The American Economic Association (AEA) is a

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in the field of

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. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals acknowledged in business and academia. There are some 23,000 members.

History and Constitution

The AEA was established in 1885 in

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by younger progressive economists trained in the German historical school, including Richard T. Ely, Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman and

Katharine Coman Katharine Ellis Coman ( – ) was an American social activist and professor. She was based at the women-only Wellesley College, Massachusetts, where she created new courses in political economy, in line with her personal belief in social change. ...

, the only woman co-founder; since 1900 it has been under the control of academics. The purposes of the Association are: 1) The encouragement of economic research, especially the historical and statistical study of the actual conditions of industrial life; 2) The issue of publications on economic subjects; 3) The encouragement of perfect freedom of economic discussion. The Association as such will take no partisan attitude, nor will it commit its members to any position on practical economic questions. The Association publishes one of the most prestigious

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s in economics: the '' American Economic Review''. Once composed primarily of college and university teachers of economics, the Association, headquartered in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and ...

, now attracts an increasing number of members from business and professional groups. Today the membership is about 23,000, over half of whom are academics. About 15% are employed in business and industry, and the remainder largely by federal, state, and local government or other not-for-profit organizations.

Activities

The AEA publishes three economics journals: the '' American Economic Review'', the '' Journal of Economic Literature'', and the ''

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''. In 2009, it began to publish four new area-specific journals, collectively '' American Economic Journal'' (''AEJ''), reporting on applied economics, economic policy, macroeconomics, and microeconomics. The AEA recognizes annually a Best Paper Award for papers published in each of the four areas. The AEA also publishes ''AEA Papers and Proceedings'' each May, featuring papers presented at the AEA meetings in January. Until 2017, these papers were published in the May issue of the ''American Economic Review''. The AEA also produces ''

EconLit EconLit is an academic literature abstracting database service published by the American Economic Association. The service focuses on literature in the field of economics. EconLit covers articles and other materials dating back to 1969. It use ...

'', the AEA's electronic bibliography. It is a comprehensive index to peer-reviewed journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers, and dissertations. Compiled and abstracted in a searchable format, ''EconLit'' indexes 125 years of economic literature from around the world. It follows the JEL classification codes of the ''Journal of Economic Literature''. The AEA sponsors ''RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet'', an online source available to the general public without subscription. It catalogs and annotates 2,000+ internet sites under some 97 sections and subsubsections. ''RFE'' is currently updated on a monthly basis. The AEA resource, Job Openings for Economists (JOE) originated in October 1974, and lists job openings for economists. It is published electronically monthly (except January and July). AEA, in conjunction with over 50 associations in related disciplines, holds a three-day annual meeting to present papers on general economic subjects. This conference, called the ASSA (for the Allied Social Science Associations which participate), features about 500 scholarly sessions. A placement service to assist employers and job applicants begins a day prior to the meetings. A continuing education program is held immediately after the annual meeting. Topics vary from year to year. Each year, the AEA recognizes the lifetime research contributions of four economists by electing them Distinguished Fellows. The Association also awards annually the

John Bates Clark Medal The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." The award is named after the ...

for outstanding research accomplishments in economics to a scholar under the age of 40; it is often referred to as the "Baby Nobel," as many of its recipients go on to become Nobel Laureates.

Association presidents

, the president of the association is

Christina Romer Christina Duckworth Romer (née Duckworth; born December 25, 1958) is the Class of 1957 Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administ ...

, and the president-elect is

Susan Athey Susan Carleton Athey (born ) is an American economist. She is the Economics of Technology Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Stanford, she has been a professor at Harv ...

. As of 2021, 18% of presidents have been alumni and 20% faculty of

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

. Past presidents of the association include: * 1886–92 Francis Amasa Walker * 1893 Charles Franklin Dunbar * 1894—95

John B. Clark John Bates Clark (January 26, 1847 – March 21, 1938) was an American neoclassical economist. He was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutionalist school of economics, and spent most of his career as ...

* 1896-97

Henry Carter Adams Henry Carter Adams (December 31, 1851 – August 11, 1921) was a U.S. economist and Professor of Political Economy and finance at the University of Michigan. Early years Adams was born in Davenport, Iowa on December 31, 1851, son of Ephraim Ad ...

