page_title: List of economists
section_title: P
hierarchical_section_title: List of economists / Economists / P
caption_attribution_description: English: French economist Thomas Piketty at the reading for his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, on 18 April 2014 at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Crop
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: Krishna Palepu
  Giancarlo Pallavicini
  V. R. Panchamukhi
  Thomas Palfrey
  Yadav Prasad Pant
  Maffeo Pantaleoni
  Philippe Van Parijs
  Vilfredo Pareto
  Manuel V. Pangilinan
  Jacques Parizeau
  Luigi Pasinetti
  Frédéric Passy
  Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel
  Prabhat Patnaik
  William Paterson
  Don Patinkin
  Christina Paxson
  Lasse Heje Pedersen
  Edith Penrose
  Émile Péreire
  Carlota Perez
  Javier Perez-Capdevila
  Torsten Persson
  Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert
  Mohammad Hashem Pesaran
  Wolfgang Pesendorfer
  Pierre Pestieau
  Maurice Peston, Baron Peston
  Douglas Peters
  Sir William Petty
  Edmund Phelps
  Thomas Philippon
  Peter C. B. Phillips
  William Phillips
  Arthur Cecil Pigou
  Thomas Piketty
  Christopher A. Pissarides
  Arnold Plant
  Plato
  Charles Plott
  Karl Polanyi
  Michael Polanyi
  Robert Pollin
  Yuri Poluneev
  Jean-Pierre Ponssard
  Arden Pope
  Michael Porter
  Richard Portes
  Arturo C. Porzecanski
  Richard Posner
  James M. Poterba
  Bernard van Praag
  John W. Pratt
  Edward C. Prescott
  Steven Pressman
  Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
  Raúl Prebisch
  Cuno Pümpin
caption: Thomas Piketty
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