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John H. Cochrane

John H. Cochrane is an economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution, author of the textbook Asset Pricing and of The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (2023).

John H. Gray

John H. Gray (1859-1946) was an American economist who taught at Northwestern and Minnesota, specialized in public utility economics, and led the American Economic Association in 1914.

John H. Williams

John H. Williams (John Henry Williams) was an American economist at Harvard and the New York Fed, the leading American critic of the Bretton Woods agreements.

John Hagan (criminologist)

John Hagan (born 1946) is an American sociologist and criminologist at Northwestern University and the American Bar Foundation, known for research on legal cynicism and genocide.

John Haltiwanger

John C. Haltiwanger is an American economist at the University of Maryland who developed measures of job creation and destruction and documented the decline in U.S. business dynamism.

John I. Lacey

John I. Lacey (1915–2004) was an American psychophysiologist who spent 30 years at the Fels Research Institute in Yellow Springs, Ohio, defining the field of psychophysiology.

John J. McConnell

John J. McConnell is an American finance scholar at Purdue University known for research on how equity ownership and debt policy relate to corporate value.

John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Canadian-born Harvard economist and ambassador to India, wrote The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State and coined countervailing power.

John List

John A. List is an economist at the University of Chicago who pioneered field experiments in real markets, firms, and schools, and has served as chief economist of Uber, Lyft, and Walmart.

John M. Clark

John M. Clark, also known as John Maurice Clark, was an American economist at Columbia University known for the acceleration principle, overhead cost analysis, and workable competition.

John M. Eisenberg

John M. Eisenberg was an American physician and health economist who directed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 1997 until his death in 2002.

John Macmillan Brown

John Macmillan Brown (1845 or 1846 – 1935) was a Scottish-born New Zealand academic, a foundation professor at Canterbury College from 1874 and later a writer on Pacific anthropology.

John Milton Roberts

John Milton Roberts (1916–1990) was an American anthropologist who developed expressive culture as a field and made games a recognized part of cross-cultural research, teaching at Cornell and Pittsburgh.

John Monahan (psychologist)

John Monahan (John Thomas Monahan, born 1946) is an American psychologist and emeritus law professor at the University of Virginia, known for violence risk assessment research cited by the Supreme Court.

John R. Commons

John R. Commons (1862–1945) was an American economist at the University of Wisconsin, a founder of institutional economics who drafted Wisconsin's workmen's compensation and unemployment compensation laws.

John R. Hicks

John Richard Hicks (1904–1989) was a British economist at All Souls College, Oxford, who shared the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Kenneth Arrow.

John R. Swanton

John Reed Swanton (1873–1958) was an American anthropologist who spent his career at the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, known for studies of Southeastern Native peoples.

John R. Weisz

John R. Weisz, American clinical psychologist and Henry Ford II Research Professor at Harvard, studies youth psychotherapy through meta-analyses and real-world randomized trials, led APA Division 53 as its first president, and created the FIRST principle-guided treatment.

John Roberts (Canadian economist)

John Roberts, full name Donald John Roberts, was a Canadian-born economist at Stanford Graduate School of Business whose work on incentives and organizational design helped found organizational economics.

John Van Reenen

John Van Reenen is a British applied microeconomist at the London School of Economics, known for the World Management Survey and for advising the UK Treasury on growth from 2024.

John Vervaeke

John Vervaeke is a Canadian cognitive scientist and University of Toronto professor known for his 50-episode lecture series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis and his theory of relevance realization.

John W. M. Whiting

John W. M. Whiting (1908–1999) was an American anthropologist who helped found psychological anthropology and led the Six Cultures Study of child development in six societies.

John Whalley

John Whalley is a Canadian economist at the University of Western Ontario, best known as a founder of applied general equilibrium modeling used to evaluate tax and trade policy.

John Zaven Ayanian

John Zaven Ayanian is an American physician and health services researcher at the University of Michigan, founding director of its Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation since 2012.

Jonas Meckling

Jonas Meckling is a political scientist and professor of energy and environmental policy at UC Berkeley, known for the 2017 concept of policy sequencing toward decarbonization and the book Carbon Coalitions.

Jonathan Eaton

Jonathan Eaton (1950–2024) was an American economist who, with Samuel Kortum, built the Eaton–Kortum model of international trade; their 2002 paper won the Frisch Medal and the 2018 Onassis Prize.

Jonathan H. Gruber

Jonathan H. Gruber is an American health economist and Ford Professor of Economics at MIT who helped shape Massachusetts' 2006 health reform and advised on the Affordable Care Act.

Jonathan Skinner

Jonathan Skinner is an American health economist at Dartmouth College who directs the National Bureau of Economic Research's Aging Program and researches regional variation in Medicare spending.

Jonathan Wright

Jonathan H. Wright is an American monetary economist and econometrician, professor at Johns Hopkins University since 2008, known for work on the Treasury yield curve and inflation forecasting.

Jordan Peterson

Jordan Bernt Peterson (born 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist, formerly at Harvard and the University of Toronto, known for personality research with DeYoung, Maps of Meaning, the bestseller 12 Rules for Life, and his 2016 opposition to Bill C-16.