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Distinguished Fellows

The Award of Distinguished Fellow was instituted in 1965. Past presidents of the Association shall be Distinguished Fellows. Additional Distinguished Fellows may be elected, but not more than three in any one calendar year from economists of high distinction in the United States and Canada. The following economists have received this award:

1965 Edward H.Chamberlin 1981 Edward F. Denison 1997 Martin Bronfenbrenner
Harold Hotelling

H. Gregg Lewis

Gordon Tullock
1966 Abba P. Lerner 1982 Joe S. Bain 1998 Alan Heston
Gerard Debreu Robert Summers
1967 Jacob Marschak 1983 Abram Bergson 1999 David Cass
James M. Buchanan John Chipman
1968 Lloyd A. Metzler 1984 Evsey D. Domar 2000 Jack Hirshleifer
Albert O. Hirschman Edmund S. Phelps
1969 Ludwig E. von Mises 1985 Joseph Pechman 2001 Rudiger W. Dornbusch
Alexander Gerschenkron Paul Rosenstein-Rodan Allan H. Meltzer
1970 William Arthur Lewis 1987 Arthur S. Goldberger 2002 Clive Granger
Thomas C. Schelling Arnold Zellner
1971 Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 1988 Hendrik S. Houthakker 2003 Irma Adelman
Tjalling C. Koopmans Roy Radner Jagdish Bhagwati
1972 Robert A. Gordon 1989 Jacob Mincer T.N. Srinivasan
Carl S. Shoup Guy H. Orcutt 2004 William D. Nordhaus
1973 Tibor Scitovsky 1990 Victor R. Fuchs George P. Shultz
Merton H. Miller William A. Brock
1975 Moses Abramovitz 1991 Irving B. Kravis 2005 Stanley L. Engerman
Herbert E. Scarf Michael Rothschild
1976 Oskar Morgenstern 1992 Robert Dorfman Hugo F. Sonnenschein
Herbert A. Simon Vernon L. Smith 2006 Donald J. Brown
1977 Harry G. Johnson 1993 Lionel W. McKenzie Richard A. Easterlin
Leonid Hurwicz Anna J. Schwartz Robert B. Wilson
1978 Richard A. Musgrave 1994 John C. Harsanyi 2007 Orley C. Ashenfelter
William S. Vickrey Kelvin J. Lancaster Lloyd S. Shapley
1979 Margaret G. Reid 1995 Geoffrey H. Moore Oliver E. Williamson
Ronald H. Coase

Walter Oi

2008 Erwin Diewert
1980 Charles P. Kindleberger 1996 Armen A. Alchian Dale Mortensen
Solomon Fabricant Robert A. Mundell Charles Plott
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