Jewish Economists

JEWISH ECONOMISTS

SHORT LIST
George Akerlof ¹ Joshua Angrist Kenneth Arrow Robert Aumann Lord Peter (P. T.) Bauer Gary Becker Ben Bernanke George Dantzig Douglas Diamond³ Peter Diamond Peter Drucker 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 ⁴ Harry Markowitz Jacob Marschak Karl Marx Eric Maskin Paul Milgrom Merton Miller Ludwig von Mises Franco Modigliani Roger Myerson John von Neumann William Nordhaus⁶ David Ricardo Alvin Roth Murray Rothbard Paul Samuelson Myron Scholes Herbert Simon ⁹ Robert Solow Piero Sraffa Joseph Stiglitz Richard Thaler Jacob Viner Abraham Wald
LONG LIST
Andrew Abel Moses Abramovitz Irma Adelman Morris Adelman Albert Aftalion Philippe Aghion George Akerlof ¹ Joshua Angrist Kenneth Arrow Robert Aumann Rudolf Auspitz Robert Axelrod Lord Thomas Balogh Paul Baran William A. Barnett Robert Barro Otto Bauer Lord Peter (P. T.) Bauer William Baumol Gary Becker Barbara Bergmann Abram Bergson Ben Bernanke Olivier Blanchard² Mark Blaug Alan Blinder Michael Boskin Martin Bronfenbrenner Michael Bruno Arthur Burns George Dantzig Paul Davidson Harold Demsetz Douglas Diamond³ Peter Diamond Aaron Director Evsey Domar Joseph Dorfman Robert Dorfman Peter Drucker Otto Eckstein Barry Eichengreen Robert Eisner Stanley Engerman Richard Epstein Solomon Fabricant Emmanuel Farhi Martin Feldstein Willian Fellner Amy Finkelstein Stanley Fischer Franklin Fisher Robert Fogel Jacob Frenkel Milton Friedman Victor Fuchs David Gale Alexander Gerschenkron Mark Gertler 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 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 Irving Kravis Michael Kremer David Kreps Alan Krueger Paul Krugman Robert Kuttner Simon Kuznets Ludwig Lachmann Wolf Ladejinsky David Landes Edward Lazear Emil Lederer	Robert Lekachman Wassily Leontief ⁴ Abba Lerner Jonathan Levin Steven Levitt Richard Lieben Adolph Lowe Fritz Machlup Burton Malkiel Ernest Mandel Benoit Mandelbrot Charles Manski Harry Markowitz Jacob Marschak Karl Marx Eric Maskin Allan Meltzer Robert Merton ⁵ Paul Milgrom Merton Miller Jacob Mincer Hyman Minsky Ludwig von Mises Franco Modigliani Joel Mokyr Roger Myerson Hans Neisser Marc Nerlove John von Neumann William Nordhaus⁶ Alexander Nove Maurice Obstfeld Arthur Okun Elinor Ostrom ⁷ Ariel Pakes Don Patinkin Joseph Pechman Sam Peltzman Robert Pindyck 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 Dani Rodrik Kenneth Rogoff Sherwin Rosen Nathan Rosenberg Paul Rosenstein-Rodan Henry Rosovsky Stephen Ross Walt Rostow Alvin Roth Murray Rothbard Michael Rothschild Nouriel Roubini Ariel Rubinstein Jacques Rueff Jeffrey Sachs Paul Samuelson Herbert Scarf José Scheinkman David Schmeidler Myron Scholes Anna Schwartz Edwin Seligman Reinhard Selten ⁸ Andrei Shleifer Martin Shubik Bernard Siegan Herbert Simon ⁹ Julian Simon Lord Robert Skidelsky¹⁰ Robert Solow Hugo Sonnenschein Piero Sraffa Herbert Stein Joseph Stiglitz Wolfgang Stolper Lawrence Summers Robert Summers Frank Taussig ¹¹ Richard Thaler Amos Tversky Jacob Viner Abraham Wald Henry Wallich ¹² Murray Weidenbaum E. Roy Weintraub Sidney Weintraub Martin Weitzman Jacob Wolfowitz Janet Yellen Richard Zeckhauser Arnold Zellner
NOTES 1. Jewish mother (née Hirschfelder), non-Jewish father; see http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2001/akerlof-autobio.html. 2. Maternal grandparents were Maurice Bokanowski and Marguerite Wolff, both Jewish. 3. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. 4. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Genia and Wassily by Estelle Marks Leontief (Zephyr Press, Sommerville, MA, 1987, pp. 8 and 18). 5. Jewish father (eminent Columbia University sociologist Robert King Merton, born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; see http://agso.uni-graz.at/lexikon/klassiker/merton/33bio.htm, non-Jewish mother. 6. Paternal grandparents were Max and Bertha (née Staab) Nordhaus. Max Nordhaus was a Jewish immigrant from Germany. Bertha Nordhaus was the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants Abraham and Julia (née Schuster) Staab. The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) lists both Max and Bertha Nordhaus as buried in the Congregation Albert Temple Cemetery in Albuquerque, NM. William Nordhaus' mother, née Virginia Riggs, was not Jewish. 7. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see 6 December 2009 Bloomington, IN Herald-Times article by Mike Leonard: "What a prize: Nobel winner Elinor Ostrom is a gregarious teacher who loves to solve problems" and 6 December 2009 IndyStar.com article by Dan McFeely: "Ostrom overcame poverty, anti-Semitism." Leonard states that "she attended a Protestant church as a child, and often spent weekends staying with the sister of her Jewish father, who kept a kosher home. 'That was a wonderful experience for me, the Friday night discussions they had,' she recalled." 8. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/selten-autobio.html. 9. 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). 10. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see "A Chinese homecoming," by Robert Skidelsky in Prospect Magazine (Issue 118, January 2006). 11. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see Encyclopedia Judaica (Keter, Jerusalem, 1972, Vol. 15, p.835 ). 12. 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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