page_title: Economic history
section_title: Notable economic historians
hierarchical_section_title: Economic history / Notable economic historians
caption_attribution_description: English: Contributors to macroeconomics (in no particular order): Irving Fisher, Anna Schwartz, Milton Friedman, Stanley Fischer, Carl Menger, Edward C. Prescott, Alfred Marshall and Franco Modigliani.
context_page_description: Economic history is the academic study of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and institutions. The field can encompass a wide variety of topics, including equality, finance, technology, labor, and business. It emphasizes historicizing the economy itself, analyzing it as a dynamic force and attempting to provide insights into the way it is structured and conceived.
  Using both quantitative data and qualitative sources, economic historians emphasize understanding the historical context in which major economic events take place. They often focus on the institutional dynamics of systems of production, labor, and capital, as well as the economy's impact on society, culture, and language. Scholars of the discipline may approach their analysis from the perspective of different schools of economic thought, such as mainstream economics, Marxian economics, the Chicago school of economics, and Keynesian economics.
context_section_description: Moses Abramovitz
  Jeremy Adelman
  Robert Allen
  T. S. Ashton
  Correlli Barnett
  Jörg Baten
  Maxine Berg
  Jean-François Bergier
  Ben Bernanke
  Francesco Boldizzoni
  Leah Boustan
  Fernand Braudel
  Rondo Cameron
  Sydney Checkland
  Carlo M. Cipolla
  John Clapham
  Gregory Clark
  Thomas C. Cochran
  Nicholas Crafts
  Louis Cullen
  Peter Davies (economic historian)
  Brad DeLong
  Melissa Dell
  Barry Eichengreen
  Stanley Engerman
  Charles Feinstein
  Niall Ferguson
  Ronald Findlay
  Moses Israel Finley
  Irving Fisher
  Brian Fitzpatrick
  Roderick Floud
  Robert Fogel
  Milton Friedman
  Celso Furtado
  Alexander Gerschenkron
  Claudia Goldin
  Jack Goldstone
  John Habakkuk
  Earl J. Hamilton
  Eli Heckscher
  Eric Hobsbawm
  Susan Howson
  Leo Huberman
  Harold James
  Geoffrey Jones
  Ibn Khaldun
  Charles P. Kindleberger
  John Komlos
  Nikolai Kondratiev
  Simon Kuznets
  Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
  Naomi Lamoreaux
  David Landes
  Tim Leunig
  Friedrich List
  Robert Sabatino Lopez
  Angus Maddison
  Peter Mathias
  Ellen McArthur
  Deirdre McCloskey
  Jacob (Kobi) Metzer
  Joel Mokyr
  Douglass North
  Nathan Nunn
  Cormac Ó Gráda
  Patrick K. O'Brien
  Thomas Piketty
  Henri Pirenne
  Karl Polanyi
  Erik S. Reinert
  Christina Romer
  W. W. Rostow
  Murray Rothbard
  Tirthankar Roy
  Joseph Schumpeter
  Anna Jacobson Schwartz
  Larry Schweikart
  Ram Sharan Sharma
  Robert Skidelsky
  Adam Smith
  Graeme Snooks
  Richard H. Steckel
  R. H. Tawney
  Peter Temin
  Adam Tooze
  Francesca Trivellato
  Eberhard Wächtler
  Jeffrey Williamson
  Tony Wrigley
  Jan Luiten van Zanden
caption: Notable economic historians: Irving Fisher, Anna Schwartz, Milton Friedman, Stanley Fischer, Carl Menger, Edward C. Prescott, Alfred Marshall and Franco Modigliani
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