This list of Jewish economists includes economists who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent.

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* Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist * George Akerlof, Nobel Prize (2001) * Joshua Angrist, Nobel Prize (2021) * Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize (1972) * Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize (2005) * Lord Bauer, economist * Gary Becker, Nobel Prize (1992) *

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(died 1992), Israeli economist and president of the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

Ben Bernanke Ben Shalom Bernanke ( ; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Fed, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. Durin ...

, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve * Jared Bernstein *

Mario Blejer Mario J. Blejer (born June 11, 1948) is an Argentine economist and a former president of the Central Bank of Argentina. Life and times Blejer was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1948. He enrolled at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and grad ...

, Argentine economist and former President of the

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in 2002. * Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans * Arthur Burns, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve *

Otto Eckstein Otto Eckstein (August 1, 1927 – March 22, 1984) was a German-American economist. He was a key developer and proponent of the theory of core inflation , which proposed that in determining accurate metrics of long run inflation, the transitory pri ...

, a key developer of the idea of core inflation *

Richard Ehrenberg Richard Ehrenberg (5 February 1857 – 17 December 1921) was a German economist. He taught at Rostock University from 1899 to 1921. Literary works * ''Hamburg und Antwerpen seit 300 Jahren'', 1889 * ''Hamburg und England im Zeitalter der Kön ...

, economist *

Martin Feldstein Martin Stuart Feldstein ( ; November 25, 1939 – June 11, 2019) was an American economist. He was the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER ...

, Harvard Professor; Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Reagan Administration * Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize (1993) * Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize (1976) *

Barry Goldwater Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician and United States Air Force officer who was a five-term U.S. Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for presiden ...

, half-Jewish American economist * Charles Goodhart,

Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government of ...

economist * Alan Greenspan, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

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* John Harsanyi, Nobel Prize (1994) * Arnold Heertje, Dutch economist * Rudolf Hilferding, Austrian-German marxist economist * Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel Prize (2007) * Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, economist: multiplier *

Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman (; he, דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was award ...

, Nobel Prize (2002) * Leonid Kantorovich, Nobel Prize (1975) * Henry Hazlitt, half-Jewish Austrian economist * Israel Kirzner, economist (UK-born) * Lawrence Klein, Nobel Prize (1980) * János Kornai, economist * Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize (2008) *

Simon Kuznets Simon Smith Kuznets (; rus, Семён Абра́мович Кузне́ц, p=sʲɪˈmʲɵn ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kʊzʲˈnʲɛts; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Pr ...

, Nobel Prize (1971) * Vladimir Kvint, economist and strategist * Ludwig Lachmann, economist * Harold Laski, economist *

Emil Lederer Emil Lederer (22 July 1882 – 29 May 1939) was a Bohemian-born German economist and sociologist. Purged from his position at Humboldt University of Berlin in 1933 for being Jewish, Lederer fled into exile. He helped establish the "University ...

, economist * Wassily Leontief, Nobel Prize (1973) * Abba P. Lerner, Russian-born British economist *

Leone Levi Leone Levi (6 June 1821 – 7 May 1888) was an English jurist and statistician. Born to a Jewish family in Ancona, Italy, he worked in commerce there before emigrating to Liverpool in 1844. There he obtained British citizenship and joined the Pr ...

, political economist *

Robert Liefmann Robert Liefmann (4 February 1874 – 21 March 1941) was a German economist. He was a professor at Freiburg University. Literary works *''Kartell Kartell is an Italian company that makes and sells plastic contemporary furniture. It is headq ...

, economist * Ephraim Lipson, economic historian * Adolph Lowe, economist *

Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (; ; pl, Róża Luksemburg or ; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, ...

, economist, co-founder of the KPD

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Stephen Marglin Stephen Alan Marglin is an American economist. He is the Walter S. Barker Professor of Economics at Harvard University, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a founding member of the World Economics Association. Background Marglin grew up in ...

, American economist * Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize (1990) *

Eric Maskin Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and mathematician. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism d ...

, Nobel Prize (2007) * Karl Marx, inventor of Marxist economics 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. * Robert C. Merton * Paul Milgrom, Nobel Prize (2020) *

Merton Miller Merton Howard Miller (May 16, 1923 – June 3, 2000) was an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani–Miller theorem (1958), which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic ...

, Nobel Prize (1990) * Hyman Minsky, economist * Frederic Mishkin, American economist * Noreena Hertz, economist and activist * Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School economist * Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize (1985) * Toby Moskowitz, financial economist *

Roger Myerson Roger Bruce Myerson (born March 29, 1951) is an American economist and professor at the University of Chicago. He holds the title of the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The Pearson Institute for the ...

* William Nordhaus *

Alexander Nove Alexander Nove, FRSE, FBA (born Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky; russian: Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Новако́вский; also published under Alec Nove; 24 November 1915 – 15 May 1994) was a Professor of Economics at the ...

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Arthur Melvin Okun Arthur Melvin "Art" Okun (November 28, 1928 – March 23, 1980) was an American economist. He served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers between 1968 and 1969. Before serving on the C.E.A., he was a professor at Yale University a ...

, chairman of the

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(1968-1969) * Don Patinkin, Israeli economist *

Sigbert Prais Sigbert Jon Prais, FBA (19 December 1928 – 22 February 2014) was an economist and had been the senior research fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) since 1970. Life On 19 December 1928, Sigbert Jon Prais ...

, economist * Karl Polanyi, Austrian-Hungarian economist and economic historian * David Ricardo, economist (converted to Quakerism) * Alvin E. Roth, Nobel prize (2012) * Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist, writer, libertarian, and father of

anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-capitalism (or, colloquially, ancap) is an anti-statist, libertarian, and anti-political philosophy and economic theory that seeks to abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies with systems of private property enforce ...

* Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American macroeconomist * Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize (1970) *

Myron Scholes Myron Samuel Scholes ( ; born July 1, 1941) is a Canadian-American financial economist. Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-origina ...

, Nobel Prize (1997) * Anna Schwartz, economist who published ''

A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 ''A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960'' is a book written in 1963 by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz. It uses historical time series and economic anal ...

'' (1963), which laid a large portion of the blame for the

Great Depression The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...

at the door of the Federal Reserve System. President of the Western Economic Association International (1988) * Arthur Seldon, economist * Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Prize (1978) * Sir Hans Singer, economist * Robert Solow, Nobel Prize (1987) * Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council (2011-2014) *

Piero Sraffa Piero Sraffa (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book ''Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities'' is taken as founding the neo- ...

, economist * Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1971-1974) *

Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, and a full professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the Joh ...

, Nobel Prize (2001) * Lawrence Summers, economist, Treasury Secretary, and Harvard President * Richard Thaler * Jacob Viner, Canadian economist * Leo Wolman, economist. *

Basil Yamey Basil Selig Yamey CBE (4 May 1919 – 9 November 2020) was a South African economist and expert in the history of accounting. Career He was born in Cape Town in South Africa in May 1919, and educated at the University of Cape Town. For many yea ...

, economistJYB 2005 p215, 315 * Janet Yellen, economist, Former chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank

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* JYB = Jewish Year Book

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