Social and behavioral scientists

Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), American historian, architectural critic, and philosopher of technology; author of Technics and Civilization and The City in History (National Book Award); New Yorker 'Sky Line' critic; theorist of the megamachine.

Li Meijin

Li Meijin (李玫瑾, born 1958) is a Chinese criminal psychologist and professor at the People's Public Security University of China, known for analyzing the Ma Jiajue and Yao Jiaxin cases.

Libo Yin

Libo Yin (尹力博) is a Chinese economist and professor at Beihang University working in asset pricing, energy finance, and climate finance, ranked among the top 5% of economists by RePEc.

Liene Ozoliņa

Liene Ozoliņa, also published as Liene Ozoliņa-Fitzgerald, is a Latvian sociologist who earned her PhD at the London School of Economics in 2014 and studies post-Soviet neoliberalism.

Lindsay C Malloy

Lindsay C. Malloy is an American developmental and forensic psychologist, a Professor at Ontario Tech University, known for research on how children disclose and recant abuse allegations.

Linh Pham

Linh Pham is an American-based economist specializing in energy and climate finance, known for research on green bonds and clean energy stocks, and is an associate professor at Lake Forest College in Illinois.

Lionel W. McKenzie

Lionel W. McKenzie (1919–2010) was an American economist at the University of Rochester and a chief architect of modern general equilibrium theory, publishing the first proof of competitive equilibrium in 1954.

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist, University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, known for the theory of constructed emotion and her book How Emotions Are Made.

Liu Qing (political scientist)

Liu Qing (刘擎, born 1963) is a Chinese political scientist and liberal public intellectual at East China Normal University, Shanghai, known for his book Lectures on Modern Western Thought.

Lloyd S. Shapley

Lloyd S. Shapley, also known as Lloyd Shapley, was an American game theorist at RAND and UCLA who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Lola Van Wagenen

Lola Van Wagenen is an American public historian and documentary producer who co-founded the environmental education group Consumer Action Now in 1970 and founded Clio Inc., Visualizing History.

Lorenz Kueng

Lorenz Kueng (Lorenz Küng) is a Swiss-based economist at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano who studies household finance and how households spend windfall payments.

Louis Guttman

Louis Guttman (Eliyahu Guttman, 1916–1987) was an American-born Israeli sociologist who founded the Guttman scale, six reliability lower bounds including Cronbach's alpha, and facet theory.

Louis Leon Thurstone

Louis Leon Thurstone was an American psychologist known for multiple factor analysis and the law of comparative judgment, and president of the American Psychological Association in 1932.

Louise B. Russell

Louise B. Russell is an American health economist at the University of Pennsylvania and a National Academy of Medicine member, known for cost-effectiveness analysis in health and medicine.

Lu Ann Aday

Lu Ann Aday is an American health services researcher and Professor Emerita at UTHealth Houston, known for research on health care access for vulnerable populations.

Ľuboš Pástor

Ľuboš Pástor (Lubos Pastor) is a financial economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business since 1999, known for work on liquidity risk, political uncertainty, and sustainable investing.

Luc Laeven

Luc Laeven is an economist who has directed research at the European Central Bank since 2015, teaches finance at Tilburg University, and co-created the Laeven–Valencia systemic banking crises database.

Lucy C. Hone

Lucy C. Hone is a New Zealand resilience researcher and author known for the TED talk "3 Secrets of Resilient People" and books on resilient grieving.

Lucy Suchman

Lucy Suchman is an anthropologist of technology whose 1987 book Plans and Situated Actions challenged AI's planning model; she later became a critic of autonomous weapons.

Ludger Woessmann

Ludger Woessmann is a German economist who directs the ifo Center for the Economics of Education in Munich and studies how cognitive skills drive economic growth.

Ludwig Straub

Ludwig Straub is a Harvard University economist and professor who won the 2026 John Bates Clark Medal for work on inequality, debt, and heterogeneous-agent macroeconomics.

Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was an Austrian economist of the Austrian School, author of Theory of Money and Credit and the 1920 socialist calculation argument, developer of praxeology, and author of Human Action (1949).

Luigi Guiso

Luigi Guiso is an Italian economist at the Einaudi Institute in Rome, known for research with Sapienza and Zingales on how culture and trust shape financial behavior.

Luigi Zingales

Luigi Zingales is an Italian financial economist, professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business since 1992 and director of its Stigler Center since 2015.

Luis Zayas (social worker)

Luis H. Zayas is an American social work scholar and Provost of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2023, known for research on children of deported immigrants.

Lung-Fei Lee

Lung-Fei Lee (李龙飞), born 1948 in Guangdong, China, is a Chinese-born American econometrician, Fellow of the Econometric Society and Academia Sinica academician, long a chaired professor at Ohio State.

Lutz Kilian

Lutz Kilian is an economist and Senior Economic Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas since 2019, known for research on oil price fluctuations.

Lynn Nadel

Lynn Nadel is an American cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Arizona known for the cognitive map theory of the hippocampus and multiple trace theory of memory.