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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1151

Ralph Anspach

#10896

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (98 years)

Ralph Anspach was a German-born American economics professor and games creator from San Francisco State University. Anspach was a graduate of the University of Chicago and fought with the Mahal in 1948 in support of the independence of Israel. He is best known for creating the game Anti-Monopoly and the legal battles that followed.

#1152

D. G. Champernowne

#13442

Overall Influence

1912 - 2000 (88 years)

David Gawen Champernowne, was an English economist and mathematician. Champernowne was the only child of Francis Gawayne Champernowne , M.A. , a barrister and bursar of Keble College, Oxford, and his wife Isabel Mary, daughter of George Rashleigh, of Riseley, Horton Kirby, Kent. The Champernowne family were landed gentry, of Dartington, Devon; Francis Gawayne Champernowne was a grandson of Arthur Champernowne , M.P. for Saltash in 1806, who, born to Rev. Richard Harington, second son of Sir James Harington, 6th Baronet, had taken his maternal grandfather's name on inheriting his estates.

#1153

Faruk Gül

#20848

Overall Influence

Faruk R. Gül is a Turkish American economist, a professor of economics at Princeton University, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Gül did his undergraduate studies at Boğaziçi University, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1986, where he was a student of Hugo F. Sonnenschein. He has been on the Princeton faculty since 1995.

#1154

Artemio Precioso Ugarte

#60151

Overall Influence

1917 - 2007 (90 years)

Artemio Precioso Ugarte was a Spanish economist and environmentalist. He founded the Socio-ecological Research Center to educate young scholars in environmental economics. He co-founded Greenpeace Spain and was its honorary president from 2004.

#1155

Garth Saloner

#34616

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Garth Saloner is a South African-born American economist. He is the John H. Scully Professor of Leadership, Management and International Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was the dean from 2009 to 2015.

#1156

Leszek Balcerowicz

#22012

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Leszek Henryk Balcerowicz is a Polish economist, statesman, and Professor at Warsaw School of Economics. He served as Chairman of the National Bank of Poland and twice as Deputy Prime Minister of Poland .

#1157

Roland Bénabou

#38748

Overall Influence

Roland Bénabou is a French economist, who is currently the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is also a research associate at the Collège de France.

#1158

Deniz Kandiyoti

#17056

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Deniz Kandiyoti is an author and an academic of research in the fields of gender relations and developmental politics in the Middle East, specifically Turkey. She holds a PhD from London School of Economics.

#1159

Willi Semmler

#30015

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Willi Semmler is a German born American economist who currently teaches at The New School in New York. Academic career Willi Semmler studied at the University of Munich, Technical University of Berlin and Free University of Berlin. He has a PHD and a Habilitation from the Free University of Berlin. He began his teaching career at the University of Berlin, was a Post-Doc at Columbia University, funded by the American Council of Learned Society, taught at the American University, Washington, D.C., and the University of Bielefeld, . He is currently the Henry Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the New School for Social Research, The New School, New York.

#1160

Alan Budd

#24104

Overall Influence

1937 - 2023 (86 years)

Sir Alan Peter Budd was a British economist, who was a founding member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee in 1997. Budd left the MPC in May 1999, and between August 1999 and 2008 was Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford.

#1161

James Alm

#38910

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

James Alm is a professor and the Chair of Economics at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Alm's research areas focus on public economics, specifically, tax compliance and tax evasion, the marriage tax, tax and expenditure limitations, tax amnesties, taxpayer responses to tax reforms, enterprise zones, the determinants of state economic growth, and corruption. Alm has also participated in extensive application of his research on fiscal reforms in numerous countries, including Bangladesh, Jamaica, Grenada, Indonesia, Turkey, Hungary, China, Egypt, the Philippines, Russia, Uganda, Nigeria, India, Colombia, Nepal, Ukraine, Pakistan, and South Africa.

#1162

Isher Judge Ahluwalia

Isher Judge Ahluwalia

#16824

Overall Influence

1945 - 2020 (75 years)

Isher Judge Ahluwalia was an Indian economist, public policy researcher, and professor. She was Chairperson Emeritus, Board of Governors, at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations . She had also served as the chairperson of the board of the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the chairperson of the Government of India's High-Powered Committee on Urban Infrastructure Services. She was awarded India's 3rd highest civilian award, Padma Bhushan, in 2009.

