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 four in any one calendar year from economists of high distinction in the United States and Canada. The following economists have received this award:
 2011 Distinguished Fellows: Alan Blinder, David Wise, and William Brainard (not pictured: Daniel Kahneman) |
| 1965 | Edward H. Chamberlin |
| Harold Hotelling | |
| 1966 | Abba P. Lerner |
| 1967 | Jacob Marschak |
| 1968 | Lloyd A. Metzler |
| 1969 | Ludwig E. von Mises |
| Alexander Gerschenkron | |
| 1970 | William Arthur Lewis |
| 1971 | Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen |
| Tjalling C. Koopmans | |
| 1972 | Robert A. Gordon |
| Carl S. Shoup | |
| 1973 | Tibor Scitovsky |
| 1975 | Moses Abramovitz |
| 1976 | Oskar Morgenstern |
| Herbert A. Simon | |
| 1977 | Harry G. Johnson |
| Leonid Hurwicz | |
| 1978 | Richard A. Musgrave |
| William S. Vickrey | |
| 1979 | Margaret G. Reid |
| Ronald H. Coase | |
| 1980 | Charles P. Kindleberger |
| Solomon Fabricant | |
| 1981 | Edward F. Denison |
| H. Gregg Lewis | |
| 1982 | Joe S. Bain |
| Gerard Debreu | |
| 1983 | Abram Bergson |
| James M. Buchanan | |
| 1984 | Evsey D. Domar |
| Albert O. Hirschman | |
| 1985 | Joseph Pechman |
| Paul Rosenstein-Rodan | |
| 1987 | Arthur S. Goldberger |
| Thomas C. Schelling | |
| 1988 | Hendrik S. Houthakker |
| Roy Radner | |
| 1989 | Jacob Mincer |
| Guy H. Orcutt | |
| 1990 | Victor R. Fuchs |
| Merton H. Miller | |
| 1991 | Irving B. Kravis |
| Herbert E. Scarf | |
| 1992 | Robert Dorfman |
| Vernon L. Smith | |
| 1993 | Lionel W. McKenzie |
| Anna J. Schwartz | |
| 1994 | John C. Harsanyi |
| Kelvin J. Lancaster | |
| 1995 | Geoffrey H. Moore |
| Walter Oi |
| 1996 | Armen A. Alchian |
| Robert A. Mundell | |
| 1997 | Martin Bronfenbrenner |
| Gordon Tullock | |
| 1998 | Alan Heston |
| Robert Summers | |
| 1999 | David Cass |
| John Chipman | |
| 2000 | Jack Hirshleifer |
| Edmund S. Phelps | |
| 2001 | Rudiger W. Dornbusch |
| Allan H. Meltzer | |
| 2002 | Clive Granger |
| Arnold Zellner | |
| 2003 | Irma Adelman |
| Jagdish Bhagwati | |
| T.N. Srinivasan | |
| 2004 | William D. Nordhaus |
| George P. Shultz | |
| William A. Brock | |
| 2005 | Stanley L. Engerman |
| Michael Rothschild | |
| Hugo F. Sonnenschein | |
| 2006 | Donald J. Brown |
| Richard A. Easterlin | |
| Robert B. Wilson | |
| 2007 | Orley C. Ashenfelter |
| Lloyd S. Shapley | |
| Oliver E. Williamson | |
| 2008 | Erwin Diewert |
| Dale Mortensen | |
| Charles Plott | |
| 2009 | Ronald Jones |
| Douglass North | |
| John Pencavel | |
| 2010 | Elhanan Helpman |
| David Kreps | |
| Martin Shubik | |
| 2011 | Alan Blinder |
| William Brainard | |
| Daniel Kahneman | |
| David Wise | |
| 2012 | Truman F. Bewley |
| Marc L. Nerlove | |
| Neil Wallace | |
| Janet L. Yellen | |
| 2013 | Harold Demsetz |
| Stanley Fischer | |
| Jerry Hausman | |
| Paul Joskow |