JUIFS lauréats du Prix Nobel d’économie

Liste des bénéficiaires du prix Nobel d’économie qui ont été, ou qui sont juifs (ou de demi-ascendance juive, voir note). Les pourcentages indiqués ci-dessus correspondent aux noms qui apparaissent explicitement sur la liste ci-dessous.

• Paul Samuelson ^# (1970)
• Simon Kuznets ^# (1971)
• Kenneth Arrow  ^# (1972)
• Wassily Leontief ¹ (1973)
• Leonid Kantorovich ^# (1975)
• Milton Friedman ^# (1976)
• Herbert Simon ^#,2 (1978)
• Lawrence Klein ^# (1980)
• Franco Modigliani ^# (1985)
• Robert Solow ^# (1987)
• Harry Markowitz ^# (1990)
• Merton Miller ³ (1990)
• Gary Becker ^# (1992)
• Robert Fogel ⁴ (1993)
• John Harsanyi ⁵ (1994)
• Reinhard Selten ⁶ (1994)
• Robert Merton ⁷ (1997)
• Myron Scholes ⁸ (1997)
• George Akerlof ⁹ (2001)
• Joseph Stiglitz ¹⁰ (2001)
• Daniel Kahneman ¹¹ (2002)
• Robert Aumann ¹² (2005)
• Leonid (Leo) Hurwicz ¹³ (2007)
• Eric Maskin ¹⁴ (2007)
• Roger Myerson ¹⁵ (2007)
• Others ¹⁶

NOTES (En anglais)
# Encyclopaedia Judaica (1997 CD ROM edition).
1. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Genia and Wassily by Estelle Marks Leontief (Zephyr Press, Sommerville, MA, 1987, pp. 8 and 18).
2. Jewish father, mother of partial Jewish ancestry; see Models of My Life by Herbert A. Simon (BasicBooks, New York,NY, 1991, pp. 3, 17, 112, 262).
3. See Jewish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, edited by Jack Fischel and Sanford Pinsker (Garland, New York, NY, 1992), and The Timetables of Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz (Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1993, p. 713). Who’s Who in American Jewry, 1938 contains a self-submitted entry for the father of Merton Miller, Joel Lewis Miller.
4. See December 1993 issue of Cornell Magazine, where Fogel is described as being "the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants" in an article entitled Outstanding in Distant Fields, by Daniel Gross.
5. Son of Hungarian-Jewish parents who converted to Catholicism the year before Harsanyi’s birth.  See "Berkeley Economist Shares Nobel"  in the October 12, 1994 edition (p. A1) of The San Francisco Chronicle; "Nobel winner was saved from Nazis by Jesuit priest" in the October 21, 1994 issue (p. 8) of The Northern California Jewish Bulletin;
http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/harsanyi-autobio.html; and http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/jharsanyi.html.
6. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see: http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/selten-autobio.html.
7. Jewish father (eminent Columbia University sociologist Robert King Merton, who was born Meyer Robert Schkolnick), non-Jewish mother; see
http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/sozwww/agsoe/lexikon/klassiker/merton/33bio.htm.

8. In an article written by Lesley Simpson, entitled "Endowment fund named for winner of Nobel Prize," in the September 16, 1998 on-line edition of The Hamilton Spectator, it was stated that Scholes had been active in "Hillel, the Jewish students’ association" at McMaster University.  It was further stated that "Scholes was invited to return home and celebrate by both the city’s Jewish community and McMaster University…The Jewish Federation of Hamilton-Wentworth, the governing body for the Jewish community, is using his visit to formally announce an endowment fund for Jewish education.  The Myron Scholes Nobel Award has been created in his honor." 

9. Jewish mother (née Hirschfelder), non-Jewish father; see  http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/2001/akerlof-autobio.html.
10. See Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition (Thomson Gale, Detroit, 2007,Vol. 19, p. 226).
11. See http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/2002/kahneman-autobio.html.
12. See http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2005/aumann-autobio.html.
13. See Who’s Who in World Jewry 1965: A Biographical Dictionary of Outstanding Jews, edited by Harry Schneiderman and I.J. Carmin Karpman (McKay, New York, 1965, p. 433).
14. See November 8, 2007 interview in the New Jersey Jewish News Online.
15. See statement quoted near the end of this November 5, 2007 JUF News article.

16. Ragnar Frisch (1969) appears on a number of Jewish lists. This claim seems to have originated from an entry in the H.W. Wilson biographical dictionary of Nobel Prize Winners (H.W. Wilson Co., New York, NY, 1987) which states that Frisch "was imprisoned during the Nazi occupation of Norway as an outspoken opponent of Nazism and as a Jew."  This claim, however, conflicts with Frisch’s family history in Norway, which traces back many centuries (Jews were banned from settlement in Norway until 1851), and with the description of Frisch as "a devout Christian" in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, Volume 2, (John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (eds.), Stockton Press, New York, NY, 1987, p. 430).
Friedrich von Hayek (1974) is described as being Jewish in a number of sources, e.g., From Marx to Mises by David Ramsay Steele (Open Court, La Salle, IL, 1992, p. 401).  This misidentification is due, in part, to his having been the cousin of Ludwig Wittgenstein (through, as it turns out, Wittgenstein’s one non-Jewish grandparent), and his leadership with von Mises (who was Jewish) of the heavily Jewish (at that time) Austrian School of economics.  In Hayek on Hayek (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1994, pp. 61-62), however, Hayek states that none of his ancestors appear to have been Jewish.