List of Jewish American economists

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This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.

This is a list of famous Jewish American Economists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans. For other economists, see List of Jewish economists.

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)
Daniel Berkowitz, editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics (2007-present)
Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans [1]
Benjamin Jerry Cohen, Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy

University of California, Santa Barbara

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)
Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard Professor and Former Venezuelan Minister
Robert Heilbroner*, leftist economist
Leonid Hurwicz*, economist, Nobel Prize (2007)
Daniel Kahneman**, Nobel Prize (2002)
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 and journalist, Clark Medal (1991)
Simon Kuznets*, econometrics, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1971)
Emil Lederer, economist ^[1]
Wassily Leontief**, Input-Output method, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1973)
Steven Levitt*, economist, Clark Medal (2003)
Harry Markowitz**, economist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1990)
Jacob Marschak*, economist
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)
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
Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American macroeconomist [2]
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)
Herbert Simon**, political, social scientist
Robert Solow**, economic growth, Clark Medal (1961), Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1987)
Joseph Stiglitz**, economist and 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