Economics and Finance
- Robert Z. Aliber, developer of the Program of International Studies in Business and the Center for Studies in International Finance
- Gary Becker, Nobel prize winning economist, considered to have coined "human capital" and "rotten kid theorem," known for price theory
- Ronald Coase, Nobel prize winning economist, known for work in contract theory
- Eugene Fama, “Man Who Launched Modern Finance” - financial economist and originator of the efficient-market hypothesis and co-originator of Fama & French Three Factors Model (also alumnus, M.B.A. and Ph.D.)
- Robert Fogel, Nobel prize winning economist, known for work in population economics
- Milton Friedman, Nobel prize winning economist, proponent of unfettered free market economics
- Austan Goolsbee, current economics advisor to US President Barack Obama, Fulbright Scholar researching Internet taxation in the US and European Union, and New York Times economics columnist.
- Randall Kroszner, professor of economics, former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (2006–2009)
- Steven Levitt, economist, author of Freakonomics, John Bates Clark Medal recipient and director of the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory
- John A. List, economist, pioneer in the field of experimental economics
- Merton Miller, Nobel prize winning economist (also alumnus, M.B.A. and Ph.D.)
- Toby Moskowitz, Fischer Black Prize winning financial economist.
- Kevin M. Murphy, economist, John Bates Clark Medal recipient and MacArthur Fellow
- Raghuram Rajan, honorary adviser to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, winner of the Fischer Black Prize and co-author (with Luigi Zingales) of "Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists"
- Myron Scholes, Nobel prize winning economist, co-originator of the Black–Scholes options pricing model (also alumnus, M.B.A. and Ph.D.)
- George Shultz, economist and former dean, also former U.S. Secretary of Labor, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and U.S. Secretary of State
- Richard Thaler, behavioral economist, considered "father of behavioral finance", cited as significant influence on bridging psychology and economics in decision models by Daniel Kahneman (2002 Nobel laureate in Economics)
- W. Allen Wallis, former dean
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