| Economist Name |
During |
Nationality |
Known for |
| Amartya Sen |
1933 |
Indian |
Welfare Economics, Human development theory |
| Bertil Ohlin |
1899 |
Sweden |
Heckscher-Ohlin model, Heckscher-Ohlin theorem |
| Clive W.J.Granger |
1934 |
United Kingdom |
Cointegration, Granger causality, Fractional integration |
| Daniel L. McFadden |
1937 |
United States |
Discrete choice |
| Daniel Kahneman |
1934 |
United States |
Cognitive biases, Behavioral economics, Prospect theory |
| Douglass C. North |
1920 |
United States |
Economic history |
| Edward C. Prescott |
1940 |
United States |
Quantitative general equilibrium business cycle theory |
| Edmund S. Phelps |
1933 |
United States |
Micro-foundations of macroeconomics |
| Franco Modigliani |
1918-2003 |
Italian American |
Field: Financial economics |
| Finn. E. Kydland |
1943 |
Norway |
Field: Macroeconomics |
| Friedrich Von Hayek |
1899-1992 |
Europe |
Notable Ideas in Economic calculation problem, Catallaxy. |
| Gunnar Myrdal |
1898-1987 |
Sweden |
Monetary equilibrium |
| George J. Stigler |
1911-1991 |
United States |
Capture theory |
| Gerard Debreu |
1921-2004 |
French |
Was awareded 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. |
| Gary S. Becker |
1930 |
American |
Field: Law and economics |
| George A. Akerlof |
1940 |
United States |
Information asymmetry, Efficiency wages |
| Herbert A. Simon |
1916-2001 |
United States |
Logic Theory Machine, General Problem Solver, Bounded Rationality |
| Harry M. Markowitz |
1927 |
United States |
Contributions: Modern portfolio theory |
| Jan Tinbergen |
1903-1994 |
Netherlands |
First national macroeconomic model |
| Joseph E Stiglitz |
1943 |
United States |
Contributions: Screening |
| John R. Hicks |
1956 |
United States |
Convictions: Aggravated murder, Robbery |
| James Tobin |
1918-2002 |
United States |
Portfolio theory, Keynesian economics |
| John F. Nash |
1928 |
United States |
Nash equilibrium, Nash embedding theorem, Algebraic geometry |
| John C. Harsanyi |
1920-2000 |
United States |
Bayesian games, Utilitarian ethics, Equilibrium selection |
| James J Heckman |
1944 |
United States |
Contributions: Statistical analysis of individual behaviour |
