- Adam Smith
Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. - July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering political economist. He is a major contributor to the modern perception of economics. One of the key figures of the intellectual movement known as the Scottish Enlightenment, he is known primarily as the author of two treatises: "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759), …
- Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was a notable economist and a major influence on the modern libertarian movement. He has been called the "uncontested dean of the Austrian School of economics". The Ludwig von Mises Institute is named after him.
- Tim Worstall
Tim Worstall (b. 1963, Torquay) is an English writer and blogger, who writes about a variety of topics, but particularly about economics. In his day job, he works as a consultant and dealer in scandium and other exotic metals. He occasionally and humorously refers to himself in his blog and articles as a member of the "international scandium oligopoly." Worstall has written a blog since April 2004.
- Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. As with many others in his neighborhood, he left home early and did not finish high school. The next few years were difficult ones, but eventually he joined the Marine Corps and became a photographer in the Korean War. After leaving the service, Sowell entered Harvard University, worked a part-time job as a photographer and studied the science that would become his passion and profession: economics.
- Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen and Benjamin Barber present two different perspectives on the role of market liberalization and cultural diversity and representation. Tyler Cowen advocates working within a liberal market paradigm, using UNESCO as a 'marketing tool' for cultural representation and has a positive trade-enhancing vision towards culture.
- Jeffrey Tucker
Jeffrey Albert Tucker is the editorial vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank that espouses the Austrian School of economics. He is the current webmaster for Mises.org. He has also compiled an annotated bibliography of the works of Henry Hazlitt, entitled "Henry Hazlitt: Giant For Liberty", which is now in print. He is a Roman Catholic. Tucker is known both for his scholarly efforts and humorous contributions to LewRockwell.com, …
- Megan McArdle
While working at Ground Zero, she started Live from the WTC, a blog focused on economics, business, and cooking. She may or may not have been the first major economics blogger, depending on whether we are allowed to throw outlying variables such as Brad Delong out of the set. From there it was but a few steps down the slippery slope to freelance journalism.
- Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark (born December 23 1944) is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in PPE, and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, …
- Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is the curator of the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Conference, an influential annual conference. Anderson, who is British, was born in Pakistan in 1957. His parents were medical missionaries and he spent most of his early life in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan before going to public school in England. In 1978 he graduated from Oxford University, with a 'First' in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
- Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard was a highly influential American economist, historian and natural law theorist belonging to the Austrian School of Economics who helped define modern libertarianism. Rothbard took the Austrian School's emphasis on spontaneous order and condemnation of central planning to an individualist anarchist conclusion, which he termed "anarcho-capitalism." He was son of David and Rae Rothbard.
- Max Weber
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (April 21, 1864 - June 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern study of sociology and public administration. He began his career at the University of Berlin, and later worked at Freiburg University, University of Heidelberg, University of Vienna and University of Munich.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15 1908-April 29 2006) was an influential Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers in the 1950s and 1960s. Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects. Among his most famous works was a popular trilogy on economics, …
- Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac is a French politician and a former President of France. He served from 1995 until May 16 2007 and was re-elected in 2002. As President he was also an "ex officio" Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur. After completing his studies at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the École Nationale d'Administration, Jacques Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, and soon entered politics.
- Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan (b. 1971) is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He received his B.S. in economics from University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. A great deal of his professional work has been devoted to the philosophies of libertarianism and free-market capitalism. He has published in notable journals such as "American Economic Review", "Public Choice", …
- Jagdish Bhagwati
Jagdish Bhagwati is a Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was Economic Policy Adviser to the Director General, GATT (1991-93) and also served as Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization and External Adviser to the Director General, WTO. Currently, he is a member of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's High-level Advisory Group of the NEPAD process in Africa .
- J. Bradford Delong
James Bradford DeLong (b. June 24 1960, Boston) is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury in the Clinton Administration. He writes a popular blog, "Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal", which covers political, technical, and economic issues as well as criticism of their coverage in the media. He is also the author of a textbook, …
- John Quiggin
John Quiggin (born 29 March 1956 in Adelaide) is an Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland. Quiggin studied at the Australian National University, there achieving bachelor's degrees in Arts and Economics in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and further completing a master's degree in Economics in 1984. Quiggin was awarded his PhD from the University of New England in 1988.
- Melinda Gates
Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964) is a former unit manager for several Microsoft products: Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia. In 1994, she married Bill Gates, founder, chairman, and former chief software architect of Microsoft. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine Gates (b. April 1996), Rory John Gates (b. 1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (b. 2002). Melinda was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, …
- George Reisman
George Gerald Reisman (born January 13 1937) is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and author of the massive 1,050-page volume "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics" (1996). He is also the author of an earlier book, "The Government Against the Economy" (1979), contents of which are mostly subsumed in "Capitalism". Reisman was born in New York City and earned his Ph.D. from New York University under the direction of Ludwig von Mises.
- Mark Thornton
Mark Thornton is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Libertarian Studies . He has served as the editor of the Austrian Economics Newsletter and as a member of the graduate faculties of Auburn University and Columbus State University. He has also taught economics at Auburn University at Montgomery and Trinity University in Texas.
