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John Bates Clark Medal
The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge". According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, it "is widely regarded as one of...
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Kenneth E. Boulding
Kenneth Ewart Boulding (January 18, 1910 – March 18, 1993) was an economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. He was cofounder of General Systems Theory and...
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is known best among scholars for his theoretical and empirical...
James Tobin
James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who in his lifetime, had served on the Council of Economic Advisors, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and had taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He...
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Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow (born August 23, 1921) is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to receive this award, at 51.
In economics, he is considered...
Lawrence Klein
Lawrence Robert Klein (born September 14, 1920) is an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the...
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Robert Solow
Robert Merton Solow (born August 23, 1924) is an American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal (in 1961) and the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Robert...
Hendrik S. Houthakker
Hendrik Samuel "Hank" Houthakker (December 31, 1924 – April 15, 2008) was a Dutch Jewish-born American economist.
Houthakker was born in Amsterdam. His father was a prominent art dealer. As a teenager he lived through the Nazi occupation of the...
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Zvi Griliches
Hirsh Zvi Griliches (12 September 1930 – 4 November 1999) was an economist at Harvard University. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in an assimilated Jewish family that spoke Russian at home. During World War II he was sent to the Dachau...
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Gary Becker
Gary Stanley Becker (born December 2, 1930) is an American economist and a Nobel laureate. Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Becker earned a B.A. at Princeton University in 1951 and a Ph.D. at The University of Chicago in 1955. He taught at Columbia...
Marc Nerlove
Marc Leon Nerlove (born October 12, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American economist specialized in agricultural economics and econometrics. He is currently Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. In...
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Paul Samuelson
Paul Anthony Samuelson (born May 15, 1915) is an American Neo-Keynesian economist known for his contributions to many fields of economics, beginning with his general statement of the comparative statics method in his 1947 book Foundations of...
Dale W. Jorgenson
Dale Weldeau Jorgenson is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, teaching in the Department of Economics and John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1994 to 1997.
He...
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Franklin M. Fisher
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Daniel McFadden
Daniel Little McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an econometrician who won (jointly with James Heckman) the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; McFadden's share of the prize was "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing...
Martin Feldstein
Martin Stuart "Marty" Feldstein (born November 25, 1939) is a conservative American economist. He is currently the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and the president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research ...
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is also the former...
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Michael Spence
Andrew Michael Spence (born November 7, 1943) is an American-born, Canadian-raised economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, along with George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, for their work on the dynamics of information flows...
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Edmund Phelps
Edmund Strother Phelps, Jr. (born July 26, 1933) is an American economist and the winner of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Early in his career he became renowned for his research at Yale's Cowles Foundation in the first half of...
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Jerry A. Hausman
Jerry A. Hausman is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a famous econometrician. He has also published numerous papers in applied microeconomics. He is the recipient of several...
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Sanford J. Grossman
Sanford Jay "Sandy" Grossman (born July 21, 1953) is an American economist specializing in quantitative finance.
He earned his A.B. in 1973, his A.M. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1975, all from the University of Chicago. He is currently the chairman of...
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David M. Kreps
David Marc "Dave" Kreps is a game theorist and economist and professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is known for his analysis of dynamic choice models and non-cooperative game theory, particularly the idea of...
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Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman (pronounced /ˈkruːɡmən/; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, liberal columnist and author. He is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,...
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Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and the Director of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy...
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David Card
David Edward Card is a Canadian labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Card earned his B.A. degree from Queen's University in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree in Economics in 1983 from Princeton University.
From 1988 to...
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Andrei Shleifer
Andrei Shleifer (pronounced /ˈʃlaɪfəʁ/) (born February 20, 1961) is a Russian American economist. In 1999, Shleifer was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years to the most promising US economist under 40, for his seminal works on...
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Matthew Rabin
Matthew Joel Rabin (born December 27, 1963) is the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Rabin is mentioned as a potential recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial...
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Steven D. Levitt
Steven David "Steve" Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2004 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the...
Daron Acemoglu
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (born September 3, 1967 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent. He is currently the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of...
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Kevin M. Murphy
Kevin Miles Murphy is the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
In 1997 Murphy was awarded the prestigious John Bates Clark...
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Susan Athey
Susan Carleton Athey (born November 29, 1970) is an American economist. She is currently Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.
Susan Athey was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew...
