Social and behavioral scientists

Thomas G. McGuire

Thomas G. McGuire is an American health economist and emeritus professor of health economics at Harvard Medical School, known for research on payment systems, mental health policy, and disparities in care.

Thomas H. Rice

Thomas H. Rice is an American health economist, a distinguished research professor at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health, and a National Academy of Medicine member elected in 2006.

Thomas J. Sargent

Thomas J. Sargent (born 1943, Pasadena) is an American macroeconomist, NYU professor and Hoover senior fellow who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize with Christopher Sims for empirical macroeconomic research and led the rational expectations revolution with Neil Wallace and Robert Lucas.

Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922–1996), American historian and philosopher of science, author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), which introduced paradigm, normal science, revolution, and incommensurability into accounts of scientific change.

Thomas L. Griffiths

Thomas L. Griffiths is a cognitive scientist at Princeton University whose research uses Bayesian statistics to model human learning and applies the same ideas to machine learning.

Thomas Lemieux

Thomas Lemieux is a Canadian labor economist, professor at the University of British Columbia since 1999, known for research on unions, wage inequality, minimum wages, and regression discontinuity methods.

Thomas N. Carver

Thomas N. Carver (1865–1961) was an American economist who taught political economy at Harvard for thirty-two years and led the American Economic Association in 1916.

Thomas R. Palfrey

Thomas R. Palfrey, III is an American economist and game theorist at Caltech, co-inventor with Richard McKelvey of quantal response equilibrium, a standard tool for fitting experimental data.

Thomas S. Adams

Thomas S. Adams (Thomas Sewall Adams, 1873–1933) was an American economist at Yale who helped write Wisconsin's 1911 progressive income tax and created the foreign tax credit.

Thomas Sequist

Thomas D. Sequist is an American physician and health services researcher serving as the first Chief Medical Officer of Mass General Brigham, practicing primary care at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell (born 1930) is an American economist and social theorist, Hoover Institution's Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Emeritus. Known for Knowledge and Decisions, Basic Economics, Discrimination and Disparities, and a syndicated column in over 150 newspapers.

Thomas Zylkin

Thomas (Tom) Zylkin is a trade economist and applied econometrician at the University of Richmond whose research quantifies the effects of trade agreements and trade policies.

Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), American economist and Wisconsin-born son of Norwegian farmers, founded institutional and evolutionary economics, coined conspicuous consumption in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), critiqued capitalism and higher education, and taught at Chicago, Stanford, Missouri, and the New School.

Thorsten Beck

Thorsten Beck is a German economist known for research on banking regulation and finance, and director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance since 2021.

Timothy Besley

Timothy Besley is an economist at the London School of Economics working in development economics and political economy, and a former Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member.

Timothy D. Snyder

Timothy D. Snyder, also known as Tim Snyder, is an American historian of eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust, known for the bestseller On Tyranny (2017).

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Titu Maiorescu

Titu Liviu Maiorescu (1840–1917) was a Romanian literary critic, philosopher, and politician who founded the literary society Junimea and served as Prime Minister from 1912 to 1914.

Tobias Adrian

Tobias Adrian is a German-American economist, born in 1971, who served as the IMF's Financial Counsellor from 2017 after thirteen years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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Tobias S. Schmidt

Tobias S. Schmidt is an energy and technology policy researcher, professor at ETH Zurich since 2015, known for work on renewable energy financing costs and fusion power cost projections.

Todd Gureckis

Todd Gureckis is an American computational cognitive scientist, Professor of Psychology at New York University, who uses computational models to study memory, learning, and decision making.

Todd Sandler

Todd Sandler (born 1946) is an American economist at the University of Texas at Dallas known for applying public goods theory to alliances, defense, and terrorism.

Toni M. Whited

Toni M. Whited, also published as Toni Whited, is an American financial economist at the University of Michigan known for research on corporate investment and financial constraints.

Torben G. Andersen

Torben G. Andersen is a financial econometrician, the Sharp Professor of Finance at Northwestern's Kellogg School since 1991, best known for making daily volatility observable through realized volatility.

Torsten Persson

Torsten Persson, born 1954 in Stockholm, is a Swedish economist at Stockholm University whose work with Guido Tabellini helped establish political economy as a subdiscipline.

Trebor Scholz

Trebor Scholz, born 1969 in East Berlin, is a German-American scholar-activist and Associate Professor at The New School who coined platform cooperativism in 2014 and wrote Own This!

Tullio Jappelli

Tullio Jappelli is an Italian economist, professor at the University of Naples Federico II and CEPR Research Fellow, known for research on consumption, saving, and household finance.

Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen, American economist, Holbert L. Harris Chair at George Mason University, Mercatus Center chairman, co-founder of Marginal Revolution blog, author of The Great Stagnation and Talent, and founder of Emergent Ventures.

Ufuk Akcigit

Ufuk Akcigit is a macroeconomist born in Germany to Turkish parents who studies innovation and growth as Arnold C. Harberger Professor at the University of Chicago.

Ulric Neisser

Ulric Neisser was a German-born American cognitive psychologist, known as the father of cognitive psychology for his 1967 book Cognitive Psychology, which gave shape to and named the field.