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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#751

Mikhail Eskindarov

#11589

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Mikhail Abdurakhmanovich Eskindarov is a Russian economist. Early life In 1976, he graduated from the Credit and Economics Faculty of the Moscow Financial Institute. From 1976 to 1981 he attended graduate school at the university.

#752

William R. Cline

#24099

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

William Richard Cline is an American economist and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He graduated from Princeton University in 1963 and received a PhD in 1969 from Yale, and was deputy director of development and trade research at the office of the assistant secretary for international affairs at the United States Department of the Treasury from 1971 to 1973. He worked at the Brookings Institution from 1973 to 1981. He has been a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 1981, with a joint appointment at the Center for Global Development.

#753

Margunn Bjørnholt

Margunn Bjørnholt

#11658

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Margunn Bjørnholt is a Norwegian sociologist and economist. She is a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies and a professor of sociology at the University of Bergen. Her research has focused on financial institutions, management and working life and later on gender equality, migration and violence. She has also worked as a consultant, a civil servant, served as an expert to the European Commission and been president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.

#754

Andrew B. Whinston

#10994

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Andrew B. Whinston is an American economist and computer scientist. He is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

#755

Stefano Zamagni

Stefano Zamagni

#15770

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Stefano Zamagni is an Italian economist. Born in Rimini, Zamagni is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. Zamagni is also a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association and President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

#756

Diane Coyle

#10470

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Dame Diane Coyle is a British economist, academic and writer. Since March 2018, she has been the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, co-directing the Bennett Institute.

#757

John Kay

#8759

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Sir John Anderson Kay, is a British economist. He was the first dean of Oxford’s Said Business School and has held chairs at the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford, and London Business School. He has been a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, since 1970.

#758

Bronwyn Hall

#22129

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Bronwyn Hughes Hall is the Emerita Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Education Hall received a B.A. in Physics from Wellesley College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1988.

#759

Jerry Green

#21537

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Jerry Richard Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. He is known for his research in economic theory, as well as writing the most commonly used microeconomic theory textbook for graduate school with Andreu Mas-Colell and Michael Whinston, Microeconomic Theory.

#760

Arthur Goldberger

Arthur Goldberger

#29965

Overall Influence

1930 - 2009 (79 years)

Arthur Stanley Goldberger was an econometrician and an economist. He worked with Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Klein on the development of the Klein–Goldberger macroeconomic model at the University of Michigan.

#761

Li Yining

#6909

Overall Influence

1930 - 2023 (93 years)

Li Yining was a Chinese economist. He was a leading voice for the privatization of state-owned companies, and his advocacy led to the reestablishment of China's stock exchanges in 1990. For this reason, he was nicknamed "" , while Wu Jinglian is known as . Along with Yu Guangyuan and Wu Jinglian, Li was credited with providing the theoretical basis for the market-oriented reform that has propelled China's economic growth.

#762

Martin Ravallion

Martin Ravallion

#17435

Overall Influence

1952 - 2022 (70 years)

Martin Ravallion was an Australian economist. He was the inaugural Edmond D. Villani Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, and had previously been director of the research department at the World Bank. He held a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.

#763

Alexander Auzan

#24336

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Aleksandr Auzan is a Russian Economist, dean of the MSU Faculty of Economics, doctor of science, author of more than 130 scientific publications, member of numerous state councils and committees on strategic development of the Russian economics.

#764

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#4391

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle professor of business at Harvard Business School. She co-founded the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and served as Director and Founding Chair from 2008-2018. She was the top-ranking woman—No. 11 overall—in a 2002 study of Top Business Intellectuals by citation in several sources. She was named one of the "50 most powerful women in Boston" by Boston Magazine and one of the "125 women who changed our world" over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping magazine in May 2010.

