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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1201

Erik Thorbecke

#32363

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Erik Thorbecke is a development economist. He is a co-originator of the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measure and played a significant role in the development and popularization of Social Accounting Matrix. Currently, he is H. E. Babcock Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and Graduate School Professor at Cornell University.

#1202

John Y. Campbell

#62344

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

John Young Campbell is a British-American economist. He is the Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at Harvard University since 1994. Biography Early years Campbell was born in London, England. He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, and was a scholar at Winchester College. He graduated with a B.A. from Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1979. He went on to complete his MPhil and Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.

#1203

Mark Casson

#19856

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Mark Casson is a British economist and academic. He is a professor of economics at the University of Reading in England. He held the position of Head of Department from 1987until 1994 and is the institution's current Director of the Centre for Institutional Performance.

#1204

Patrick Minford

Patrick Minford

#17135

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Anthony Patrick Leslie Minford is a British macroeconomist who is professor of applied economics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, a position he has held since 1997. He was Edward Gonner Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Liverpool from 1976 to 1997. In 2016, Minford was a notable member of the Economists for Brexit group which, in opposition to the consensus view of economists, advocated the UK leaving the European Union and claimed large economic benefits, which did not occur.

#1205

Alan A. Brown

#15017

Overall Influence

1928 - 2010 (82 years)

Alan A. Brown was a Hungarian professor of Economics. He founded the international honor society in Economics, Omicron Delta Epsilon , while he was a student at City College of New York in 1955. The society now has 600 chapters worldwide. Brown arrived in the U.S. in 1949 at age 21, having survived the Nazi Holocaust as the sole survivor of his family , without money or knowledge of English.

#1206

Mark Aguiar

#43673

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Mark Armando Aguiar is an American economist whose work focuses on macroeconomics and international economics. He is currently the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University.

#1207

Tim Kane

#29153

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Timothy Joseph Kane is an American economist and president and founder of The American Lyceum, a non-profit organization that seeks to promote solution-focused, civic debate. Kane was the J-P Conte research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he specialized in immigration reform. He is a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer with two overseas tours of duty. After leaving the service, Kane explored a career in start-up technology firms while pursuing a Ph.D. in economics. After working as a teaching professor of economics, Kane served on the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and was director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at The Heritage Foundation.

#1208

Korkut Boratav

#25683

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Korkut Boratav is a Turkish Marxian economist. Career Boratav was born in Konya. After his graduation from Ankara Gazi Lycee in 1955, he continued his studies at Ankara University, Law School. In 1960 he became a lecturer and researcher in that university in Finance and Economics, by getting a postgraduate degree on Public Finances. He was granted a doctoral degree in 1964 with his thesis about “income distribution and public finance”.

#1209

Hans-Georg Backhaus

#15372

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Hans-Georg Backhaus is a German Marxian economist and philosopher. He is considered one of the most important theorists on the field of Marx's theory of value. He began a long-term cooperation with Helmut Reichelt already from his years of university studies.

#1210

Jonathan D. Ostry

Jonathan D. Ostry

#46207

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Jonathan David Ostry is an international economist who has served as Deputy Director of the Research Department and Acting Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. He is Professor of the Practice at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, England, and a Non-Resident Research Fellow at Bruegel in Brussels. His recent work has focused on the management of international capital flows, in particular the role of capital controls; this work has been influential in bringing about a shift in the institutional position of the IMF on capital controls.

#1211

Linda Bilmes

#20505

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Linda J. Bilmes is an American economist who is the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer Chair in Public Policy and Public Finance at Harvard University. She is a faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School where she teaches public policy, budgeting and public finance. She served as Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the US Department of Commerce during the presidency of Bill Clinton.

#1212

Moritz Schularick

#42714

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Moritz Schularick is a German economist, who is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Bonn. He works in the fields of macrofinance, banking and financial stability, as well as international finance, political economy, and economic history.

