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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1051

Richard Zeckhauser

Richard Zeckhauser

#9586

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Richard Jay Zeckhauser is an American economist and the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He holds a BA and a PhD in economics from Harvard University. Early in his career, he was one of the "whiz kids" assembled by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to apply cutting-edge analysis to Cold War military strategy. He is married to Sally H. Zeckhauser.

#1052

Edward Castronova

#11811

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Edward "Ted" Castronova is a professor of media at Indiana University Bloomington. He is known in particular for his work on the economies of synthetic worlds. Biography Castronova obtained a BS in international affairs from Georgetown University in 1985 and a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1991. In between, he spent 18 months studying German postwar reconstruction and social policy at universities and research institutes in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Berlin. From 1991 to 2000, he worked as an assistant and then associate professor of public policy and political sci...

#1053

Stanisław Gomułka

Stanisław Gomułka

#31442

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Stanisław Gomułka is a Polish born economist, from 1970 up to 2005 a reader in Economics at the London School of Economics, a visiting professor or research fellow at several US universities , also at Aarhus university, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and the Central European university, in the years 1989-2002 advisor to the Ministry of Finance and National Bank of Poland, from 2013 a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He received the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2014.

#1054

Edward Gramlich

Edward Gramlich

#22489

Overall Influence

1939 - 2007 (68 years)

Edward M. Gramlich was an American economist who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1997 to 2005. Gramlich was also an acting director of the Congressional Budget Office.

#1055

Martin Bronfenbrenner

#37426

Overall Influence

1914 - 1997 (83 years)

Martin Bronfenbrenner was an American economist who served as William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University. His publications, including more than 250 scholarly papers and five books, cover a host of topics, including aggregate economics, income distribution, international economics, and Japan. His scholarship was recognized on several occasions, including his election as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.

#1056

Reint E. Gropp

#49532

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Reint E. Gropp is a German economist, the president of the Halle Institute for Economic Research as well as professor of economics at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. His fields of research cover financial economics, macroeconomics, corporate finance as well as money and banking.

#1057

Anton Muscatelli

#12295

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Sir Vito Antonio Muscatelli is the Principal of the University of Glasgow and one of the United Kingdom's top economists. Early life Anton Muscatelli was born on 1 January 1962 in Bari, Italy to Ambrogio and Rosellina Muscatelli. He lived in Mola di Bari in his early years. His father, who was head of a shipping company, relocated the family to Glasgow from the Netherlands. Anton was educated at The High School of Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, where he graduated M.A. in Political Economy and took a PhD in Economics . He was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor at the Universi...

#1058

Michael Mussa

#32603

Overall Influence

1944 - 2012 (68 years)

Michael Louis Mussa was an American economist and academic. He was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from 1991 to 2001 and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1986 to 1988. He was also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 2001 until his death in 2012.

#1059

David Cutler

#17223

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

David Matthew Cutler is the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University. He was given a five-year term appointment of Harvard College Professor, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching. He holds a joint appointment in the economics department and at Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard School of Public Health, is a faculty member for the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and serves as commissioner on the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission.

#1060

Manuel H. Johnson

Manuel H. Johnson

#16916

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Manuel Holman "Manley" Johnson Jr. is an American economist who served as the 13th vice chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1986 to 1990. After leaving the Fed, he has been co-chairman and senior partner at Johnson Smick International, Inc., an investments, economic and political consulting firm. He has also authored or co-authored six books.

#1061

Dennis Snower

#34889

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Dennis J. Snower is an American-German economist, specialising in macroeconomic theory and policy, labor economics, digital governance, social economics, and the psychology of economic decisions in "caring economics". He is President of the Global Solutions Initiative in Berlin, Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford University, Fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg, and Non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He is former president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. His prominent labor research explores the ro...

#1062

Omkar Goswami

#15144

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (123 years)

Omkar Goswami is an Indian economist and business journalist for Business India. He is the founder and chairperson of Corporate and Economic Research Group Advisory Private Limited . Early life and education Goswami did his B.A. from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, and Calcutta University. Omkar Goswami holds a Master's in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, in 1978, and in 1982 he received the doctor of philosophy in Economics from Oxford University for the thesis "The jute economy of Bengal, 1900–1947: unequal interaction between the industrial, trading, and agri...

