Social and behavioral scientists

Gabriel Almond

Gabriel Almond was an American political scientist who helped establish comparative politics and political culture as research fields, and co-authored The Civic Culture (1963) with Sidney Verba.

Gabriel Zucman

Gabriel Zucman is a French economist at UC Berkeley and the Paris School of Economics who studies tax evasion and won the 2023 John Bates Clark Medal.

Gaetano Kanizsa

Gaetano Kanizsa (1913–1993) was an Italian psychologist who held the chair of psychology at Trieste from 1953 to 1988 and is known for the Kanizsa triangle, an illusory contour figure.

Gardner Ackley

Gardner Ackley, also known as H. Gardner Ackley, was an American Keynesian macroeconomist who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under Johnson and served as Ambassador to Italy.

Gary Becker

Gary Stanley Becker (1930–2014) was an American economist at the University of Chicago, awarded the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize for extending economic analysis to discrimination, crime, and the family.

Gary Charness was an experimental and behavioral economist and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, best known for the Charness–Rabin model of social preferences and experiments on promises and trust.

Gary Gorton

Gary B. Gorton is an American economist and Yale School of Management professor emeritus whose work with Andrew Metrick showed the 2008 crisis was a run on the repo market.

Gary King (political scientist)

Gary King is an American political scientist, Harvard's Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, who directs the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and studies Chinese censorship and gerrymandering.

Gary Koop

Gary Koop is a Professor of Economics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow known for Bayesian econometrics, including Bayesian vector autoregressions and dynamic model averaging for forecasting.

Gary Marcus

Gary F. Marcus is a cognitive scientist and professor emeritus at New York University known for infant rule-learning experiments and, since 2018, prominent criticism of deep learning.

Gary Segura

Gary M. Segura is an American political scientist at UCLA who studies Latino politics and representation, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Gary W. Cox

Gary W. Cox is an American political scientist, the William Bennett Munro Professor at Stanford University, known for Making Votes Count (1997) and Legislative Leviathan (1993).

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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.

Geert Bekaert

Geert Bekaert is a financial economist and professor at Columbia Business School, formerly at Stanford, known for research on financial liberalization, emerging markets, and volatility.

Gene M. Grossman

Gene M. Grossman, also known as Gene Grossman, is an American economist, the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University, known for the trading tasks theory of offshoring.

Genevieve Bell

Genevieve Bell is an Australian cultural anthropologist who spent many years shaping user research at Intel before founding the 3A Institute and School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University.

Geoffrey F. Miller

Geoffrey F. Miller is an evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico, best known for the "mating mind" hypothesis that sexual choice shaped human intelligence, art, and humor.

Geoffrey L. Cohen

Geoffrey L. Cohen is an American social psychologist at Stanford University who studies belonging and self-integrity, and whose brief interventions halved the minority achievement gap.

George Akerlof

George A. Akerlof (born 1940) is an American economist, 2001 Nobel laureate with Spence and Stiglitz for asymmetric information analysis, author of the 1970 'Market for Lemons' paper, Berkeley professor, and husband of Janet Yellen.

George Armitage Miller

George Armitage Miller (1920–2012) was an American psychologist who helped found cognitive psychology and is best known for the 1956 paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two."

George Borjas

George Borjas, also known as George J. Borjas, is a Cuban-born American labor economist at the Harvard Kennedy School whose work on immigrant self-selection and wages founded modern immigration economics.

George C. Homans

George C. Homans (1910–1989) was an American sociologist at Harvard, known for The Human Group (1950) and for founding social exchange theory in Social Behavior (1961).

George E. Barnett

George E. Barnett was an American labor economist and professor of statistics at Johns Hopkins University who served as president of the American Economic Association in 1932.

George Loewenstein

George Loewenstein, born in 1955, is an American behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University, known for work on intertemporal choice and the hot-cold empathy gap.

George M. Foster (anthropologist)

George M. Foster (1913–2006) was an American anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his "image of limited good" theory of peasant societies and his half-century field study of Tzintzuntzan, Mexico.

George M. Stratton

George M. Stratton was an American experimental psychologist best known for wearing lenses that inverted his vision for days in 1896 and 1897, and he founded Berkeley's psychology department.

George Murdock

George Peter Murdock (1897–1985) was an American anthropologist at Yale and Pittsburgh who founded the Human Relations Area Files and wrote Social Structure (1949), a landmark study of kinship.

George Perkins Marsh

George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) was an American diplomat, philologist, and polymath from Woodstock, Vermont, whose 1864 book Man and Nature is treated as the founding argument of modern conservation.

George Stigler

George Joseph Stigler was an American economist at the University of Chicago who won the 1982 Nobel Memorial Prize for studies of markets and regulation.