Social and behavioral scientists

François Divisia

François Divisia (1889–1964) was a French economist and engineer, born in Algeria, who created the Divisia index and served as president of the Econometric Society in 1935.

François J. Bourguignon

François J. Bourguignon (born 1945) is a French economist specializing in inequality, poverty, and development, who was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2003 to 2007.

Frank A. Fetter

Frank A. Fetter (Frank Albert Fetter) was an American economist at Princeton from 1911 to 1931 who developed subjectivist theories of value, rent, and interest.

Frank A. Sloan

Frank A. Sloan, born 1942 in Greensboro, North Carolina, is an American health economist and longtime Duke University professor who studies how policy and incentives shape health care.

Frank Ambrose Beach (1911–1988) was an American psychobiologist, a principal founder of behavioral endocrinology, who wrote the field's first compendium, Hormones and Behavior (1948), and co-founded its journal.

Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.

Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., born Frank Folke Furstenberg Jr. in 1940, is an American sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for the Baltimore Study of teenage childbearing.

Frank H. Knight

Frank H. Knight was an American economist at the University of Chicago whose 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit distinguished risk from uncertainty, founding modern profit theory.

Frank Hahn

Frank Hahn (1925–2013) was a British economic theorist and Cambridge professor who worked at the center of general equilibrium theory and criticized its inability to include money.

Frank Rafael Smets

Frank Rafael Smets (born 1964) is a Belgian economist who is Acting Head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements.

Frank Schorfheide

Frank Schorfheide is a German econometrician and empirical macroeconomist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for Bayesian estimation of DSGE models and co-creating GDPplus.

Frank W. Taussig

Frank William Taussig (1859–1940) was an American economist at Harvard University, the leading United States authority on tariffs and international trade, and first chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission.

Franklin Allen

Franklin Allen, born 1956, is a financial economist who spent 36 years at Wharton and has directed the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London since 2014.

Franklin M. Fisher

Franklin M. Fisher (died 2019) was an American economist at MIT who won the 1973 John Bates Clark Medal, led IBM's antitrust defense, and testified for the government against Microsoft.

Franz Boas

Franz Boas (1858–1942) was a German-born American anthropologist known as the father of American anthropology, who established cultural relativism and built Columbia University's anthropology department.

Fred Eggan

Fred Eggan (1906–1991) was an American anthropologist at the University of Chicago who joined British social anthropology to American historical ethnology in studies of Native American and Philippine kinship.

Fred M. Taylor

Fred M. Taylor (Fred Manville Taylor, 1855–1932) was an American economist at the University of Michigan who originated the trial-and-error model of market socialism in his 1928 AEA presidential address.

Frederic Bartlett

Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett (1886–1969) was a British psychologist and Cambridge's first Professor of Experimental Psychology, best known for Remembering (1932), which established memory as reconstruction.

Frederic Mishkin

Frederic Mishkin is an American economist at Columbia Business School and a Federal Reserve governor from 2006 to 2008, author of a leading money and banking textbook.

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.

Frederic Pryor

Frederic L. Pryor (1933–2019), American comparative economist at Swarthmore College, author of The Communist Foreign Trade System and The Origins of the Economy, and the American student freed in the 1962 Bridge of Spies prisoner exchange.

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg is a Dutch economist, Professor of Economics at Oxford and University Professor of Environmental Economics at Amsterdam, known for work on the resource curse.

Frederick C. Mills

Frederick C. Mills, also known as Frederick Cecil Mills, was an American economist and statistician at Columbia University and the NBER who built price indexes and led the American Statistical Association in 1934.

Frederick S. Hulse

Frederick S. Hulse (1906–1990) was an American anthropologist, a Harvard-trained pioneer of anthropological genetics who wrote The Human Species and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.

Frederick Ward Putnam

Frederic Ward Putnam (1839–1915) was an American anthropologist born in Salem, Massachusetts, who taught at Harvard, curated the Peabody Museum, and is regarded as the founder of American anthropology.

Friedrich Georg Schneider

Friedrich Georg Schneider (born 1949 in Konstanz) is a German economist and professor at Johannes Kepler University Linz, known for his estimates of the shadow economy.

Friedrich Hayek

Friedrich Hayek, also known as F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian-born economist and philosopher who won the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize and wrote The Road to Serfdom (1944).

Fritz Machlup

Fritz Machlup (1902–1983) was an Austrian-born economist at Princeton and New York University who coined the term "knowledge industry" and led the American Economic Association.

G. Stanley Hall

G. Stanley Hall, born Granville Stanley Hall, was an American psychologist who received the first US doctorate in psychology and founded the American Psychological Association.

G. William Schwert

G. William Schwert is an American financial economist who spent his 45-year career at the University of Rochester, studying stock market volatility, asset returns and inflation, and IPOs.