Economists are scholars conducting research in the field of economics.
Well known economists include:
- Art Laffer
- Robert Mundell
- Kenneth Arrow
- Paul Baran
- Frederic Bastiat
- Gary Becker
- Fischer Black
- Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk
- James M. Buchanan
- Walter Block
- Edward Chamberlain
- Colin Clark
- Ronald Coase
- Rudi Dornbusch
- Jules Dupuit
- Friedrich Engels
- David Friedman
- Milton Friedman
- Ragnar Frisch
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Henry George
- Trygvie Haavelmo
- Robert Haveman
- Friedrich Hayek
- Henry Hazlitt
- James Heckman
- Ernst Heckscher
- John R. Hicks
- Hans Hermann Hoppe
- William Jevons
- Leonid Kantorovich
- John Maynard Keynes
- Israel Kirzner
- Lawrence Klein
- Naomi Klein
- Frank Knight
- Tjalling Koopmans
- Paul Krugman
- Simon Kuznets
- Ludwig Lachmann
- Harvey Liebenstien
- Robert Lucas Jr
- Edward Luttwak
- Thomas Malthus
- N. Gregory Mankiw
- Alfred Marshall
- Karl Marx
- Daniel McFadden
- Carl Menger
- John Stuart Mill
- Ludwig von Mises
- Franco Modigliani
- Alva Myrdal
- Gunnar Myrdal
- John Nash
- John von Neumann
- Bertil Ohlin
- Vilfredo Pareto
- Arthur Cecil Pigou
- Francois Quesnay
- Frank Plumpton Ramsey
- Lionel Robbins
- Denis Robertson
- Joan Robinson
- David Ricardo
- Llewelyn Rockwell
- Murray Rothbard
- Bert Rürup
- Paul Samuelson
- Jean-Baptiste Say
- Louis Say
- August-Wilhelm Scheer
- Gustav von Schmoller
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Amartya Sen
- Nassau William Senior
- G. L. S. Shackle
- Findlay Shirras
- Herbert Simon
- Julian Simon
- Adam Smith
- Robert Solow
- Michael Spence
- Piero Sraffa
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Lawrence Summers
- Paul Sweezy
- Jan Tinbergen
- James Tobin
- Michael Todaro
- Thorstein Veblen
- Jacob Viner
- Wassily Leontief
- William Vickrey
- Leon Walras
- John Glen Wardrop
- Knut Wicksell
- Friedrich von Wieser