Economists

Students and teachers of economics

Other Individuals: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Anderson, Benjamin M. - 19th/20th century American economist of the Austrian School
Barro, Robert J. - Professor of economics at Harvard University
Bastiat, Frederic - French economist and author
Bauer, Peter T. - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
Becker, Gary S. - Professor of economics at the University of Chicago, 1992 Nobel Prize winner in Economics
Block, Walter - Professor of economics, Loyola University
Bohm-Bawerk, Eugen von - Nineteenth century Austrian economist and minister of Finance
Boudreaux, Donald J. - Professor of Economics, past President of FEE
Buchanan, James M. - 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences
Cairnes, John Elliott - Nineteenth century Irish economist
Cantillon, Richard - 18th century Irish economist
Clark, John Bates - 19th/20th century American economist
De Soto, Hernando - Economist, founder of Instituto Libertad y Democracia
Ebeling, Richard M. - Professor of economics, former president of the Foundation for Economic Education
Fetter, Frank A. - 20th century American professor of economics
Friedman, Milton - 1976 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences
Fuhrig, Brian Joseph - Professor of Economics and Finance at Golden Gate University
George, Henry - Nineteenth century American self-taught economist, author of Progress and Poverty
Greenspan, Alan - Former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1987-2006)
Haberler, Gottfried - 20th century Austrian-born economist
Harper, Floyd A. - Economics professor, founder of the Institute for Humane Studies
Hayek, Friedrich A. - 1974 Nobel Prize winner in Economics Sciences
Higgs, Robert - Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute
Hutt, William H. - 20th century British-born economist
Jevons, William Stanley - Nineteenth century English economist
Kirzner, Israel M. - Professor of Economics at New York University
Knight, Frank H. - 20th century American economist of the Chicago School
Lachmann, Ludwig M. - 20th century German-born economist of the Austrian School
Lott, John R. Jr. - Economist, author
Machlup, Fritz - 20th century Austro-American economist
Malthus, Thomas - 18th/19th century English economist
Markowitz, Harry M. - 20th century American economist, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in economics
Marshall, Alfred - 19th century English economist
Menger, Carl - Founder of the Austrian School of economics
Mill, James - 18th/19th century Scottish economist
Mises, Ludwig von - Austrian school economist
Molinari, Gustave de - 19th century Belgian/French economist, considered the originator of market-anarchism
Morgenstern, Oskar - 20th century German-born economist
Oppenheimer, Franz - German sociologist and economist, author of The State
Quesnay, Francois - 18th century French Physiocrat economist, also trained in medicine
Reisman, George - Professor of economics, author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics
Ricardo, David - 18th/19th century British economist
Robbins, Lionel C. - 20th century British economist
Roberts, Paul Craig - Economist, columnist
Ropke, Wilhelm - 20th century German economist
Rothbard, Murray N. - Austrian School economist, author of For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
Rueff, Jacques - 20th century French economist
Salerno, Joseph T. - American economist of the Austrian school, professor at Pace University
Say, Jean-Baptiste - 18th-19th century French economist
Schoolland, Ken - Professor of Economics and Political Science, author
Schumpeter, Joseph Alois - 20th century Austrian economist
Senior, Nassau William - Nineteenth century English economist
Sennholz, Hans F. - German-American economist of the Austrian School
Skousen, Mark - Author, investment advisor, professor of Economics
Smith, Adam - Eighteenth century Scottish economist, author of The Wealth of Nations
Smith, Vernon L. - 2002 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences
Sowell, Thomas - Author, syndicated columnist, fellow at the Hoover Institution
Stigler, George J. - 20th century American economist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in economics
Thies, Clifford F. - Past chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus, professor of Economics and Finance
Thornton, Mark - Professor of economics, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute
Timberlake, Richard H., Jr. - Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia
Tullock, Gordon - Professor of law and economics at George Mason University
Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques - 18th century French economist
Walras, Leon - Nineteenth century French economist
Watts, V. Orval - 20th century Canadian-born economist
Wicksell, Knut - 19th/20th century Swedish economist
Wieser, Friedrich von - 19th/20th century Austrian economist
Williams, Walter E. - Professor of Economics, author, syndicated columnist
Yeager, Leland B. - American professor of economics

Articles

Economic Lunacy, by Walter E. Williams, 7 Sep 2005
"Bastiat ... said ... 'the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.' ... economists Chan and Woodward ... can't see ... what those resources would have been used for had there not been hurricane destruction"

Why Be An Economist? To Be Happy, That's Why, by Walter Block, Mises.org Daily Article, 21 Dec 2006
"My advice to my very best students ... is to major in economics, ... and then go off and get a Ph.D. in economics. ... Why do I give this advice? The better to promote liberty, of course. I am motivated by the fact that Austro-libertarianism is a rare and precious flower, yet is crucially important to the prosperity and even survival of the entire human race."

Why Intellectuals Still Support Socialism, by Peter Klein, Mises.org Daily Article, 15 Nov 2006
Related Topic: World War II
"... economists are not traditionally popular as policy advisors. Economics teaches that resources are limited, that choices made imply opportunities forgone, that our actions can have unintended consequences. This is typically not what government officials want to hear."

The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists, by Murray N. Rothbard, The Libertarian Forum, 1 Jan 1970
Related Topics: Communism, Achievement, Private Property, Spain, The State
"It is no accident that it was precisely the economists in the Communist countries who led the rush away from communism, socialism, and central planning, and toward free markets. It is no crime to be ignorant of economics ... But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."

The Myth of the Rational Voter, by Bryan Caplan, Cato Unbound, 6 Nov 2006
Related Topics: Voting, Democracy, Logic, Psychology
"When experts ... address a broader audience ... they need to ... clearly explain why the experts are right and the public is wrong. Thus, when economists get the public's ear, they should not bore them with the details of national income statistics ... They should challenge the public's misconceptions about markets, foreigners, saving labor, and progress."

Books

What Do Economists Contribute?
by Daniel B. Klein (Editor), Cato Institute, 1999

ISBN 0814747221: Hardcover, NYU Press, 1999
ISBN 081474723X: Paperback, NYU Press, 1999