#1063

Huw Pill

#24769

Overall Influence

Huw Pill is a Welsh economist, and the chief economist of the Bank of England since September 2021, succeeding Andy Haldane. Pill studied philosophy, politics and economics at University College, Oxford, and graduated in 1989. He earned a doctorate in economics from Stanford University in 1995.

#1064

Fan Gang

#37957

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Fan Gang is one of China's most prominent economists and one of China's most active reform advocates. He is currently based in Beijing, serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and at the Peking University HSBC Business School, as well as the director of China's National Economic Research Institute . He is also the Secretary-General of the China Reform Foundation.

#1065

Bengt-Åke Lundvall

#14854

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Bengt-Åke Lundvall is an emeritus professor in economics at the Department of Business and Management at Aalborg University. Biography Lundvall obtained his MA in economics at the University of Gothenburg in 1967.

#1066

Azouz Begag

#5972

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Azouz Begag is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS. He was the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin till 5 April 2007. He resigned to support the moderate centrist candidate François Bayrou, one of the two UMP ministers to do so.

#1067

Bohdan Hawrylyshyn

Bohdan Hawrylyshyn

#8220

Overall Influence

1926 - 2016 (90 years)

Bohdan Dmytrovych Hawrylyshyn was a Canadian, Swiss and Ukrainian economist, thinker, benefactor and advisor to governments and large companies worldwide. He was a full member of the Club of Rome, a long-time director of Switzerland's International Management Institute , a founder of the European Management Forum in Davos , a fellow and member of the Board of the World Academy of Art and Science. Hawrylyshyn also was a consultant of General Electric, IBM, Unilever, Philips and advisor to several countries. After Ukraine declared independence in 1991, he was an advisor to several Ukrainian pri...

#1068

William Arthur Lewis

#58597

Overall Influence

#1069

Ernesto Screpanti

#15382

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Ernesto Screpanti is a professor of Political Economy who worked in various universities, like Trento, Florence, Trieste, Parma, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Siena. He did research in the “rethinking Marxism” scientific programme, in the attempt to update Marxist analysis by bringing it in line with the reality of contemporary capitalism, on the one hand, and to liberate Marxism from any residue of Hegelian metaphysics, Kantian ethics and economic determinism, on the other.

#1070

David Blanchflower

#10974

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

David Graham Blanchflower, , sometimes called Danny Blanchflower, is a British-American labour economist and academic. He is currently a tenured economics professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, part-time professor at the University of Glasgow and a Bloomberg TV contributing editor. He was an external member of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee from June 2006 to June 2009.

#1071

Leah Boustan

#28059

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Leah Platt Boustan is an economist who is currently a professor of economics at Princeton University. Her research interests include economic history, labour economics, and urban economics. Biography Leah Platt Boustan earned a BA in Economics from Princeton University in 2000, and her PhD in 2006 from Harvard University. Her dissertation, "The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets, 1940-1970,” won the Economic History Association's Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in US economic history that year.

#1072

João Sayad

#24497

Overall Influence

1945 - 2021 (76 years)

João Sayad was a Brazilian economist, professor of the Department of Economics, Management and Accounting of the University of Sao Paulo and a Secretary of Finance for the state of Sao Paulo. He was awarded a PhD in economics by Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Sayad was also once president and chairman of the board of directors of the Inter-American Development Bank in São Paulo and director of the Economic Research Institute Foundation at the University of São Paulo.

#1073

Charles Issawi

#18869

Overall Influence

1916 - 2000 (84 years)

Charles Issawi was an economist and historian of the Middle East at Columbia University and Princeton University in the United States. Roger Owen, the A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard, stated that Issawi, "was the father of the study of the modern economic history of the Middle East."

#1074

Christian de Boissieu

Christian de Boissieu

#11858

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Christian de Boissieu is a French professor of economics at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris. Biography Christian de Boissieu received a Ph.D. in economics in 1973 at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University and Northwestern University , and visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System .

