JEWISH ECONOMISTS
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SHORT LIST
  • George Akerlof 1
  • Kenneth Arrow
  • Robert Aumann
  • Lord Peter (P. T.) Bauer
  • Gary Becker
  • George Dantzig
  • Robert Fogel
  • Milton Friedman
  • Alan Greenspan
  • Zvi Griliches
  • John Harsanyi
  • Hendrik Houthakker
  • Leonid Hurwicz
  • Lord Richard Kahn
  • Daniel Kahneman
  • Lord Nicholas Kaldor
  • Leonid Kantorovich
  • Lawrence Klein
  • János Kornai
  • Paul Krugman
  • Simon Kuznets
  • Wassily Leontief 8
  • Harry Markowitz
  • Jacob Marschak
  • Karl Marx
  • Merton Miller
  • Ludwig von Mises
  • Franco Modigliani
  • John von Neumann
  • David Ricardo
  • Murray Rothbard
  • Paul Samuelson
  • Myron Scholes
  • Herbert Simon 13
  • Robert Solow
  • Piero Sraffa
  • Joseph Stiglitz
  • Jacob Viner
  • Abraham Wald
LONG LIST
  • Andrew Abel
  • Moses Abramovitz
  • Irma Adelman
  • Morris Adelman
  • Albert Aftalion
  • George Akerlof 1
  • Kenneth Arrow
  • Robert Aumann
  • Robert Axelrod
  • Lord Thomas Balogh
  • Paul Baran 2
  • Robert Barro
  • Otto Bauer
  • Lord Peter (P. T.) Bauer 3
  • William Baumol
  • Gary Becker
  • Abram Bergson
  • Ben Bernanke
  • Mark Blaug 4
  • Alan Blinder
  • Martin Bronfenbrenner
  • Michael Bruno
  • Arthur Burns
  • George Dantzig
  • Harold Demsetz
  • Peter Diamond
  • Aaron Director
  • Evsey Domar 5
  • Joseph Dorfman
  • Robert Dorfman
  • Otto Eckstein
  • Robert Eisner
  • Stanley Engerman
  • Richard Epstein
  • Solomon Fabricant
  • Martin Feldstein
  • Willian Fellner
  • Stanley Fischer
  • Franklin Fisher
  • Robert Fogel
  • Jacob Frenkel
  • Milton Friedman
  • David Gale
  • Alexander Gerschenkron
  • Arthur Goldberger
  • Claudia Goldin
  • Robert Gordon
  • Mark Granovetter
  • Alan Greenspan
  • Zvi Griliches
  • Gene Grossman
  • Herschel Grossman
  • Sanford Grossman
  • Frank Hahn
  • John Harsanyi
  • Oliver Hart
  • Jerry Hausman
  • Eli Heckscher
  • Robert Heilbroner
  • Elhanan Helpman
  • Rudolf Hilferding
  • Albert O. Hirschman
  • Jack Hirshleifer
  • Hendrik Houthakker 6
  • Leonid Hurwicz
  • Paul Joskow
  • Alfred Kahn
  • Lord Richard Kahn
  • Daniel Kahneman
  • Lord Nicholas Kaldor
  • Michal Kalecki
  • Leonid Kantorovich
  • Carl Kaysen
  • Leon Keyserling
  • Israel Kirzner
  • Lawrence Klein
  • János Kornai 7
  • Irving Kravis
  • David Kreps
  • Paul Krugman
  • Robert Kuttner
  • Simon Kuznets
  • Ludwig Lachmann
  • Wolf Ladejinsky
  • David Landes
  • Edward Lazear
  • Emil Lederer
  • Robert Lekachman
  • Wassily Leontief 8
  • Abba Lerner
  • Steven Levitt
  • Adolph Lowe
  • Fritz Machlup
  • Burton Malkiel
  • Ernest Mandel 9
  • Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Charles Manski
  • Harry Markowitz
  • Jacob Marschak
  • Karl Marx
  • Eric Maskin
  • Allan Meltzer
  • Robert Merton 10
  • Paul Milgrom
  • Merton Miller
  • Jacob Mincer
  • Ludwig von Mises
  • Franco Modigliani
  • Roger Myerson
  • Marc Nerlove
  • John von Neumann
  • Maurice Obstfeld
  • Arthur Okun
  • Don Patinkin
  • Joseph Pechman
  • Sam Peltzman
  • Isaac de Pinto
  • Karl Polanyi
  • Michael Polanyi
  • Robert Pollak
  • Richard Posner
  • Bernard van Praag
  • Karl Pribram
  • Matthew Rabin
  • Roy Radner
  • Howard Raiffa
  • Ayn Rand
  • Anatol Rapoport
  • David Ricardo
  • Kenneth Rogoff
  • Nathan Rosenberg
  • Paul Rosenstein-Rodan
  • Henry Rosovsky
  • Stephen Ross
  • Walt Rostow
  • Alvin Roth
  • Murray Rothbard
  • Michael Rothschild
  • Ariel Rubinstein
  • Jacques Rueff 11
  • Jeffrey Sachs
  • Paul Samuelson
  • Herbert Scarf
  • José Scheinkman
  • Myron Scholes
  • Anna Schwartz
  • Edwin Seligman
  • Reinhard Selten 12
  • Andrei Shleifer
  • Martin Shubik
  • Bernard Siegan
  • Herbert Simon 13
  • Julian Simon
  • Lord Robert Skidelsky 14
  • Robert Solow
  • Hugo Sonnenschein
  • Piero Sraffa 15
  • Herbert Stein
  • Joseph Stiglitz
  • Lawrence Summers
  • Robert Summers
  • Frank Taussig 16
  • Richard Thaler
  • Amos Tversky
  • Jacob Viner
  • Abraham Wald
  • Henry Wallich 17
  • Murray Weidenbaum
  • Martin Weitzman
  • Jacob Wolfowitz
  • Janet Yellen
  • Arnold Zellner

