Armen Albert Alchian was an American economist. He spent almost his entire career at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A major microeconomic theorist, he is known as one of the founders of new institutional economics and widely acknowledged for his work on property rights.
Alice Mitchell Rivlin was an American economist and budget official. She served as the 16th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve, Rivlin was named director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 1996. Prior to that, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Congressional Budget Office and became its founding director from 1975 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party, Rivlin was the first woman to hold either of those posts.
Dr. María de Lourdes Dieck-Assad is a Mexican economist who has held positions in academia, an international organization, government and business, including professorships in the United States and Mexico as well as serving as Mexico's ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the institutions of the European Union from 2004 to 2007. For her service in this capacity, she was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Belgium. She attended the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education from 1971 to 1975, graduating with a bachelor's in economics. She received her master's in 1976 from Vanderbilt University and her doctorate in the same field from the University of Texas in Austin in 1983 with a dissertation entitled “The effect of economic shocks under different monetary procedures and different economic structures,” which she wrote as an intern at the Brookings Institution. She has said that she wanted to work to make an impact on Mexico since she was studying as an undergraduate, mostly in economic and social issues. Her husband is economist Pedro Quintanilla Gómez-Noriega. They lived in Austin, Texas for five years, where they both pursued doctoral studies in Economics. Then they went to live in Washington, DC where both worked. They returned to Mexico in 1992. When an opportunity came for Dieck-Assad to represent Mexico in Europe, she received the full support of her husband and her three children, who were already in high school and college.
Anna Jacobson Schwartz was an American economist who worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and a writer for The New York Times. Paul Krugman has said that Schwartz is "one of the world's greatest monetary scholars."
Ursula Kathleen Hicks, styled as Lady Hicks upon her marriage, was an Irish-born economist and academic.
Anna Koutsoyiannis was a Greek-born British microeconomist.
Michèle Pujol, was a French feminist, economist, scholar, and human rights activist. She was an assistant professor at the University of Victoria's Department of Women's Studies and held a chair at the University of Manitoba.
Cläre Tisch, also "Kläre Tisch" or "Klara Tisch," was a German economist.
Pauline Gracia Beery Mack was an American chemist, home economist, and college administrator. Her research in calcium, nutrition, radiation, and bone density began during the 1930s, and culminated in work for NASA when she was in her seventies.
Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith (1912–1962) was an American economic statistician who accurately estimated the personal income distribution of Americans.
Robert Aaron Gordon was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1938 to 1976. In 1975, he served as president of the American Economic Association.
Virginia Penny was a social reformer and an economist, being the first to study women's labor markets both in the U.S. and in Europe. Her books were an important resource for the members of the newly formed American Social Science Association. She also served as an early leader of the American women's suffrage movement before coming more involved in labor union organization and running her own employment agency for women.
Mary Jean Bowman was an American economist who mostly focused on education economics.
Rosalind Blauer, née Hyman, was a Canadian economist who specialized on the effects of inflation and income distribution.
Elizabeth Faulkner Baker was an American economist and academic who specialized in scientific management and the relationship between employment and technological change, especially the role of women.
Minnie Throop England (1875-1941) was an economist and an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln from 1906 to 1921. Prior to World War I, England published many articles related to the field of monetary economics and economic fluctuations, challenging the common stereotype that the focus of early female economists was primarily on gender issues or labor economics. From 1912 to 1915, she presented her analysis of entrepreneurial promotion of new enterprises as the cause of crises in the business cycle in four major articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Political Economy. She was an important critic of Irving Fisher's monetary theory of fluctuations.
Ann Fetter Friedlaender (1938–1992) was a noted American economist. Friedlaender held appointments in two MIT departments as Professor of Civil Engineering and Economics for the class of 1941. Dr Friedlaender was seen as an authority in the field of public finance, with a speciality in transportation studies. The first woman to head one of MIT's five schools, she served as Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science from 1984 to 1990.
Amy Hewes was an American economist, "a pioneer in introducing the minimum wage to the United States", who taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1905 to 1943.
Lise Salvas-Bronsard was a Canadian economist and writer who was a teacher of economics and macroeconomics in the economics department of the Université de Montréal from 1970 to 1995. She mainly researched economic policy and quantitive techniques and conducted multiple analyses of microeconomics and macroeconomics, with themes such as theory of value, macroeconomic optimum concept as well as rational expectations. Salvas-Bronsard served as a visiting scholar of both the University of Louvain's Center for Operations Research and Econometrics as well as France's Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and was on the editorial board or associate editor of multiple academic journals.
Maxine Bernard Yaple Sweezy Woolston was an American economist. She is best known for her work The Structure of the Nazi Economy (1941), which introduced the term reprivatization.