#1075

Jean-François Mertens

Jean-François Mertens

#19197

Overall Influence

1946 - 2012 (66 years)

Jean-François Mertens was a Belgian game theorist and mathematical economist. Mertens contributed to economic theory in regards to order-book of market games, cooperative games, noncooperative games, repeated games, epistemic models of strategic behavior, and refinements of Nash equilibrium . In cooperative game theory he contributed to the solution concepts called the core and the Shapley value.

#1076

Martin L. Leibowitz

#10546

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Martin L. Leibowitz is a financial researcher, business leader, and a managing director of Morgan Stanley. Career Before joining Morgan Stanley, Leibowitz was vice chairman and chief investment officer of TIAA-CREF from 1995 to 2004. Previously he had worked for 26 years for Salomon Brothers, rising to become its Managing Director in charge of research. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study. In April 2009 he was named adviser to the Board of Directors to Singapore's sovereign fund. In March 2012, he was appointed to The Rockefeller Foundation’s Board...

#1077

Minouche Shafik

Minouche Shafik

#9517

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Nemat Talaat Shafik, Baroness Shafik, , also known as Minouche Shafik, is a British-American economist. She served as the President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics from September 2017 to June 2023. On 1 July 2023, she became the 20th president of Columbia University, the first woman since its founding in the year 1754. She also serves on the board of directors of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

#1078

Adam B. Jaffe

#7515

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Adam B. Jaffe is a freelance economist working in Boston, Massachusetts. He was previously Director of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, in Wellington, New Zealand and a professor of economics at Brandeis University. His areas of expertise include industrial organization, technological change and innovation, law and economics, and environmental economics. The overarching theme of his work is focused on the process of technological change and innovation.

#1079

Andrew Dilnot

#11075

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Sir Andrew William Dilnot, is a British economist and broadcaster. He was Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002, and Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford from 2002 to 2012, when he became Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford. He served as Chair of the UK Statistics Authority from April 2012 until March 2017.

#1080

Robert Klitgaard

#5137

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Robert Klitgaard is an American academic, former president of Claremont Graduate University and former dean of the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, where he was also the Ford Distinguished Professor of International Development and Security. He currently serves as university professor at Claremont Graduate University.

#1081

William Hsiao

#15877

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

William C. Hsiao , an American economist, is the K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. He is internationally recognized for his work on health care financing and social insurance.

#1082

Utsa Patnaik

#16743

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Utsa Patnaik is an Indian Marxian economist. She taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, from 1973 until her retirement in 2010. Her husband is the Marxian economist Prabhat Patnaik.

#1083

Pierre-André Chiappori

#43733

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Pierre-André Chiappori is a French-Monégasque economist who is currently the E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics at Columbia University. His research focuses on household behavior, general equilibrium and mathematical economics.

#1084

Philippe Van Parijs

Philippe Van Parijs

#2915

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Philippe Van Parijs is a Belgian political philosopher and political economist, best known as a proponent and main defender of the concept of an unconditional basic income and for the first systematic treatment of linguistic justice.

#1085

Seema Jayachandran

#19886

Overall Influence

Seema Jayachandran is an economist who currently works as Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Her research interests include development economics, health economics, and labor economics. Biography Seema Jayachandran earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. As a Marshall Scholar, she studied Physics and Philosophy at the University of Oxford. In 1997, she began graduate studies in Physics at Harvard University, but completed a PhD in Economics in 2004.

#1086

Theodore Levitt

#3040

Overall Influence

1925 - 2006 (81 years)

Theodore Levitt was a German-born American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He was editor of the Harvard Business Review, noted for increasing the Review's circulation and popularizing the term globalization. In 1983, he proposed a definition for corporate purpose: "Rather than merely making money, it is to create and keep a customer".

#1087

Athanasios Orphanides

#24431

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Athanasios Orphanides is a Cypriot economist who served as Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus between 3 May 2007 to 2 May 2012 and as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank between 1 January 2008 and 2 May 2012.