#765

Takis Fotopoulos

Takis Fotopoulos

#3961

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Takis Fotopoulos is a Greek political philosopher, economist and writer who founded the Inclusive Democracy movement, aiming at a synthesis of classical democracy with libertarian socialism and the radical currents in the new social movements. He is an academic, and has written many books and over 900 articles,. He is the editor of The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy and is the author of Towards An Inclusive Democracy in which the foundations of the Inclusive Democracy project were set. His latest book is The New World Order in Action: Volume 1: Globalization, the Brexit Revolution and the "Left"- Towards a Democratic Community of Sovereign Nations .

#766

Alice Rivlin

#5828

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Alice Mitchell Rivlin was an American economist and budget official. She served as the 16th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve, Rivlin was named director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 1996. Prior to that, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Congressional Budget Office and became its founding director from 1975 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party, Rivlin was the first woman to hold either of those posts.

#767

Christian Hellwig

#22242

Overall Influence

Christian Hellwig is a German economic theorist and macroeconomist who did research in the field of global games. He is the editor of the Journal of Economic Theory. Biography Hellwig obtained a B.A. in Economics at the University of Lausanne in 1998, a M.Sc. in Econometrics and mathematical economics by the London School of Economics in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Economics at LSE in 2003 with his thesis entitled "Money, Intermediation and Coordination in Decentralised Markets". He spent the last two years of his doctorate as a visiting scholar at MIT. He became an assistant professor at UCLA in 2002 and became a tenured associate professor in 2007.

#768

Werner De Bondt

#16029

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Werner F.M. De Bondt is one of the founders in the field of behavioral finance. He is also the founding director of Richard H. Driehaus Center for Behavioral Finance at DePaul University in Chicago. Previously, he was the Frank Graner Professor of Investment Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Thomas F. Gleed Chair of Business Administration at Albers School of Business and Economics at the Seattle University.

#769

Linda C. Babcock

#10601

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Linda C. Babcock is an American academic. She is the James M. Walton Professor of Economics and former dean at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College, and is the former head of the Social and Decision Sciences department. She is also the founder and faculty director of the Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society .

#770

Barry Popkin

#33033

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Barry Michael Popkin is an American nutrition and obesity researcher at the Carolina Population Center and the W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, where he is the director of the Global Food Research Program. He developed the concept of "nutrition transition". He is the author of over 650 journal articles and a book, The World is Fat, translated into a dozen languages.

#771

Franklin Serrano

#31703

Overall Influence

Franklin Leon Peres Serrano is a Brazilian economist and professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Biography He is currently an associate professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and an associate editor of the Review of Keynesian Economics magazine .

#772

Gustav Ranis

#21219

Overall Influence

1929 - 2013 (84 years)

Gustav Ranis was a leading development economist and the Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Yale University. Career He was a part of the first ever graduating class at Brandeis University in 1952. He was Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies , a Carnegie Corporation Scholar , Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale , Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy at USAID , and Director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics .

#773

Ehud Kalai

#7583

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Ehud Kalai is a prominent Israeli American game theorist and mathematical economist known for his contributions to the field of game theory and its interface with economics, social choice, computer science and operations research. He was the James J. O’Connor Distinguished Professor of Decision and Game Sciences at Northwestern University, 1975-2017, and currently is a Professor Emeritus of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences.

#774

Herman K. van Dijk

#26064

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Herman Koene van Dijk is a Dutch economist Consultant at the Research Department of Norges Bank and Professor Emeritus at the Econometric Institute of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, known for his contributions in the field of Bayesian analysis.

#775

Adam Budnikowski

#34919

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Adam Budnikowski is a Polish economist. He teaches at the Warsaw School of Economics and served there as a rector from 2005 to 2012. He specialises in international economies, with a focus on globalization, international trade policy and international finance. Further interests include economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe and environmental policy.

#776

John Cunningham Wood

#21066

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

John Cunningham Wood is an Australian economist, author, and the chief executive officer of the University Division at Navitas, known as series editor of the "Critical Assessment of Leading Economists" series of Taylor & Francis.

