- List of Jewish economists
List of Jewish economists is a list that includes economists who are or were verifiably
Jew ish or of Jewish descent.A-G
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Albert Aftalion , Bulgarian-born French economist [Encyclopaedia Britannica , 2nd ed., art. "Aftalion, Albert"]
*George Akerlof , Nobel prize (2001) [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html Virtual Jewish Library, list of Nobel Prizewinners] ]
*Kenneth Arrow , Nobel prize (1972)
*Robert Aumann , Nobel prize (2005)
* Lord Bauer, economist [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F05%2F06%2Fdb0601.xml]
*Gary Becker , Nobel prize (1992)
*Ben Bernanke , economist and current (2007)Chairman of the Federal Reserve [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/14/AR2005111401544_2.html]
*Eugene Birnbaum , economist
*Walter Block , Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans [http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block67.html]
*George Dantzig , economist [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html]
*Richard Ehrenberg , economist [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/speccoll/cgjs/archive/elton_item.php?item_id=144]
*Robert Fogel , Nobel prize (1993)
*Milton Friedman , Nobel prize (1976)
*Charles Goodhart , [Flade, Ronald. The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History, 2nd Enlarged Ed., 1999; reviewed by the [http://www.ajhs.org/about/Newsletter/2003_spring/AJHS_newsletter_spring_03.pdf?bcsi_scan_22F071C7F07ABBC7=0&bcsi_scan_filename=AJHS_newsletter_spring_03.pdf American Jewish Historical Society] . Accessed 14 Nov 2006.]Bank of England economist
*Alan Greenspan , economist and formerChairman of the Federal Reserve [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html]
*Zvi Griliches , economist [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html]H-L
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John Harsanyi , Nobel prize (1994)
*Noreena Hertz [http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:Sjc7gNqcp_YJ:www.jewishartsfest.org/index.cfm%3Fpage%3Dsingle.cfm%26sectionid%3D226+%22Noreena+Hertz%22+Jewish&hl=en] , economist & activist
*Hendrik Houthakker , economist [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html]
*Leonid Hurwicz , economist [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html]
*Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html] , economist: multiplier
*Daniel Kahneman , Nobel prize (2002)
*Nicholas Kaldor [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html] , economist
*Leonid Kantorovich , Nobel prize (1975)
*Israel Kirzner [http://www.fff.org/freedom/0400f.asp] , economist (UK-born)
*Lawrence Klein , Nobel prize (1980)
*János Kornai , economist [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html]
*Paul Krugman , economist [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html]
*Simon Kuznets , Nobel prize (1971)
*Ludwig Lachmann , economist [Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek - Pg 145]
*Harold Laski , economist (The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, ed Geoffrey Wigoder, 5th ed 1977, pp. 1182-3)
*Emil Lederer , economist [ [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html JInfo list of economists] accessed 17 May 2007]
*Wassily Leontief , Nobel prize (1973)
*Leone Levi , political economist [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Leone_Levi]
*Robert Liefmann , economist [http://www.io.uni-freiburg.de/visiting-scholars/living.html?set_language=en]
*Ephraim Lipson , economic historian [Encyclopaedia Judaica , art. "Historians"]
*Adolph Lowe , economist [http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/findaids/ger022.htm]
*Rosa Luxemburg , economist, co-founder of the KPD [http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/l/u.htm]M-Z
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Harry Markowitz , Nobel prize (1990)
*Morton J. Marcus , economist
*Jacob Marschak [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html] , economist
*Karl Marx , inventor of Marxist economics [Encyclopaedia Judaica , art. "Marx, Karl"]
*Robert Merton , Nobel prize [http://www.jinfo.org/Nobels_Economics.html] (1997)
*Merton Miller , Nobel prize (1990)
*Ludwig von Mises [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html] , economist
*Franco Modigliani , Nobel prize (1985)
*Fritz Naphtali , economist, editor, later Israeli finance minister [Riemer, Yehuda. Fritz Peretz Naphtali, A Social Democrat in Two Worlds. Hassifriya Haziyonit, Jerusalem 1996]
*John von Neumann [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html]
*Alexander Nove , economist (JYB 1990 p202)
*Sigbert Prais , economist (JYB 2005 p215)
*David Ricardo [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/ricardo.htm] , economist (converted to Quakerism)
*Murray Rothbard [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html] , economist
*Nouriel Roubini , Iranian-American macroeconomist [http://www.janera.com/janera_words.php?id=44]
*Paul Samuelson , Nobel prize (1970)
*Myron Scholes , Nobel prize (1997)
*Arthur Seldon [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries/story/0,1441,1590862,00.html] , economist
*Reinhard Selten , Nobel prize [http://www.jinfo.org/Nobels_Economics.html] (1994)
*Herbert Simon , Nobel prize (1978)
* SirHans Singer , economist ["The Economist ", March 11th 2006 p95: "born a Jew"]
*Robert Solow , Nobel prize (1987)
*Piero Sraffa [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html] , economist
*Joseph Stiglitz , Nobel prize (2001)
*Jacob Viner , Canadian economist (JYB 1975 p214)
*Abraham Wald [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html] , economist
*Basil Yamey , economist (JYB 2005 p215,315)References
* JYB =
Jewish Year Book Footnotes
External links
* [http://www.jinfo.org Jinfo]
ee also
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Lists of Jews
*List of Jewish American economists
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