Milton Friedman
capitalist, statistician on consumption analysis who came up with shareholder theory or Friedman doctrine to ensure max returns to existing shareholders, economist, monetary theory on the complexity of stabilization policy, pioneer in consumption, research & development (R&D) costs, capitalism and government austerity (cutbacks of spending costs), author of Capitalism and Freedom, Free To Choose
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Financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, economist, chief investment strategist for Global Markets Institute
Adam Smith
political economist, Marxist socialist, pioneer in free trade for the British East India Company, philosopher, grandfather of modern economics, author of The Wealth of Nations in 1776
1723-1790 (67)
Alan Greenspan living
Economist, 13th chairman of the US Federal Reserve (the FED) from 1987-2006, financier, businessman, founder of Greenspan Associates
1926- (99)
Alfons Verplaetse
Economist, governor of the National Bank of Belgium from 1989-1999
1930-2020 (90)
Ángel Gurría living
Economist, diplomat, Institutional Revolutionary Party politician, Mexico Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1994-1997, secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (EOCD) from 2006-2021
1950- (75)
oecd.org
Arnold J. Toynbee
Philosopher, international historian, economist, professor, director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA)
1889-1975 (86)
Frédéric Bastiat
economist, author of The Law, military philosopher, pioneer in opportunity costs & plunder of society, writer for the French Liberal School
Cameron Hepburn
Economist at Oxford University
oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Clifford Gaddy living
Economist, co-author of The Siberian Curse
1946- (79)
americanacademy.de
Cyrus Vance
economist, pioneer in post industrial zero growth, co-writer of the Global 2000 Report
David Card
Economist, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, Nobel Prize
davidcard.berkeley.edu
David Ricardo
MP for the United Kingdom, politician, economist, pioneer of the intrinsic value theory, fractional reserve banking artificially reduces interest rates, co-founder of The Currency School
Dominique Strauss-Kahn living
Economist, former Minister of the Economy of France, and former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), French Socialist Party politician
1949- (76)
Emmanuel Farhi
Macroeconomist, professor of economics at Harvard University
1978-2020 (42)
news.harvard.edu
Ernie Stern
Economist, banker, lender at the World Bank Group
1933-2019 (86)
ft.com
F.A. Hayek (Friedrich von Hayek)
economist aka Friedrich Hayek, philosopher, neo-liberal founder of the Mont Pelerin Society, pioneer in classical liberalism (neoliberalism), author of The Road to Serfdom (1944), The Constitution of Liberty
1899-1992 (93)
Georg Friedrich Knapp
economist, pioneer in state money theory, author of The State Theory of Money (1905) or Staatliche Theorie des Geldes
1842-1926 (84)
George P. Shultz
Republican Party politician, economist, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) secretary, diplomat, businessman
1920-2021 (101)
Gerhard Fels
Economist, formerly at UN Committee for Development Planning, author of A Supply-Side Agenda for Germany
group30.org
Giancarlo Gandolfo
Economist, pioneer in dynamic economic theory, professor of International Economics at Sapienza University of Rome from 1974-2010
gandolfo.org
Gita Gopinath
Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund
group30.org
Guillermo de la Dehesa living
Secretary of State of Economy and Finance from 1986-1988, economist, lawyer, attorney, politician, advisor to Goldman Sachs since 1988
1941- (84)
group30.org
Guy Quaden
Economist, governor of the National Bank of Belgium 2003-2011, president of the King Baudouin Foundation since 2003
Hans Tietmeyer
Economist, president of Deutsche Bundesbank from 1993-1999, director at the European Union, author of The Social Market Economy and Monetary Stability
1931-2016 (85)
pass.va
Henry C. Carey
Lead economist for the American School, chief economic advisor to Abraham Lincoln
1793-1879 (86)
Henry George
progressive economist, journalist, pioneer in land owner taxes or the Henry George theorem aka Georgism, author of Progress and Poverty
1839-1897 (58)
David Hume
Enlightenment philosopher, historian, monetary theorist, economist, librarian, essayist, philosophical empiricism, author of A Treatise on Human Nature
