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21st-century American economists
Kevin M. MurphyKevin Miles Murphy was born in 1958. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981.
Emi NakamuraEmi Nakamura graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2001. Her senior thesis carried the title An Economy with Monetary Business Cycles.
Robert Lucas Jr.Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. was born on the 15th of September 1937 in Yakima, Washington. His parents ran an ice creamery there before it failed during the…
Amy FinkelsteinAmy Nadya Finkelstein was born on the 2nd of November 1973 in New York City. Her parents were both biologists who earned doctorates at The Rockefeller…
Joseph StiglitzJoseph Eugene Stiglitz was born on the 9th of February, 1943 in Gary, Indiana. He grew up in a Jewish family where his mother Charlotte worked as a…
George AkerlofGeorge Arthur Akerlof arrived in New Haven, Connecticut on the 17th of June 1940. His mother Rosalie Clara Grubber was a housewife of German Jewish descent…
Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman was born on the 31st of July 1912 in Brooklyn, New York City. His parents were Jewish working-class immigrants from Beregszász in Carpathian…
Esther DufloEsther Duflo was born on the 25th of October 1972 at the Port Royal Hospital in Paris, France. Her father taught mathematics while her mother worked as a…
Paul KrugmanPaul Robin Krugman was born on the 28th of February 1953 in Albany, New York. He spent his early years moving between upstate cities before settling into…
Paul SamuelsonPaul Samuelson was born in Gary, Indiana, on the 15th of May 1915. His family consisted of upwardly mobile Jewish immigrants from Poland who had prospered…
Janet YellenJanet Louise Yellen was born on the 13th of August 1946 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Her father Julius worked as a family physician from the ground floor of their…
Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan was born on the 6th of March 1926 in the Washington Heights area of New York City. His father Herbert worked as a stockbroker while his mother…
Angus DeatonAngus Deaton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 19th of October 1945. He attended Hawick High School before moving to Fettes College as a foundation…
Daniel KahnemanDaniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv on the 5th of March 1934 while his mother Rachel visited her family. His parents were Lithuanian Jews who had moved to…
James M. BuchananJames McGill Buchanan Jr. was born on the 3rd of October 1919 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He grew up on a farm that suffered during the 1920s when his father…
Oliver Hart (economist)Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart entered the world on the 9th of October 1948. He was born in Britain to parents who both worked in medicine.
Tobias AdrianTobias Adrian entered the world on the 23rd of July 1971 in Kronberg, West Germany. He began his schooling at Humboldtschule located in Bad Homburg.
Gary BeckerGary Stanley Becker was born on the 2nd of December 1930 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a Jewish family within that small coal-mining town.
Susan AtheySusan Carleton Athey was born on the 29th of November 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up in Rockville, Maryland with parents who worked as an English…
James HeckmanJames Joseph Heckman entered the world on the 19th of April 1944. He grew up in Chicago, Illinois, born to John Jacob Heckman and Bernice Irene Medley.
Richard ThalerRichard H. Thaler was born on the 12th of September 1945 in East Orange, New Jersey. He grew up in a Jewish family where his mother Roslyn worked as a…
Elinor OstromElinor Claire Awan was born on the 7th of August 1933 in Los Angeles, California. Her mother Leah Hopkins worked as a musician while her father Adrian Awan…
Lawrence KleinLawrence Robert Klein entered the world on the 14th of September 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father Leo Byron Klein and mother Blanche Monheit raised him…
Claudia GoldinClaudia Dale Goldin was born in the Bronx, New York City on the 14th of May 1946. Her father Leon Goldin worked as a data processing manager at Burlington…
Melissa DellMelissa Dell grew up in Enid, Oklahoma. Her parents worked as civilian contractors at Vance Air Force Base. They managed the parts shop and ran a daycare…
Robert J. ShillerRobert James Shiller was born on the 29th of March 1946 in Detroit, Michigan. His father worked as an engineer and entrepreneur while his mother bore the…