- John Lott
John R. Lott Jr., Ph.D. (born May 8 1958) is a Dean's Visiting Professor at SUNY Binghamton and has held research positions at numerous institutions, including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Enterprise Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, and his research interests include econometrics, law and economics, public choice theory, industrial organization, public finance, …
- John Stossel
John F. Stossel (born 6 March 1947) is a consumer reporter, author and co-anchor for the ABC News show "20/20". His reports, a blend of commentary and reporting, reflect his libertarian political philosophy, his views on economics (largely consistent with those of the Chicago school), and his skepticism of conventional wisdom. In his decades as a reporter, Stossel has garnered 19 Emmy Awards and numerous other honors for his reports, …
- Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal, (June 19 1623-August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli.
- Stephen J. Dubner
Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author and journalist who lives in New York City. In addition to Freakonomics , he is the author of Turbulent Souls ( Choosing My Religion ), Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper , and a children's book, The Boy With Two Belly Buttons . His journalism has appeared primarily in the New York Times and the New Yorker , and has been anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting , The Best American Crime Writing , and elsewhere.
- Paul Samuelson
Paul Anthony Samuelson (born May 15, 1915, in Gary, Indiana) is an American neoclassical economist known for his contributions to many fields of economics, beginning with his general statement of the comparative statics method in his 1947 book "Foundations of Economic Analysis". Samuelson was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1947 and was sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970, the second year of the Prize.
- William Greider
The VEOC has announced that the keynote speaker for the Seventh Annual Vermont Employee Ownership Conference will be renowned political journalist and author William Greider . The event will be held Friday, June 5th at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt. Greider is the former assistant managing editor at the Washington Post , where he worked for 15 years as a national correspondent, editor and columnist.
- Alex Tabarrok
Alexander Taghi Tabarrok (b. 1966) is a Canadian economist and co-owner, with Tyler Cowen, of the popular economics blog "Marginal Revolution". Both Cowen and Tabarrok are professors at Virginia's George Mason University and fellows with the school's Mercatus Center. In addition, Tabarrok is director of research for the Oakland, California based think tank the Independent Institute.
- Andrei Shleifer
Andrei Shleifer (born February 20, 1961) is a prominent academic economist. He was born in Russia and emigrated to Rochester, NY as a teenager. He then studied economics, obtaining his Ph.D. at MIT in 1986. He has held a post in the Department of Economics at Harvard University since 1991 and was, from 2001 through 2006, the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Economics. In 1999, Shleifer was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, …
- John Moores
John J. Moores (1944-) is an American businessman. Moores was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas and grew up poor. He left Texas A&M University before graduating and became a programmer for IBM. Later, he received a BS degree in economics and law degree from the University of Houston. Moores considers his decision to attend law school "a boneheaded move" since he never wanted to practice law in the first place.
- Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institutes quarterly journal The Independent Review . He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, and the University of Economics, Prague.
- Martin Feldstein
Martin S. Feldstein Professor of Economics Harvard University President and Chief Executive Officer National Bureau of Economic Research
- David Card
David Card was educated at Queen's University (Canada) and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1983. Briefly at the University of Chicago, he returned to Princeton to teach, until coming to Berkeley in 1997 as the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics. Card's current research interests include the causes and consequences of racial segregation, the economic impacts of immigration, and the effects of health insurance on health care utilization and health.
- Paris
Oscar Jackson, Jr. (born October 29, 1967), better known as Paris, is an American hip hop artist from San Francisco, California known for his militantly confrontational rapping, and especially the controversial track "Bush Killa." He was catapulted onto the national scene in 1990 with his hit single "The Devil Made Me Do It" and album of the same name, after earning a degree in economics from University of California-Davis.
- Irving Fisher
Irving Fisher (February 27 1867 Saugerties, New York - April 29 1947, New York) was an American economist, health campaigner, and eugenicist, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists and, although he was perhaps the first celebrity economist, his reputation today is probably higher than it was in his lifetime. Several terms are named after him, including the Fisher equation, Fisher hypothesis and Fisher separation theorem.
- Walter E. Williams
Born in Philadelphia in 1936, Walter E. Williams holds a bachelor's degree in economics from California State University (1965) and a master's degree (1967) and doctorate (1972) in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1980, he joined the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and is currently the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics.
- Glenn Hubbard
R. Glenn Hubbard is an American economist. He is Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he is also Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics. He is also a professor of economics in Columbia's Faculty of Arts and Sciences Hubbard is a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies tax policy and health care.
- Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. He is known as an expert on idea futures markets and was involved in the creation of the Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP project. Hanson has expressed great disappointment in the cancellation of the FutureMAP project, and he attributes this to the controversy surrounding the related Total Information Awareness program.
- Edward Jay Epstein
Edward Jay Epstein, born in 1935, is an American investigative journalist but is best known today as a commentator on Hollywood economics. Epstein attended Cornell University during the 1960s, where he received his BA. Epstein was an early critic of the Warren Commission. His Master's thesis, also at Cornell, was the influential "Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth", amongst the first publications to critically examine the Commission.
- Mark Weisbrot
Mark Weisbrot (b. 1954, Chicago) is an American economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is co-author, with Dean Baker, of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and has written numerous research papers on economic policy, with a focus on developing country economies.
- Kevin Phillips
Kevin Phillips (born November 30, 1940) is an American writer and commentator, largely on politics, economics, and history. Formerly a Republican Party strategist, Phillips has become disaffected with his former party over the last two decades, and is now one of its harshest critics. He is a regular contributor to the "Los Angeles Times" and National Public Radio, and is a political analyst on PBS' "NOW with Bill Moyers".