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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1101

Carl Shoup

#41176

Overall Influence

1902 - 2000 (98 years)

Carl Sumner Shoup was an American economist and public finance expert. He is best known for leading the Shoup Mission of 1949–1950, tasked with revising the fiscal system of post-World War II Japan. He directly contributed to the tax codes of Canada, the United States, Japan, Europe, and South and Central America in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. He retired as professor emeritus at Columbia University.

#1102

Robert Triffin

#13004

Overall Influence

1911 - 1993 (82 years)

Robert, Baron Triffin was a Belgian-American economist best known for his critique of the Bretton Woods system of fixed currency exchange rates. His critique became known later as Triffin's dilemma.

#1103

John Hussman

#24121

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

John Peter Hussman , is an American philanthropist, economist, and hedge fund manager. Early life Hussman holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University, as well as a master's degree in education and social policy and a bachelor's degree in economics from Northwestern University.

#1104

Jay Bhattacharya

#5918

Overall Influence

Jayanta "Jay" Bhattacharya is an Indian American professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University. He is the director of Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. His research focuses on the economics of health care.

#1105

Peter Kenneth Newman

#22833

Overall Influence

1928 - 2001 (73 years)

Peter Kenneth Newman was an English economist and historian of economic thought. He helped to edit The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, to which he contributed several articles. Bibliography

#1106

Nobuo Tanaka

#19505

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Nobuo Tanaka is the Japanese official and the former Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. He was born on 3 March 1950 in Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in the field of economics in 1972, and has an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio . In 1973 he began his career with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan . In 1989 he joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as the Deputy-Director for Science, Technology and Industry, and served in 1991–1995 as the Director for Science, Technology and Industry.

#1107

Jan Fagerberg

#16993

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Jan Fagerberg is professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is, or has been, affiliated with many institutions including: the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture , the Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy ; the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, the Norwegian Institute for Foreign Affairs and Aalborg University, Denmark. He has also been visiting professor at University of California San Diego, the University of Maastricht, the University of Paris XIII, Copenhagen Business School and was a “Gulbenkian Professor” at the Technical University of Li...

#1108

Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz

#40053

Overall Influence

1919 - 1996 (77 years)

Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz was a Chilean economist known for his work on dependency theory and structuralist economics. From 1960 to 1965 he was director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean office in Río de Janeiro.

#1109

Zvi Bodie

#20540

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Zvi Bodie is an American economist, author and professor. He was the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University, teaching finance at Questrom for 43 years before retiring in 2015. His textbook, Investments, is the market leader and is used in the certification programs of the CFA Institute and the Society of Actuaries. Bodie's work has centered on pension finance and investment strategy. He continues to do consulting work and media interviews.

#1110

Anthony Downs

#60346

Overall Influence

#1111

Masaaki Shirakawa

#8124

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

is a Japanese economist and the 30th Governor of the Bank of Japan , and professor at Aoyama Gakuin University. He is also a Director and Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements . Early life Shirakawa was born in Fukuoka. and he graduated from high school in Kokura.

#1112

Vesa Kanniainen

#47639

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Vesa Lennart Kanniainen is a professor of economics at the University of Helsinki. Biography Vesa Kanniainen studied at the London School of Economics in 1972–73, working within macroeconomic theory and monetary economics, topics that he was also teaching as Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University and Washington State University in 1977–79. Most of his academic life, he has been working at the University of Helsinki. In research, he subsequently moved to dynamic investment models, including tax effects and he started to teach corporate finance. Later, he has given some courses at Uppsala University, University of Munich and at Hamburg University.

#1113

Robert Eisner

#36590

Overall Influence

1922 - 1998 (76 years)

Robert Eisner was an American author and William R. Kenan professor of economics at Northwestern University. He was recognized throughout the United States for his expertise and knowledge of macroeconomics and the economics of business cycles. He was a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Los Angeles Times, primarily covering national economic policy and reform.