#777

Thomas Mayer

#25784

Overall Influence

1927 - 2015 (88 years)

Thomas Mayer was an Austrian-born American economist who was professor of economics at the University of California, Davis. He previously taught at West Virginia University, the University of Notre Dame, Michigan State University, and the University of California, Berkeley.

#778

Gianluca Violante

#37814

Overall Influence

Gianluca Violante is a professor of economics at Princeton University whose research interests span macroeconomics, labor economics, and public finance. He received the 2019 Central Banking Prize for Economics in Central Banking for his work on HANK models.

#779

Peter Nijkamp

#34619

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Peter Nijkamp is a Dutch economist, Professor of Regional Economics and Economic Geography at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and President of the Governing Board of the Netherlands Research Council . He is ranked among the top 100 economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc, and is by far the most prolific economist. Towards the end of his career at the VU university Nijkamp faced accusations of self-plagiarism and VU-appointed investigators have criticised referencing methods in some of his work.

#780

Alwyn Young

#24659

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Alwyn Young is a professor of economics and the Leili & Johannes Huth Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science . He held a named chair at the University of Chicago and was on the faculty at Boston University and the MIT Sloan School of Management before joining the LSE faculty. A graduate of Cornell University, he holds an MA in law and diplomacy and a PhD in international relations, both from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a PhD in economics from Columbia University. Young has taught courses in introductory economics at the LSE to first...

#781

Casey B. Mulligan

#25872

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Casey B. Mulligan is an American economist and author. He is a Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. He served as chief economist for the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump Administration from September 6, 2018 to August 2019.

#782

Vittorio Corbo

#33048

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Vittorio Corbo Lioi is a former Governor of the Central Bank of Chile, who held the post since May 2003 until December 2007. Biography Corbo studied economics at the University of Chile in 1967 and has a PhD in economics from MIT which he gained in 1971. He taught at Concordia University in Canada between 1972 and 1979. He was appointed a professor at the Universidad de Chile and at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and , and a Professorial Lecturer at Georgetown University in the United States . Mr. Corbo worked at the World Bank from 1984 to 1991 as Head of the Macroeconomic Development...

#783

Richard Muth

#19917

Overall Influence

1927 - 2018 (91 years)

Richard Ferris Muth was an American economist, who is considered to be one of the founders of urban economics . Muth obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1958, with a thesis on non-farm housing demand.

#784

Hyun-Song Shin

#23814

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Hyun Song Shin is a South Korean economic theorist and financial economist who focuses on global games. He has been the Economic Adviser and Head of Research of the Bank for International Settlements since May 1, 2014.

#785

Hein Schreuder

#4565

Overall Influence

1951 - 2023 (72 years)

Hein Schreuder was a Dutch economist and business executive, executive vice-president corporate strategy & acquisitions at DSM and professor at the University of Maastricht, especially known for his work on "Economic approaches to organizations" with Sytse Douma and for his role in the transformation of DSM.

#786

Boyan Jovanovic

#14383

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Boyan Jovanovic is a professor of economics at New York University and a long-term consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Jovanovic, of Serbian descent, received his Bachelor's and master's degrees from the London School of Economics and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

#787

Stefanie Stantcheva

#25663

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (38 years)

Stéfanie Stantcheva is a Bulgarian-born French economist who is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. She is a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis. Her research focuses on public finance—in particular questions of optimal taxation. In 2018, she was selected by The Economist as one of the 8 best young economists of the decade. In 2020, she was awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. In 2021, she received the Prix Maurice Allais.

#788

Albert Fishlow

#13290

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Albert Fishlow is an economist, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a professor emeritus of international and public affairs at Columbia University. He is the former director of the Columbia Institute of Latin American Studies and Center for the Study of Brazil at Columbia. He was previously the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council of Foreign Relations.

#789

Hans H. Bass

#27340

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Hans Heinrich Bass is a German Economist and Economic Historian and professor at the City University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany. Bass obtained his M. A. in Economics and his PhD in Economics and Social Sciences under the supervision of Richard H. Tilly from the University of Münster, Germany.

