Economic theorists and microeconomists

A. Michael Spence

A. Michael Spence, born in 1943, is an economist who shared the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for analyses of markets with asymmetric information, known for his 1973 signaling model.

Abba P. Lerner

Abba P. Lerner (1903–1982) was an economist central to twentieth-century welfare economics, market socialism, and trade theory, best known for functional finance, his 1943 approach to fiscal policy.

Adam B. Jaffe is an American economist specializing in the economics of innovation, best known for building the patent-citations methodology and NBER patent data files, and for critical work on the U.S. patent system.

Adrian Colin Cameron

Adrian Colin Cameron is an Australian econometrician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, known for count-data models, cluster-robust inference, and standard microeconometrics texts with Pravin Trivedi.

Alberto Abadie

Alberto Abadie is a Spanish-born economist and Professor of Economics at MIT, best known as co-creator of the synthetic control method, first published in 2003 in a study of terrorism's economic costs in the Basque Country.

Alfred Marshall

Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), English economist and Cambridge Professor of Political Economy 1885–1908, author of Principles of Economics (1890); co-founder of neoclassical partial equilibrium economics, teacher of Pigou and Keynes, and namesake of the Marshall Library.

Alfred Weber

Alfred Weber (1868–1958), German economist and sociologist, brother of Max Weber; founder of industrial location theory (Über den Standort der Industrien, 1909) and of German cultural sociology; built Heidelberg's Institute for Social and Political Sciences.

Aloisio Araujo

Aloisio Araujo, also known as Aloísio Pessoa de Araújo, is a Brazilian mathematical economist at FGV EPGE and IMPA, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Aloísio Pessoa de Araújo

Aloísio Pessoa de Araújo, born 1946, is a Brazilian mathematical economist at FGV EPGE and IMPA, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Alvin E. Roth

Alvin E. Roth, born 1951, is an American Stanford economist working in game theory and market design who shared the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Andreu Mas-Colell

Andreu Mas-Colell, born 1944 in Barcelona, is a Catalan economist known for general equilibrium theory, the graduate textbook Microeconomic Theory, and service as Catalonia's economy minister from 2010 to 2016.

Ariel Pakes

Ariel Pakes, born 1949 in Edmonton, Canada, is a Harvard economist whose empirical industrial organization methods, including the BLP demand model, are widely used in antitrust.

Ariel Rubinstein

Ariel Rubinstein, born 1951 in Jerusalem, is an Israeli economist and game theorist whose 1982 alternating-offers model reshaped bargaining theory; he teaches at Tel Aviv University and New York University.

Armin Falk

Armin Falk is a German behavioral and experimental economist, professor at the University of Bonn since 2003, known for the Global Preference Survey and the 2009 Leibniz Prize.

Arthur L. Bowley

Arthur L. Bowley, full name Arthur Lyon Bowley, was an English economist and statistician who pioneered sampling theory, co-built Britain's real wage index, and named Bowley's law.

Arthur Lewbel

Arthur Lewbel is an econometrician, the Roche Professor of Economics at Boston College, known for a 2012 method that constructs instruments from heteroskedasticity when no external instruments exist.

Arthur T. Hadley

Arthur T. Hadley, also known as Arthur Twining Hadley, was an American economist at Yale who wrote the first comprehensive American study of railroads and served as Yale's president from 1899 to 1921.

Avinash Dixit

Avinash Dixit, born 1944 in Bombay, is an Indian-born American economist, Princeton's Sherrerd University Professor Emeritus, known for the Dixit–Stiglitz model and option-value investment theory.

B. Douglas Bernheim

B. Douglas Bernheim is an American economist, the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics at Stanford University, known for rationalizability in game theory and behavioral welfare economics.

Bengt Holmström

Bengt Robert Holmström, born 1949 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish microeconomic theorist and MIT professor who won the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize for his contributions to contract theory.

Benjamin F. Jones

Benjamin F. Jones is an economist at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management who studies innovation, entrepreneurship, and scientific progress, including his 2025 Nature paper on the pivot penalty in research.

Boyan Jovanovic

Boyan Jovanovic, born 1951 in Belgrade, is a Serbian-born economist and professor at New York University known for models of job matching, firm selection, and entrepreneurship.

Brian Skyrms

Brian Skyrms is an American philosopher of science at UC Irvine and Stanford who applies evolutionary game theory to the social contract, signaling, and networks.

Bronwyn H. Hall

Bronwyn H. Hall, born 1945, is an economist and emerita professor at UC Berkeley known for the NBER patent data files and measuring the returns to research and development.

Bruno S. Frey

Bruno S. Frey, born 1941 in Basel, is a Swiss economist known for motivation crowding theory, happiness economics, and public choice, and he directs CREMA in Zurich.

Carl Shapiro

Carl Shapiro is an American economist at UC Berkeley Haas known for the Shapiro–Stiglitz efficiency-wage model, network-effects work with Michael Katz, Information Rules with Hal Varian, and antitrust policy service.

Chad Syverson

Chad Syverson is an American empirical economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, known for research on why firms in the same industry differ in productivity.

Charles Plott

Charles Plott is an American experimental economist at Caltech who founded its experimental economics laboratory in the 1970s and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.

Clara Mattei

Clara Elisabetta Mattei, Italian economist at the University of Tulsa, author of The Capital Order (2022), which argues interwar austerity in Britain and Italy was class control, plus Escape from Capitalism (2026).