#1213

Kathryn Graddy

#41871

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Kathryn Graddy is a professor of economics and the dean of Brandeis International Business School at Brandeis University. She is the Fred and Rita Richman Distinguished Professor in Economics at Brandeis University. Her research interests include the economics of art, culture, and industrial organization.

#1214

Almas Heshmati

#36014

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Almas Heshmati is a Swedish-Iranian economist. Currently, he is professor of economics at Sogang University and Jönköping International Business School. He is a member of IZA, the Bonn-based Institute for the Study of Labour.

#1215

John Hajnal

#23597

Overall Influence

1924 - 2008 (84 years)

John Hajnal FBA , was a Hungarian-British academic in the fields of mathematics and economics . Hajnal is best known for identifying, in a landmark 1965 paper, the historical pattern of marriage of northwest Europe in which people married late and many adults remained single. The geographical boundary of this unusual marriage pattern is now known as the Hajnal line.

#1216

John M. Abowd

#32409

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

John Maron Abowd is the Associate director for research and methodology and chief scientist of the US Census Bureau, where he serves on leave from his position as the Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Economics, professor of information science, and member of the Department of Statistical Science at Cornell University.

#1217

Anna Nagurney

#21878

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Anna Nagurney is an American mathematician, economist, educator and writer in the field of Operations Management. Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. Previously, she held the John F. Smith Memorial Professorship of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management from 1998 to 2021.

#1218

David Marsh

#26744

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

David Wayne Marsh is a British financial specialist, business consultant and writer on political, economic and monetary issues. Career and education Marsh was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex on 30 July 1952. He started his career at Reuters in 1973 having graduated with a BA in chemistry from Queen's College Oxford. Between 1978 and 1995, he worked for the Financial Times newspaper in France and Germany, latterly as European Editor in London.

#1219

Francesco Caselli

#36928

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Francesco Caselli is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics and the Head of the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics . His work includes contributions to the understanding convergence and cross-country income differentials.

#1220

Raj Krishna

#13365

Overall Influence

Raj Krishna was an Indian economist who taught at the Delhi School of Economics. He is most famous for the phrase "Hindu rate of growth" which he coined for India's low rate of GDP growth between the 1950s and 1980s.

#1221

W. M. Gorman

#35274

Overall Influence

1923 - 2003 (80 years)

William Moore "Terence" Gorman was an Irish economist and academic. He was predominantly a theorist and is most famous for his work on aggregation and separability of goods, and in this context he developed his famous Gorman polar form. Gorman's career saw him teach at University of Birmingham, Oxford, and the London School of Economics. He was honoured with the Presidency of the Econometric Society in 1972. His work was often highly technical and theoretical in nature, which made him incomprehensible to many of his contemporaries, but his keen eye for applications has given his work a lastin...

#1222

Shelly Lundberg

#32294

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Shelly J. Lundberg is an economist and currently holds the positions of Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she serves as Associate Director of the Broom Center for Demography. Lundberg is one of the world's leading population economists.

#1223

Stefan Mittnik

#20482

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Stefan Mittnik is a German economist, currently holds the Chair of Financial Econometrics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is a fellow of the Center for Financial Studies and known for his work on financial market and financial risk modeling as well as macroeconometrics. He is also a co-founder of the German-British robo-advisor Scalable Capital.

#1224

Apostolos Serletis

Apostolos Serletis

#58389

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Apostolos Serletis is a Greek economist who is a professor of Economics at the University of Calgary. Serletis was born in Greece in 1954. He earned his B.A. degree in economics from the University of Piraeus in 1976, his M.A. in economics from the University of Windsor in 1979 and his Ph.D. in economics from McMaster University in 1984. After graduating from McMaster, he became a member of the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary.

#1225

Serge-Christophe Kolm

#42163

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Serge-Christophe Kolm is a French economist. His work in economics and related social science includes his analyses, concepts and results in Public Economics and Normative Economics focusing on equality, distributive justice, and efficiency of economic measures, and in other fields and problems often applying them.

#1226

Bob Hawke

#4356

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

Robert James Lee Hawke was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party , having previously served as the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1969 to 1980 and president of the Labor Party national executive from 1973 to 1978.

