Macroeconomics

🇺🇸Paul Krugman

Economics

b. 1953

"Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD."

🇺🇸Lawrence Klein

Economics

1920–2013

"There are many reasons there was higher inflation in the 1970s. But that is a complicated story that deals with much more than tax policies."

🇺🇸Paul Samuelson

Economics

Neo-Keynesian economics

1915–2009

"Just as Hegel is said to have understood his philosophy for the first time when he read its French translation, Vilfredo Pareto could have learned what it was he meant exactly to say when he read Bergson's 1938 classic."

🇺🇸Wassily Leontief

Economics

1906–1999

"This work may be best described as an attempt to construct a of the United States."

"We can see good economic policies in the context of a consistent analysis of the economy."

🇺🇸Robert Solow

Economics

1924–2023

"Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper."

🇺🇸Stanley Fischer

Economics

1943–2025

"I still think Keynesian economics is extremely important, and if anybody didn’t think so, this crisis should have made them rethink."