#1114

David Thesmar

#24153

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

David Thesmar is a French economist who works as Franco Modigliani Professor Financial Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests include corporate finance, financial intermediation, entrepreneurship and behavioural economics. In 2007, he was awarded the Prize of the Best Young Economist of France.

#1115

Robin Burgess

#31883

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Robin Burgess , is a Professor of Economics, Co-founder and Director of the International Growth Centre, as well as Co-Founder and Director of the Economics of Energy and the Environment program at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

#1116

Włodzimierz Brus

Włodzimierz Brus

#14505

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

Włodzimierz Brus was an economist and party functionary in communist Poland. He emigrated from Poland in 1972, removed from power after the 1968 Polish political crisis. Brus spent the rest of his life in the United Kingdom.

#1117

Josh Lerner

#36684

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Josh Lerner is an American economist known for his research in venture capital, private equity, and innovation and entrepreneurship. He is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at the Harvard Business School. According to Web of Science on June 16, 2023, he has 165 indexed publications and a Hirsch index of 66, which puts him in top 5% of economics researchers in the USA. His research encompasses investments, startups, venture capital and private equity.

#1118

Harry Flam

#32981

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Harry Flam is a professor of international economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. During the years of 2004 and 2006, he was Dean of the School of Business at Stockholm University. His main area of research is international trade and European economic integration. Flam resides in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the father of comedian Aron Flam.

#1119

Benjamin Olken

#29224

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Benjamin A. Olken is an American economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Olken is one of the directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab , a research centre specializing on the use of randomized evaluations for the purpose of studying poverty alleviation. His research focuses on the political economy of developing countries, especially regarding the role of corruption and the impact of interventions addressing corruption.

#1120

Robert F. Stambaugh

#42387

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Robert F. Stambaugh is an American economist, who specializes in econometrics and finance. Early life and education Stambaugh graduated from the University of Chicago in 1981. Career Stambaugh served as the editor of the Journal of Finance from July 2003 to June 2006 after which he returned to spending most of his time on research and teaching. His research focuses on empirical asset pricing, and he often uses Bayesian analysis in his papers. He was the president of American Finance Association.

#1121

Michele Boldrin

Michele Boldrin

#12121

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Michele Boldrin is an Italian-born economist, academic, philanthropist and former politician expert in economic growth, business cycles, technological progress and intellectual property. He is the Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Along with his colleague and coauthor David Levine, he was part of the group of 200 economists publicly opposing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. He later publicly defended his position on the issue in various international media, including a public debate with Brad DeLong.

#1122

Sarah E. Turner

#34562

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Sarah E. Turner is an American professor of economics and education and Souder Family Endowed Chair at the University of Virginia. She also holds appointments in the university's Department of Economics, the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and the School of Education and Human Development . She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research affiliate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.

#1123

Nariman Behravesh

#16969

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Nariman Behravesh is Chief Economist at the consulting firm IHS Markit, and author of Spin-Free Economics: A No-Nonsense, Nonpartisan Guide to Today's Global Economic Debates . Directing the economic forecasting process at IHS Markit, Behravesh is responsible for developing the economic outlook and risk analysis for the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and other emerging markets. He oversees the work of over 400 professionals located in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa who cover economic, financial, and political developments in 200 countries.

#1124

Robert M. Post

#61001

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

#1125

Max Roser

#13484

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Max Roser is an economist and philosopher who focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality. At the University of Oxford he is the director of the program on global development, based at the Oxford Martin School.

#1126

Denis Sargan

#13650

Overall Influence

1924 - 1996 (72 years)

John Denis Sargan, FBA was a British econometrician who specialized in the analysis of economic time-series. Sargan was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire in 1924, and was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. He made many contributions, notably in instrumental variables estimation, Edgeworth expansions for the distributions of econometric estimators, identification conditions in simultaneous equations models, asymptotic tests for overidentifying restrictions in homoskedastic equations and exact tests for unit roots in autoregressive and moving average models. At the LSE, Sargan was Professor of Econometrics from 1964–1984.

