page_title: List of economists
section_title: B
hierarchical_section_title: List of economists / Economists / B
caption_attribution_description: Francine D. Blau
context_page_description: This is an incomplete alphabetical list by surname of notable economists, experts in the social science of economics, past and present. Only economists with biographical articles in Wikipedia are listed here.
context_section_description: Ali Babacan (1967–), Turkish economic minister
  Roger Babson (1875–1967), American business theorist
  Louis Bachelier (1870–1946), French mathematician
  Roger Backhouse, English economist
  Walter Bagehot (1826–77), British journalist, businessman, and essayist; wrote extensively about government, economics, and literature
  Nikolai Baibakov (1911–2008), Soviet statesman, economist and Hero of Socialist Labor
  Joe S. Bain (1912–1991), American economist, founder of Industrial organization economics
  Dean Baker (b. 1958), American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
  E. Wight Bakke (1903–1971), American industrial relations specialist and professor at Yale University
  Leszek Balcerowicz (b. 1947), Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland
  Emily Greene Balch, American economist and peace activist (1946 Nobel Peace Prize)
  Richard Baldwin, American economist
  Sir James Ball (1933–2018), British econometrician, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London Business School and a leader in the field of econometric modeling
  Ludwig Bamberger (1823–1899), German economist, politician and writer
  Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961), Indian economist, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Pratima Bansal, Canadian economist
  Paul A. Baran (1909–1964), Russian, American, was the only tenured Marxist economist in the United States until his death in 1964
  Pranab Bardhan (b. 1939),  Indian economist, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
  William A. Barnett, American economist, works in chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity
  Enrico Barone (1859–1924), Italian soldier, military historian, and economist
  Nicholas Barr, British economist, professor of public economics at the London School of Economics
  Raymond Barre (1924–2007), French economist and politician
  Robert Barro (b. 1944), American classical macroeconomist, presently the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University
  Yoram Barzel, Israeli economist, works in property rights, applied price theory, and political economy
  Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850), French classical liberal theorist, political economist
  Kaushik Basu (b. 1952), Indian economist and academic, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank
  Ravi Batra (b. 1943), American economist, author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas
  Peter Thomas Bauer (1915–2002), Hungarian developmental economist
  William Baumol (1922–2017), American, New York University economics professor
  Mahamudu Bawumia (b. 1963), Ghanaian economist; worked at the Research Department of International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., United States
  Eugen Boehm von Bawerk (1851–1914), Austrian, founder of the Austrian School of economics
  Robert Dudley Baxter (1827–1875), English economist and statistician
  Michael Baye
  Charlie Bean
  Gary Becker (1930–2014), American economist and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
  Yoram Ben-Porat (died 1992), Israeli economist and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer
  Mahamudu Bawumia (b. 1963), Tamale, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana
  Dwayne Benjamin (b. 1961), Canadian economist, managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics
  Barbara Bergmann (1927–2015), American, forerunner in feminist economics with a passion for social policy and equality
  C. Fred Bergsten (b. 1941), American founder of the Peterson Institute for International Economics
  Albert Rex Bergstrom, New Zealand econometrician recognized for his work in continuous time econometrics
  Adolf Berle (1895–1971), American lawyer, educator, author, and US diplomat
  Ben Bernanke (b. 1953), American economist, former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
  Jared Bernstein, American economist
  Marianne Bertrand, Belgian economist
  Tim Besley
  William Beveridge
  Truman Bewley
  Jagdish Bhagwati (b. 1934), Indian economist and professor of economics and law at Colu
caption: Francine D. Blau
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