#1227

Peter J. N. Sinclair

#29435

Overall Influence

1946 - 2020 (74 years)

Peter James Niven Sinclair was a British economist. He was Professor, and subsequently Emeritus Professor, in Economics at the University of Birmingham. Previously, he had been a fellow and tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford.

#1228

Paul Heyne

#32719

Overall Influence

1931 - 2000 (69 years)

Paul Theodore Heyne was an American economist and academic who lectured on economics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Heyne received two divinity degrees from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, took his master's degree at Washington University and his Ph.D. in ethics and society at the University of Chicago. He came to the UW in 1976 and reportedly turned down a tenured position to become a senior lecturer because of his interest in teaching undergraduates.

#1229

Peyton Young

#10110

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Hobart Peyton Young is an American game theorist and economist known for his contributions to evolutionary game theory and its application to the study of institutional and technological change, as well as the theory of learning in games. He is currently centennial professor at the London School of Economics, James Meade Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Oxford, professorial fellow at Nuffield College Oxford, and research principal at the Office of Financial Research at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

#1230

Henry Phelps Brown

#35753

Overall Influence

1906 - 1994 (88 years)

Sir Ernest Henry Phelps Brown MBE, FBA was a prominent British economist. Early years Phelps Brown was born in Calne, Wiltshire. He won a scholarship to The Taunton Academy before winning an open scholarship to Wadham College at Oxford University to study first history, and then philosophy, politics & economics. He combined academic achievement with sporting prowess and enjoyment of the social life of the Oxford Union, attaining a First in History in 1927, a First in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 1929, winning a half-blue for cross country running in 1926, and the Secretaryship of the Oxford Union in 1928.

#1231

Henry Levin

#52636

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Henry M. Levin is an education economist and the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Columbia University's Teachers College. Moreover, he is the co-director of the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education and the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education . Levin has been elected to the National Academy of Education and has received the American Educational Research Association's Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award for his research on the impact of markets and competition on the effectiveness of schools a...

#1232

Robert O. Mendelsohn

Robert O. Mendelsohn

#41766

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Robert O. Mendelsohn is an American environmental economist. He is currently the Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, Professor of Economics in Economics Department at Yale University and Professor in the School of Management at Yale University. Mendelsohn is a major figure in the economics of global warming, being for example a contributor to the first Copenhagen Consensus report. Mendelsohn received a BA in economics from Harvard University in 1973 and obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1978.

#1233

Peter Henry Rossi

#65947

Overall Influence

#1234

Pieter Hennipman

Pieter Hennipman

#43485

Overall Influence

1911 - 1994 (83 years)

Pieter Hennipman was a Dutch economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam, who is considered the "leading Dutch economist of the post-war period." Biography Born in Leiden, Hennipman received his MA in Economics at the University of Amsterdam in 1934 under and Théodore Limperg, and in 1940 his PhD for the thesis "Economisch motief en economisch principe" .

#1235

Giancarlo Corsetti

Giancarlo Corsetti

#51402

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Giancarlo Corsetti, is an Italian macroeconomist and Professor of Macroeconomics at the European University Institute in Florence. He is best known in academia for his work on open economy macroeconomics and international economics. In March 2017, the IDEAS/RePEc overall ranking put him as the most influential economist at Cambridge University where he was teaching at the time.

#1236

Eric Neumayer

#21295

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Eric Neumayer is a professor of Environment and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is Pro-Director of Faculty Development. He holds a Diplom in Economics from Saarland University, a Master of Science and PhD in Development Studies from LSE, awarded by the University of London. In 2003, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Geography. He is an Associate of the Center for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

#1237

John Geanakoplos

#31104

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

John Geanakoplos is an American economist, and the current James Tobin Professor of Economics at Yale University. Background and education John Geanakoplos was born to a Greek-American family of scholars. His father was the late Professor Emeritus at Yale Deno Geanakoplos , a renowned Greek-American historian of Byzantine cultural and religious history, and his mother, Effie Geanakoplos, was an instructor in psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center. In 1970 Geanakoplos won the United States Junior Open Chess Championship. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Yale University in 1975 , and his M.A.