#1127

Takuro Morinaga

#61176

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Takuro Morinaga, is a Japanese economist at Dokkyo University, Saitama, a suburb to Tokyo. He is also a television program editor. As an economist he has been highly publicized, expressing his views in television and radio on an array of subjects, from politics to manga to video games. His ideas have elicited a large number of reactions on the internet and in media.

#1128

Ibrahim Oweiss

#19180

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Ibrahim M. Oweiss is an Egyptian-born American economist, international economic advisor, and professor of economics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Biography Early life and education Oweiss received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Alexandria University in Egypt, majoring in economics and political science, before moving to the United States to earn Masters and Ph.D. degrees in economics at the University of Minnesota.

#1129

Ernesto Pernia

#21123

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Ernesto del Mar Pernia is a Filipino economist, writer and professor emeritus at the University of the Philippines School of Economics. He formerly served as Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority and Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning under the Duterte administration from 2016 to 2020.

#1130

Stephen C. Smith

#15492

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Stephen Charles Smith is an economist, author, and educator. He is Chair of the Department of Economics, and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is also a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor .

#1131

Antonio Merlo

#18281

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Antonio Merlo is an Italian-born American economist and academic. He currently serves as the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University. Early life Antonio Merlo was born in Italy in 1963. A first-generation college graduate, he received a Laurea summa cum laude in economics and social sciences from Bocconi University in Milan in 1987. Merlo emigrated to the United States in 1988 and earned a PhD in economics from New York University in 1992.

#1132

Andrew Hughes Hallett

#39226

Overall Influence

1947 - 2019 (72 years)

Andrew Jonathan Hughes Hallett FRSE was a British economist. He was University Professor of Economics and Public Policy at George Mason University, Senior Research Fellow at Kings College and Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews He was also a member of the Scottish Growth Commission.

#1133

David Aaker

#5196

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

David Allen Aaker is an American organizational theorist, consultant and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, a specialist in marketing with a focus on brand strategy. He serves as Vice Chairman of the San Francisco-based growth consulting company Prophet.

#1134

Benjamin Moll

#48333

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Benjamin Moll is a German macroeconomist who is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He is the recipient of the 2017 Bernacer Prize for his "path-breaking contributions to incorporate consumer and firm heterogeneity into macroeconomic models and use such models to study rich interactions between inequality and the macroeconomy".

#1135

Serena Ng

#51870

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Serena Ng is the Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics at Columbia University. Her fields of research and interest include macroeconomics, time series, econometrics, and big data. Education Ng received a B.A. and M.A. from University of Western Ontario. Later, she did her Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1993.

#1136

John T. Harvey

#41110

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

John T. Harvey is an English-American professor of economics at Texas Christian University. Harvey, a post-Keynesian economist, which is considered a type of heterodox economics, publishes accessible editorials and content to the field's study.

#1137

Peter Morici

#18472

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Peter George Morici Jr. is an American economist and Professor Emeritus of International Business at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a graduate of SUNY Albany in New York State, where he received his Ph.D in economics in 1974. He is a nationally syndicated columnist, with his articles appearing in publications such as The Washington Times, The Hill, Townhall.com, and Newsmax. Morici has appeared as a guest on Newsmax TV and Fox News Channel.

#1138

Joseph Newhouse

#28627

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Joseph P. Newhouse is an American economist and the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University, as well as the Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and of the Interfaculty Initiative on Health Policy. At Harvard, he is a member of the four faculties at Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Harvard Medical School in Boston, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, and Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge.

#1139

Ebrahim Sheibani

Ebrahim Sheibani

#28908

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Ebrahim Sheibani is an Iranian economist who served as the 16th governor of the Central Bank of Iran from 2003 to 2007. He held the longest tenure as a member of the board of governors in Iran's central bank history. Before his appointment as the governor, he was the deputy of economic affairs and the secretary general of the Central Bank of Iran from 1989 to 2003. In 2007, Sheibani resigned due to conflicts with President Ahmadinejad over economic policies and was appointed as the Iran's Ambassador to Austria, Slovenia, and Slovakia.

