Famous Economists
See also: History of economic thoughtCurrent 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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