#1163

Józef Czyrek

#23637

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Józef Czyrek was a Polish politician who served as the minister of foreign affairs of the People's Republic of Poland from 1980 to 1982. Early life and education Czyrek was born in Białobrzegi, in the Lwów Voivodeship of Poland, in 1928. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from Jagiellonian University in 1950.

#1164

Ross Garnaut

#12678

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Ross Gregory Garnaut is an Australian economist, currently serving as a vice-chancellor's fellow and professorial fellow of economics at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of numerous publications in scholarly journals on international economics, public finance and economic development, particularly in relation to East Asia and the Southwest Pacific.

#1165

Sérgio Rebelo

#34057

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Sérgio T. Rebelo is a Portuguese economist who is the current MUFG Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance at the Kellogg School of Management in Illinois, United States. He is also a co-director of the Center for International Macroeconomics at Northwestern University.

#1166

Nina Smith

#36196

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Nina Smith née Gotfred-Rasmussen is a prominent Danish economist. Since 2005, she has been Professor of Economics and Business at Aarhus University. Smith has held a number of major educational and advisory positions, including research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research and head of the board of the Independent Research Fund Denmark. As of July 2021, she serves on the boards of several leading financial companies in Denmark such as Nykredit.

#1167

Pat Choate

#8271

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Pat Choate is an American economist who is most known for being the 1996 Reform Party candidate for Vice President of the United States, the running-mate of Ross Perot. Following the 1996 election, the Federal Election Commission certified the Reform Party as a national political party eligible for federal campaign matching funds, a historic first.

#1168

George-Marios Angeletos

#40682

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

George-Marios Angeletos is a Greek economist who is a professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He was previously a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Early life and education Angeletos was born in Athens, Greece. He earned his B.A. degree in economics from Athens University of Economics and Business in 1996, and received his M.Sc. in Economics in 1997 from the same university. Angeletos earned his Ph.D in Economics in 2001 from Harvard. Angeletos received a scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation to complete his doctorate.

#1169

Jacques Mistral

#25279

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Jacques Mistral is a French economist and professor. He is a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique in France, a member of the Cercle des économistes, and as of October 2009, a member of the scientific council of the center-right think tank Fondation pour l'innovation politique.

#1170

Richard N. Cooper

#44000

Overall Influence

1934 - 2020 (86 years)

Richard Newell Cooper was an American economist, policy adviser, and academic. Born in Seattle, Cooper graduated from Oberlin College in 1956 and received a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Marshall Scholar in 1958. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1962. Cooper was an assistant professor at Yale University from 1963 to 1966 and was Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics from 1966 to 1977. From 1972 to 1974 he served as provost.

#1171

Alex Edmans

#23158

Overall Influence

Alex Edmans is a British academic and economist who is professor of finance at London Business School and Mercers' School Memorial Emeritus Professor of Business at Gresham College. He serves on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Future of Responsible Investing and as a non-executive director of the Investor Forum. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Financial Management Association, Director of the American Finance Association and Vice President-Elect of the Western Finance Association.

#1172

Helmut Lütkepohl

#54881

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Helmut Lütkepohl is a German econometrician specializing in time series analysis. Since January 2012, he has been Bundesbank Professor in the field of "Methods of Empirical Economics" at the Free University of Berlin and Dean of the Graduate Center at the German Institute for Economic Research.

#1173

Prabhat Patnaik

Prabhat Patnaik

#12128

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Prabhat Patnaik is an Indian Marxist economist and political commentator. He taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, from 1974 until his retirement in 2010. He was the vice-chairman of Kerala State Planning Board from June 2006 to May 2011.

#1174

Richard Carson

#44184

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Richard Taylor Carson is a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. He obtained a B.A. degree from Mississippi State University in 1977, an M.A. in international affairs from George Washington University in 1979, and an M.A. in statistics and a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. He is the author or editor of eight books and over a hundred journal articles, with over 4000 citations to his works.

