economics profession - the body of professional economists

econometrician, econometrist - an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods

macroeconomic expert, macroeconomist - an economist who specializes in macroeconomics

microeconomic expert, microeconomist - an economist who specializes in microeconomics

monetarist - an advocate of the theory that economic fluctuations are caused by increases or decreases in the supply of money

social scientist - someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships

Beveridge, First Baron Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge - British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963)

Friedman, Milton Friedman - United States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy (born 1912)

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Ragnar Frisch, Frisch - Norwegian economist noted for his work in econometrics (1895-1973)

Galbraith, John Galbraith, John Kenneth Galbraith - United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908)

Friedrich August von Hayek, Hayek - English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992)

Jevons, William Stanley Jevons - English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882)

John Maynard Keynes, Keynes - English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946)

Koopmans, Tjalling Charles Koopmans, Tjalling Koopmans - United States economist (born in the Netherlands) (1910-1985)

Kuznets, Simon Kuznets - United States economist (born in Russia) who developed a method for using a country's gross national product to estimate its economic growth (1901-1985)

Arthur Laffer, Laffer - United States economist who proposed the Laffer curve (born in 1940)

Leacock, Stephen Butler Leacock, Stephen Leacock - Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writings (1869-1944)

Leontief, Wassily Leontief - United States economist (born in Russia) who devised an input-output method of economic analysis (1906-1999)

Malthus, Thomas Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus - an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)

Karl Marx, Marx - founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883)

James Edward Meade, Meade - English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907)

John Mill, John Stuart Mill, Mill - English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)

Jean Monnet, Monnet - French economist who advocated a Common Market in Europe (1888-1979)

Gunnar Myrdal, Karl Gunnar Myrdal, Myrdal - Swedish economist (1898-1987)

Pareto, Vilfredo Pareto - Italian sociologist and economist whose theories influenced the development of fascism in Italy (1848-1923)

David Ricardo, Ricardo - English economist who argued that the laws of supply and demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823)

Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Joseph Schumpeter, Schumpeter - United States economist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1883-1950)

Herb Simon, Herbert A. Simon, Herbert Alexander Simon, Simon - United States economist and psychologist who pioneered in the development of cognitive science (1916-2001)

Adam Smith, Smith - Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)

Richard Henry Tawney, Tawney - English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962)