"Joop" (Joost) Hartog (born in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands, on June 29th, 1946) is a Dutch economist and an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam.
He ranks among the most important Dutch labour economists and was elected to be a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
The Joop Hartog Dissertation Prize, a bi-annual prize for the best Ph.D.
thesis defended at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Economics and Business, is named after Hartog.