#1088

Alfredo Saad-Filho

#24199

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Alfredo Saad-Filho is a Brazilian Marxian economist. Education and career Alfredo Saad-Filho has degrees in Economics from the University of Brasília and the University of London . He is currently Professor of Political Economy and International Development at King's College London. He was Professor of Political Economy at SOAS University of London between 2000 and 2019, Chair of the SOAS Department of Development Studies , Head of the SOAS Doctoral School , and Chair of Department of International Development at King's College London . Saad-Filho was Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the Un...

#1089

Tobias Adrian

#25286

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Tobias Adrian is a German and American economist who has been Financial Counsellor of the International Monetary Fund and Head of their Monetary and Capital Markets Department since 2017. He was previously employed at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he was a Senior Vice President and the Associate Director of the Research and Statistics Group. His research covers aspects of risk to the wider economy of developments in capital markets. His work has covered the global financial crisis, monetary policy transmission, and the yield curve.

#1090

Janice Eberly

#13746

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Janice Caryl "Jan" Eberly is an American economist. Since 2002 she has been the James R. and Helen D. Russell Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. She served from 2011 to 2013 as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and chief economist of the United States Department of the Treasury. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. Her research focuses on the intersection of macroeconomics and finance.

#1091

Dwight H. Perkins

#11300

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Dwight Heald Perkins II is an American academic, economist, Sinologist and professor at Harvard University. He is the son of Lawrence Bradford Perkins, architect, and Margery Blair Perkins and the grandson of Dwight Heald Perkins, the architect. He married Julie Rate Perkins in 1957 and they have three adult children.

#1092

Arindrajit Dube

#22159

Overall Influence

Arindrajit Dube is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known internationally for his empirical research on the effects of minimum wage policies. He is among the foremost scholars regarding the economic impact of minimum wages. In 2019, he was asked by the UK Treasury to conduct a review of the evidence on the impact of minimum wages, which informed the decision to set the level of the National Living Wage. His work is focused on the economics of the labor market, including the role of imperfect competition, institutions, norms, and behavioral factors that affe...

#1093

Paul Ekins

#19758

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Professor Paul Ekins OBE is a British academic in the field of sustainable economics, currently Professor of Resources and Environment Policy at University College London. He was formerly co-director of the UK Energy Research Centre . He is a former member of the Green Party.

#1094

Arvind Panagariya

Arvind Panagariya

#9669

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Arvind Panagariya is an Indian-American economist who is the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University and is also the Director of Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies at School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City. He served as first vice-chairman of the government of India think-tank NITI Aayog between January 2015 and August 2017. He is a former Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2012 for his contributions in the field of economics and Public Policy.

#1095

Brigitte C. Madrian

#37655

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Brigitte C. Madrian is a behavioral economist and is the ninth dean of the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University . She is the first woman to serve as dean and has a joint appointment in the Department of Finance and the George W. Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics.

#1096

Peter G. Klein

#26489

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Peter Gordon Klein is an American economist who studies managerial and organizational issues. Klein holds the W. W. Caruth Endowed Chair and is a professor of entrepreneurship at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business, where he is also Chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation. Klein is Academic Director of the Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise, adjunct professor of strategy and management at the Norwegian School of Economics, and Carl Menger Research Fellow at the Mises Institute. He serves as associated editor for Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and associate editor of The Independent Review.

#1097

Juergen B. Donges

#53246

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

Juergen Bernhard Donges was a German economist. He was professor emeritus of political economics at the University of Cologne, and was for a long time member of the German Council of Economic Experts.

#1098

Robert Theobald

#20222

Overall Influence

1929 - 1999 (70 years)

Robert Theobald was an American private consulting economist and futurist author. In economics, he was best known for his writings on the economics of abundance and his advocacy of a Basic Income Guarantee. Theobald was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution in 1964, and later listed in the top 10 most influential living futurists in The Encyclopedia of the Future.

#1099

Paola Giuliano

#37737

Overall Influence

Paola Giuliano is an economist and currently the Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. Giuliano is a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a research fellow at the Institute of Labour Economics and a research associate at the NBER. In 2004, she won the Young Economic Award from the European Economic Association, which has also elected her fellow.

#1100

Clem Tisdell

#45940

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

Clement Allan Tisdell was an Australian economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. He was best known for his work in environmental and ecological economics. Personal life Tisdell was born in Taree, New South Wales on 18 November 1939.

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