This is an incomplete alphabetical list by surname of notable economists, experts in the social science of economics, past and present. For a history of economics, see the article History of economic thought. Only economists with biographical articles in Wikipedia are listed here.
A
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ThomasAttwood.jpg|Thomas Attwood
Sir Willim Ashley.jpg|Sir William Ashley
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar.jpg|B. R. Ambedkar
George Akerlof (cropped).jpg|George Akerlof
Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University.jpg|Kenneth Arrow
ALLAIS PN Maurice-24x30-2001b.jpg|Maurice Allais
Aumann-1080b.jpg|Robert Aumann
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B
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Ali Babacan - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012 crop.jpg|Ali Babacan
Bakunin Nadar.jpg|Mikhail Bakunin
Bastiat.jpg|Frédéric Bastiat
1Bawerk.png|Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
GaryBecker-May24-2008.jpg|Gary Becker
Fischer Black.JPG|Fischer Black
James Buchanan by Atlas network.jpg|James M. Buchanan
Ben Bernanke official portrait.jpg|Ben Bernanke
Walter block-teaching.jpg|Walter Block
Fdb4 2010.jpg|Francine D. Blau
Oliver Blanchard, IMF 98BlanchardWEO1 lg.jpg|Olivier Blanchard
Jean Bodin.jpg|Jean Bodin
Willem Buiter 1984.jpg|Willem Buiter
EdmundBurke1771.jpg|Edmund Burke
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C
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Agustin Carstens.jpg|Agustín Carstens
Ha-Joon Chang profile.jpg|Ha-Joon Chang
Thomas Chalmers - Project Gutenberg 13103.jpg|Thomas Chalmers
Henrycharlescarey.jpg|Henry Charles Carey
John Bates Clark.jpg|John Bates Clark
Cassel.gif|Gustav Cassel
JohnCommons.jpg|John R. Commons
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Debreu, Gérard (1921-2004).jpeg|Gérard Debreu
Demsetzatgmu.jpg|Harold Demsetz
Partha Dasgupta - Trento 2013 02.JPG|Partha Dasgupta
Professor Huw Dixon.jpg|Huw Dixon
Avinash Dixit.JPG|Avinash Dixit
Brad DeLong 201010.jpg|J. Bradford DeLong
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E
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Edgeworth.jpeg|Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Friedrich Engels portrait (cropped).jpg|Friedrich Engels
0603-Kraneshares KRBN-RobertEngle-JonDemske-16 (cropped).jpg|Robert F. Engle
Einde bezoek bondskanselier dr Ludwig Erhard en gaf persconferentie in het Haag, Bestanddeelnr 916-1332.jpg|Ludwig Erhard
Vanessa Erogbogbo in 2017 (cropped).jpg|Vanessa Erogbogbo
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WilliamFleetwood.jpg|William Fleetwood
Irvingfisher.jpg|Irving Fisher
Portrait of Milton Friedman.jpg|Milton Friedman
Jason Furman 2011.jpg|Jason Furman
Robert William Fogel.jpg|Robert Fogel
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Gide, Charles.jpg|Charles Gide
Henry George.jpg|Henry George
John Kenneth Galbraith.jpg|John Kenneth Galbraith
Edward L. Glaeser at FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011.jpg|Edward Glaeser
Ian Goldin World Economic Forum 2013.jpg|Ian Goldin
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Painting of David Hume.jpg|David Hume
Friedrich Hayek portrait.jpg|Friedrich Hayek
130500 CV (option 2).jpg|Alicia García-Herrero
Eli Heckscher.jpg|Eli Heckscher
Trygve Haavelmo.jpg|Trygve Haavelmo
James Heckman.jpg|James Heckman
Glenn Hubbard portrait.jpg|Glenn Hubbard
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Picture of jevons.jpg|William Stanley Jevons
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K
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Ibn Khaldoun-Kassus.jpg|Ibn Khaldun
Keynes 1933.jpg|John Maynard Keynes
Nicholas Kaldor.jpg|Nicholas Kaldor
Daniel Kahneman (3283955327) (cropped).jpg|Daniel Kahneman
Kydland.jpg|Finn E. Kydland
Anne O. Krueger (2004).jpg|Anne Osborn Krueger
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John Law-Casimir Balthazar mg 8450.jpg|John Law
Abba Lerner.jpg|Abba Lerner
Oskar Lange 20-65.jpg|Oskar Lange
Rosa Luxemburg.jpg|Rosa Luxemburg
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M
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Thomas Malthus.jpg|Thomas Malthus
PSM V03 D380 John Stuart Mill.jpg|John Stuart Mill
Alfred Marshall.jpg|Alfred Marshall
Karl Marx.jpg|Karl Marx
