Top 10 Nobel Prize Laureates in Economic Sciences

1 Milton Friedman

2 Gunnar Myrdal and Friedrich August von Hayek

3 Paul Samuelson

4 Gary Becker

5 Wassily Leontief

6 Amartya Sen

7 Daniel Kahneman

8 Robert Merton and Myron Scholes

9 Angus Deaton

10 Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson

The Contenders

11 Simon Kuznets

12 Bertil Ohlin and James Meade

13 Lawrence Klein

14 Franco Modigliani

15 Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller and William Sharpe

16 Robert Fogel and Douglass North

17 George Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz

18 Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling

19 James Mirrlees and William Vickrey

20 Gerard Debreu

21 John Nash John Forbes Nash Jr. was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations.