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List of Jewish economists 
Summary
This list of Jewish economists includes economists who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent.
A–G edit
- Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist[1]
- George Akerlof, Nobel Prize (2001)[2]
- Joshua Angrist, Nobel Prize (2021)[3]
- Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize (1972)[2]
- Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize (2005)[2]
- Lord Bauer, economist[4]
- Gary Becker, Nobel Prize (1992)[2]
- 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[5]
- Jared Bernstein[6]
- 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[7]
- Arthur Burns, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve[8]
- Otto Eckstein, a key developer of the idea of core inflation
- Richard Ehrenberg, economist[9]
- Martin Feldstein, Harvard Professor; Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Reagan Administration
- Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize (1993)[2]
- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize (1976)[2]
- Barry Goldwater, half-Jewish American economist
- Charles Goodhart,[10] Bank of England economist
- Alan Greenspan, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve[11]
H–L edit
- John Harsanyi, Nobel Prize (1994)[2]
- Henry Hazlitt, half-Jewish Austrian economist [citation needed]*Arnold Heertje, Dutch
- Rudolf Hilferding, Austrian-German marxist economist
- Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel Prize (2007)[2]
- Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, economist: multiplier
- Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize (2002)[2]
- Leonid Kantorovich, Nobel Prize (1975)[2]
- Israel Kirzner,[12] economist (UK-born)
- Lawrence Klein, Nobel Prize (1980)[2]
- János Kornai, Hungarian[11]
- Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize (2008)[13]
- Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize (1971)[2]
- Vladimir Kvint, economist and strategist[11]
- Ludwig Lachmann, economist[14]
- Harold Laski, economist[15]
- Emil Lederer, economist[16]
- Wassily Leontief, Nobel Prize (1973)[2]
- Abba P. Lerner, Russian-born British economist
- Leone Levi, political economist[17]
- Robert Liefmann, economist[18]
- Ephraim Lipson, economic historian[19]
- Adolph Lowe, German[20]
- Rosa Luxemburg, economist, co-founder of the KPD[21]
M–Z edit
- Stephen Marglin, American
- Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize (1990), John von Neumann Theory Prize (1989)[2]
- Karl Marx, inventor of Marxist economics[22] 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)[23]
- Robert C. Merton, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1997)
- Paul Milgrom, Nobel Prize (2020)[2]
- Merton Miller, Nobel Prize (1990)[2]
- Hyman Minsky, American
- Frederic Mishkin, American
- Noreena Hertz,[24] economist and activist
- Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School
- Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize (1985)[2]
- Toby Moskowitz, financial economist, Fischer Black Prize (2007)[25]
- 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[26]
- Arthur Melvin Okun, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1968-1969)
- Don Patinkin, Israeli
- Sigbert Prais, economist[27]
- Karl Polanyi, Austrian-Hungarian economist and economic historian
- Roy Radner, American who developed the Radner equilibrium concept
- David Ricardo,[28] economist (converted to Quakerism)
- Alvin E. Roth, Nobel prize (2012)[29]
- Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist, writer, libertarian, and father of anarcho-capitalism
- Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American[30]
- Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize (1970)[2]
- Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize (1997)[31]
- 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.[32] President of the Western Economic Association International (1988)[33]
- Arthur Seldon,[34] economist
- Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Prize (1978)[2]
- Sir Hans Singer, known for the Prebisch–Singer thesis[35]
- Robert Solow, Nobel Prize (1987)[2]
- Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council (2011-2014)
- Piero Sraffa,[11] Italian economist
- Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1971-1974)
- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize (2001)[2]
- 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[36]
- Leo Wolman, American economist.[37]
- Basil Yamey, South African economist[38]
- Janet Yellen, economist, former chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank
See also edit
References edit
- JYB = Jewish Year Book
Footnotes
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "Virtual Jewish Library, list of Nobel Prizewinners". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
- ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021". Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ "Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday". Telegraph. Archived from the original on June 18, 2002. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ White, Ben (November 15, 2005). "Bernanke Unwrapped". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Friedman, Gabe (November 30, 2020). "Jared Bernstein is 'verklempt' to join Biden's council of economic advisers". Jewish Telegraph Agency.
- ^ "The Libertarian Big Tent by Walter Block and Tennyson McCalla". Lewrockwell.com. December 6, 2006. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ "FRB Membership of Board of Governors". federalreserve.gov. October 4, 2010. Archived from the original on February 18, 2012. Retrieved Jul 15, 2011.
- ^ "University of Sussex: Special Collections – Elton/Ehrenberg Papers: Item details". Sussex.ac.uk. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Flade, Roland. The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History, 2nd Enlarged Ed., 1999; reviewed by the American Jewish Historical Society. Accessed 14 Nov 2006.
- ^ a b c d JINFO. "Jewish Economists". Jinfo.org. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ "Making Sense of Jewish Stereotypes". Fff.org. Archived from the original on March 10, 2007. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Paul Krugman (2003-10-28). "A Willful Ignorance". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
Sure enough, I was accused in various places not just of 'tolerance for anti-Semitism' (yes, I'm Jewish) [...]
- ^ Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek – Pg 145
- ^ The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, ed. Geoffrey Wigoder, 5th ed 1977, pp. 1182–3
- ^ JInfo list of economists accessed 17 May 2007
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 511.
- ^ "Living — International Office". Io.uni-freiburg.de. Archived from the original on November 28, 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Historians"
- ^ "Adolph Lowe Papers". Library.albany.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ "Glossary of People: L". Marxists.org. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Marx, Karl"
- ^ "Eric S. Maskin - Facts". Nobel Prize.
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- ^ JYB 1990 p202
- ^ JYB 2005 p215
- ^ "David Ricardo". Cepa.newschool.edu. Archived from the original on March 15, 2007. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012, Nobel Prize official site (accessed 2012-10-15).
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- ^ "Myron Scholes (1941 - )". Jewish Virtual Library.
- ^ "Milton Friedman". Policonomics. 2012.
- ^ "Past Presidents" (PDF). Western Economic Association International. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 24, 2013. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
- ^ Alfred Sherman (October 13, 2005). "Obituary: Arthur Seldon | Business | The Guardian". London: Politics.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ The Economist, March 11th 2006 p95: "born a Jew"
- ^ JYB 1975 p214
- ^ "Dr. Leo Woman, Economist, Dies." New York Times. October 3, 1961.
- ^ JYB 2005 p215, 315