NOTES

1. Jewish mother (née Hirschfelder), non-Jewish father; see  http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2001/akerlof-autobio.html.
2. See A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, 2nd Edition, edited by Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2000, p. 36).
3. See http://www.vdare.com/pb/own_problems.htm.
4. See preface to  Not Only an Economist: Recent Essays by Mark Blaug (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 1997); see also the third paragraph of http://www.mskousen.com/Books/Articles/turnabouts.html.
5. See page 9 of http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/analysis/details/1995-12-05/chinese.pdf.
6. Hendrik Houthakker is the son of the Dutch-Jewish art dealer Bernard Houthakker; his mother, née Lichtenstein, was also Jewish.  (Information supplied by a Dutch-Jewish family member.)   A 19 April 2003 article and interview with Houthakker in the Valley News, a Vermont newspaper, stated that he grew up in  a Jewish family and was sheltered on a farm for eight months by a Roman Catholic family after escaping from Gestapo arrest.
7. See Chapter 1, "My Family and Youth - 1928-1944," of By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey, by János Kornai (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2006, pp. 1-21), in which Kornai recounts his family's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Hungary (which took the lives of his father and a brother).  Kornai survived in part thanks to a Swedish Schutzbrief  (letter of safe conduct) provided by Raoul Wallenberg.
8.  Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Genia and Wassily by Estelle Marks Leontief (Zephyr Press, Sommerville, MA, 1987, pp. 8 and 18).
9. See A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, 2nd Edition, edited by Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer, (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2000, p. 394).
10. Jewish father (eminent Columbia University sociologist Robert King Merton, born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; see http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/sozwww/agsoe/lexikon/klassiker/merton/33bio.htm), non-Jewish mother.
11. See Encyclopedia Judaica (Keter, Jerusalem, 1972, Vol. 14, p. 382).
12. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/selten-autobio.html.
13. Jewish father, mother of partial Jewish ancestry; see Models of My Life by Herbert A. Simon (BasicBooks, New York,NY, 1991, pp. 3, 17, 112, 262).
14. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see "A Chinese homecoming," by Robert Skidelsky in Prospect Magazine (Issue 118, January 2006).
15. See A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, 2nd Edition, edited by Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2000, p. 618).  See also Piero Sraffa, Unorthodox Economist (1898-1983): A Biographical Essay, by Jean-Pierre Potier (Routledge, London, 1991,pp. 1-2).
16. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see Encyclopedia Judaica (Keter, Jerusalem, 1972, Vol. 15, p.835 ).

17. Jewish father (German banker Paul Wallich, who committed suicide in the immediate aftermath of the Kristallnacht pogrom), non-Jewish mother.  See House at the Bridge, by Katie Hafner (Scribner, New York, 1995) or its review on amazon.com.


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