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Ernst Fehr
Ernst Fehr, born 1956 in Hard, Austria, is a behavioral economist at the University of Zurich whose research shows fairness and reciprocity, not pure self-interest, shape economic behavior.
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg is a University of Chicago economist known for dynamic spatial models of trade, migration, and climate change, and editor of the Journal of Political Economy.
Ester Boserup
Ester Boserup, born Ester Borgesen (1910–1999), was a Danish economist whose 1965 book The Conditions of Agricultural Growth argued that population growth drives agricultural intensification.
Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo, French-American development economist at MIT and co-founder of J-PAL; 2019 Nobel laureate with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer for the randomized controlled trial approach to alleviating global poverty.
Ethan S. Bernstein
Ethan S. Bernstein is an organizational researcher and Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, best known for the transparency paradox.
Étienne Laspeyres
Étienne Laspeyres (1834–1913) was a German economist and statistician whose 1871 Laspeyres price index, a fixed-basket formula, still underlies most official consumer price statistics worldwide.
Eugen Slutsky
Eugen Slutsky (Yevhen Slutzky, Слуцький; 1880–1948) was a Russian mathematician and economist who created the Slutsky equation in consumer theory and explained economic cycles as random moving averages.
Eugene A. Hammel
Eugene A. Hammel, also known as Eugene Alfred Hammel, was an American anthropological demographer and UC Berkeley professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983; he died in 2025.
Eugene Fama
Eugene Fama, University of Chicago finance professor, formulated the efficient market hypothesis and, with Kenneth French, the Fama-French three-factor model; he shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Hansen and Shiller.
Eugene Galanter
Eugene H. Galanter (1924–2016) was a Columbia University professor and a key founder of the cognitive psychology revolution, known as the co-author of Plans and the Structure of Behavior.
Eugene N. Sokolov
Eugene N. Sokolov, also known as Evgeny Nikolaevich Sokolov, was a Russian psychophysiologist at Moscow State University who explained the orienting reflex through his neuronal model of the stimulus.
Evon Z. Vogt
Evon Z. Vogt (1918–2004) was an American anthropologist at Harvard University who directed the Harvard Chiapas Project, studying the Tzotzil Maya of Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico, for 35 years.
Fabio Canova
Fabio Canova is an Italian economist and macroeconometrician, professor of economics at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, known for work on DSGE models and Bayesian methods.
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Fabrizio Zilibotti is an Italian economist who has held the Tuntex Professorship at Yale University since 2017, known for the "Growing like China" model and a theory of parenting styles.
Fantasy Lozada
Fantasy T. Lozada is an American developmental psychologist at Virginia Commonwealth University who studies how race, culture, and family shape emotional development in African American and Latino youth.
Farish A. Noor
Farish A. Noor, full name Farish Ahmad Noor, is a Malaysian political scientist and historian of political Islam and Southeast Asia's colonial history, a professor at Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia since 2024.
Felix Biestek
Felix Biestek (1912–1994) was an American Jesuit priest and sociologist at Loyola University Chicago whose 1957 book The Casework Relationship codified seven principles of social work.
Felix Kanitz
Felix Philipp Kanitz (1829–1904) was an Austro-Hungarian archaeologist, ethnographer, and travel writer, known as the Columbus of the Balkans. His maps and studies of Serbia and Bulgaria remain key sources on nineteenth-century Southeast Europe.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC), born 1931, Brazilian sociologist and president 1995–2002; co-author with Enzo Faletto of Dependency and Development in Latin America and architect of the Plano Real stabilization.
Finn E. Kydland
Finn E. Kydland, born in 1943 in Gjesdal, Norway, is a Norwegian macroeconomist who shared the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Edward C. Prescott.
Fischer Black
Fischer Black (1938–1995) was an American economist who co-created the Black–Scholes option-pricing formula, recognized in the 1997 Nobel citation, and later the Black–Derman–Toy and Black–Litterman models at Goldman Sachs.
Florencia Torche
Florencia Torche is a Chilean American sociologist of social stratification and mobility, Edwards S. Sanford Professor at Princeton University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes is a Mexican economist, Professor of Finance at SKEMA Business School, who co-founded the law and finance research program linking countries' legal origins to investor protection and financial market development.
Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven, born 1932 in Calgary, is an American sociologist and political scientist known for studies of poor people's movements, welfare, and voting rights.
Frances K. Graham
Frances Keesler Graham (1918–2013) was an American psychologist and psychophysiologist at the University of Delaware whose laboratory established the startle-blink modification paradigm, and she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.
Frances Larson
Frances Larson (born 1976) is a British anthropologist and historian of medicine who writes about collecting and museums; her books include An Infinity of Things (2009) and Severed (2014).
Francis A. Longstaff
Francis A. Longstaff is an American financial economist and Distinguished Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson, known for the Longstaff-Schwartz method for valuing American options and fixed-income research.
Francis Diebold
Francis X. Diebold is an American economist and econometrician at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the Diebold–Mariano test, realized volatility, and financial connectedness research.
Francis La Flesche
Francis La Flesche (1857–1932) was an Omaha ethnologist with the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, best known for The Omaha Tribe and his studies of Osage ceremonies.
Franco Modigliani
Franco Modigliani was an Italian-born American economist at MIT who won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his analyses of saving and financial markets.