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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1001

Tarun Khanna

#6703

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Tarun Khanna is an Indian-born American academic, author, and an economic strategist. He is currently the Jorge Paulo Lemann professor at Harvard Business School; where he is a member of the strategy group, and the director of Harvard University’s South Asia initiative since 2010.

#1002

Lucrezia Reichlin

Lucrezia Reichlin

#26061

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Lucrezia Reichlin is an Italian economist who has been a professor at London Business School since 2008. Reichlin's research focuses on forecasting, business cycle analysis and monetary policy. She pioneered now-casting in economics by developing econometrics methods capable of reading the real time data flow through the lenses of a formal econometric model. These methods are now widely used by central banks and private investors around the world.

#1003

Warren Samuels

#35191

Overall Influence

1933 - 2011 (78 years)

Warren Joseph Samuels was an American economist and historian of economic thought. He received a BBA from University of Miami, Miami, FL and obtained his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin–Madison. After holding academic posts in the University of Missouri, Georgia State University, Atlanta, and University of Miami, he was appointed Professor of Economics in Michigan State University in 1968, where he stayed until his retirement in 1998.

#1004

Manuel Trajtenberg

#12348

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg is an Israeli economist who was the chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel. He was appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in August 2011 to lead a committee for negotiations with the Israeli protesters and for recommending economic measures to overcome the crisis. He is currently the Executive Director of the Institute for National Security Studies .

#1005

Alpha Chiang

#38244

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (97 years)

Alpha Chung-i Chiang is an American mathematical economist, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Connecticut, and author of perhaps the most well known mathematical economics textbook; Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics.

#1006

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

#11269

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker is a German scientist and politician . He was a member of the German Bundestag and served as co-president of the Club of Rome jointly with Anders Wijkman 2011 – 2019.

#1007

Andrew Abel

#38006

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Andrew Bruce Abel is an American economist, a professor in the Department of Finance in The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Biography Abel was born on December 3, 1952. He has been named the Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor since July 1, 2003 and the Professor of the Department of Finance in The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and BA, at Princeton University in 1974.

#1008

Antony Davies

#25862

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Antony Davies is an American economist, speaker, and author. He is an associate professor of economics at Duquesne University and the Milton Friedman Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education.

#1009

Yuji Ijiri

#8962

Overall Influence

1935 - 2017 (82 years)

Yuji Ijiri was a Japanese economist, accounting researcher and educator. He was the Robert M. Trueblood University Professor of Accounting and Economics at Carnegie Mellon University until his retirement on June 30, 2011. He is noted in economics and finance for his contributions to research on firm growth and the general field of mathematical economics, and in particular power laws in economics. In accounting, he is known for his proposal of triple-entry accounting.

#1010

Adam Posen

#26853

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Adam Simon Posen CBE is an American economist and President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He became President of the Peterson Institute on January 1, 2013, having first joined PIIE in July 1997.

#1011

David VanHoose

#54197

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

David Vanhoose , is an economics professor at the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. He currently holds the Herman W. Lay Professor of Private Enterprise title. He has written numerous text books and papers which are widely used in the field of economics. His areas of focus are international economics, monetary economics, macroeconomics, and banking. He did his graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a dissertation in Bank Market Structure and Monetary Policy.

#1012

Geoffrey M. Heal

#26272

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Geoffrey M. Heal is a British-American economist known for his work on environmental and resource economics. He is the Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. Biography Heal was born in 1944 in Bangor, Wales. He received his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate, all from Churchill College, Cambridge. He taught at Christ's College, Cambridge from 1968 to 1973, before joining the faculty of the University of Sussex from 1973 to 1980 and the University of Essex from 1980 to 1983. He joined the faculty of Columbia Business School in 1983 as a professor econom...

#1013

Nicolas Véron

#28516

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Nicolas Véron is a French economist. He is a senior fellow at Bruegel in Brussels, which he co-founded in 2002–05, and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC, which he joined in 2009. In 2012, he was included in the global 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets Magazine.

