Social and behavioral scientists

Rafael La Porta

Rafael La Porta is an Argentine-educated economist, the Carney University Professor at Brown University, best known for the law and finance research program with Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer, and Vishny.

Raghuram Rajan (रघुराम गोविंद राजन)

Raghuram Rajan (रघुराम गोविंद राजन), Indian economist, 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2013–2016), IMF Chief Economist (2003–2006), Chicago Booth finance professor, inaugural Fischer Black Prize winner, and 2005 Jackson Hole forecaster of the 2008 crisis.

Raj Chetty

Raj Chetty is an American economist and Harvard professor who studies economic mobility using large-scale data, known for finding that children earning more than their parents fell from 90% to 50%.

Ralf Dahrendorf

Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf (1929–2009), was a German-British sociologist and liberal politician known for his conflict theory of society, his critique of role theory, and leading the London School of Economics.

Ralph Garruto

Ralph Garruto is an American biomedical anthropologist at Binghamton University, known for studying neurodegenerative disease in Pacific Island populations and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.

Ralph Linton

Ralph Linton (1893–1953) was an American cultural anthropologist who wrote The Study of Man (1936) and gave anthropology its standard distinction between status and role.

Ralph Schoellhammer

Ralph Schoellhammer (Ralph Gert Schöllhammer), born 1982, is an Austrian political scientist who heads the Center for Applied History and International Relations Theory at Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest.

Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha (born 1958, Dehradun) is an Indian historian and biographer based in Bengaluru, author of The Unquiet Woods, India After Gandhi, and the two-volume Gandhi biography; Fukuoka Prize 2015.

Randall Morck

Randall Morck is a Canadian economist at the University of Alberta, best known for his 1988 work linking managerial ownership to firm valuation and for research on pyramidal business groups.

Randall Wright

Randall Wright is a monetary economist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known as a pioneer of the search-theoretic approach to money with Kiyotaki and Lagos.

Rashid Hassan

Rashid Hassan, full name Rashid Mekki Hassan, was a Sudanese and South African environmental economist who founded and directed CEEPA at the University of Pretoria until 2016.

Raul Hilberg

Raul Hilberg (1926–2007), Austrian-born American political scientist at the University of Vermont, founder of Holocaust studies; author of The Destruction of the European Jews (1961, revised 1985 and 2003), which framed the Holocaust as a bureaucratic process.

Ravi Kanbur

Ravi Kanbur, born 1954, is a British development economist who holds a professorship at Cornell University, served as the World Bank's Chief Economist for Africa, and studies inequality and poverty.

Ray Hyman

Ray Hyman, born 1928 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, is an American psychologist and University of Oregon professor emeritus, the leading methodological critic of parapsychology who co-authored the 1986 ganzfeld communiqué.

Raymond C. Kelly

Raymond C. Kelly, born 1942, is an American anthropologist and University of Michigan professor emeritus, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, known for work on the origin of war.

Raymond Dodge

Raymond Dodge (1871–1942) was an American experimental psychologist at Wesleyan and Yale who made eye movements measurable, founding modern eye-tracking research; he led the American Psychological Association in 1916.

Raymond Fisman

Raymond Fisman is a Canadian-born economist, the Slater Family Professor at Boston University, known for empirical work on corruption, money in politics, and hidden influence.

Rebecca Guerin

Rebecca J. Guerin is an American research social scientist at NIOSH, part of the CDC, known for the 2020 NIOSH Future of Work perspective and translation research.

Rebecca Slayton

Rebecca Slayton is an American science and technology studies scholar at Cornell University whose research examines how expert knowledge about risk becomes authoritative in international security, especially cybersecurity.

Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Selten (1930–2016) was a German economist at the University of Bonn who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for analyzing equilibria in non-cooperative games.

Renata Salecl

Renata Salecl is a Slovene philosopher, sociologist, and legal theorist of the Ljubljana Lacanian school, known for books on anxiety, choice, and ignorance, including The Tyranny of Choice.

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René M. Stulz

René M. Stulz is a financial economist who holds the Everett D. Reese Chair at Ohio State and is known for work on corporate control and firm value.

René Roy

René Roy (1894–1977) was a French economist and statistician who worked on index-number theory and consumer demand, taught econometrics in Paris, and led the Econometric Society in 1953.

Renée Baillargeon

Renée Baillargeon, born 1954 in Québec, is a Canadian developmental psychologist at the University of Illinois known for research on infant cognition and the violation-of-expectation method.

Rensis Likert

Rensis Likert (1903–1981) was an American social psychologist who invented the Likert scale for measuring attitudes and co-founded the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.

Reuben Jonathan Miller

Reuben Jonathan Miller is an American sociologist, criminologist, and social worker at UC Berkeley who studies life after prison, known for carceral citizenship and the 2021 book Halfway Home.

Rhenald Kasali

Rhenald Kasali (born 1960, Jakarta) is an Indonesian professor of management science at Universitas Indonesia whose 2004 bestseller cHaNgE! sold over 100,000 copies and who founded the Rumah Perubahan social movement in Bekasi.

Ricardo Hausmann

Ricardo Hausmann, born 1956, is a Venezuelan-born economist who directs Harvard's Growth Lab, created growth diagnostics and economic complexity, and served as Venezuela's planning minister.

Ricardo J Caballero

Ricardo J Caballero is a macroeconomist who holds the Ford International Professorship of Economics at MIT, where he has taught since 1992, and is known for work on safe asset scarcity and crisis policy.