Ludwig von Mises.jpg|Ludwig von Mises
Myrdal 1980 (cropped).jpg|Gunnar Myrdal
Myerson roger b print.jpg|Roger Myerson
Dale Mortensen 2.jpg|Dale Mortensen
Xavier Sala-i-Martin.jpg|Xavier Sala i Martin
Dambisa Moyo 2013 BlackRock.jpg|Dambisa Moyo
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Dudley North.jpg|Dudley North
John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Peter Badge.jpg|John Forbes Nash
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O
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Portrait of Robert Owen.png|Robert Owen
Bertil Ohlin.jpg|Bertil Ohlin
Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-30.jpg|Elinor Ostrom
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P
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V R Panchamukhi.jpg|V. R. Panchamukhi
Perez-Capdevila.jpg|Javier Perez-Capdevila
Heinrich Pesch.jpg|Heinrich Pesch
Vilfredo Pareto 1870s2.jpg|Vilfredo Pareto
A.C. Pigou.jpg|Arthur Cecil Pigou
Piketty in Cambridge 3 crop.jpg|Thomas Piketty
Edward C. Prescott.jpg|Edward C. Prescott
Christina paxson.jpg|Christina Paxson
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François Quesnay.jpg|François Quesnay
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R
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Portrait of David Ricardo by Thomas Phillips.jpg|David Ricardo
Joan Robinson Ramsey Muspratt.jpg|Joan Robinson
MurrayBW.jpg|Murray Rothbard
Christina Romer official portrait small.jpg|Christina Romer
Matthew Rabin 2008.jpg|Matthew Rabin
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Jean-Baptiste Say.jpg|Jean-Baptiste Say
Nobel Prize 2011-Press Conference KVA-DSC 7770.jpg|Thomas J. Sargent
AdamSmith.jpg|Adam Smith
Joseph Schumpeter ekonomialaria.jpg|Joseph Schumpeter
Anna Schwartz by David Shankbone (cropped).jpg|Anna Schwartz
Paul A. Samuelson close-up (cropped).jpg|Paul Samuelson
Tharman Shanmugaratnam Official photo 2023.tif|Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Robert Solow by Olaf Storbeck.jpg|Robert Solow
Joseph E. Stiglitz - cropped.jpg|Joseph E. Stiglitz
A Michael Spence.jpg|Michael Spence
MarkSkousen.jpg|Mark Skousen
Hans Werner Sinn.png|Hans-Werner Sinn
Robert Shiller - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012.jpg|Robert Shiller
Lawrence Summers 2012.jpg|Lawrence Summers
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot.jpg|Anne Turgot
Frank William Taussig by Pach Brothers.jpg|Frank William Taussig
Jan Tinbergen 1982.jpg|Jan Tinbergen
Gordon tullock.jpg|Gordon Tullock
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U
- Kazuhide Uekusa (植草一秀, born 1960), Japanese economist
- Kuzo Uno (宇野 弘蔵, 1897–1977), Japanese economist
- Hirofumi Uzawa (宇沢弘文, 1928–2014), Japanese economist
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Veblen3a.jpg|Thorstein Veblen
Paulvolcker.jpg|Paul Volcker
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W
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Lwalras.jpg|Léon Walras
Max Weber 1894.jpg|Max Weber
Wicksell.jpg|Knut Wicksell
Marilyn Waring.jpg|Marilyn Waring
MartinWolf2011ByDaphneBorowski.png|Martin Wolf
Lawrence Wong 20230526.jpg|Lawrence Wong
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xenophon.jpg|Xenophon of Athens
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- Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC), Ancient Greek, author of Oeconomicus
- Xue Muqiao (1904–2005), Chinese economist
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Janet yellen.jpg|Janet Yellen
Muhammad Yunus - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012.jpg|Muhammad Yunus
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Z
See also
- History of economic thought
- Schools of economic thought
- List of Austrian-school economists
- List of business theorists
- List of feminist economists
- List of game theorists
- List of Jewish economists
- List of Marxian economists
- List of Nobel laureates in Economics
- List of socialist economists
- List of think tanks
- List of Uruguayan economists
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External links
- Overview: History of Economic Thought – Famous Economists
- Tom Coupé's list of the top 1000 contemporary economists, ranked by publication impact, at IDEAS/RePEc
- List of top 5% of contemporary economists, ranked by current research impact, at IDEAS/RePEc