#1014

Robert H. Strotz

#31082

Overall Influence

1922 - 1994 (72 years)

Robert Henry Strotz was an American economist who served as the 13th President of Northwestern University from 1970 to 1984. During his tenure, Northwestern grew in terms of faculty and student, "made capital improvements of more than $142 million", and doubled the value of the school's endowment.

#1015

Bernard Salanié

#27879

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Bernard Salanié is a French economist. He is professor of economics at Columbia University. He was formerly the director of ENSAE ParisTech and the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics. Biography Salanié graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1984 and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique in 1986. He received a PhD from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 1992. His doctoral advisor was François Bourguignon, who was the former Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2003 to 2007.

#1016

J. M. Tinbergen

#56042

Overall Influence

#1017

Luis Ernesto Derbez

#8795

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista is a Mexican politician and rector of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla . He served as Mexico's Secretary of Economy from 2000 to 2002 and Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2006.

#1018

Eli Berman

#11394

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Eli Berman is the Research Director for International Security Studies at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and since 2010 a Professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is known for his work applying rational choice analysis to the behavior of radical religious groups.

#1019

Mårten Palme

#44636

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Mårten Olof Palme is a Swedish economist focusing on labor economics. He is a professor of economics at Stockholm University. Education and career After earning a degree from Stockholm University in 1988, Palme completed a PhD at the Stockholm School of Economics in 1993. He worked at the Stockholm School of Economics before joining the Stockholm University faculty, and is a fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

#1020

Federico Sturzenegger

#16006

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Federico Sturzenegger is an Argentine economist who was President of the Central Bank between 2015 and 2018. Sturzenegger has a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a professor of economics at University of California, Los Angeles, Torcuato di Tella University , and Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. Currently he teaches at University of San Andres and is Honoris Causa Professor at HEC Paris.

#1021

Janet Currie

#24083

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Janet Currie is a Canadian-American economist and the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, where she is Co-Director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing. She served as the Chair of the Department of Economics at Princeton from 2014–2018. She also served as the first female Chair of the Department of Economics at Columbia University from 2006–2009. Before Columbia, she taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was named one of the top 10 women in economics by the World Economic Forum in July 2015.

#1022

Ryuzo Sato

#27510

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

is a Japanese economist and has been the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics at New York University since 1985. He made notable contributions to the fields of mathematical economics and economic growth.

#1023

Bert F. Hoselitz

#30376

Overall Influence

1913 - 1995 (82 years)

Berthold Frank Hoselitz taught Economics and Social Science at the University of Chicago between 1945 and 1978. His analysis of the role of cultural and sociological factors in economic development was influential and contrasted to Chicago School models of self-interested maximizing behavior. Hoselitz was the founding editor of Economic Development and Cultural Change, a prominent journal in the new research field of economic development. At the Carnegie Institute of Technology Hoselitz taught a course in international economics in 1947–48 that was the only economics course that future Nobel ...

#1024

Arnold Heertje

#29367

Overall Influence

1934 - 2020 (86 years)

Arnold Heertje was a Dutch economist and professor at the University of Amsterdam, writer and columnist. He became more generally known for his opposition to the Betuweroute. Life and career Heertje was born on 19 February 1934 in Breda, the son of Maurits Heertje and Estella Philips. Heertje grew up primarily in Arnhem. Due to their Jewish background, during the Second World War the whole family had to go in hiding after 12 November 1942. The eight-year-old Arnold ended up with a Reformed family in the Haarlemmermeer. Impressed by their faith, he planned to become a minister. Together with his parents he survived the war.

#1025

Mahdi Elmandjra

Mahdi Elmandjra

#11626

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Mahdi Elmandjra was a Moroccan futurologist, economist and sociologist. He is one of the founders of the International Federation for Future Studies . He predicted a number of events, the most important of which was the clash of civilisations in his book "The first civilisation war" in 1992, that is, before Samuel Huntington, who used the same concept in his book "The clash of civilisations" issued in 1996. Mahdi Elmandjra also predicted the occurrence of the "Arab Spring", which he referred to in his writings under the name of "Intifada".

