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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#951

Katarina Juselius

#35207

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Katarina Juselius is professor Emeritus of econometrics and empirical economics at the University of Copenhagen. Her work has been on empirical macro models and associated issues. She obtained her Lic.Econ.Sc. and PhD from the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki.

#952

Alev Alatlı

#11684

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Alev Alatlı is a Turkish columnist and bestselling novelist. Early years She was born 1944 in the town of Menemen in western Turkey to an officer's family. She spent her childhood in Japan, where her father was appointed as the Military attaché in the Embassy of Turkey and also as the Liaison officer of the Turkish Brigade in Korea to the United Nations.

#953

Luc Soete

#17366

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Luc Soete is a Belgian economist. He is a Professor and the Dean of the Brussels School of Governance. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Sussex Business School and of the Advisory Board of the UNU Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges, Belgium. He is a former Rector Magnificus and professor of International Economic Relations at the School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, and former director of UNU-MERIT, a joint research institute of the United Nations University and Maastricht University. Luc Soete is a member of the Dutch scientific advisory body and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2010.

#954

Michael D. Bordo

#16847

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Michael David Bordo is a Canadian and American economist, currently Board of Governors Professor of Economics and Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the third most influential economic historian worldwide according to the RePEc/IDEAS rankings. He was a student of Milton Friedman and has co-authored numerous books and articles with Anna Schwartz.

#955

Kenneth Singleton

#28864

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Kenneth Jan Singleton is an American economist. He is a leading figure in empirical financial economics, and a faculty member at Stanford University. As the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Singleton teaches a variety of degree courses in finance.

#956

Paolo Savona

#4856

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Paolo Savona is an Italian economist, professor, and politician. He was the Italian Minister of European Affairs from 1 June 2018 until 8 March 2019, his second stint in government after 1993–1994. During the 2010s, Savona became one of the most fervent Eurosceptic economists in Italy.

#957

Joan Muysken

#31008

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Joan Muysken is a Dutch professor emeritus of Economics at the Maastricht University. Higher education Muysken received his PhD in Economics from the University of Groningen on the aggregation of production functions.

#958

William Alonso

#17596

Overall Influence

1933 - 1999 (66 years)

William Alonso was an Argentinian-born American planner and economist. He was born in Buenos Aires but moved to the United States in 1946 during the Perón regime with his father Amado Alonso, a leading Spanish philologist, who was then appointed at Harvard. He earned a bachelor's degree in architectural science from Harvard in 1954 and a master's degree in city planning from Harvard University's Graduate School of Public Administration in 1956. In 1960 he received a doctorate in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania.

#959

Klaus Zimmermann

#37357

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Klaus Felix Zimmermann is a German economist and emeritus professor of economics at Bonn University. Additionally, he is an honorary professor at Maastricht University, the Free University of Berlin and the Renmin University of China as well as president of the Global Labor Organization. His research interests include population, labour, development and migration, with Zimmermann being among the leading economists on the topic of migration.

#960

Robert Hessen

#10387

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Robert Hessen is an American economic and business historian. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He is an Objectivist and has authored several books, analyzing business and economic issues from an Objectivist perspective.

#961

Ian Ayres

#10769

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Ian Ayres is an American lawyer and economist. Ayres is a professor at the Yale Law School and at the Yale School of Management. Early life and education Ayres grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where they graduated from Pembroke Country Day School in 1977. They played varsity basketball, ran cross country, and served as executive editor of their high school newspaper. Ayres wrote an op-ed piece their senior year called "Black Like Me" , a controversial piece detailing the consequences of their checking the "African- American" box for race on his PSAT, which led to consideration for academic awards.

#962

Julian Simon

#8248

Overall Influence

1932 - 1998 (66 years)

Julian Lincoln Simon was an American professor of business administration at the University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute at the time of his death, after previously serving as a longtime economics and business professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

#963

Axel Ockenfels

#8299

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Axel Ockenfels is a German economist. He is professor of economics at the University of Cologne. He also is Director of the Cologne Laboratory of Economic Research, Speaker of the "University of Cologne Excellence Center for Social and Economic Behavior " , and Coordinator of the DFG research unit "Design & Behavior".

