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Michael B. Devereux

Michael B. Devereux is an economist and professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, known for work on exchange rates and optimal monetary policy.

Michael Ben-Gad

Michael Ben-Gad is an Israeli macroeconomist and professor of economics at City St George's, University of London, whose dynamic modeling research covers immigration, taxation, and public debt.

Michael Beschloss

Michael Beschloss, American presidential historian, NBC News presidential historian since 2007, author of ten books including Kennedy and Roosevelt, The Crisis Years, The Conquerors, Presidential Courage, and Presidents of War (2018).

Michael Bruno

Michael Bruno (1932–1996) was an Israeli economist who helped design Israel's 1985 Economic Stabilization Program, served as Governor of the Bank of Israel, and was Chief Economist of the World Bank.

Michael C. Jensen

Michael C. Jensen (1939–2024) was an American financial economist at Harvard Business School who defined agency costs and founded the Journal of Financial Economics and SSRN.

Michael David Bordo

Michael David Bordo is a monetary historian and economist, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University, known for bridging monetary history with modern econometric analysis.

Michael E. Chernew

Michael E. Chernew is an American health economist, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor at Harvard Medical School and chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission since 2020, known for research on payment reform.

Michael F. Drummond

Michael F. Drummond is a health economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of York's Centre for Health Economics, known for economic evaluation of health care treatments.

Michael Frank Goodchild

Michael Frank Goodchild is a British-American geographer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, called the father of GIScience and credited with coining volunteered geographic information.

Michael Greenstone

Michael Greenstone is an American environmental economist at the University of Chicago who helped develop the US social cost of carbon, directs EPIC, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Michael Grossman

Michael Grossman (born 1942) is an American health economist, Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and NBER program director, best known for his 1972 health capital model.

Michael Ignatieff

Michael Grant Ignatieff (born 1947, Toronto) is a Canadian historian, writer, and former politician who led the Liberal Party of Canada and the Official Opposition 2008–2011, lost the 2011 election, and later led Central European University.

Michael Kimmel

Michael Kimmel (born 1951) is an American sociologist of men and masculinities, a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University and author of Guyland and Angry White Men.

Michael Kremer

Michael Kremer, American development economist (born 1964), co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Banerjee and Duflo for randomized controlled trials against global poverty; Kenya deworming trials, advance market commitments, University of Chicago, World Bank Chief Economist 2026.

Michael Norton (behavioral scientist)

Michael Norton is a behavioral scientist and professor of business administration at Harvard Business School who studies how people can spend money to increase happiness.

Michael P Keane

Michael P Keane, born 1961, is an economist at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School known for the GHK simulation estimator and Keane-Wolpin dynamic discrete choice.

Michael R. Reich

Michael R. Reich is a political scientist and Taro Takemi Professor, Emeritus, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for work on health reform and medicines policy.

Michael Rockefeller

Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, was an American art collector who disappeared in November 1961 when his boat capsized off New Guinea's south coast.

Michael S. Weisbach

Michael S. Weisbach is an American finance economist who holds the Ralph W. Kurtz Chair at Ohio State University and is known for his 1988 study of outside directors and CEO turnover.

Michael Sugrue

Michael Joseph Sugrue (1957–January 16, 2024) was an American historian who taught at Chicago, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and Ave Maria University, and whose Great Courses lectures, uploaded to YouTube by his daughter Genevieve in 2020, made him an internet phenomenon in philosophy education.

Michael Woodford (economist)

Michael Woodford (born 1955) is an American macroeconomist and monetary theorist, the John Bates Clark Professor at Columbia University and winner of the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

Michael Zubkoff

Michael Zubkoff is an American health economist who spent his career at Dartmouth, co-founded the Medical Outcomes Study that produced the SF-36, and advised every U.S. president since Ford.

Michela Carlana

Michela Carlana is an economist and Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School since 2024, known for research on teachers' implicit gender and immigrant stereotypes in education.

Michele J. Gelfand

Michele J. Gelfand is a cross-cultural and organizational psychologist at Stanford Graduate School of Business, known for tightness–looseness theory of how strongly societies enforce social norms.

Michèle Lamont

Michèle Lamont (born 1957) is a Canadian sociologist at Harvard who studies symbolic boundaries and inequality, wrote Money, Morals, and Manners, and led the American Sociological Association in 2016-17.

Michio Morishima

Michio Morishima (森嶋通夫, 1923–2004) was a Japanese mathematical economist who worked on general equilibrium theory and mathematical reinterpretations of Marx and Walras at the London School of Economics.

Miguel León Portilla

Miguel León Portilla (1926–2019) was a Mexican historian and philosopher who spent his career at UNAM reconstructing Nahuatl thought, arguing the Aztecs had produced a philosophy of their own.

Mike Tsionas

Efthymios (Mike) G. Tsionas (1965–2024) was a Greek economist and econometrician, a principal architect of modern stochastic frontier analysis, who taught at Lancaster University and Athens University of Economics and Business.

Mike Wright

Mike Wright (1952–2019) was a British management scholar who pioneered the study of management buy-outs, private equity, and entrepreneurial finance, founding CMBOR at Nottingham University Business School in 1986.

Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman was an American economist at the University of Chicago who won the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and led the Chicago school.