Editing Economist (section)

==Notable economists==
{{See also|List of economists|History of economic thought}}

Some current well-known economists include:
* [[Adam Smith]], Scottish economist and philosopher. Known as "The Father of Economics".
* [[John Maynard Keynes]], English economist well known for forming the basis of [[Keynesian economics]].
* [[Jan Tinbergen]], Dutch economist known for developing and applying dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes, which led to the establishment of [[econometrics]]. He was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969.
* [[Ragnar Frisch]], Norwegian economist who coined the term econometrics in 1926 for utilising statistical methods to describe economic systems. He was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969.
* [[Joan Robinson]], English Keynesian economist.
* [[Karl Marx]], German philosopher and economist known for founding [[Marxist Economics]].
* [[Amartya Sen]] (b. 1933), [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] laureate and professor at Harvard University.
* [[Kenneth Arrow]], [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] laureate and professor at [[Stanford University]].
* [[Robert Aumann]] (b. 1930), Israeli-American mathematician, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics]] in 2005.
* [[B. R. Ambedkar]], Indian scholar, jurist, economist, politician and social reformer. The [[Reserve Bank of India]] was conceptualized in accordance with the guidelines presented by Ambedkar to the [[Hilton Young Commission]] (also known as Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance) based on his book, ''The Problem of the Rupee – Its Origin and Its Solution''.
* [[Ben Bernanke]], [[Chairman of the Federal Reserve]] from 2006 to 2014.
* [[Esther Duflo]], [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] laureate and professor at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].
* [[Milton Friedman]], [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] laureate.
* [[Claudia Goldin]],  [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] laureate and professor at [[Harvard University]].
* [[Alan Greenspan]], Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.
* [[James Heckman]], 2000 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] winner and Professor at [[University of Chicago]]; most cited economist as of 2018.
* [[Glenn Hubbard (economist)|Glenn Hubbard]], Dean of the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Business]]; Chair of the [[Council of Economic Advisers]] from 2001 to 2003.
* [[Thomas M. Humphrey]], American economist and historian of economic thought.
* [[Paul Krugman]], 2008 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] laureate, [[public intellectual]], and advocate of [[Modern liberalism in the United States|modern liberal]] policies.
* [[Greg Mankiw]], American macroeconomist, academic economist, public intellectual, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2005.
* [[Joseph Stiglitz]], 2001 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics]] winner, critic of [[Economic inequality|inequality]] and the [[governance]] of [[globalization]], and former [[World Bank Chief Economist]].
* [[Dambisa Moyo]], Zambian-born international economist and author who analyzes the macroeconomy and global affairs.
* [[Thomas Sowell]], American economist and social theorist, Senior [[Fellow]] at the [[Hoover Institution]].
* [[Robert Lucas Jr.|Robert Lucas Jr]]., 1995 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize in Economics]] winner.
* [[George Akerlof]], 2001 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences]] winner, known for his work on markets with asymmetric information.
* [[Carmen Reinhart]], member of [[American Economic Association]],  2018 [[King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics]] winner.
* [[William F. Sharpe|William Forsyth Sharpe]], 1990 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] winner.
* [[Christopher A. Pissarides|Christopher Antoniou Pissarides]], 2010 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize in Economics]] winner.
* [[Arthur Laffer]], 2019 [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] winner.
* [[Jeffrey Sachs]], Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's [[School of International and Public Affairs]], 2015 [[Blue Planet Prize]] winner.
* [[Ludwig von Mises]], Austrian economist and philosopher, author of ''[[Human Action]]''.
* [[Friedrich Hayek]], Austrian economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] laureate and author of ''[[The Road to Serfdom]]''.
* [[Thomas Malthus]] (1766-1834), English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.
* [[David Ricardo]] (1772-1823), developed the classical theory of [[comparative advantage]] in 1817.
* [[Henry George]] (1839-1897), American economist, social philosopher, journalist, and leader of the [[single-tax movement]].
* [[Silvio Gesell]] (1862-1930), German economist, entrepreneur, and founder of [[Freiwirtschaft]] economic model.
* [[Jean-Baptiste Say]], developed [[Say's law]] stating that a free economy could not know economic crises.
* [[Ronald Coase]], founder of the concept of [[transaction cost]].