
• Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American
• Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize (1970)
• Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize (1997)
• 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. President of the Western Economic Association International (1988)
• Arthur Seldon, economist
• Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Prize (1978)
• Sir Hans Singer, known for the Prebisch–Singer thesis
• 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 economist
• Leo Wolman, American economist.
• Basil Yamey, South African economist
• Janet Yellen, economist, former chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank

See also

• List of Jewish American economists

References

• JYB = Jewish Year Book

Footnotes

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