Bekende economen

• Adam Smith (1723-1790) - An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
• Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) - Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
• David Ricardo (1772-1823) - Principles of Political Economy (1817)
• John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) - Principles of Political Economy (1848)
• Karl Marx (1818-1883) - Das Kapital (1867-1895)
• Léon Walras (1834-1910) - Elements d'économie politique pure (1874-1877)
• Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) - Principles of Economics (1890)
  
• Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
• John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)
• Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942)
• John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-?) - The Affluent Society (1958)
• Milton Friedman (1912-?) - Inflation: Causes and Consequences (1953)
• Jan Tinbergen (1919-1994)
• Ruud Lubbers
• Eduard Bomhoff

Zie ook de Nobelprijs voor de Economie