* 1898—99 Arthur Twining Hadley * 1900—01 Richard T. Ely * 1902—03 Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman * 1904—05 Frank W. Taussig * 1906—07 Jeremiah Jenks * 1908

Simon N. Patten Simon Nelson Patten (May 1, 1852 – July 24, 1922) was an economist and the chair of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Patten was one of the first economists to posit a shift from an 'economics of scarcity' to ...

* 1909 Davis R. Dewey * 1910

Edmund J. James Edmund Janes James (May 21, 1855 – June 17, 1925) was an American academic, president of the University of Illinois from 1904 to 1920, and the primary founder, first president and first editor for the American Academy of Political and Social Sc ...

* 1911 Henry W. Farnam * 1912

Frank A. Fetter Frank Albert Fetter (; March 8, 1863 – March 21, 1949) was an American economist of the Austrian School. Fetter's treatise, ''The Principles of Economics'', contributed to an increased American interest in the Austrian School, including the th ...

* 1913

David Kinley David Kinley (2 August 1861 – 3 December 1944) was a Scotland-born economist who worked in the United States. He was head of the department of economics of the University of Illinois and later president of the University. As an economist, he ...

* 1914 John H. Gray * 1915

Walter F. Willcox Walter Francis Willcox (March 22, 1861 – October 30, 1964) was an American statistician. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts, to William Henry Willcox and Anne Holmes Goodenow. He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880, from ...

* 1916

Thomas N. Carver Thomas Nixon Carver (25 March 1865 – 8 March 1961) was an American economics professor. Early life He grew up on a farm, the son of Quaker parents. He received an undergraduate education at Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Southe ...

* 1917 John R. Commons * 1918 Irving Fisher * 1919

Henry B. Gardner Henry Brayton Gardner (March 26, 1863 – April 22, 1939) was an American economist. He was a faculty member at Brown University from 1890 until 1928, serving as the first Eastman Professor of Political Economy from 1919 to 1928. In 1919, he served ...

* 1920

Herbert J. Davenport Herbert Joseph Davenport (August 10, 1861 – June 15, 1931) was an American economist and critic of the Austrian School, educator and author. Biography Born in Vermont, Davenport studied at the University of Chicago for a year or so under Thor ...

* 1921 Jacob H. Hollander * 1922 Henry Rogers Seager * 1923

Carl C. Plehn Carl Copping Plehn (January 20, 1867 – July 21, 1945) was an American economist. He was a professor of public finance at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1893 to 1937. In 1923, he served as the 25th president of the American Economic ...

* 1924

Wesley C. Mitchell Wesley Clair Mitchell (August 5, 1874 – October 29, 1948) was an American economist known for his empirical work on business cycles and for guiding the National Bureau of Economic Research in its first decades. Mitchell was referred to as Tho ...

* 1925

Allyn A. Young Allyn Abbott Young (September 19, 1876 – March 7, 1929) was an American economist. He was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio. He died aged 52 in London, his life cut short by pneumonia during an influenza epidemic. He was then at t ...

* 1926

Edwin W. Kemmerer Edwin Walter Kemmerer (June 29, 1875 – December 16, 1945) was an American economist, who became famous as an economic adviser to foreign governments in many countries (Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Germany, Chile, South Africa, Po ...

* 1927

Thomas Sewall Adams Thomas Sewall Adams (December 29, 1873 – February 8, 1933) was an American economist, and educator, Professor of Political Economy at Yale University and advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department. Biography Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Adams ...

* 1928

Fred M. Taylor Fred Manville Taylor (July 11, 1855, Northville, Michigan – August 7, 1932) was a U.S. economist and educator best known for his contribution to the theory of market socialism. He taught mostly history at Albion College from 1879 to 1892. He t ...

* 1929 Edwin Francis Gay * 1930

Matthew B. Hammond Matthew Brown Hammond (1868 – 1933) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics and sociology at Ohio State University since 1904. Hammond earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan , mottoeng ...

* 1931

Ernest L. Bogart Ernest Ludlow Bogart (March 16, 1870 – November 4, 1958) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1909 to 1938. In 1931, he served as president of the American Economic ...

