Featured Economists

In October 2023, Claudia Goldin made history by receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, becoming the third woman ever to win this prize and the first woman to do s...

Thomas Piketty is a French economist known most for his work on wealth inequalities and capital in the 21st century. He was awarded a PhD from LSE for his thesis on wealt...

Ben Bernanke , Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig

The Swedish Academy Awards Three Economists the Nobel Prize in Economics for Contributions to Understanding and Managing Crises On October 10th. 2022, the Sw...

Ha-Joon Chang is a South Korean institutional economist, specializing in developmental economics. He is currently a reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University...

Janet Yellen, Professor Emeritus at Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, received her Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1971. That same year,...

Professor at the City University of London Business School, International Expert on Inclusive and Sustainable Socio-economic Models and Financial Architecture and Regulation, Found...

Mariana Mazzucato

Professor of Innovation Economics and Public Value at University College London, and the founder & Director of the university’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpos...

Erik S. Reinert

Norwegian economist born in 1949. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Gallen University in Switzerland and a Master's degree in Public Administration from Ha...

Richard H. Thaler

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 48th Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on October 9th, 2017 to Richard Thaler, a Professor of Behavioral Economics at the...

Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist and Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, having previously been Profess...

Hart and Holmström

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2016): Hart and Holmström On October 10th 2016, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science announced Oliver Hart (British), and Bengt Hol...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

MAS has the honor to select Jomo Kwame Sundaram, better known as Jomo KS, as its latest featured economist. A Malaysian national, his contribution to economic knowledge and service...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 46th Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on October 12th, 2015 to Professor Angus Deaton, of Princeton University, &ldq...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2014 to Jean Tirole. Jean Tirole...