#964

Maitreesh Ghatak

#22292

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Maitreesh Ghatak is an Indian economist who is the professor of economics at the London School of Economics. He is an applied microeconomic theorist with research interests in economic development, public economics, and the economics of organisations.

#965

Akira Hayami

#13321

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

Akira Hayami was an emeritus professor of Keio University and the first to introduce historical demography in Japan. Professor Hayami is also famous for coining the concept called "Industrious Revolution",which points out the socio-economic change from capital-intensive to labor-intensive one.

#966

Randall G. Holcombe

#14627

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Randall Gregory Holcombe is an American economist, and the DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University. He is a Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, a Senior Fellow and member of the Research Advisory Council at The James Madison Institute, and past president of the Public Choice Society. From 2000 to 2006 he served on Governor Jeb Bush's Council of Economic Advisors.

#967

Roger Farmer

#31423

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Roger Edward Alfred Farmer is a British/American economist. He is currently a professor at the University of Warwick and is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor and former Chair of the Economics department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also held positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the European University Institute and the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and the former Research Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research .

#968

Eduardo Schwartz

#17461

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Eduardo Saul Schwartz is a professor of finance at SFU's Beedie School of Business, where he holds the Ryan Beedie Chair in Finance. He is also a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known for pioneering research in several areas of finance, particularly derivatives. His major contributions include: the real options method of pricing investments under uncertainty; the Longstaff–Schwartz model - a multi-factor short-rate model; the Longstaff-Schwartz method for valuing American options by Monte Carlo Simulation; the use of Finite difference met...

#969

Michael Dean Woodford

#39117

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Michael Dean Woodford is an American macroeconomist and monetary theorist who currently teaches at Columbia University. Academic career Woodford holds B.A. from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Yale Law School . He completed his Ph.D. in economics at MIT in 1983.

#970

Charalambos D. Aliprantis

Charalambos D. Aliprantis

#24886

Overall Influence

1946 - 2009 (63 years)

Charalambos Dionisios Aliprantis was a Greek-American economist and mathematician who introduced Banach space and Riesz space methods in economic theory. He was born in Cefalonia, Greece in 1946 and immigrated to the US in 1969, where he obtained his PhD in Mathematics from Caltech in June 1973.

#971

Paul Bernd Spahn

#25938

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Paul Bernd Spahn is emeritus professor of public finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Born in Darmstadt, Spahn studied economics at the universities of Frankfurt, Paris and Rio de Janeiro and obtained his doctoral degree from the Free University of Berlin. Having spent more than five years at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin he worked at various institutions such as Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Australian National University in Canberra, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. In 1979 he was appointed to the...

#972

David D. Friedman

David D. Friedman

#12686

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

David Director Friedman is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, author, and anarcho-capitalist theorist. Although he studied chemistry and physics and not law or economics, he is known for his textbook writings on microeconomics and the libertarian theory of anarcho-capitalism, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom. Described by Walter Block as a "free-market anarchist" theorist, Friedman has also authored several other books and articles, including Price Theory: An Intermediate Text , Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matt...

#973

John F. Helliwell

John F. Helliwell

#5332

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

John F. Helliwell is a Canadian economist and editor of the World Happiness Report. He is a senior fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and co-director of the CIFAR Programme on Social Interactions, Identity, and Well-Being; Board Director of the International Positive Psychology Association, and professor emeritus of Economics at the University of British Columbia.

#974

Dilip Abreu

#27865

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Dilip Abreu is an Indian-American economist who is currently Professor of Economics at New York University. Abreu is an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society.

#975

Andrew Oswald

#19825

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Andrew Oswald is a Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Warwick, England. He is an ISI highly cited researcher and has been a professorial fellow of the ESRC. He is currently a member of the board of reviewing editors of Science. He held previous posts at Oxford, the London School of Economics, Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard.