#790

Mushtaq Khan

#26987

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Mushtaq Husain Khan is a British-Bangladeshi economist and professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London. His work focuses on the economics of poor countries; it includes notable contributions to the field of institutional economics and South Asian development. Khan also developed the concept of political settlement, which is a political economy framework that highlights how the distribution of organizational and political power among different classes or groups influences policies and institutions in different countries.

#791

Philip J. Reny

#26571

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Philip J. Reny is the Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and in the college at the University of Chicago. Reny is known as an economic theorist and perhaps is best known for the textbook Advanced microeconomic theory written jointly with Geoffrey A. Jehle. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and was the Head Editor of Journal of Political Economy. In 1996, Reny became a fellow of the Econometric Society. He has also been a charter member of the Game Theory Society since 1999, and a fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic ...

#792

Martha Olney

#22610

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Martha Louise Olney is a teaching professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a winner of local and national teaching awards, and has authored several leading undergraduate economics textbooks.

#793

Claudia Kemfert

Claudia Kemfert

#19345

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Claudia Kemfert is a German economics expert in the areas of energy research and environmental protection. She is a Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. She heads the Energy, Transportation, and Environment department at the German Institute for Economic Research .

#794

Carl E. Walsh

#34796

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Carl Eugene Walsh , is an American economist. He has been an economics professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1987, and retired in 2020 as Distinguished Professor of Economics. He twice served as chair of the Economics Department at the university as well as Vice Provost for Silicon Valley Initiatives and Associate Vice Chancellor for Planning and Programs at UCSC. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City , Philadelphia and San Francisco .

#795

Truman Bewley

#20331

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Truman Fassett Bewley is an American economist. He is the Alfred Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University. Originally specializing in mathematical economics and general equilibrium theory, since the late 1990s Bewley has gained renown for his work on sticky wages. In Bewley's 1999 book Why Wages Don't Fall During a Recession, hundreds of interviews with executives, labor leaders, and other professionals establish morale as an important factor in why businesses are reluctant to decrease employee compensation at times of low demand.

#796

Mark Rosenzweig

#21229

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Mark Richard Rosenzweig is an economist and the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics at Yale University, where he also directs the Economic Growth Center. Rosenzweig belongs to the world's most prominent agricultural and development economists, and is one of the leading scholars on the subjects of the economics of insurance and migration.

#797

José Viñals

#23308

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

José Maria Viñals Íñiguez is a Spanish economist and businessman. He serves as Group Chairman of Standard Chartered and Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank, the United Kingdom subsidiary of Standard Chartered.

#798

Robert Ekelund

#16348

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Robert Burton Ekelund Jr. was an American economist. Early life and education Born on Galveston Island, Texas, Ekelund attended St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, earning his BBA in economics in 1962 and his MA in economics and history the next year. He was a member of the Order of the Barons and first worked as an instructor in economics while completing his master's degree.

#799

Bruce Greenwald

#8439

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Bruce Corman Norbert Greenwald , is a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and an advisor at First Eagle Investment Management. He is, among others, the author of the books Value Investing: from Graham to Buffett and Beyond and Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy. He has been referred to by The New York Times as "a guru to Wall Street's gurus" and is a recognized authority on value investing, along with additional expertise in productivity and the economics of information.

#800

Erdem Başçı

#9416

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Erdem Başçı is a Turkish economist and the former Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey in 2010s. Early life He was born in 1966 in Ankara. After finishing the high school at TED Ankara College in 1983, Erdem Başçı was educated in electrical engineering at the Middle East Technical University , and graduated 1987 with a bachelor's degree. He received master's degrees in 1989 in business administration, and in 1990 in economics from Bilkent University, and in 1993 in economics from the Johns Hopkins University. In 1995, Erdem Başçı earned a PhD degree in economics from Bilkent...

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