William Bentley MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian-American economist.
He completed his economics doctorate at the University of British Columbia in 1984.
He has also held one year visiting positions at Center for Operations Research and Econometrics(Belgium), Instituto de Análisis Económico (Barcelona),[4] Princeton University, the Russell Sage Foundation[5] and the Institute for Advanced Study.
[8] He is also the recipient of the 2002 H. Gregg Lewis prize awarded by the Society of Labor Economists for his article "Worker Cooperation and the Ratchet" with H. Lorne Carmichael.
MacLeod is married to Janet Currie, an economist at Princeton University.