Joseph Stiglitz : Economist

Joseph Stiglitz

Economist

Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, ForMemRS, FBA is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal.Wikipedia

Born: February 9, 1943 (age 71), Gary, Indiana, United States

Spouse: Anya Schiffrin (m. 2004), Jane Hannaway (m. 1978)

Movies: The End of Poverty?

Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966–1967),Amherst College (1964), University of Chicago

Parents: Charlotte Stiglitz, Nathaniel D. Stiglitz

Alvin Hansen : Author (Economics)

Alvin Hansen

Author

Alvin Harvey Hansen, often referred to as "the American Keynes," was a professor of economics at Harvard, a widely read author on current economic issues, and an influential advisor to the government ... Wikipedia

Born: August 23, 1887, Viborg, South Dakota, United States

Died: June 6, 1975, Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Books: A Guide To Keynes

Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Yankton College

Olivier Blanchard : Economist

Olivier Blanchard

Economist

Olivier Jean Blanchard is the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, a post he has held since September 1, 2008. He was appointed to this position under the tenure of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.Wikipedia

Born: December 27, 1948 (age 65), Amiens, France

Books: Lectures on macroeconomics, The economics of post-communist transition

Education: Paris Dauphine University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sir John Richard Hicks : Economist

Sir John Richard Hicks

Economist

Sir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. Wikipedia

Born: April 8, 1904, Warwick, United Kingdom

Died: May 20, 1989, Blockley, United Kingdom

Education: Balliol College

Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Simon Kuznets : Economist

Simon Kuznets

Economist

Simon Smith Kuznets was a Belarusian American economist, statistician, demographer, and economic historian who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded ... Wikipedia

Born: April 30, 1901, Pinsk, Belarus

Died: July 8, 1985, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Education: Columbia University School of General Studies, Kharkiv National University of Economics, Columbia University

Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Paul Samuelson : Economist

Paul Samuelson

Economist

Paul Anthony Samuelson was an American economist, and the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.Wikipedia

Born: May 15, 1915, Gary, Indiana, United States

Died: December 13, 2009, Belmont, Massachusetts, United States

Siblings: Robert Summers

Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, more

Education: Harvard University, University of Chicago

Jan Tinbergen : Economist

Jan Tinbergen

Economist

Jan Tinbergen was a Dutch economist. He was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and ...Wikipedia

Born: April 12, 1903, The Hague, Netherlands

Died: June 9, 1994, The Hague, Netherlands

Education: Leiden University

Siblings: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Luuk Tinbergen

Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Erasmus Prize

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch : Economist

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch

Economist

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch was a Norwegian economist and the co-winner with Jan Tinbergen of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969. Wikipedia

Born: March 3, 1895, Oslo, Norway

Died: January 31, 1973, Oslo, Norway

Education: University of Oslo

Books: A Dynamic Approach to Economic Theory: The Yale Lectures of Ragnar Frisch

Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Lawrence Klein : Economist

Lawrence Klein

Economist

Lawrence Robert Klein was an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, ...Wikipedia

Born: September 14, 1920, Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Died: October 20, 2013, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, United States

Books: Principles of Macroeconometric Modeling

Children: Rachel Klein

Education: University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, John Bates Clark Medal

Frank William Taussig : Economist

Frank William Taussig

Economist

Frank William Taussig was a U.S. economist and educator. Taussig is credited with creating the foundations of modern trade theory. Wikipedia

Born: December 28, 1859, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Died: November 11, 1940, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Education: Harvard University

Irving Fisher : Economist

Irving Fisher

Economist

Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the Post-Keynesian school. Wikipedia

Born: February 27, 1867, Saugerties, New York, United States

Died: April 29, 1947, New York City, New York, United States

Education: Yale University