List of Jewish economists

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

A–G

 * 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)
 * 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
 * Jared Bernstein
 * 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
 * Arthur Burns, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
 * Otto Eckstein, a key developer of the idea of core inflation
 * Richard Ehrenberg, economist
 * Martin Feldstein, 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, half-Jewish American economist
 * Charles Goodhart, Bank of England economist
 * Alan Greenspan, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

H–L

 * John Harsanyi, Nobel Prize (1994)
 * Henry Hazlitt, half-Jewish Austrian economist *Arnold Heertje, Dutch
 * Rudolf Hilferding, Austrian-German marxist economist
 * Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel Prize (2007)
 * Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, economist: multiplier
 * Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize (2002)
 * Leonid Kantorovich, Nobel Prize (1975)


 * Israel Kirzner, economist (UK-born)
 * Lawrence Klein, Nobel Prize (1980)
 * János Kornai, Hungarian
 * Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize (2008)
 * Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize (1971)
 * Vladimir Kvint, economist and strategist
 * Ludwig Lachmann, economist
 * Harold Laski, economist
 * Emil Lederer, economist
 * Wassily Leontief, Nobel Prize (1973)
 * Abba P. Lerner, Russian-born British economist
 * Leone Levi, political economist
 * Robert Liefmann, economist
 * Ephraim Lipson, economic historian
 * Adolph Lowe, German
 * Rosa Luxemburg, economist, co-founder of the KPD

M–Z

 * Stephen Marglin, American
 * Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize (1990), John von Neumann Theory Prize (1989)
 * 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.
 * Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize (2007)
 * Robert C. Merton, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1997)
 * Paul Milgrom, Nobel Prize (2020)
 * Merton Miller, Nobel Prize (1990)
 * Hyman Minsky, American
 * Frederic Mishkin, American
 * Noreena Hertz, economist and activist
 * Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School
 * Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize (1985)
 * Toby Moskowitz, financial economist, Fischer Black Prize (2007)
 * 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
 * Arthur Melvin Okun, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1968-1969)
 * Don Patinkin, Israeli
 * Sigbert Prais, economist
 * Karl Polanyi, Austrian-Hungarian economist and economic historian
 * Roy Radner, American who developed the Radner equilibrium concept
 * David Ricardo, economist (converted to Quakerism)
 * Alvin E. Roth, Nobel prize (2012)
 * Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist, writer, libertarian, and father of anarcho-capitalism
 * Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American
 * Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize (1970)
 * Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize (1997)
 * 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. President of the Western Economic Association International (1988)
 * Arthur Seldon, economist
 * Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Prize (1978)
 * Sir Hans Singer, known for the Prebisch–Singer thesis
 * Robert Solow, Nobel Prize (1987)
 * Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council (2011-2014)
 * Piero Sraffa, Italian economist
 * Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1971-1974)
 * Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize (2001)
 * 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
 * Leo Wolman, American economist.
 * Basil Yamey, South African economist
 * Janet Yellen, economist, former chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank