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George A. Akerlof

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George Akerlof is the Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and University Professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He was the Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2001 and the co-author of several books, including Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (2009) and Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being (2010).

David Card

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David Card is the co-editor of RSF books Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality (2013) and Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform (2000).

Claudia Goldin

Harvard University

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Goldin is a former RSF visiting scholar and grant recipient. She also contributed chapters to the RSF books Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace and The Declining Significance of Gender? Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and was the director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s (NBER) Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. She is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy group.

Daniel Kahneman

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Daniel Kahneman is a member of the foundation's Behavioral Economics Roundtable, the co-editor of the RSF book Well-Being (2003), and the recipient of multiple RSF grants.

Edmund Phelps

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Edmund Phelps is a former RSF visiting scholar (1993-1994), the editor of the RSF book Altruism, Morality, and Economic Theory (1975), and the recipient of multiple grants from RSF. He is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and the director of Columbia's Center on Capitalism and Society.

Thomas Schelling

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Thomas Schelling (1921–2016) was a member of the foundation's Behavioral Economics Roundtable and a contributor to the RSF books Choice Over Time (1992) and Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment (2001).

Robert Shiller

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Robert Shiller is a member of the foundation's Behavioral Economics Roundtable, a contributor to the RSF book Advances in Behavioral Finance (1993), and the recipient of multiple grants from RSF.

Robert Solow

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Robert Solow is the Russell Sage Foundation’s Robert K. Merton Scholar and Institute Professor Emeritus at M.I.T. He was a visiting scholar at the foundation from 1999–2000 and became the Merton Scholar in 2001. Known in particular for his work on theories of economic growth, Solow is the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal (1961), the National Medal of Science (1999), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014), in addition to the Nobel Prize.

Richard H. Thaler

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Richard Thaler is a former RSF trustee, former Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar, and a member of the foundation’s Behavioral Economics Roundtable. He is the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Jean Tirole

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Jean Tirole is a member of the foundation's Behavioral Economics Roundtable and the founder of the Summer Institute on Economics and Psychology at the University of Toulouse, which was cosponsored by RSF.