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Comprehensive directory containing biographies of world's most famous economists.

An economist is a person who has studied and is well versed with the policies and practices in the
field of economics. Not only are these people well versed with the intricacies of economics but are
also the very people who create, propose and even implement certain policies that are designed to
better serve they work for. The sectors where they are found generally include the private sector
and the public sector or the government sector. While most colleges offer courses in the study of
economics, which can take up to 6 years to complete, there have been instances where some of the
most notable economists come for backgrounds that may vary from mathematics to sociology and
even history. The field of economics even has Nobel Prize associated with it. The list of Nobel
laureates in economics include names like Amartya Sen, who got it for his work on welfare
economics, Daniel Kahneman, who got the award for his work with the integration of learnings from
phycology into economic science and Elinor Ostrom who was awarded this prestigious honour for
her work in the field of economic governance. What follows is a collection of the biographies,
including the life story, trivia, interesting facts and timelines, of some such famous economists.

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Adam Smith was a pioneer of political economy and a thinker of modern economics.
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Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as chairman of the Federal
Reserve of the U.S from 1987 to 2006. He had a successful ...

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Amartya
Sen
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Amartya Sen is a much-admired, award winning economist, writer and philosopher. A
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Benjamin
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Benjamin Graham is known to have grown the seeds of investment in Americas Wall
Street. Graham was a great economist who introduced the ...

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Bertil
Gotthard
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Born on April 23, 1899, Bertil Ohlin was the founder of the modern theory of dynamics of
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Daniel
Kahneman
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Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist who is noted worldwide for his
work in the field of psychology and economics. A Nobel ...

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Franco
Modigliani
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Franco Modigliani was an eminent Italian Economist and Nobel Prize Laureate, who,
with his great passion for economics, formulated many theories ...

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Friedrich
von
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If there is one twentieth-century economist who can be tagged as the Renaissance
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One of the most popular economists the 20th century has seen, George Stigler was
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Gerard Debreu was an economist born in France who became famous for his path
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Gunnar Myrdal, considered a leading economist and social scientist of his era, left an
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Henry George (//www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/henrygeorge-192.php)
Henry George is remembered as an economist who brought significant changes in
politics and eco-political theories. George was a great writer who ...

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Herbert Simon is recognized as one of the founding fathers of important scientific
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James Tobin (//www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/jamestobin-279.php)
Sometimes the true worth of a person can be gauged from the legacy he/she leaves
behind. James Tobin is one such man whose lifelong work in ...

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Jan
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If there ever was an economist who contributed quite significantly to the field of
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John Charles Harsanyi, the conceptualist who proposed the game theory, was an
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John Kenneth Galbraith was a very famous American economist best remembered for
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John
Maynard
Keynes
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Keynesian economics gets its name, theories and principles from the great Economist,
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Sir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and Nobel Laureate, who had made
many important contributions to economic science. He had an ...

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Joseph
E.
Stiglitz
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Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He
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Ludwig
von
Mises
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Ludwig von Mises was a famous Austrian economist and was one of the most notable
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Maurice Felix Charles Allais was a French economist and a proud recipient of Nobel
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Milton Friedman was a well-known American economist and professor of statistics at
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Muhammad
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Paul
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Paul Anthony Samuelson is recognized as the father of modern economics. He is the
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A Nobel Prize winner and a renowned economist, Ragnar Frisch is best celebrated for
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Simon Kuznets is known to set a standard that made him stand special among all the
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Sir Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist who was well known for his contributions
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Sir John Richard Nicholas (Dick) Stone was an outstanding figure in postwar British
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Trygve Haavelmo was a Norwegian economist and a professor who received the Nobel
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Wassily
Leontief
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Wassily Wassilyovich Leontief was a Russian-American economist renowned for his
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Renowned post Keynesian economist and Nobel Laureate William Spencer Vickrey has
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