Edmund S. Phelps is a Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and the director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at the Earth Institute. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2006 for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy.

Peter A. Diamond is a professor of economics at MIT. He won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for 2010 along with two co-winners, Dale T. Mortensen of Northwestern University and Christopher A. Pissarides of the London School of Economics for his "analysis of markets with search...

Thomas J. Sargent is a Professor of Economics at the New York University. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics, shared with Princeton University’s Christopher Sims (EcoMod’s Modeler of April 2011), for his empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.

Jan Tinbergen (April 12, 1903 – June 9, 1994), was a Dutch economist.

Tinbergen, who held a Ph.D. in physics, had become interested in economics while working on his dissertation, “Minimum Problems in Physics and Economics” (1929). He began to apply mathematical tools to economics, which...