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 | |||