plato.stanford.edu
Jacques Delors
8th President of the European Commission from 1985-1995, economist, politician
James Pennington
Economist, multiple deposits, co-founder of The Currency School
Jeffrey D. Sachs
economist, academic scholar, university professor, educator, researcher, former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University
jeffsachs.org
John Deagel
Economist known for the Deagel Report on A Transformed World for Americans in 2025
John Law
Economist, inventor of paper money, pioneer in fractional reserve banking, founder of Mississippi Company, funded by the Banque Royale, pioneered the term "millionaire" for Law's scheme
1671-1729 (58)
John R. Commons
Economist
archives.gov
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, political economist, civil servant, Theory of the Scientific Method, utilitarian ethics, helped finance the University of London
Joseph Schumpeter
Poltiical economist, Finance Minister of German-Austria in 1919
Karl Otto Pöhl
Economist, director of the European Central Bank (ECB), president and chairman of the German central bank (Bundesbank) council from 1980-1991, sports reporter
1929-2014 (85)
bundesbank.de
Kazimir Glaz
painter, printmaker, publisher, economist, policy maker, pioneer of sensibilism (1956)
art-history.concordia.ca
Ken Galbraith
Economist, liberal diplomat, ambassador to India, writer at Forbes, author of The Affluent Society, The Great Crash 1929, lecturer, Warburg professor of economics at Harvard, proponent of liberalism and realism, coined the phrase "progress is an innocent fraud", co-founder the European Management Symposium (now World Economic Forum or "WEF")
1908-2006 (98)
Ken Rogoff
Economist aka Kenneth Rogoff, professor of public policy and economics at Harvard University, chess grandmaster, Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund
scholar.harvard.edu
John Maynard (J.M.), Lord Keynes
economist aka JM Keynes, libertarian, pioneer in macroeconomics & uncertainty in the free markets, lobbyist, slick suits, wino, author of The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, Treatise on Money, How to Pay for the War
1883-1946 (63)
econlib.org
Klaus Schwab living
mechanical engineer at Escher Wyss & Cie (Sulzer), economist, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 1971 aka Davos Forum, Davos Club, European Management Forum, author of Stakeholder Capitalism, COVID-19: The Great Reset, knighted in 2006, pioneer of The Great Redesign in 2009 after the 2008 Financial Crisis, director at Festo, Sulzer, Andritz
1938- (87)
Kristalina Georgieva living
CEO of the World Bank, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), economist, financier, VP of the European Commission (EC) from 2014-2016
1953- (72)
Larry Summers
US Treasury Secretary from 1999-2001, economist known for the revolving door project, banker, financier, former president at Harvard, director of the National Economic Council from 2009-2010, pioneer of the deregulation of derivatives which led to the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (FDR New Deal), crypto enthusiast, director at Xapo Bank, Block, OpenAi
larrysummers.com
Lauchlin Currie
Economist, economic advisor to president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
Leonard Darwin
Economist, politician, president of the First International Congress of Eugenics, pioneer in organic evolution, son of Charles Darwin, author of What is Eugenics? in 1932
1850-1943 (93)
Leszek Balcerowicz
Economist
group30.org
Mac Wallace
Economist, press secretary for US senator LBJ, sharpshooter, links to JFK assassination and killed John Kinser in broad daylight
Thomas Malthus
Ecnomist, cleric, scholar, Malthusian catastrophe, Malthusian theory is that population increases beyond subsistence that if left unchecked by disease, famine, war, moral restraint that widespread poverty and degradation will result. Beginnings of Charles Darwin's survival of the fittest, Theory of Evolution
Marek Belka
Prime Minister of Poland, economist, banker, former head of Narodowy Bank Polski (NBP) the Polish central bank
Martin A. Armstrong living
Stock trader, currency economist, trends forecaster aka Marty Armstrong, inventor, pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI), coins collector, spent 11 years in prison from 2000-2011
1949- (76)
Martin Feldstein