* 1932

George E. Barnett George Ernest Barnett (February 19, 1873 – June 17, 1938) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University from 1911 to 1938. In 1932, he served as president of the American Economic Association The Ame ...

* 1933 William Z. Ripley * 1934

Harry A. Millis Harry Alvin Millis (May 14, 1873 – June 25, 1948) was an American civil servant, economist, and educator and who was prominent in the first four decades of the 20th century. He was a prominent educator,"Dr. H.A. Millis Dies," ''New York Times,. ...

* 1935 John Maurice Clark * 1936

Alvin S. Johnson Alvin Saunders Johnson (December 18, 1874 – June 7, 1971) was an American economist and a co-founder and first director of The New School. Biography Alvin Johnson was born near Homer, Nebraska. He was educated at the University of Nebraska an ...

* 1937

Oliver W. Sprague Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague ( – ) was an American economist and president of the American Economic Association in 1937. His research focused on fiscal policy and central banking. Early life and education Sprague was born to William Wa ...

* 1938

Alvin H. Hansen Alvin Harvey Hansen (August 23, 1887 – June 6, 1975) was an American economist who taught at the University of Minnesota and was later a chair professor of economics at Harvard University. Often referred to as "the American Keynes", he was a w ...

* 1939 Jacob Viner * 1940

Frederick C. Mills Frederick Cecil Mills (March 24, 1892 – February 9, 1964) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University in Manhattan from 1919 to 1959. An expert on business cycles, he was also a researcher at the National ...

* 1941 Sumner H. Slichter * 1942

Edwin G. Nourse Edwin Griswold Nourse (May 20, 1883 – April 7, 1974) was an American economist who served as the first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1946 to 1949. Biography Born in Lockport, New York, Nourse moved to a western suburb of C ...

* 1943

Albert B. Wolfe Albert Benedict Wolfe (August 23, 1876 – June 3, 1967) was an American economist. Life Wolfe was born in 1876. He died in 1967.https://iris.unipa.it/retrieve/handle/10447/101612/131259/Fiorito%20JHET%202013.pdf Career He has served as a p ...

* 1944

Joseph S. Davis Joseph Stancliffe Davis (November 5, 1885 – April 23, 1975) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Stanford University and a long-time director of the newly established Food Research Institute. In 1944, he served as pre ...

* 1945

Isaiah Leo Sharfman Isaiah Leo Sharfman (February 19, 1886, Polonne, Russian Empire – September 9, 1969, Washington, D.C.) was an American economist. He was a professor at the University of Michigan from 1914 to 1955 and served as the president of the American ...

* 1946 Emanuel Goldenweiser * 1947

Paul H. Douglas Paul Howard Douglas (March 26, 1892 – September 24, 1976) was an American politician and Georgist economist. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois for eighteen years, from 1949 to 1967. During his Senat ...

* 1948 Joseph A. Schumpeter * 1949 Howard S. Ellis * 1950

Frank H. Knight Frank Hyneman Knight (November 7, 1885 – April 15, 1972) was an American economist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago, where he became one of the founders of the Chicago School. Nobel laureates Milton Friedman, George ...

* 1951 John H. Williams * 1952 Harold A. Innis * 1953

Calvin B. Hoover Calvin Bryce Hoover (April 14, 1897 – June 23, 1974) was a noted economist and professor. He spent 1929-1930 in Moscow and wrote ''The Economic Life of Soviet Russia'' in 1931. Following his travels to Soviet Russia he also traveled to and res ...

* 1954 Simon Kuznets * 1955 John D. Black * 1956

Edwin E. Witte Edwin Emil Witte (January 4, 1887 – May 20, 1960) was an economist who focused on social insurance issues for the state of Wisconsin and for the Committee on Economic Security. While the executive director of the President's Committee on Econo ...

* 1957

Morris A. Copeland Morris Albert Copeland (August 6, 1895May 4, 1989) was a US economist who criticized 20th-century macroeconomic theory, and who contributed to the development of modern flow of funds theory. Life Born and raised in Rochester New York, Copelan ...

* 1958 George W. Stocking * 1959

Arthur F. Burns Arthur Frank Burns (April 27, 1904 – June 26, 1987) was an American economist and diplomat who served as the 10th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1970 to 1978. He previously chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Dwight ...