#1026

Vijay Kelkar

#10177

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Vijay L. Kelkar is an Indian economist and academic, who is currently the Chairman of the Forum of Federations, Ottawa & India Development Foundation, New Delhi and Chairman of Janwani – a social initiative of the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture in Pune. He has been appointed as a trustee of Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust on 4 January 2014. He was also the Chairman of the Finance Commission until January 2010. He was earlier Advisor to the Minister of Finance , and is known for his role in economic reforms in India. Prior to this, he remained Finance Secretary, Gover...

#1027

Siddhartha Chib

#29601

Overall Influence

Siddhartha Chib is an econometrician and statistician, the Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at Washington University in St. Louis. His work is primarily in Bayesian statistics, econometrics, and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.

#1028

Franz Josef Radermacher

Franz Josef Radermacher

#7653

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Franz Josef Radermacher is a German mathematician and economist. He is Professor of Informatics at Ulm University. He is one of the co-founders of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative that suggests a socio-ecological plan to eradicate poverty, increasing global wealth while protecting natural resources.

#1029

Kenneth Judd

#26441

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Kenneth Lewis Judd is a computational economist at Stanford University, where he is the Paul H. Bauer Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1980. He is perhaps best known as the author of Numerical Methods in Economics, and he is also among the editors of the Handbook of Computational Economics and of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

#1030

Gordon Hanson

#16960

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Gordon Howard Hanson is the Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Education Hanson received his A.B. from Occidental College in 1986 and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, both in economics. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Industry agglomeration and trade in Mexico, and his doctoral advisor was Michael J. Piore and was co-advised by Paul Krugman.

#1031

Robert Litzenberger

#30318

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Robert Litzenberger is Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for establishing the use of state prices in financial economics. Biography Litzenberger studied at Wagner College before going on to earn an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and receiving his PhD from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill three years later in 1969.

#1032

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

#24920

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya is a Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and EHESS and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in the Public Policy and Development Economics programs. She was formerly the academic director of the Center for Economic and Financial Research at the New Economic School in Moscow. She was the 2018 recipient of the Birgit Grodal At New Economic School she held various professorships. She was given a biennial award as a "a European-based female economist who has made a significant contribution to the Economics profession." In 2021 she ...

#1033

Kiminori Matsuyama

#42187

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Kiminori Matsuyama is a Japanese economist. He is a professor of economics at Northwestern University and, since December 2018, the chief scientific adviser of the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research. He is also international senior fellow at the Canon Institute of Global Studies. He was awarded the Nakahara Prize from the Japanese Economic Association in 1996 and was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1999, and a fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2011.

#1034

Carl Benedikt Frey

Carl Benedikt Frey

#3119

Overall Influence

Carl Benedikt Frey is a Swedish-German economist and economic historian. He is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He is also Director of the Future of Work Programme and Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at the Oxford Martin School.

#1035

Gunnar Myrdal

#56679

Overall Influence

#1036

Mark Bils

#32860

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Mark Bils is a macroeconomist at the University of Rochester. Bils obtained his PhD in economics from MIT in 1985 and BA in economics from Ohio State University in 1979. He has taught at the University of Chicago GSB and is currently professor and chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Rochester.

#1037

Richard H. Tilly

#23319

Overall Influence

1932 - 2023 (91 years)

Richard Hugh Tilly was an American economic historian. Born to a family of German descent in Chicago, Richard Tilly studied history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From 1955 to 1957, he completed his military service largely in Germany, where he learned the language of his grandfather and, in 1960, married his wife Elisabeth, of Würzburg. After working for an insurance company, Tilly continued his studies, earning his Ph.D. in economics in 1964 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, after two years of intensive research in Germany. After holding positions in Ann Arbor and Yale, h...

#1038

David Schmeidler

#28829

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

David Schmeidler was an Israeli mathematician and economic theorist. He was a Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the Ohio State University. Biography David Schmeidler was born in 1939 in Kraków, Poland. He spent the war years in Russia and moved back to Poland at the end of the war and to Israel in 1949. From 1960 to 1969 he studied mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , the advanced degrees under the supervision of Robert Aumann. He visited the Catholic University of Louvain and University of California at Berkeley before joining Tel-Aviv University in 1971, holding p...