Economist, Professor of Economics at Harvard, President of National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) from 1978-2008
1939-2019 (80)
Mervyn King living
Economist, chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee, governor of the Bank of England from 2003-2013, member of the UK House of Lords since 2013, professor of economics at the London School of Economics, chairman of the Philharmonia
1948- (77)
group30.org
Michael Hudson
Economist, writer, researcher, real estate investor
michael-hudson.com
Murray Rothbard
economist, political theorist, libertarian, author of For a New Liberty
1926-1995 (69)
Nicholas Eberstadt living
Political economist, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), author of Poverty in China, The North Korean Economy, The End of North Korea, A Nation of Takers, The Tyranny of Numbers, The Poverty of Communism, Men Without Work
1955- (70)
Nicolai Rygg
economist, gold bug, governor of the central bank of Norway (Norges Bank)
1872-1957 (85)
Nils Bernstein
Economist, central banker, governor of the National Bank of Denmark
bis.org
Vilfredo Pareto
Neoclassical economist aka Vilfredo Pareto, polymath, educator at the Lausanne School, pioneer in elitism of elites, cause and effect, wealth and power distribution and the 80/20 rule, Pareto charts, Pareto principles
1848-1923 (75)
Paul Krugman
economist, keynote speaker on international trade theory, wealth inequity, income inequality, economics professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
group30.org
Peter Boone
macroeconomist, principal at Salute Capital Management, co-founder and chairman at Effective Intervention, senior fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE)
cepr.org
Peter Navarro living
economist aka Ron Vera, senior counselor for the White House, economic advisor to President Trump, author of Death by China
1949- (76)
Dr. Pippa Malmgren
Economist, writer of Geopolitics for Investors, author of Signals, co-author of The Leadership Lab, The Infinite Leader, technology entrepreneur, founder and CEO of IndraNet.ai, special advisor at The Monaco Foundry, Avonhurst, British Standards Institute, economic advisor to George W Bush, her father was an advisor to Richard Nixon
pippamalmgren.co.uk
Dr. Richard A. Werner living
macroeconomist on real estate asset lending and the productivity of countries (GDP), pioneer of quantitative easing for government bailouts, modern monetary theory (MMT), economic growth and sovereign debt policy, author of the Princes of the Yen, Where Does Money Come From?, A Conversation About Economics, economics professor at University of Winchester
1967- (58)
professorwerner.org
Sergey Glazyev living
Economist in the Eurasian Economic Commission, Rodina party politician, National Financial Council of the Bank of Russia, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2008
1961- (64)
roscongress.org
Stanley Fischer
Economist, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve until 2018
group30.org
Stephan Miran
economist aka Steve Miran, author of A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System
Stephen S. Roach
Economist, author of Unbalanced, former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia
Stephen Zarlenga
Economist, senior fellow at the American Monetary Institute, author of The Lost Science of Money
Thomas Mayer
chief economist of Deutsche Bank from 2010-2012, formerly at Salomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs and the IMF from 1983-1990
Walt Whitman Rostow
Economist, political strategist, political theorist, communist
Werner Falk
sociologist, economist, pioneer in communitarianism and socioeconomics
1929-2023 (94)
Wesley C. Mitchell
Economist, founder of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
1874-1948 (74)
britannica.com
William Forster Lloyd
Economist, writer, lecturer on population control in 1833
1794-1852 (58)
William of Ockham
Philosopher of parsimony ("the simplest explanation is usually the best one"), economist, principle law of parsimony aka Ockham's razor (sometimes Occam's razor) also known as the law of economy
William Stanley Jevons
Economist, neoclassical economics, philosopher, marginal revolution
1835-1882 (47)
plato.stanford.edu
Yanis Varoufakis
socialist philosopher, international economist, documentary filmmaker
Yutaka Yamaguchi
economist, former Deputy Governor for the Bank of Japan
group30.org
Zaccaria Contarini
Economist, earliest founding families of Venice, oldest families of Italian Nobility