* 1960

Theodore W. Schultz Theodore William Schultz (; 30 April 1902 – 26 February 1998) was an American Agricultural economist and chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Economics. Schultz rose to national prominence after winning the 1979 Nobel Memoria ...

* 1961 Paul A. Samuelson * 1962

Edward S. Mason Edward Sagendorph Mason (February 22, 1899 – February 29, 1992) was an American economist and professor at Harvard University. He was the Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, now known as the John F. Kennedy School of Governme ...

* 1963 Gottfried Haberler * 1964 George J. Stigler * 1965

Joseph J. Spengler Joseph John Spengler (19 November 1902 – 2 January 1991) was an American economist, statistician, and historian of economic thought.Kelley (March 1992), p. 142 A recipient of the 1951 John Frederick Lewis Award of the American Philosophical Socie ...

* 1966 Fritz Machlup * 1967

Milton Friedman Milton Friedman (; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the ...

* 1968 Kenneth E. Boulding * 1969

William J. Fellner William John Fellner (born ''Fellner Vilmos'' on May 31, 1905 – September 15, 1983) was a Hungarian-American economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University from 1952 until his retirement in 1973. Born in Budapest, Austria-Hu ...

* 1970 Wassily Leontief * 1971

James Tobin James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He ...

* 1972 John Kenneth Galbraith * 1973 Kenneth J. Arrow * 1974

Walter W. Heller Walter Wolfgang Heller (27 August 1915 – 15 June 1987) was a leading American economist of the 1960s, and an influential adviser to President John F. Kennedy as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1961–64. Life and career Heller ...

* 1975 Robert Aaron Gordon * 1976

Franco Modigliani Franco Modigliani (18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003) was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon Un ...

* 1977

Lawrence R. Klein Lawrence Robert Klein (September 14, 1920 – October 20, 2013) was an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics in the Department of Economics at the University of Pe ...

* 1978 Tjalling C. Koopmans ** Jacob Marschak died before taking office * 1979 Robert M. Solow * 1980 Moses Abramovitz * 1981

William J. Baumol William Jack Baumol (February 26, 1922 – May 4, 2017) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at New York University, Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Professor Emeritus at Prin ...

* 1982 H. Gardner Ackley * 1983 W. Arthur Lewis * 1984 Charles L. Schultze * 1985 Charles P. Kindleberger * 1986 Alice M. Rivlin (first female president) * 1987

Gary S. Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...

* 1988

Robert Eisner Robert Eisner (January 17, 1922 – November 25, 1998) was an American author and William R. Kenan professor of economics at Northwestern University. He was recognized throughout the United States for his expertise and knowledge of ma ...

* 1989

Joseph A. Pechman Joseph Aaron Pechman (April 2, 1918 – August 19, 1989) was a highly influential economist and taxation scholar in the United States. He graduated from the City College of New York and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He served as presiden ...

* 1990 Gérard Debreu * 1991

Thomas C. Schelling Thomas Crombie Schelling (April 14, 1921 – December 13, 2016) was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College P ...

* 1992 William S. Vickrey * 1993 Zvi Griliches * 1994 Amartya K. Sen * 1995

Victor R. Fuchs Victor Robert Fuchs (born January 31, 1924) is an American health economist. Career He is an emeritus professor at Stanford University. Since 1962, he has been a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is the co-direct ...

* 1996 Anne O. Krueger * 1997

Arnold C. Harberger Arnold Carl Harberger (born July 27, 1924) is an American economist. His approach to the teaching and practice of economics is to emphasize the use of analytical tools that are directly applicable to real-world issues. His influence on academic ec ...

* 1998 Robert W. Fogel * 1999

D. Gale Johnson David Gale Johnson (July 10, 1916 – April 13, 2003) was an American economist and an expert on Russia and China. Among other notable contributions to economics, Johnson concluded that the strength of an industry depends on how the market works ...

* 2000

Dale W. Jorgenson Dale Weldeau Jorgenson (May 7, 1933 – June 8, 2022) was the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, teaching in the department of economics and John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served as chairman of the department ...

* 2001 Sherwin Rosen * 2002 Robert E. Lucas, Jr. * 2003

Peter A. Diamond Peter Arthur Diamond (born , 1940) is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memoria ...