#976

Martin J. Beckmann

#31214

Overall Influence

1924 - 2017 (93 years)

Martin Joseph Beckmann was a professor for Economics and Applied Mathematics. He was professor at the University of Chicago, Yale University and Brown University, as well as the University of Bonn and Technische Universität München. He received honorary degrees from the University of Karlsruhe, the Umeå University and the University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg. He was president of the European Regional Science Association and received the Regional Science Founders Medal in 1983. His research spans a wide field in spatial analysis and regional economics, with a special focus on transport economi...

#977

Shlomo Weber

#24353

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Shlomo Weber is an economics professor and president, New Economic School in Moscow, Russia; Academic Director of the Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions at NES; Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University.

#978

Robert Ayres

#22618

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Robert Underwood Ayres was an American-born physicist and economist. His career focused on the application of physical ideas, especially the laws of thermodynamics, to economics; a long-standing pioneering interest in material flows and transformations —a concept which he originated. His most recent work challenged the widely held economic theory of growth.

#979

Nicholas Bloom

#23458

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Nicholas Bloom is the William Eberle Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University, a Courtesy Professor at Stanford Business School and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a co-director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

#980

Mao Yushi

#9766

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Mao Yushi is a Chinese economist. Mao graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1950 and was labeled a 'rightist' in 1958. In 1986, Mao was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and in 1990, Mao was a senior lecturer at Queensland University.

#981

Jacques Attali

#3624

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Jacques José Mardoché Attali is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant. A very prolific writer, Attali published 86 books in 54 years, between 1969 and 2023.

#982

Jean-Pierre Danthine

#27871

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jean-Pierre Danthine is a Swiss-Belgian economist and deputy chairman of the Swiss National Bank from 2012 to 2015. He has published numerous articles and books. Biography Danthine studied economics at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and earned his PhD in 1976 at Carnegie Mellon University. He then researched and lectured at various universities, including Columbia University, University of Southern California, the University of Laval in Québec and the Aix-Marseille University in France. From 1980 to 2009, Danthine was professor of macroeconomics and financial economics at HEC...

#983

Richard Portes

#12633

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Richard David Portes CBE is a professor of Economics and an Academic Directior of the AQR Asset Management Institute at London Business School. He was President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, which he founded. He also serves as Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

#984

Basil Yamey

#23979

Overall Influence

1919 - 2020 (101 years)

Basil Selig Yamey CBE was a South African economist and expert in the history of accounting. Career He was born in Cape Town in South Africa in May 1919, and educated at the University of Cape Town. For many years he was a professor at the London School of Economics. He was a part-time member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission from 1966 to 1978, and author of many books and articles, including one on the economics of underdeveloped countries co-authored with Peter Thomas Bauer.

#985

John F. O. Bilson

#18512

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

John F.O. Bilson is a Professor of Finance and Director of the MS and Ph.D. Programs of Finance at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago. Bilson grew up in Melbourne, Australia where he attended Melbourne Grammar School. He went on to receive a Master of Economics and a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Bilson received his Ph.D. in International Economics from the University of Chicago in 1973.

#986

Jean Paelinck

#36677

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Jean Henri Paul Paelinck is a Belgian economist and Distinguished Service Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is known for his work in econometrics, and he coined the term "spatial econometrics" in his address to the Dutch Statistical Association on 2 May 1974.

#987

Hendrik S. Houthakker

Hendrik S. Houthakker

#12981

Overall Influence

1924 - 2008 (84 years)

Hendrik Samuel Houthakker was a prominent American economist. Life and career Houthakker was born in Amsterdam to a Dutch-Jewish family. His father was a prominent art dealer. As a teenager he lived through the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and, according to an interview he gave to the Valley News, was once arrested by the Gestapo but escaped and was sheltered for some months by a Roman Catholic family. He completed his graduate work at the University of Amsterdam in 1949. He taught at Stanford University from 1954 to 1960 and then completed the rest of his career at Harvard University.

