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Massimo Polidoro
Massimo Polidoro is an Italian psychologist and science popularizer who co-founded the skeptical organization CICAP in 1989 and describes himself as James Randi's only apprentice.
Massimo Tavoni
Massimo Tavoni is an Italian economist working on energy and climate change economics, director of the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment and professor at Politecnico di Milano.
Mathis Wackernagel
Mathis Wackernagel, born 1962 and raised in Basel, Switzerland, is a Swiss sustainability advocate who co-created the Ecological Footprint and co-founded Global Footprint Network, the organization behind Earth Overshoot Day.
Matt Killingsworth
Matt Killingsworth is an American happiness researcher and Senior Fellow at the Wharton School, founder of trackyourhappiness.org, which collects real-time happiness data by smartphone.
Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller, also known as Matthew Stoller, is an American antitrust writer and former congressional staffer who leads research at the American Economic Liberties Project.
Matthew B. Hammond
Matthew B. Hammond (Matthew Brown Hammond, 1868–1933) was an American labor economist at Ohio State University and president of the American Economic Association in 1930.
Matthew D. Shapiro
Matthew D. Shapiro is an American economist at the University of Michigan known for studies of how households spend, save, and respond to tax rebates.
Matthew Gentzkow
Matthew Gentzkow is an American economist at Stanford University who studies the economics of media and technology industries and won the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal.
Matthew Kahn
Matthew E. Kahn is an American environmental and urban economist, Provost Professor at the University of Southern California, known for research on how cities adapt to climate change.
Matthew M. Kavanagh
Matthew M. Kavanagh is an American political scientist who directs Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Policy & Politics and studies pandemic inequality and access to medicines.
Matthew O. Jackson
Matthew O. Jackson is an American economist, the William D. Eberle Professor at Stanford University, known for his research on game theory and social and economic networks.
Matthias Sutter
Matthias Sutter (born 1968 in Hard, Austria) is an Austrian behavioral and experimental economist directing the Department of Experimental Economics at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics in Bonn.
Maureen L. Cropper
Maureen L. Cropper is an environmental economist, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, known for her work on valuing mortality-risk reductions and environmental regulation tradeoffs.
Maurice Allais
Maurice Allais (1911–2010) was a French economist at the École des Mines de Paris who won the 1988 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his theory of markets and efficient use of resources.
Maurice Halbwachs
Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), French Durkheimian sociologist, founder of collective memory theory via Les Cadres sociaux de la mémoire (1925); Strasbourg, Sorbonne, Collège de France professor who died in Buchenwald.
Maurice Obstfeld
Maurice Obstfeld, born in 1952, is an American economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who served as the IMF's chief economist from 2015 to 2018 and transformed open-economy macroeconomics.
Maurice Tweedie
Maurice Tweedie (1919–1996) was a British medical physicist and statistician at the University of Liverpool whose 1984 paper identified the Tweedie distributions, named for him by Bent Jørgensen in 1987.
Max H Farrell
Max H Farrell is an American econometrician, an Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara since 2023 and an Amazon Scholar, known for machine learning methods in causal inference.
Max Haushofer
Max Haushofer (1840–1907) was a German economist and statistician, professor at the Technische Hochschule München, a liberal Bavarian parliamentarian, and the father of geographer Karl Haushofer.
Max Weber
Max Weber (1864–1920), German sociologist and political economist born in Erfurt, co-founder of modern social science; author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Economy and Society, theorist of rationalization, ideal types, and bureaucracy.
Mehdi Moussaïd
Mehdi Moussaïd is a French cognitive scientist who studies crowd movement, social contagion, and collective intelligence, known for a model explaining how dense crowds develop stop-and-go waves and turbulence.
Melford Spiro
Melford Spiro (1920–2014) was an American psychological anthropologist known for fieldwork on Ifaluk Atoll, in Israeli kibbutzim, and in Burma, and for founding the anthropology department at UC San Diego.
Melissa Dell
Melissa Dell is an American economist, the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard, whose research on how history shapes economies won the 2020 John Bates Clark Medal.
Melville J. Herskovits
Melville J. Herskovits (1895–1963) was an American anthropologist at Northwestern University who opened the study of people of African descent in the Americas as a new field.
Melvyn Goldstein
Melvyn Goldstein is an American social anthropologist and Tibet scholar at Case Western Reserve University, known for fieldwork inside Tibet and the multi-volume A History of Modern Tibet.
Menzie Chinn
Menzie David Chinn is an American international macroeconomist and professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Chinn–Ito index of capital account openness and the weblog Econbrowser.
Meredith Rosenthal
Meredith Rosenthal is an American health economist, the C. Boyden Gray Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for research on physician payment incentives.
Merton H. Miller
Merton H. Miller (1923–2000) was an American financial economist at the University of Chicago who shared the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize for work in financial economics.
Mesmin Destin
Mesmin Destin is a social psychologist at Northwestern University, professor of human development and social policy, known for experiments showing brief interventions that raise first-generation college students' grades.
Michael Aris
Michael Vaillancourt Aris (1946–1999), British Tibetologist and foremost Western authority on Bhutan, husband of Aung San Suu Kyi; author of Bhutan: The Early History of a Himalayan Kingdom and founder figure of Tibetan studies at Oxford.