* 2004 Martin S. Feldstein * 2005

Daniel L. McFadden Daniel Little McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an American econometrician who shared the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman. McFadden's share of the prize was "for his development of theory and methods for analyzi ...

* 2006

George A. Akerlof George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. ...

* 2007

Thomas J. Sargent Thomas John Sargent (born July 19, 1943) is an American economist and the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. He specializes in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometric ...

* 2008

Avinash K. Dixit Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (born 6 August 1944) is an Indian-American economist. He is the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University, and has been Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Li ...

* 2009 Angus S. Deaton * 2010 Robert E. Hall * 2011 Orley C. Ashenfelter * 2012 Christopher A. Sims * 2013 Claudia Goldin * 2014

William D. Nordhaus William Dawbney Nordhaus (born May 31, 1941) is an American economist, a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modeling and climate change, and one of the 2 recipients of the 2018 Nobel Memori ...

* 2015 Richard Thaler * 2016 Robert J. Shiller * 2017 Alvin E. Roth * 2018 Olivier Blanchard * 2019 Ben Bernanke * 2020

Janet Yellen Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist serving as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury since January 26, 2021. She previously served as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. Yellen is ...

* 2021 David Card

Distinguished Fellows

Distinguished Fellow honorees include:An AEA site listing all Distinguished Fellows and, since 2004, accompanying linked AEA statements i
here.
Accompanying statements for years before 2004 may be found in the ''following'' year of the ''American Economic Review'', issue no. 3 (June), on two unnumbered front pages, also accessible electronically, as at JSTOR. * 2020

Katharine Abraham Katharine G. Abraham (born August 28, 1954) is an American economist who is the director of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy, and a professor of survey methodology and economics at the University of Maryland. She was commissioner o ...

Shelly Lundberg Shelly J. Lundberg is an economist and currently holds the positions of Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she serves as Associate Director of the Broom Center for Demography. Lundberg is one ...

/ Paul Milgrom /

Whitney Newey Whitney Kent Newey (born July 17, 1954) is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a well-known econometrician. He is best known for developing, with Kenneth D ...

* 2019 Oliver Hart / Edward Lazear /

Ariel Pakes Ariel may refer to: Film and television *Ariel Award, a Mexican Academy of Film award * ''Ariel'' (film), a 1988 Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki * ''ARIEL Visual'' and ''ARIEL Deluxe'', 1989 and 1991 anime video series based on the novel series ...

Margaret Slade Margaret E. Slade is Professor Emeritus at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia and was a council member of the Royal Economic Society from 2004–2008. Slade is best known for her work on Industrial Economics, ...

* 2018 Henry Aaron /

Francine Blau Francine Dee Blau (born August 29, 1946 in New York City)Cicarelli, James and Julianne Cicarelli''Distinguished women economists''.Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003, pp. 36–40, . is an American economist and professor of economics as well as ...

/ Joel Mokyr / Richard Posner * 2017 James Heckman /

Charles Manski Charles Frederick Manski (born November 27, 1948 in Boston), is Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, an econometrician in the realm of rational choice theory, and an innovator in the arena of parameter identification.Charles Mansk ...

/ Robert A. Pollak / Nancy Stokey * 2016 Richard Freeman / Glenn Loury / Julio Rotemberg / Isabel Sawhill * 2015

Theodore Bergstrom Theodore may refer to: Places * Theodore, Alabama, United States * Theodore, Australian Capital Territory * Theodore, Queensland, a town in the Shire of Banana, Australia * Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada * Theodore Reservoir, a lake in Saskatche ...

/ Gary Chamberlain /

Thomas Rothenberg Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

/ Hal Varian * 2014

Robert J. Barro Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, along with Robert Lucas, ...

/ Gregory C. Chow / Claudia Goldin / Robert J. Gordon / Richard Zeckhauser * 2013 Harold Demsetz /

Stanley Fischer Stanley Fischer ( he, סטנלי פישר; born October 15, 1943) is an Israeli American economist who served as the 20th Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017. Fisher previously served as the 8th governor of the Bank of Israel fr ...