#1175

Derek Wall

#12955

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Derek Norman Wall is a British politician. He was the joint International Coordinator for the Green Party of England and Wales and stood against Prime Minister Theresa May as the Green candidate for Maidenhead at the 2017 general election. Formerly the party's Principal Speaker, he is known as a prominent eco-socialist, campaigning both for environmentalism and socialism. Alongside his political role, Wall is an academic and a writer, having published on the subject of ecosocialism and the wider Green politics movement. He is a contributor to the Morning Star newspaper and a blogger.

#1176

Jan Sandee

#42225

Overall Influence

1919 - 2011 (92 years)

Jan Sandee was a Dutch economist, consultant and Professor of Econometrics at the Netherlands School of Economics, Rotterdam, who headed the Econometric Institute from 1966 to 1971. Sandee received his Engineering degree and was associated with the Statistics Netherlands late 1940s. In the 1950s he moved to the Dutch Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. He was Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963, and in 1965 was appointed Professor of Econometrics at the Netherlands School of Economics. In 1965 Sandee was elected fellow of the Econometric Society. From 1966...

#1177

Benjamin Powell

#22061

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Benjamin W. "Ben" Powell is the director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and professor of economics at Texas Tech University's Rawls College of Business. He is also a junior fellow at the Independent Institute and the South American editor of the Review of Austrian Economics.

#1178

Joseph Zeira

#40669

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Joseph Zeira is an Israeli economist. His main work is in macroeconomics, in economic growth and in the economy of Israel. He is the Aaron and Michael Chilewich Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

#1179

Randy Albelda

#42148

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Randy Pearl Albelda is an American feminist economist, activist, author, and academic who specialises in poverty and gender issues. Background Albelda attended Smith College, where she received a B.A. in Economics in 1977, followed by a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherstin 1983. Her first publication was a study of the determinants of women's wages during the Progressive era.

#1180

Christopher Coyne

Christopher Coyne

#29229

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Christopher J. Coyne is the F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the associate director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center.

#1181

Charles Kolstad

#27715

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Charles D. Kolstad is an American economist, known for his work in environmental economics, environmental regulation, climate change and energy markets. He is professor and senior fellow at Stanford University . Prior to his appointment at Stanford, he was professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, appointed to both the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the department of economics. Kolstad was also chair of the UCSB Department of Economics and co-director of the University of California Center for Energy & Environmental Economics. He has previo...

#1182

Michael Wright

#54137

Overall Influence

1952 - 2019 (67 years)

Michael Wright was a fellow of the British Academy elected in 2016 and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. Wright was also Director of the Centre for Management Buy-out Research, the first centre to be established devoted to the study of private equity and buyouts, which was founded in March 1986 at the Nottingham University Business School. He wrote over 40 books and more than 300 papers in academic and professional journals on management buy-outs, venture capital, habitual entrepreneurs, academic entrepreneurs, and related topics. Wright was a Fellow of the British Academy, Academy of Social Sciences and The British Academy of Management.

#1183

Rafael Robb

#20867

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Rafael Robb is an economist and former professor at the University of Pennsylvania who confessed to killing his wife in 2006. Academic career Robb received his bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He went on to obtain a Ph.D. in economics at UCLA. Robb joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 1984, and was a tenured professor at the time of his arrest in 2007.

#1184

Witold Orłowski

Witold Orłowski

#44975

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Witold Maciej Orłowski is a Polish professor of economics. He is Director of the Warsaw University of Technology Business School and a Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Council. Beside, he acts as Chief Economic Adviser for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Poland. In 2011 he was appointed Special Adviser to the European Commission. Currently, he is the Rector of Group of Universities.

#1185

Eva Vivalt

#22196

Overall Influence

Eva Love Vivalt is a Canadian economist. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto and the director of the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford.

#1186

Christoph Badelt

#30240

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Christoph Badelt is the current director of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research and professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He was the Vienna University of Economics and Business's vice-chancellor from March 2002 until September 2015.

