This list of Jewish economists includes economists who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent.

A–G

Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist
George Akerlof, Nobel Prize (2001)
Joshua Angrist, Nobel Prize (2021)
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize (1972)
Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize (2005)
Lord Bauer, economist
Gary Becker, Nobel Prize (1992)
Yoram Ben-Porat (died 1992), Israeli economist and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ben Bernanke, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Jared Bernstein
Mario Blejer, Argentine economist and former President of the Central Bank of Argentina in 2002.

Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans
Arthur Burns, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Otto Eckstein, a key developer of the idea of core inflation
Richard Ehrenberg, economist
Martin Feldstein, Harvard Professor; Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Reagan Administration
Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize (1993)
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize (1976)
Barry Goldwater, half-Jewish American economist
Charles Goodhart, Bank of England economist
Alan Greenspan, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

H–L
John Harsanyi, Nobel Prize (1994)
Arnold Heertje, Dutch
Rudolf Hilferding, Austrian-German marxist economist
Leonid Hurwicz, Nobel Prize (2007)
Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, economist: multiplier
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize (2002)
Leonid Kantorovich, Nobel Prize (1975)
Henry Hazlitt, half-Jewish Austrian economist 
Israel Kirzner, economist (UK-born)
Lawrence Klein, Nobel Prize (1980)
János Kornai, Hungarian
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize (2008)
Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize (1971)
Vladimir Kvint, economist and strategist
Ludwig Lachmann, economist
Harold Laski, economist
Emil Lederer, economist
Wassily Leontief, Nobel Prize (1973)
Abba P. Lerner, Russian-born British economist
Leone Levi, political economist
Robert Liefmann, economist
Ephraim Lipson, economic historian
Adolph Lowe, German
Rosa Luxemburg, economist, co-founder of the KPD

M–Z
Stephen Marglin, American
Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize (1990), John von Neumann Theory Prize (1989)
Karl Marx, inventor of Marxist economics Karl Marx was ethnically Jewish. His maternal grandfather was a Dutch rabbi, while his paternal line had supplied Trier's rabbis since 1723, a role taken by his grandfather Meier Halevi Marx.
Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize (2007)
Robert C. Merton, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1997)
Paul Milgrom, Nobel Prize (2020)
Merton Miller, Nobel Prize (1990)
Hyman Minsky, American
Frederic Mishkin, American
Noreena Hertz, economist and activist
Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School
Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize (1985)
Toby Moskowitz, financial economist, Fischer Black Prize (2007)
Roger Myerson, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2007)
William Nordhaus, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2018)
Alexander Nove
Arthur Melvin Okun, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1968-1969)
Don Patinkin, Israeli
Sigbert Prais, economist
Karl Polanyi, Austrian-Hungarian economist and economic historian
Roy Radner, American who developed the Radner equilibrium concept
David Ricardo, economist (converted to Quakerism)
Alvin E. Roth, Nobel prize (2012)
Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist, writer, libertarian, and father of anarcho-capitalism
Nouriel Roubini, Iranian-American
Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize (1970)
Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize (1997)
Anna Schwartz, economist who published A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 (1963), which laid a large portion of the blame for the Great Depression at the door of the Federal Reserve System. President of the Western Economic Association International (1988)
Arthur Seldon, economist
Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Prize (1978)
Sir Hans Singer, known for the Prebisch–Singer thesis
Robert Solow, Nobel Prize (1987)
Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council (2011-2014)
Piero Sraffa, Italian economist
Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1971-1974)
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize (2001)
Lawrence Summers, economist, Treasury Secretary, Harvard President, former Chief Economist at the World Bank, John Bates Clark Medal (1993)
Richard Thaler, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2017)
Jacob Viner, Canadian economist
Leo Wolman, American economist.
Basil Yamey, South African economist
Janet Yellen, economist, former chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank

See also
List of Jewish American economists

References
JYB = Jewish Year Book

Footnotes

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