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Albert B. Wolfe
Albert B. Wolfe, full name Albert Benedict Wolfe, was an American economist and sociologist at Ohio State University who served as president of the American Economic Association in 1943.
Alvin S. Johnson
Alvin S. Johnson (Alvin Saunders Johnson, 1874–1971) was an American economist who co-founded the New School in 1919 and led its refugee-rescuing University in Exile from 1933.
Edwin F. Gay
Edwin F. Gay, also known as Edwin Francis Gay, was an American economic historian (1867–1946) who served as first dean of Harvard Business School and first president of the NBER.
Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist, and pacifist who shared the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first female economist to win a Nobel Prize.
Ernest L. Bogart
Ernest L. Bogart (1870–1958) was an American economist and economic historian who headed economics at the University of Illinois and led the American Economic Association in 1931.
Frédéric Passy
Frédéric Passy (1822–1912) was a French economist and parliamentarian who promoted international arbitration for 50 years and shared the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 with Henry Dunant.
Gebrehiwot Baykedagn
Gebrehiwot Baykedagn (ገብረሂወት ባይከዳኝ) was an Ethiopian economist and civil servant, a pioneer of modern Ethiopian economic thought who wrote in Amharic under Emperor Menelik II and died in 1919.
Henry B. Gardner
Henry B. Gardner (Henry Brayton Gardner) was an American economist at Brown University who founded its economics department and led the American Economic Association in 1919.
Henry W. Farnam
Henry Walcott Farnam (1853–1933) was an American economist at Yale University, Professor of Political Economy, president of the American Economic Association in 1911, and a founder of the American Association for Labor Legislation.
Joseph J. Spengler
Joseph J. Spengler (1902–1991) was an American economist at Duke University who helped found economic demography and the history of political economy, and led the American Economic Association.
Karel Engliš
Karel Engliš (1880–1961) was a Czech economist and politician who served several times as Finance Minister of Czechoslovakia and founded the teleological school of economics.
Max Haushofer
Max Haushofer (1840–1907) was a German economist and statistician, professor at the Technische Hochschule München, a liberal Bavarian parliamentarian, and the father of geographer Karl Haushofer.
Richard T. Ely
Richard T. Ely, full name Richard Theodore Ely, was an American economist who founded the American Economic Association in 1885 and built Wisconsin's graduate social science program.
Simon N. Patten
Simon N. Patten, also known as Simon Nelson Patten, was an American economist at the Wharton School who theorized a shift from a pain economy to a pleasure economy.