Famous Economists - List of Famous Economists - page 4

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 learning’s 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.

The Most Famous Economists
Name	Birthday	Nationality	Bio
Emily Greene Balch	January 8, 1867	American	Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist who won the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize
Thomas Sowell	June 30, 1930	American	Thomas Sowell is an American economist, syndicated columnist, writer and social theorist
Karl Marx	May 5, 1818	French, German, British	Karl Marx was a Prussian-German philosopher, revolutionary, historian and socialist whose communist ideologies and works laid the foundation for ‘Marxism’
Herbert Simon	June 15, 1916	American	Herbert Simon was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, psychologist, and computer scientist
Muhammad Yunus	June 28, 1940	Bangladeshi	Muhammad Yunus is the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
Simon Kuznets	April 30, 1901	American	Simon Kuznets was a noted Russian-American economist, statistician, demographer, and economic historian
Paul Samuelson	May 15, 1915	American	Nobel laureate Paul Anthony Samuelson is referred to as the ‘Father of Modern Economics’
Jan Tinbergen	April 12, 1903	Dutch	Jan Tinbergen was a noted 20th century Dutch economist, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969
Friedrich von Hayek	May 8, 1899	Austrian, German, British	Friedrich von Hayek was a Nobel Prize winning Austrian-British economist and philosopher, best known for his defense of classical liberalism
James Tobin	March 5, 1918	American	James Tobin was one of the foremost economists of the late 20th century