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Jordi Galí

Jordi Galí is a Spanish macroeconomist at CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, a central architect of the New Keynesian model of monetary policy.

Jorge G. Durand

Jorge G. Durand is a Peruvian-Mexican anthropologist and demographer of migration, a University of Guadalajara professor who co-directs the Mexican Migration Project with Douglas Massey.

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Jorn-Steffen Pischke is a labor economist and professor at the London School of Economics who co-authored Mostly Harmless Econometrics with Joshua Angrist and studied why firms pay for training.

Joscha Bach

Joscha Bach is a German cognitive scientist and AI researcher known for the MicroPsi cognitive architecture and for arguing that consciousness is a virtual property machines may share.

José J. Escarce

José J. Escarce is an American health economist and internist, a UCLA distinguished professor of medicine and health policy who studies physician incentives and racial disparities in health care.

José Julio Escarce

José Julio Escarce is an American health economist and internist, a Distinguished Professor at UCLA and RAND researcher elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2008.

José Scheinkman

José Scheinkman is a Brazilian-born economist who has held chairs at Chicago, Princeton, and Columbia, known for mathematical models of speculative bubbles, trust, and the growth of cities.

José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

José-Víctor Ríos-Rull is a Spanish macroeconomist and the Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for quantitative models of inequality, bankruptcy, and business-cycle fluctuations.

Josef Lakonishok

Josef Lakonishok is a finance economist known for research on value investing, market anomalies, and institutional trading, and co-founder and CEO of LSV Asset Management, a Chicago quantitative value manager.

Joseph A. Pechman

Joseph A. Pechman (1918–1989) was an American economist at the Brookings Institution, a leading tax policy scholar who directed its Economic Studies program and influenced the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

Joseph Adna Hill

Joseph Adna Hill (1860–1938) was an American statistician who spent forty years at the US Census Bureau, rising to Assistant Director, and authored the 1911 apportionment report behind the Huntington-Hill method.

Joseph Bernard Richardson Jr.

Joseph Bernard Richardson Jr. is an American medical anthropologist and criminologist at the University of Maryland known for research on gun violence among Black youths.

Joseph G. Altonji

Joseph G. Altonji is an American labor economist, the Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics at Yale University and a National Bureau of Economic Research research associate.

Joseph Henrich

Joseph Henrich is a Harvard anthropologist who studies cultural evolution, known for the WEIRD research program and for tracing Western psychological distinctiveness to the medieval Church's transformation of kinship.

Joseph J. Spengler

Joseph J. Spengler (1902–1991) was an American economist at Duke University who helped found economic demography and the history of political economy, and led the American Economic Association.

Joseph P. Newhouse

Joseph P. Newhouse, born in 1942, is an American health economist at Harvard who designed and directed the RAND Health Insurance Experiment and founded the Journal of Health Economics.

Joseph S. Davis

Joseph S. Davis (Joseph Stancliffe Davis) was an American agricultural economist who directed Stanford's Food Research Institute and led the American Economic Association in 1944.

Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz (born 1943, Gary, Indiana), American economist and Columbia University Professor, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics with Akerlof and Spence for analyses of markets with asymmetric information; former CEA chairman and World Bank chief economist.

Josh H. McDermott

Josh H. McDermott is an American cognitive scientist who heads the Laboratory for Computational Audition at MIT, known for cross-cultural music perception studies with the Tsimane' people of Bolivia.

Josh Lerner

Josh Lerner, also known as Joshua Lerner, is an American economist at Harvard Business School who studies venture capital, private equity, and innovation policy, and has written about 8 books.

Joshua A. Tucker

Joshua A. Tucker is an American political scientist at New York University who studies social media, AI, and politics, and co-directs its Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics.

Joshua Aizenman

Joshua Aizenman is an American-based economist holding the Dockson Chair at the University of Southern California, known for research on international finance and foreign-exchange reserves.

Joshua E. Cinner

Joshua E. Cinner is an environmental social scientist and human geographer who studies coral reefs, and an ARC Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney since 2023.

Joshua Gans

Joshua Samuel Gans is an economist and professor at the Rotman School of Management, Toronto, known for books including Prediction Machines (2018) and The Disruption Dilemma (2016).

Joshua Graff Zivin

Joshua S. Graff Zivin is an economist at UC San Diego, holding the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair and known for research on pollution's effects on productivity and cognition.

Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce (1855–1916) was an American philosopher, the leading American proponent of absolute idealism, who taught at Harvard from 1882 and developed an ethics centered on loyalty.

Judith P. Swazey

Judith P. Swazey, born 1939, is an American historian and social scientist of biomedicine who studied organ transplantation, drug innovation, and the critique of American bioethics.

Judith R. Lave

Judith R. Lave is an American health economist at the University of Pittsburgh, a former HCFA research director, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Julia Shaw (criminal psychologist)

Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist whose 2015 study showed 70% of participants developed false memories of committing crime, and who works as an expert witness on memory reliability.

Julian F. Thayer

Julian F. Thayer is an American health psychologist and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023 for research on stress and the autonomic nervous system.