List of Jewish American economists

This is a list of notable Jewish American economists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

Ben Bernanke

Milton Friedman

Paul Krugman

Eric Maskin

Alvin E. Roth

• Gary Becker, Nobel Prize (1992)[1]
• Ben Bernanke, former Chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank[2]
• Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans[3]
• Arthur F. Burns, economic adviser to the Eisenhower administration (1953) and Chairman to the Federal Reserve (1970)[4]
• Martin Feldstein, Harvard Professor; Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Reagan Administration[5]
• Amy Finkelstein, Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the co-Director and research associate of the Public Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America.[6]
• Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize (1976)[7]
• Alan Greenspan, former Chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank[8]
• Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize (2002)[9]
• Lawrence Klein, Nobel Prize (1980)[10]
• Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize (2008)[11]
• Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize (2007)[12]
• Toby Moskowitz, financial economist[13]
• Alvin E. Roth, Nobel Prize (2012)[14]
• Murray Rothbard, writer, Austrian School economist, anarcho-capitalist, libertarian writer[15]
• Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American macroeconomist[16]
• Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize (1997)[17]
• 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.[18] President of the Western Economic Association International (1988)[19]
• Lawrence Henry Summers, former Chief Economist at the World Bank[20]

References

1. "Gary Becker (1930-2014)". Jewish Virtual Library.
2. "Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to Join Economic Studies at Brookings". Brookings. February 3, 2014. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
3. "The Libertarian Big Tent". LewRockwell.
4. "Arthur F. Burns Is Dead at 83; A Shaper of Economic Policy". New York Times.
5. "THE TESTING OF MARTIN FELDSTEIN". New York Times.
6. "MIT Economist of Health Care Wins John Bates Clark Medal". The Chronicle of Higher Education.
7. "Milton Friedman on nobelprize.org". Nobel Prize. 1976. Retrieved February 20, 2008.
8. Benjamin M. Friedman (March 20, 2008). "Chairman Greenspan's Legacy". New York Review of Books. 55 (4).
9. "Daniel Kahneman - Biographical". Nobel Prize.
10. "Lawrence Klein (1920-2013)". Jewish Virtual Library.
11. "Paul Krugman - Facts". Nobel Prize.
12. "Eric S. Maskin - Facts". Nobel Prize.
13. Moskowitz, Tobias J.; Wertheim, L. Jon (2011). Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won. Crown Archetype.
14. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012, Nobel Prize official site (accessed 2012-10-15).
15. Lewis, David Charles (2006). "Rothbard, Murray Newton (1926–1995)". In Ross Emmett (ed.). Biographical Dictionary of American Economists. Thoemmes. ISBN 1843711125.
16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 20, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
17. "Myron Scholes (1941 - )". Jewish Virtual Library.
18. "Milton Friedman". Policonomics. 2012.
19. "Past Presidents" (PDF). Western Economic Association International. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 24, 2013. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
20. "Lawrence Summers". JVL. Retrieved 2019-10-27.

External links

• Jewish winners of the Nobel Prize are listed in the Jewish Virtual Library.
• Jinfo