Social and behavioral scientists

Iván Werning

Iván Werning is an Argentine economist and the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics at MIT, known for work on optimal taxation, unemployment insurance, and liquidity traps.

Ivo Welch

Ivo Welch is an American-based finance economist, Distinguished Professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, known for work on IPOs, informational cascades, and equity premium prediction.

J. Denis Sargan

J. Denis Sargan (John Denis Sargan) was a British econometrician and LSE professor, remembered as the leading British econometrician of his generation and namesake of the Sargan test.

J. P. Guilford

J. P. Guilford (1897–1987) was an American psychologist and psychometrician at the University of Southern California whose Structure of Intellect model rejected a single IQ factor.

J. Peter Neary

J. Peter Neary, born James Peter Neary (1950–2021), was an Irish trade economist and Oxford professor known for the Dutch disease model and trade restrictiveness indexes.

J. Philippe Rushton (1943-2012), British-Canadian psychologist at the University of Western Ontario, applied r/K selection theory to racial differences in intelligence and behavior; his work was widely criticized, partly retracted, and disavowed by his department.

J. Vernon Henderson

J. Vernon Henderson (John Vernon Henderson) is a British-based economist working on urban economics, who has been School Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics since 2013.

Jack Goody

Jack Goody, born John Rankine Goody, was a British social anthropologist who held Cambridge's William Wyse chair and studied how writing and property transmission shape societies.

Jack Needleman

Jack Needleman is an American health economist and UCLA professor known for studies linking hospital nurse staffing to patient mortality and for the quality measures built on that work.

Jacob H. Hollander

Jacob H. Hollander (1871–1940) was an American economist at Johns Hopkins University who negotiated the 1905 settlement of the Dominican Republic's debt and led the American Economic Association in 1921.

Jacob Mincer

Jacob Mincer (1922–2006) was a Polish-born American labor economist at Columbia University whose Mincer equation became the standard tool for estimating how schooling shapes earnings.

Jacob Viner

Jacob Viner (1892–1970) was a Canadian-born American economist at Chicago and Princeton whose 1950 book The Customs Union Issue introduced trade creation and trade diversion.

Jacques Ellul

Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) was a French sociologist, jurist, and Protestant theologian at the University of Bordeaux, best known for his analysis of technique in The Technological Society (1954).

Jacques Thisse

Jacques-François Thisse, born 1946 in Belgium, is an economist and Professor Emeritus at UCLouvain working in location theory and economic geography, coauthor of Economics of Agglomeration.

Jagdish Bhagwati (जगदीश भगवती)

Jagdish Bhagwati (जगदीश भगवती), born 1934 in Bombay, is an Indian-born economist who spent most of his career at Columbia University, known for trade theory and defending globalization.

Jakob de Haan

Jakob de Haan, born 1960, is a Dutch economist and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Groningen, known for research on central bank independence and communication.

James A. Evans

James A. Evans is an American sociologist and computational social scientist at the University of Chicago, known for a 2019 Nature study showing small teams disrupt science while large teams develop it.

James A. Mirrlees

James A. Mirrlees, also known as James Mirrlees, was a Scottish economist who won half of the 1996 Nobel Prize in economics for his theory of incentives under asymmetric information.

James A. Robinson

James A. Robinson (born 1960) is a British-American economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago, co-winner of the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

James Alm

James Alm is a public-finance economist and Professor Emeritus at Tulane University, best known for his research on tax compliance, tax evasion, and the marriage penalty.

James Anderson (American economist)

James E. Anderson (born 1943) is an American economist, the Neenan Millennium Professor at Boston College, known for the gravity model of trade and trade restrictiveness measures.

James Andreoni

James Andreoni (born 1959 in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American economist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego, best known for the theory of warm-glow giving, which explains charitable donations.

James E. Meade

James E. Meade, also known as James Meade, was a British economist who shared the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for the theory of international trade.

James F. O'Connell

James F. O'Connell, born 1943 in San Francisco, is an American anthropologist at the University of Utah known for applying optimal foraging theory to hunter-gatherers and for the grandmother hypothesis.

James Fearon

James Fearon is an American political scientist at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, known for explaining why wars and ethnic violence occur.

James G. March

James G. March (James Gardner March, 1928–2018) was an American political scientist and organization theorist at Stanford, known for A Behavioral Theory of the Firm and the garbage can model.

James George Frazer

James George Frazer was a Scottish anthropologist, author of The Golden Bough, a comparative study of magic and religion that grew from two volumes in 1890 to twelve.

James Gross

James J. Gross is an American psychologist and Stanford professor known for the process model of emotion regulation, honored with the 2025 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology.

James H. Fowler

James H. Fowler is an American social scientist and professor of political science at UC San Diego, known for the 2007 New England Journal of Medicine study of obesity spreading through social networks and for genopolitics.