#988

Jeremy C. Stein

Jeremy C. Stein

#17144

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Jeremy Chaim Stein is an American economist and the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics at Harvard University; he also chaired Harvard's economics department. He served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2012 to 2014. Stein served as president of the American Finance Association in 2008.

#989

Richard L. Schmalensee

#24845

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Richard Lee "Dick" Schmalensee is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the Department of Economics at MIT. He served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. He was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 through 1991 and served 12 years as Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

#990

Dirk Bezemer

#18203

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Dirk Bezemer is a Dutch economist who is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He studied at Wageningen University and University of Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute . His topics of expertise include the financial sector, credit creation, credit cycles, monetary policy, and the cause of economic crises. Bezemer provides commentary at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and De Groene Amsterdammer. In a September 2009 opinion piece in the Financial Times he wrote that a dozen economists whom he listed had seen the 2007-08 financial crisis ...

#991

Andrew Sentance

Andrew Sentance

#18067

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Andrew Sentance CBE is a British business economist. He is currently Senior Adviser to Cambridge Econometrics. From November 2011 until October 2018, he was Senior Economic Adviser to PwC. He was an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England from October 2006 to May 2011.

#992

Rüdiger Frank

#24085

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Rüdiger Frank is a German economist and expert on North Korea and East Asia. He currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria, as a tenured full professor of East Asian economy and society at the University of Vienna. Frank also serves as the head of the Department of East Asian Studies in Vienna and is an adjunct professor at Korea University and at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.

#993

Harry Cleaver

#7071

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Harry Cleaver Jr. is an American scholar, Marxist theoretician, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known as the author of Reading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx's Capital. Cleaver is currently active in the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico.

#994

Daniel Trefler

#17902

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Daniel Trefler is a Canadian economist who is currently the J. Douglas and Ruth Grant Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is among the most influential and frequently cited economists worldwide.

#995

Peter Kenen

#26107

Overall Influence

1932 - 2012 (80 years)

Peter Bain Kenen was an American economist, who was the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University, and senior fellow in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

#996

Charles Wheelan

Charles Wheelan

#21633

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Charles J. Wheelan is an American professor, journalist, speaker, and is the founder and co-chairman of Unite America. Wheelan is the author of Naked Statistics, Naked Economics, and Naked Money. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate in the special election for Illinois's 5th congressional district, the seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel.

#997

Rick Kuhn

#14789

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Rick Kuhn is an Australian Marxian economist, political analyst and reader at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is best known for his biographical study on Henryk Grossman, for which he won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2007. Chris Harman of the British Socialist Workers Party and editor of International Socialism described the biography as "a valuable addition to our theoretical armour." Kuhn is of Jewish origin and is a member of Jews Against Oppression and Occupation. He was the convenor of ACTNOW, the umbrella anti-war organisation in Canberra, formed in response to the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq.

#998

Stephan Dabbert

#27391

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Stephan Dabbert is an agricultural economist and Rector of the University of Hohenheim. Biography The agricultural economist Stephan Dabbert studied agriculture at Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel, followed by a Master of Science degree in agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State University.

#999

Barbara Bergmann

#31510

Overall Influence

1927 - 2015 (88 years)

Barbara Rose Bergmann was a feminist economist. Her work covers many topics from childcare and gender issues to poverty and Social Security. Bergmann was a co-founder and president of the International Association for Feminist Economics, a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security, and Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Maryland and American University.

#1000

Naila Kabeer

#11336

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Naila Kabeer is an Indian-born British Bangladeshi social economist, research fellow , writer and Professor at the London School of Economics. She was also president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 2018 to 2019. She is on the editorial committee of journals such as Feminist Economist, Development and Change, Gender and Development, Third World Quarterly and the Canadian Journal of Development Studies. She works primarily on poverty, gender and social policy issues. Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, s...

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