/ Jerry Hausman / Paul Joskow / Christopher A. Sims * 2012 Truman F. Bewley / Marc L. Nerlove / Neil Wallace / Janet L. Yellen * 2011 Alan Blinder /

William Brainard William C. "Bill" Brainard (born 1935) is an American economist. He is the Arthur Okun Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale University, and he served as the provost of the university from 1981 to 1986. Brainard is the namesake of the William ...

/ Robert E. Hall / Daniel Kahneman / David Wise * 2010 Angus Deaton / Elhanan Helpman /

David Kreps David Marc "Dave" Kreps (born 1950 in New York City) is a game theorist and economist and professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (since 1980). The Stanford University Department of Economics appointed Kreps the ...

/ Martin Shubik * 2009

/ Ronald Jones / Douglass North /

John Pencavel John H. Pencavel is a British economist and academic, currently serving as Levin Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at Stanford University, having been at the institution since 1969. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society (1993), Fellow of Un ...

* 2008 Erwin Diewert / Dale Mortensen /

Charles Plott Charles Raymond Plott (born July 8, 1938) is an American economist. He currently is Edward S. Harkness Professor of Economics and Political Science at the California Institute of Technology, Director, Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Polit ...

* 2007

/ Orley C. Ashenfelter /

Lloyd S. Shapley Lloyd Stowell Shapley (; June 2, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was an American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist. He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory. Shapley is generally considered one of ...

/ Oliver E. Williamson * 2006

Donald J. Brown Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the ...

Richard A. Easterlin Richard Ainley Easterlin (born 12 January 1926) is a professor of economics at the University of Southern California. He is best known for the economic theory named after him, the Easterlin paradox. Another of his contributions is the Easterlin ...

/ Daniel McFadden /

Robert B. Wilson } Robert Butler Wilson, Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American economist and the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together wi ...

* 2005 Stanley L. Engerman / Martin Feldstein / Michael Rothschild /

Hugo F. Sonnenschein Hugo Freund Sonnenschein (November 14, 1940 – July 15, 2021) was an American economist and educational administrator. He served as president of the University of Chicago from 1993 to 2000. Early life Sonnenschein was born in New York City on ...

* 2004 William A. Brock /

/ George P. Shultz * 2003 Irma Adelman / Jagdish Bhagwati / Robert E. Lucas / T.N. Srinivasan * 2002 Clive Granger / Sherwin Rosen / Arnold Zellner * 2001 Rudiger W. Dornbusch /

/ Allan H. Meltzer * 2000

Jack Hirshleifer Jack Hirshleifer (August 26, 1925 – July 26, 2005) was an American economist and long-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a B.S. from Harvard University in 1945 and a Ph.D. in 1950. He worked at the RAND Co ...

/ Edmund S. Phelps * 1999 David Cass / John Chipman / Robert W. Fogel * 1998

/ Alan Heston / Robert Summers * 1997 Martin Bronfenbrenner / Anne O. Krueger /

Gordon Tullock Gordon Tullock (; February 13, 1922 – November 3, 2014) was an economist and professor of law and Economics at the George Mason University School of Law. He is best known for his work on public choice theory, the application of economic thinki ...

* 1996 Armen A. Alchian / Robert A. Mundell * 1995

Geoffrey H. Moore Geoffrey Hoyt Moore (February 28, 1914 – March 9, 2000), whom '' The Wall Street Journal'' called “the father of leading indicators”, spent several decades working on business cycles at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he he ...

/ Walter Oi /

Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economi ...

* 1994 Zvi Griliches / John C. Harsanyi / Kelvin J. Lancaster * 1993 Lionel W. McKenzie /

Anna J. Schwartz Anna Jacobson Schwartz (pronounced ; November 11, 1915 – June 21, 2012) was an American economist who worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and a writer for ''The New York Times''. Paul Krugman has said that Schwar ...

* 1992

Robert Dorfman Robert Dorfman (27 October 1916 – 24 June 2002) was professor of political economy at Harvard University. Dorfman made great contributions to the fields of economics, statistics, group testing and in the process of coding theory. His pape ...

Vernon L. Smith Vernon Lomax Smith (born January 1, 1927) is an American economist and professor of business economics and law at Chapman University. He was formerly a professor of economics at the University of Arizona, professor of economics and law at Georg ...

* 1991 Irving B. Kravis / Herbert E. Scarf * 1990

Merton H. 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 ...

