Distinguished Fellows
The Award of Distinguished Fellow was instituted in 1965. Past Presidents of the Association and Walker Medalists shall be Distinguished Fellows. Additional Distinguished Fellows may be elected, but not more than four in any one calendar year from economists of high distinction in the United States and Canada. The following economists have received this award:
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| Distinguished Fellow Olivia Mitchell | Distinguished Fellow Maurice Obstfeld |
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2019
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2012
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2005
2004
- William A. Brock
- Peter A. Diamond
- William D. Nordhaus
- George P. Shultz
2003
- Irma Adelman
- Jagdish Bhagwati
- Robert E. Lucas
- T.N. Srinivasan
2002
- Clive Granger
- Sherwin Rosen
- Arnold Zellner
2001
- Rudiger W. Dornbusch
- Dale W. Jorgenson
- Allan H. Meltzer
2000
- Jack Hirshleifer
- D. Gale Johnson
- Edmund S. Phelps
1999
- David Cass
- John Chipman
- Robert W. Fogel
1998
- Arnold C. Harberger
- Alan Heston
- Robert Summers
1997
- Martin Bronfenbrenner
- Anne O. Krueger
- Gordon Tullock
1996
- Armen A. Alchian
- Robert A. Mundell
1995
- Geoffrey H. Moore
- Walter Oi
- Amartya Sen
1994
- Zvi Griliches
- John C. Harsanyi
- Kelvin J. Lancaster
1993
- Lionel W. McKenzie
- Anna J. Schwartz
1992
- Robert Dorfman
- Vernon L. Smith
1991
- Irving B. Kravis
- Herbert E. Scarf
1990
- Victor R. Fuchs
- Merton H. Miller
1989
- Robert Eisner
- Jacob Mincer
- Guy H. Orcutt
1988
- Gary S. Becker
- Hendrik S. Houthakker
- Roy Radner
1987
- Arthur S. Goldberger
- Alice M. Rivlin
- Thomas C. Schelling
1985
- Joseph Pechman
- Paul Rosenstein-Rodin
- Charles L. Shultze
1984
- Evsey D. Domar
- Albert O. Hirschman
1983
- Gardner Ackley
- Abram Bergson
- James M. Buchanan
1982
- Joe S. Bain
- William J. Baumol
- Gerard Debreu
1981
- Moses Abramovitz
- Edward F. Denison
- H. Gregg Lewis
1980
- Solomon Fabricant
- Charles P. Kindleberger
- Robert M. Solow
1979
- Ronald H. Coase
- Margaret G. Reid
1978
- Lawrence R. Klein
- Richard A. Musgrave
- William S. Vickrey
1977
- Leonid Hurwicz
- Harry G. Johnson
- Simon Kuznets
- Franco Modigliani
1976
- Oskar Morgenstern
- Herbert A. Simon
1975
- Walter W. Heller
1974
- Kenneth J. Arrow
1973
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Tibor Scitovsky
1972
- Robert A. Gordon
- Theodore W. Schultz
- Carl S. Shoup
- James Tobin
1971
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
- Tjalling C. Koopmans
- Wassily Leontief
1970
- William J. Fellner
- William Arthur Lewis
1969
- Kenneth E. Boulding
- Alexander Gerschenkron
- Ludwig E. von Mises
1968
- Milton Friedman
- Lloyd A. Metzler
1967
- Alvin H. Hansen
- Fritz Machlup
- Jacob Marschak
1966
- Abba P. Lerner
- Joseph J. Spengler
1965
- Edward H. Chamberlin
- Harold Hotelling
- George J. Stigler
*Awarded posthumously