Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign,Carnegie Mellon University,and MIT Sloan School of Management.
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.
Harold Hotelling was an American mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist,known for Hotelling's law,Hotelling's lemma,and Hotelling's rule in economics,as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. He also developed and named the principal component analysis method widely used in finance,statistics and computer science.
Nancy Laura Stokey has been the Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago since 1990 and focuses particularly on mathematical economics while recently conducting research about Growth Theory,economic dynamics,and fiscal/monetary policy. She earned her BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and her PhD from Harvard University in 1978,under the direction of thesis advisor Kenneth Arrow. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society,the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. She previously served as a co editor of Econometrica and was a member of the Expert Panel of the Copenhagen Consensus. She received her Honorary Doctor of Laws (L.L.D) in 2012 from the University of Western Ontario.
William Jack Baumol was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at New York University,Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation,and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He was a prolific author of more than eighty books and several hundred journal articles. He is the namesake of the Baumol effect.
Michio Morishima was a Japanese heterodox economist and public intellectual who was the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics from 1970–88. He was also professor at Osaka University and member of the British Academy. In 1976 he won the Order of Culture.
David Cass was a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania,mostly known for his contributions to general equilibrium theory. His most famous work was on the Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model of economic growth.
Harold Demsetz was an American professor of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
William G. "Bill" Gale is the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy and the former vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He conducts research on a variety of economic issues,focusing particularly on tax policy,fiscal policy,pensions and saving behavior. He is also co-director of the Tax Policy Center,a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute. Gale attended Duke University and the London School of Economics and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987.
Susan Carleton Athey is an American economist. She is the Economics of Technology Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Stanford,she has been a professor at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. She served as the consulting chief economist for Microsoft for six years and was a consulting researcher to Microsoft Research. She is currently on the boards of Expedia,Lending Club,Rover,Turo,Ripple,and non-profit Innovations for Poverty Action. She also serves as the senior fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. She is an associate director for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the director of Golub Capital Social Impact Lab.
Tomas J. Philipson is a Swedish-born American economist who served as the Acting Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump administration. He departed from the position and the Council at the end of June,2020,to return to the University of Chicago. He holds the Daniel Levin Chair in Public Policy at the University of Chicago,with posts in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies,Department of Economics,and the Law School. He was a Director of the Becker Friedman Institute at the university.
Roy Radner was Leonard N. Stern School Professor of Business at New York University. He was a micro-economic theorist. Radner's research interests included strategic analysis of climate change,bounded rationality,game-theoretic models of corruption,pricing of information goods and statistical theory of data mining. Previously he was a faculty member at the University of California,Berkeley,and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Roger Guesnerie is an economist born in France in 1943. He is currently the Chaired Professor of Economic Theory and Social Organization of the Collège de France,Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales,and the chairman of the board of directors of the Paris School of Economics.
William Bentley MacLeod is a Canadian-American economist. He is the Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and an Affiliated Faculty at Columbia Law School. He is a specialist in the fields of law,labor and contract theory.
Shyam Sunder is an accounting theorist and experimental economist. He is the James L. Frank Professor of accounting,economics,and finance at the Yale School of Management;a professor in Yale University’s Department of Economics;and a Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center.
John Philip Rust is an American economist and econometrician. John Rust received his PhD from MIT in 1983 and taught at the University of Wisconsin,Yale University and University of Maryland before joining Georgetown University in 2012. John Rust was awarded Frisch Medal in 1992 and became the fellow of Econometric Society in 1993.
Peking University Law School is the law school of Peking University,a public research university in Beijing,China.
Stéfanie Stantcheva is a Bulgarian-born French economist who is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. She is a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis. Her research focuses on public finance—in particular questions of optimal taxation. In 2018,she was selected by The Economist as one of the 8 best young economists of the decade. In 2020,she was awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. In 2021,she received the Prix Maurice Allais.
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven is a Danish economist who is currently a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is also Co-Editor of the American Economic Review. His research lies inside the domain of Public Economics and Inequality,in particular questions about tax policy and welfare programs. He combines economic theory and empirical evidence to show ways of designing more effective public policies. His work has had policy impact in both developed and developing countries.
