* 1930 – Jacques Parizeau, Canadian economist and politician

* 1930 – György Enyedi, Hungarian economist and geographer ( d. 2012 )

* 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize

* 1930 – Israel Kirzner, American economist

* 1862 – Silvio Gesell, Belgian economist ( d. 1930 )

* March 17 – Silvio Gesell, economist ( d. 1930 )

Common use of the phrase " The Great Depression " for the 1930s crisis is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with ' formalizing ' the phrase, though US president Herbert Hoover is widely credited with having ' popularized ' the term / phrase, informally referring to the downturn as a " depression ", with such uses as " Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement ", ( December 1930, Message to Congress ) and " I need not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression " ( 1931 ).

Gary Stanley Becker ( born December 2, 1930 ) is an American economist.

In Treatise on Money ( 1930, chapter 29 ), economist John Maynard Keynes argued that in commodity markets, backwardation is not an abnormal market situation, but rather arises naturally as " normal backwardation " from the fact that producers of commodities are more prone to hedge their price risk than consumers.

* Edwin Mansfield, ( 1930 – 1997 ), economist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania

* Gary Becker, 1930 –, American economist.

* Gary Becker, born in Pottsville in 1930, is a Nobel Prize winning economist ( 1992 ).

Thomas Sowell ( born June 30, 1930 ) is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author.

Reinhard Selten ( born 5 October 1930 ) is a German economist.

Jacques Parizeau, (; born August 9, 1930 ) is an economist and noted Quebec sovereignist who was the 26th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from September 26, 1994 to January 29, 1996.

Karl Wilhelm Bücher ( 16 February 1847, Kirberg, Hesse – 12 November 1930, Leipzig, Saxony ) was an economist, one of the founders of non-market economics, and the founder of journalism as an academic discipline.

* Charles Berry ( economist ) ( 1930 – 2007 ), American economist and specialist in industrial organization and applied microeconomics

Enrique Valentín Iglesias García ( born 29 March 1930 in Arancedo, Asturias ) is an economist of Uruguayan-Spanish dual citizenship.

In 1930, he married the economist Dr. Johanna Ehmer ( February 2, 1902-February 2, 2012 ).

* Arthur Twining Hadley ( 1856 – 1930 ), American economist

Arthur Twining Hadley ( April 23, 1856 – March 6, 1930 ) was an economist who served as President of Yale University from 1899 to 1921.

* Wayne Angell ( born 1930 ), economist

Douglas Dennison Peters, PC ( born March 3, 1930 ) is a Canadian banker, economist and politician.

* 1930 – William Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden ( d. 2012 )

Band structure calculations was first used in 1930 to predict the properties of new materials, and in 1947 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley developed the first semiconductor-based transistor, heralding a revolution in electronics.

* 2005 – William P. Lawrence, American naval officer ( b. 1930 )

* 1882 – William Jeremiah Tuttle, American freestyle swimmer and water polo player ( d. 1930 )

Hawks was the oldest of five children and his birth was followed by Kenneth Neil Hawks ( August 12, 1899-January 2, 1930 ), William Bellinger Hawks ( January 29, 1901-January 10, 1969 ), Grace Louise Hawks ( October 17, 1903-December 23, 1927 ) and Helen Bernice Hawks ( 1906-May 4, 1911 ).

* 1930 – William Bernard Ziff, Jr., American publisher ( d. 2006 )

* 1844 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar ( d. 1930 )

* 1857 – William A. MacCorkle, American politician ( d. 1930 )

* 1894 – William George Barker, Canadian First World War fighter ace ( d. 1930 )

William Lyon Mackenzie King, the 10th Prime Minister of Canada ( 1921 – 1926 ; 1926 – 1930 ; 1935 – 1948 )

By defeating William Lyon Mackenzie King in the 1930 federal election, he had the misfortune of taking office during the Great Depression.

The Founder's Memorial Statue, a bronze statue of a seated William Marsh Rice, holding the original plans for the campus, was dedicated in 1930, and installed in the central academic quad, facing Lovett Hall.

* William Simon ( 1930 – 2000 )

* 1857 – William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of the United States ( d. 1930 )

It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner ( 1844 – 1930 ), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency.

Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 at 1 Aspinall Street, in Mytholmroyd, West Riding of Yorkshire to William Henry and Edith ( née Farrar ) Hughes and raised among the local farms of the Calder valley and on the Pennine moorland.

That application was first documented by Dr. William Bleckwenn in 1930, and it still has selected uses today.

William Howard Taft ( September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930 ) was the 27th President of the United States ( 1909 – 1913 ) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States ( 1921 – 1930 ).

In 1930 John Angel ( sculptor ) completed the Founder's Memorial at Rice University depicting a seated William Marsh Rice in line with specifications by architect Ralph Adams Cram.

Grace was married on 9 October 1873 to Agnes Nicholls Day ( 1853 – 1930 ), who was the daughter of his first cousin William Day.

* May 7 – William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia ( d. 1930 )

* September 15 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States ( d. 1930 )

* July 22 – William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest ( d. 1930 )

In the field of American fiction, William Faulkner's 1930 novel As I Lay Dying can be read as an interaction with the cubist mode.