#1187

Anindya Sen

#46930

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Anindya Sen is a Professor of Economics at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Sen received his B.A. degree from Presidency College, Kolkata, MA degree from the University of Calcutta, and Ph.D. from University of Southern California.

#1188

Steven Shavell

#26975

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Steven Shavell is an economist who is currently Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School. Shavell is the founder and director of the School's John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business.

#1189

Daniel L. Rubinfeld

#36255

Overall Influence

Daniel Lee Rubinfeld is an American economist specializing in public economics and law and economics. He is a professor of law at the New York University School of Law, as well as the Robert L. Bridges Professor Emeritus of Law and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of two textbooks: Microeconomics and Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts.

#1190

Sidney S. Alexander

#31743

Overall Influence

1916 - 2005 (89 years)

Sidney Stuart Alexander was an American economist who was associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alexander graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1936. Continuing at Harvard University, he received a master's degree in 1938 and a doctorate in 1946.

#1191

Helmut Reichelt

#11891

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Helmut Reichelt is a German Marxian critic of political economy, sociologist and philosopher. Reichelt is one of the main authors of the “Neue Marx-Lektüre” and considered to be one of the most important theorists in the field of Marx's theory of value.

#1192

Antoinette Schoar

#29083

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Antoinette Schoar is a German-American economist, currently the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Education and career Schoar received her Diploma in Economics from the University of Cologne in 1995 and received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2000, advised by Sherwin Rosen. In 2000, she joined MIT as an assistant professor in finance and became a full professor in 2008. She has served on the inaugural advisory board of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

#1193

Thomas Herndon

#30733

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (39 years)

Thomas Herndon is an assistant professor of economics at Loyola Marymount University who became known for critiquing "Growth in a Time of Debt", a widely cited academic paper by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff supporting the austerity policies implemented by governments in Europe and North America in the early 21st century. His research concluded that these measures may not have been necessary.

#1194

Walter Erwin Diewert

#33200

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Walter Erwin Diewert is a Canadian economist. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He completed a B.A. degree in 1963, and an M.A. in mathematics in 1964, both at the University of British Columbia. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1968. He is a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1970, and also has a joint appointment at the University of New South Wales. He is also a Vice President of the Society for Economic Measurement .

#1195

Natalya Pochinok

Natalya Pochinok

#30449

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Natalya Borisovna Pochinok born Gribkova is a D.Sc. in Economic Sciences, professor, rector of Russian State Social University . Biography As a member of junior national teams of the USSR and the Russian Federation in athletics Natalia Pochinok won several international competitions in running from 1991 to 1994.

#1196

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

#38196

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Ronald Gordon Ehrenberg is an American economist. He has primarily worked in the field of labor economics including the economics of higher education. Currently, he is Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University. He is also the founder-director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute .

#1197

Jill McCluskey

#54554

Overall Influence

Jill Jennifer McCluskey is an American economist. She is a Distinguished Professor of Sustainability and Director of the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University. Early life and education McCluskey completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Economics and Political Science in 1989 at the University of California, Santa Barbara before completing her Master's degree in economics at Georgetown University. Following this, she enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley for her Master of Science degree and PhD in agricultural and resource economics.

#1198

Shoshana Grossbard

#43337

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Shoshana Grossbard is an economist and professor of economics emerita at San Diego State University. She is also a member of the Family Inequality Network, HCEO, University of Chicago and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor and the CESifo Institute. She is a well-published scholar as well as a founder of two organizations related to household economics: a journal, the Review of Economics of the Household founded in 2001 and the Society of Economics of the Household. The Society holds annual meetings since 2017.

#1199

William Greene

#38037

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

William H. Greene is an American economist. He was formerly the Robert Stansky Professor of Economics and Statistics at Stern School of Business at New York University. Greene is currently a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of South Florida.

#1200

Peter Lorange

#10568

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Peter Lorange is a Norwegian economist. He was the owner, President, and CEO of the Lorange Institute of Business Zürich, formerly known as GSBA Zurich, which he bought in July 2009. Peter Lorange has previously been President of the International Institute for Management Development from 1993 and Rector of the BI Norwegian Business School. He has taught at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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