List of Jewish American economists
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This is a list of famous Jewish American Economists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Ricardo Hausmann. Harvard Professor and Former Venezuelan Minister
- George Akerlof, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2001)
- Kenneth Arrow, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Clark Medal (1957), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1972)
- Gary Becker, economist, Clark Medal (1967), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1992)
- Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve (2006-present)
- Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans
- Martin S. Feldstein, economist, Clark Medal (1977)
- Robert Fogel, new economic history, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1993)
- Milton Friedman, monetarist economist, Clark Medal (1951), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel(1976)
- Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve (1987-2006)
- Zvi Griliches, econometrist, Clark Medal (1965)
- Sanford J. Grossman, economics of information, Clark Medal (1987)
- John Harsanyi, game theorist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel(1994)
- Jerry A. Hausman, econometrist, Clark Medal (1985)
- Robert Heilbroner, leftist economist
- Israel Kirzner, Austrian School economist
- Lawrence Klein, econometric models, Clark Medal (1959), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1980)
- David M. Kreps, economist, Clark Medal (1989)
- Paul Krugman, economist & journalist, Clark Medal (1991)
- Simon Kuznets, econometrics, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1971)
- Wassily Leontief, Input-Output method, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel(1973) (Jewish mother)
- Steven Levitt, economist, Clark Medal (2003)
- Harry Markowitz, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel(1990)
- Robert Merton, Black-Scholes equation, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel(1997) (Jewish father)
- Merton Miller, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1990)
- Jacob Mincer, labor economics
- Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School economist
- Franco Modigliani, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel(1985)
- Oskar Morgenstern, game theorist
- Harvey Pitt, former SEC chairman
- Matthew Rabin, economist, Clark Medal (2001)
- Russell Roberts, economist, Professor at George Mason University in Virginia, commentator on Morning Edition heard on National Public Radio
- Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist
- Jeffrey Sachs, economic shock therapy
- Paul Samuelson, economic analysis, Clark Medal (1947), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel(1970)
- Andrei Shleifer, economist, Clark Medal (1999)
- Myron Scholes, Black-Scholes equation, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel(1997)
- Robert Solow, economic growth, Clark Medal (1961), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel(1987)
- Joseph Stiglitz, economist & author, Clark Medal (1979), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel(2001)
- Lawrence Summers, economist, Clark Medal (1993)
- Jacob Viner, economist