#1140

Bart Wilson

#18883

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Bart Wilson is an experimental economist. He holds the Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair of Economics and Law in the Chapman University, Argyros School of Business and Economics. He is also the director of the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and teaches courses in humanomics. His work has been widely published in both the popular and academic press.

#1141

Abbas Mirakhor

#35693

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Abbas Mirakhor joined INCEIF in 2010 as Distinguished Scholar and the First Holder of INCEIF's Chair in Islamic Finance. His research interests include conventional and Islamic economics and finance.

#1142

David Throsby

#30902

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

David Throsby AO is an Australian economist. He is especially well known as a cultural economist. His book Economics and Culture has become a standard reference work in the field. In addition to the performing arts, Throsby's research and writing has covered the economic role of artists, the economics of public intervention in arts markets, cultural development, cultural policy, heritage issues, and sustainability of cultural processes. He has also written extensively on the theory of public goods and the economics of higher education.

#1143

Kathryn Zeiler

#31330

Overall Influence

Kathryn M. Zeiler is the Nancy Barton Scholar and Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Zeiler's work primarily focuses on health law, torts law, law and economics, medical malpractice, and disclosure law.

#1144

Guy Standing

#14746

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Guy Standing is a British labour economist. He is a professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network . Standing has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. He created the term precariat to describe an emerging class of workers who are harmed by low wages and poor job security as a consequence of globalisation. Since the 2011 publication of his book The Precariat: Th...

#1145

Jan Kmenta

#36238

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Jan Kmenta was a Czech-American economist. He was the Professor Emeritus of Economics and Statistics at the University of Michigan and Visiting Professor at CERGE-EI in Prague, until summer 2016. Academic positions and awards After earning his PhD in Economics with a minor in Statistics from Stanford under Kenneth Arrow in 1964, Kmenta held academic positions at the University of Wisconsin 1964–65, Michigan State University 1965–73, and the University of Michigan 1973-93 and was a visiting faculty member at universities in five countries. Kmenta received 24 academic honors, awards, and prize...

#1146

P. N. Dhar

#19547

Overall Influence

1919 - 2012 (93 years)

Prithvi Nath Dhar was an Indian economist and the head of Indira Gandhi's secretariat and one of her closest advisers. Early life and career P. N. Dhar was born into a Kashmiri Pandit family on 1919 to Dr. Vishnu Hakim and Radha Hakim. His wife was the singer-writer Sheila Dhar. He attended Tyndale Biscoe School in Srinagar, India, and then studied economics at the Hindu College of the University of Delhi.

#1147

Nitin Desai

#17023

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Nitin Desai is an Indian economist and international civil servant. He was Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations from 1992 to 2003. Early life and academic career He was born to Dayalji M. and Shantaben Desai in 1941. He studied at St. Xavier's High School and Elphinstone College in Mumbai. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Bombay in 1962 and, in 1965, earned a master's degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

#1148

Thomas J. Weiss

#45633

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Thomas J. Weiss is an emeritus professor of Economics at the University of Kansas and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research has investigated colonial economic growth and development and the growth of service sector. His work has been recognised by The Cliometric Society via their awarding him a Clio Can in recognition his of exceptional support of cliometrics. Between 1988 and 1992 he served as one of the two co-editors of the Journal of Economic History.

#1149

Jean-Claude Casanova

#10724

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Jean-Claude Casanova is a French economist, educator and public intellectual with a lifetime involvement in French civic life. He was the chairman of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques between 2007 and 2016. A centrist in politics, he cofounded the journal Commentaire with Raymond Aron in 1978, and since then has been its editor and publisher .

#1150

Mary Kaldor

#8246

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Mary Henrietta Kaldor is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit. She also teaches at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals . She has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitan democracy. She writes on globalisation, international relations and humanitarian intervention, global civil society and global governance, as well as what she calls New Wars.

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