#1238

Uwe Sunde

#28373

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Uwe Sunde is a German economist and currently Professor of Economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as well as a Research Professor in the ifo Center for Labour and Demographic Economics. Sunde's research interests include long-term development and growth, political economy, labour economics, population economics, and behavioural economics. In 2015, his research on risk preferences and on the role of life expectancy and human capital for long-term economic development earned him the Gossen Prize.

#1239

Matthew Gentzkow

#39050

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Matthew Gentzkow is an American economist and a professor of economics at Stanford University. Previously, he was the Richard O. Ryan Professor of Economics and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was awarded the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

#1240

Ross Starr

#46300

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Ross Marc Starr is an American economist who specializes in microeconomic theory, monetary economics and mathematical economics. He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Starr grew up in Los Angeles where he attended high school. He attended UCLA and Reed College before obtaining his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Stanford in 1966. He completed his PhD in economics at Stanford in 1972. His dissertation was supervised by Kenneth Arrow.

#1241

Klaas Knot

#15300

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Klaas Henderikus Willem Knot is a Dutch economist and central banker who is the current President of the Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche Bank . In this capacity he serves as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank , as well as of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund . Knot also holds a position as Professor in Monetary Stability at the University of Amsterdam and honorary professor at the University of Groningen.

#1242

Robert Feenstra

#41068

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Robert Christopher Feenstra is an American economist, academic and author. He is the C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics at University of California, Davis. He served as the director of the International Trade and Investment Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1992 to 2016. He also served as Associate Dean in the Social Sciences at the University of California, Davis from 2014 to 2019.

#1243

Scott Barrett

#38403

Overall Influence

Scott Barrett is a professor of natural resource economics at Columbia University. There, he holds the title of Lenfest Professor of Natural Resource Economics at the School of International and Public Affairs and The Earth Institute.

#1244

Nicholas Economides

#36700

Overall Influence

Nicholas Economides is an internationally recognized academic authority on network economics, electronic commerce and public policy. His fields of specialization and research include the economics of networks, especially of telecommunications, computers, and information, the economics of technical compatibility and standardization, industrial organization, the structure and organization of financial markets and payment systems, antitrust, application of public policy to network industries, strategic analysis of markets and law and economics.

#1245

Steven Kaplan

#20127

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Steven Neil Kaplan is the Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He started teaching at the business school in 1988, and was named Neubauer Professor in 1999. He is also the Kessenich Faculty director of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship, at the University.

#1246

Jere Behrman

#37759

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Jere Richard Behrman is an American economist and the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He belongs to the world's most prominent development and education economists and human capital scholars, with a strong focus on Central and South America.

#1247

Timothy Kehoe

#42115

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Timothy Jerome Kehoe is an American economist and professor at the University of Minnesota. His area of specialty is macroeconomics and international economics. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Providence College in 1975 and his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1979. His Ph.D. supervisor was Herbert Scarf.

#1248

Shane Greenstein

Shane Greenstein

#12628

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Shane Greenstein is an American economist. He is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is the author of two books and the co-editor of three. He has published research about Wikipedia.

#1249

Pavan Sukhdev

#20635

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Pavan Sukhdev is an Indian environmental economist whose field of studies include green economy and international finance. He was the Special Adviser and Head of UNEP's Green Economy Initiative, a major UN project suite to demonstrate that greening of economies is not a burden on growth but rather a new engine for growing wealth, increasing decent employment, and reducing persistent poverty. Pavan was also the Study Leader for the ground breaking TEEB study commissioned by G8+5 and hosted by UNEP. Under his leadership, TEEB sized the global problem of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradati...

#1250

Mikhail Golosov

#37036

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Mikhail Golosov is a Belarusian-American economist currently the Homer J. Livingston Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He previously served as Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics at Princeton University.

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