Social and behavioral scientists

Jeremy C. Stein

Jeremy C. Stein is an American financial economist who holds the Moise Y. Safra Professorship at Harvard and served as a Federal Reserve governor from 2012 to 2014.

Jeremy Greenwood

Jeremy Greenwood, born 1953, is a macroeconomist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose research links technological progress to growth, inequality, marriage, and divorce.

Jerold B. Warner

Jerold B. Warner is a financial economist, Fred H. Gowen Emeritus Professor at the University of Rochester's Simon Business School, known for his event-study methodology papers.

Jess Benhabib

Jess Benhabib, born 1948, is a Turkish-born economist who is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Political Economy at New York University, known for sunspot equilibria and indeterminacy.

Jesse M. Shapiro is an American applied microeconomist who holds the George Gund Professorship at Harvard Business School and is known for research on media bias, polarization, and econometric methods, winning a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship.

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is a Spanish economist, the Howard Marks Presidential Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for DSGE models and machine learning in economics.

Jiaying Zhao

Jiaying Zhao is a Canadian-based cognitive scientist, professor at the University of British Columbia, and co-author of the 2013 Science paper "Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function" on scarcity.

Jin Canrong

Jin Canrong (金灿荣), born 1962 in Wuhan, is a Chinese international-relations scholar and associate dean at Renmin University of China, known for commentary on US-China relations.

Jioji Ravulo

Jioji Ravulo is an Australian social work academic, Professor and Chair of Social Work and Policy Studies at the University of Sydney, and the first Pasifika professor in Australia.

Jo Boaler

Jo Boaler is a British-born education researcher and Stanford professor, formerly Marie Curie Professor in England, known for books like Mathematical Mindsets and for founding the youcubed research center.

Jo Sharp

Jo Sharp (Joanne P. Sharp) is a British feminist political geographer, Professor of Geography at St Andrews, author of Condensing the Cold War on Reader's Digest, and Geographer Royal for Scotland since 2022.

Joel Mokyr

Joel Mokyr, born 1946 in Leiden, the Netherlands, is an American economic historian at Northwestern University who won half of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Joel Slemrod

Joel Slemrod, born 1951, is an American economist at the University of Michigan known for research on how people respond to taxes through avoidance, evasion, and timing.

Johan Olsen

Johan P. Olsen is a Norwegian political scientist, born in Tromsø in 1939, known for the 1972 garbage-can model of organizational choice, the new institutionalism, and founding ARENA in Oslo.

Johan Swinnen

Johan Swinnen (born 1962) is a Belgian economist who has led the International Food Policy Research Institute since 2020 and CGIAR's Systems Transformation arm since 2022.

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), German physician and naturalist at Göttingen, father of physical anthropology, coined the five human varieties including "Caucasian" in De generis humani varietate nativa (1795) and proposed the Bildungstrieb formative drive.

Johannes Haushofer

Johannes Haushofer is a development and behavioral economist known for large-scale randomized cash-transfer experiments in Kenya, the 2014 Science paper on the psychology of poverty, and his viral CV of Failures.

John Anthony Allan

John Anthony Allan, known as Tony Allan, was a British geographer who pioneered the concept of virtual water, the water used to produce traded food, winning the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize.

John B. Clark

John B. Clark, also known as John Bates Clark, was an American neoclassical economist at Columbia University, best known for the marginal productivity theory of distribution in The Distribution of Wealth (1899).

John B. Taylor

John B. Taylor is an American economist at Stanford University, best known as the creator of the Taylor rule, a standard benchmark for central bank interest rate policy.

John Bongaarts

John Bongaarts, born 1945, is a Dutch and American demographer and Distinguished Scholar at the Population Council in New York, known for the proximate determinants of fertility framework.

John Bound

John Bound is an American labor economist at the University of Michigan known for research on disability insurance, wage inequality, and econometrics, winner of the 2025 Jacob Mincer Award.

John C. Williams

John C. Williams is an American economist and the 11th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since 2018, previously leading the San Francisco Fed.

John Creedy

John Creedy (born 1949) is a New Zealand economist and professor at Victoria University of Wellington, known for tax microsimulation and the history of economics.

John D. Black

John D. Black (1883–1960) was an American agricultural economist who held the Henry Lee chair at Harvard from 1927 to 1959 and helped write the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933.

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902), English Catholic historian, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, planner of the Cambridge Modern History, author of the dictum that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

John Dewey

John Dewey (1859–1952) was an American philosopher and psychologist, a cofounder of pragmatism and a leader of the progressive education movement, who founded the Laboratory Schools in Chicago.

John Garcia (psychologist)

John Garcia (1917–2012) was an American psychologist who discovered conditioned taste aversion, the Garcia effect, showing that a single taste-illness pairing creates lasting food avoidance.

John Gottman

John Gottman, American psychologist and University of Washington professor emeritus, founded the Love Lab, identified the Four Horsemen and 5:1 ratio, and co-created the Gottman Method; his 90%+ divorce-prediction accuracy claims are statistically contested.