* 1989

Jacob Mincer Jacob Mincer (July 15, 1922 – August 20, 2006), was a father of modern labor economics. He was Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Economics and Social Relations at Columbia University for most of his active life. Biography Born in Tomasz� ...

Guy H. Orcutt Guy Henderson Orcutt (July 5, 1917 – March 5, 2006) was an American econometrician. He was a long-time faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and is known for developing the Cochrane–Orcutt estimation procedure. A native o ...

* 1988

Hendrik S. Houthakker Hendrik Samuel Houthakker (December 31, 1924 – April 15, 2008) was a prominent American economist. Life and career Houthakker was born in Amsterdam to a Dutch-Jewish family. His father was a prominent art dealer. As a teenager he lived th ...

/ Roy Radner * 1987 Arthur S. Goldberger / Alice M. Rivlin /

* 1985 Joseph Pechman /

Paul Rosenstein-Rodan Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan (1902–1985) was an economist of Jewish origin born in Kraków, who was trained in the Austrian tradition under in Vienna. His early contributions to economics were in pure economic theory – on marginal utili ...

/ Charles L. Shultze * 1984 Evsey D. Domar /

Albert O. Hirschman Albert Otto Hirschman (born ''Otto-Albert Hirschmann''; April 7, 1915 – December 10, 2012) was a German economist and the author of several books on political economy and political ideology. His first major contribution was in the area of de ...

* 1983

Gardner Ackley Hugh Gardner Ackley (June 30, 1915 – February 12, 1998) was an American economist and diplomat. Ackley served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President John F. Kennedy, and as the Chairman under President Lyndon B. Johnso ...

Abram Bergson Abram Bergson (born Abram Burk, April 21, 1914 in Baltimore, Maryland – April 23, 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American economist, academician, and professor in the Harvard Economics Department since 1956. Early life and educatio ...

James M. Buchanan James McGill Buchanan Jr. (; October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013) was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962, ''The Calculus of Consen ...

* 1982

Joe S. Bain Joe Staten Bain (4 July 1912, Spokane, Washington – 7 September 1991, Columbus, Ohio) was an American economist associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Bain was designated a Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Associat ...

/ Gerard Debreu * 1981 Moses Abramovitz / Edward F. Denison /

H. Gregg Lewis Harold Gregg Lewis (May 9, 1914 – January 25, 1992) was an American economist notable for his contributions in labor economics. He was considered a principal member of the monetarist, free-market-oriented Chicago school of economics. A nativ ...

* 1980

Solomon Fabricant Solomon (; , ),, ; ar, سُلَيْمَان, ', , ; el, Σολομών, ; la, Salomon also called Jedidiah ( Hebrew: , Modern: , Tiberian: ''Yăḏīḏăyāh'', "beloved of Yah"), was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son and succe ...

/ Charles P. Kindleberger / Robert M. Solow * 1979 Margaret G. Reid / Ronald H. Coase * 1978

/ Richard A. Musgrave / William S. Vickrey * 1977 Leonid Hurwicz / Harry G. Johnson / Simon Kuznets /

* 1976 Oskar Morgenstern / Herbert A. Simon * 1975

* 1974 Kenneth J. Arrow * 1973 John Kenneth Galbraith /

Tibor Scitovsky Tibor de Scitovsky, also known as Tibor Scitovsky (November 3, 1910 – June 1, 2002), was a Hungarian born, American economist who was best known for his writing on the nature of people's happiness in relation to consumption. He was Associ ...

* 1972 Robert A. Gordon/

/ Carl S. Shoup/

* 1971 Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen / Tjalling C. Koopmans/ Wassily Leontief * 1970

/ William Arthur Lewis * 1969 Kenneth E. Boulding / Alexander Gerschenkron/ Ludwig E. von Mises * 1968

Lloyd A. Metzler Lloyd Appleton Metzler (1913 – 26 October 1980) was an American economist best known for his contributions to international trade theory. He was born in Lost Springs, Kansas in 1913. Although most of his career was spent at the University of ...

* 1967

/ Fritz Machlup / Jacob Marschak * 1966 Abba P. Lerner /

* 1965 Edward H. Chamberlin / Harold Hotelling / George J. Stigler

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