Social and behavioral scientists

George W. Stocking

George W. Stocking, also known as George Ward Stocking, was an American economist who studied monopoly and antitrust policy and was president of the American Economic Association in 1958.

George-Marios Angeletos

George-Marios Angeletos is a Greek economic theorist, born in Athens in 1975, known for work on global games, coordination, and the social value of information.

Gerald N. Grob

Gerald N. Grob (1931–2015) was an American historian of medicine and psychiatry at Rutgers who pioneered the history of mental illness care in the United States.

Gerard Debreu

Gérard Debreu (1921–2004) was a French-born American mathematical economist at UC Berkeley who won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on general equilibrium theory.

Gerard Lemos, Baron Lemos of Thornton Heath (born 1958) is a British Labour life peer, social policy writer, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, formerly Government Whip, Faith Minister, and chair of English Heritage and HMPPS.

Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (1912–1994) was an Austrian-born Colombian anthropologist and archaeologist who founded Colombia's institutional anthropology and became the central figure in the country's archaeology, known for his ethnographies of the Kogi and Amazonian peoples.

Gert G. Wagner

Gert G. Wagner (1953–2024) was a German economist who directed the German Socio-Economic Panel for over two decades and chaired the executive board of DIW Berlin.

Gert H. Brieger

Gert H. Brieger was a German-born American physician and historian of medicine who led the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine from 1984 to 2001.

Gesine Schwan

Gesine Schwan, born 1943 in Berlin, is a German political scientist specializing in democratic theory who was twice the SPD's candidate for Federal President, losing to Horst Köhler.

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti is an economist and Brookings Senior Fellow who co-created the External Wealth of Nations database with Philip Lane after a career at the IMF.

Giancarlo Corsetti

Giancarlo Corsetti is an economist who holds the Pierre Werner Chair at the European University Institute, working on open-economy macroeconomics and currency, financial, and sovereign debt crises.

Gianmarco I.p. Ottaviano

Gianmarco I.p. Ottaviano is an Italian economist at Bocconi University, born in Milan in 1967, known for the Melitz–Ottaviano trade model and research on immigration's wage effects.

Gilbert F. White

Gilbert F. White (1911–2006) was an American geographer known as the father of floodplain management, who reshaped United States flood policy away from dams and levees.

Gilles Duranton

Gilles Duranton is a French economist at the Wharton School who studies urban economics, known for the sharing, matching, and learning framework and the fundamental law of road congestion.

Gilles Saint-Paul

Gilles Saint-Paul is a French labor economist at the Paris School of Economics, known for explaining why employment protection persists and winning the 2007 Yrjö Jahnsson medal.

Giovanni Dosi

Giovanni Dosi, born in 1953, is an Italian economist at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, a leading figure in evolutionary economics known for the 1982 concept of technological paradigms.

Giovanni Luca Violante

Giovanni Luca Violante, known as Gianluca, is an Italian macroeconomist who holds a chaired professorship at Princeton and coauthored the influential 2018 HANK paper on monetary policy.

Giovanni Peri

Giovanni Peri is an Italian-born economist at the University of California, Davis, whose research on immigration, wages, and productivity has shaped the economics of migration.

Gita Gopinath (ഗീത ഗോപിനാഥ്)

Gita Gopinath (ഗീത ഗോപിനാഥ്), Indian-born American economist, Harvard's Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor; IMF Chief Economist 2019–22 (first woman in the role) and First Deputy Managing Director 2022–25.

Glenn Diesen

Glenn Diesen is a Norwegian professor of international relations at the University of South-Eastern Norway, known for realist scholarship on Russian foreign policy, geoeconomics, and the Eurasian world order.

Glenn Ellison

Glenn David Ellison is an American economist, the Gregory K. Palm Professor at MIT, known for empirical studies of mutual fund managers and learning in games.

Glenn Loury

Glenn C. Loury (born 1948) is an American economist, Merton P. Stoltz Professor Emeritus at Brown University, first Black economist tenured at Harvard (1982), pioneer of social capital in economics, and author of Late Admissions.

Glenn Rudebusch

Glenn Rudebusch is an American macroeconomist at Brookings who spent over three decades at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, known for research on monetary policy rules.

Glenn W. Harrison

Glenn W. Harrison, born 1955, is an Australian-American experimental economist at Georgia State University who coauthored the influential 2004 survey "Field Experiments" with John List.

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Gombojab Tsybikov

Gombojab Tsybikov (1873–1930) was a Russian Buryat ethnographer, Buddhologist, and professor who, disguised as a Buddhist pilgrim on an 1899–1902 expedition, took the first photographs of Lhasa and met the 13th Dalai Lama.

Gordon H. DeFriese

Gordon H. DeFriese is an American medical sociologist at UNC-Chapel Hill who directed the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research from 1973 to 2000.

Gordon Hanson

Gordon Hanson is an American economist at Harvard Kennedy School known for research on the China trade shock and its effects on US manufacturing jobs.

Gottfried Haberler

Gottfried Haberler, born Gottfried von Haberler, was an Austrian-born economist at Harvard who gave comparative advantage its modern opportunity-cost formulation and wrote Prosperity and Depression (1937).

Graham T. Allison

Graham T. Allison is an American political scientist at Harvard known for Essence of Decision, his three-model analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Thucydides Trap.