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Famous Economists

See also: History of economic thought

Current well-known economists include 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Paul Krugman, a public intellectual and advocate of modern liberal policies; Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve; Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve; Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, critic of inequality and the governance of globalization, and Chief Economist of the World Bank; the Hungarian Laszlo Garai who has founded (together with the American George Katona and the French Gabriel Tarde) the Economic psychology

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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or economists:

    “Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”
    —Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)

    “If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)