#1039

Esther Dweck

#41347

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Esther Dweck is a Brazilian economist, professor and writer. She is currently a professor at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In December 2022, she was nominated the Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services by the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

#1040

John Carrington Cox

#7121

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

John Carrington Cox is the Nomura Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is one of the world's leading experts on options theory and one of the inventors of the Cox–Ross–Rubinstein model for option pricing, as well as of the Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model for interest rate dynamics. He was named Financial Engineer of the Year by the International Association of Financial Engineers in 1998.

#1041

Robert J. Hodrick

#32467

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Robert James Hodrick , is a U.S. economist specialized in International Finance. AB, Princeton, 1972; PhD, University of Chicago, 1976. Until 1983, he served as a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he worked jointly with Edward C. Prescott on business cycle, and developed the Hodrick–Prescott filter to distinguish trends from cyclical fluctuations. He taught at Northwestern University and joined Columbia University in 1996.

#1042

Steven Plaut

#16964

Overall Influence

1951 - 2017 (66 years)

Steven Plaut was an Israeli economist, academic and writer. He was an associate professor of Business Administration at the University of Haifa as well as a member of the editorial board of the Middle East Quarterly, a publication of the Middle East Forum think tank.

#1043

Edward E. Leamer

#32961

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Edward Emory Leamer is a professor of economics and statistics at UCLA. He is Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast. He attended Princeton and the University of Michigan .

#1044

Takuma Yasui

#57065

Overall Influence

1909 - 1995 (86 years)

was a Japanese economist known for his contributions to mathematical economics. In particular, he is recognized as one of the first economists to utilize Lyapunov stability theory for analyzing the stability of economic equilibria.

#1045

Eric Ghysels

#27147

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Eric Ghysels is a Belgian economist with interest in finance and time series econometrics, and in particular the fields of financial econometrics and financial technology. He is the Edward M. Bernstein Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina and a Professor of Finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business School. He is also the Faculty Research Director of the Rethinc.Labs at the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.

#1046

Masoud Nili

#26883

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Masoud Nili is an Iranian academic and economist. He was an economic advisor to President Hassan Rouhani since 2013 and was appointed as his aide in 2017. Early life and education He was born on 14 February 1955 in Hamedan, Iran. He is graduated from Sharif University of Technology with a degree in structural engineering. He is also a graduate of Isfahan University of Technology in economic systems design and of Manchester University in economics.

#1047

Stijn Claessens

Stijn Claessens

#22325

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Stijn Claessens is a Dutch economist who currently serves as the Head of Financial Stability Policy department of the Bank for International Settlements. He worked for fourteen years at World Bank beginning in 1987 until 2001 where he assumed various positions including that of Lead Economist. Following his tenure at the World Bank he became Professor of International Finance Policy at the University of Amsterdam where he remained for three years and still is on the faculty. Stijn has many distinguished academic publications and his work has been cited in many outlets including The Wall Str...

#1048

Margaret Slade

#29742

Overall Influence

Margaret E. Slade is Professor Emeritus at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia and was a council member of the Royal Economic Society from 2004 to 2008. Slade is best known for her work on Industrial Economics, serving as the President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics from 2001 to 2003.

#1049

James G. MacKinnon

#46798

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

James Gordon MacKinnon is currently the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Econometrics in the Department of Economics at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where he has spent his entire academic career and previously served as Head of the department.

#1050

Karl-Göran Mäler

#34530

Overall Influence

1939 - 2020 (81 years)

Karl-Göran Mäler was a Swedish economist. Mäler was born in 1939 in Sollefteå. He pursued undergraduate study in mathematics, statistics and economics at Stockholm University. Mäler specialized in economics at the graduate level, attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University in the United States before earning a doctorate from Stockholm University in 1972. He was a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics between 1975 and 2002. Mäler was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1981, and served on its Committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel until 1994.

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