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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1251

Douglas Gale

#51939

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Douglas Gale is an economics professor at New York University. At NYU, Gale is a Julius Silver professor. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2016. Gale is a specialist in general equilibrium theory, financial economics and banking, experimental economics and decision theory.

#1252

Harald Uhlig

#43171

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Harald Friedrich Hans Volker Sigmar Uhlig is a German macroeconomist and the Bruce Allen and Barbara Ritzenthaler Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he was the chairman of the Department of Economics from 2009 to 2012.

#1253

Philippe Mongin

#39574

Overall Influence

1950 - 2020 (70 years)

Philippe Mongin was a French economic philosopher. He served as Director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and was a professor at the HEC Paris. From 2006 to 2012, he was a member of the Economic Analysis Council under the Prime Minister of France.

#1254

Susan Howson

#32571

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Susan Kyle Howson is a British economist, currently professor emeritus of economics at the University of Toronto in Canada. Born in London, Howson received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cambridge in 1975, as well as a B.A./M.Sc. from the London School of Economics in 1967/1969. After graduating, she worked as a research economist in the International Division of the Bank of England.

#1255

Christopher B. Barrett

#63030

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Christopher Brendan Barrett is an American agricultural and development economist. He is the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management and International Professor of Agriculture at Cornell University's Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Barrett is also the co-editor-in-chief of the journal Food Policy and former captain with the United States Army Reserve. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022. He is the most cited author of a number of agriculture journals such as American Journal of Agricultural Econ...

#1256

Itzhak Gilboa

#39266

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Itzhak Gilboa is an Israeli economist with contributions in decision theory. After obtaining his BA in Mathematics and Economics from Tel Aviv University, he earned his Ph.D. in 1987 under the supervision of David Schmeidler. He currently holds professorship positions at HEC Paris and Reichman University.

#1257

Michihiro Kandori

#33551

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Michihiro Kandori is a Japanese economist. He is a professor at the University of Tokyo. Kandori is the President of the Game Theory Society, replacing Matthew O. Jackson in 2023. Career He received a B.A. from University of Tokyo in 1982 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1989. His seminal papers about social norms and evolutionary game theory together have received 5,000 citations to date, according to Google Scholar. Kandori serves as the Vice Director of the University of Tokyo Market Design Center.

#1258

Sergio Ricossa

#49926

Overall Influence

1927 - 2016 (89 years)

Sergio Ricossa was an Italian economist. Born in Turin, in 1949 Ricossa graduated in Economics at the Turin University. In 1961 he was nominated associate professor of economic policy and financial discipline in the same university, becoming ordinary professor in 1963.

#1259

Thomas F. Cooley

#34852

Overall Influence

1943 - 2021 (78 years)

Thomas Ferguson Cooley was the Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics at the New York University Stern School of Business. He served as Dean of the Stern School from 2002 to January 2010. He was also a professor of economics in the NYU Faculty of Arts and Science. Cooley was a widely published scholar in the areas of macroeconomic theory, monetary theory and policy, and the financial behavior of firms.

#1260

Sanjeev Goyal

#34164

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Sanjeev Goyal FBA is an Indian-British economist, best known for his pioneering research on networks. He is currently Arthur C. Pigou Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He received a BA from Delhi University and an MA and PhD from Cornell University, all in economics. His book, Connections: an introduction to the economics of networks, was published by Princeton University Press in 2007; his second book, Networks: An Economics Approach, was published by MIT Press in 2023.

#1261

Gordon Rausser

#17894

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Gordon Rausser is an American economist. He is currently the Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dean Emeritus, at Rausser College of Natural Resources and more recently, a professor of the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. On three separate occasions, he served as chairman of the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, served two terms as Dean of the Rausser College of Natural Resources, and has served on the board of trustees of public universities and one private university. Rausser has been appointed to more than 20 board of directors o...

#1262

Jill Tiefenthaler

#22064

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Jill Tiefenthaler is an American academic and economist who is the first female CEO of the National Geographic Society. Previously, Tiefenthaler was the 13th president of Colorado College from July 2011 to 2020 and the provost of Wake Forest University.

#1263

Kym Anderson

#54705

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Kym Anderson is an Australian economist, specialising in trade policy and issues related to the World Trade Organization. He studied at the University of New England, the University of Adelaide and the University of Chicago before completing a PhD at Stanford University. He holds a Personal Chair in the School of Economics and is Foundation Executive Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide

#1264

Marianne Ferber

#38094

Overall Influence

1923 - 2013 (90 years)

Marianne A. Ferber was an American feminist economist and the author of many books and articles on the subject of women's work, the family, and the construction of gender. She held a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

#1265

Richard L. Stroup

#28387

Overall Influence

1943 - 2021 (78 years)

Richard Lyndell Stroup was a free-market environmentalist and emeritus professor of economics at both North Carolina State University and Montana State University. He was co-founder of the Property and Environment Research Center and a senior fellow. He was also a research fellow at the Independent Institute, adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute, and a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society. At Montana State University, he served as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics & Economics from 2003 to 2006. Stroup was director of the Office of Policy Analysis in the U.S. Department of the ...

#1266

John Haltiwanger

#41378

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

John Couch Haltiwanger is the Dudley and Louisa Dillard Professor of Economics and Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland-College Park. He is best known for his work developing and studying longitudinal firm-level microdata, which formed the foundation of his influential work on the determinants of firm-level job creation, job destruction, and economic performance.

#1267

Georg Weizsäcker

#48338

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Georg Heinrich von Weizsäcker is a German economist and currently the Professor for Microeconomic Theory and Applications at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research interests include microeconomics, experimental economics, financial decision making, game theory and decision theory. In 2017, Weizsäcker's contributions to a better understanding of expectations formation and decisions under uncertainty were awarded the Gossen Prize.

#1268

Charles. A. E. Goodhart

#67389

Overall Influence

#1269

John Van Reenen

#45897

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

John Michael Van Reenen OBE is the Ronald Coase School Professor at the London School of Economics. He is also Director of the Programme On Innovation and Diffusion at the Centre for Economic Performance. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award.

#1270

Steven Rosefielde

#3334

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Steven R. Rosefielde is professor of comparative economic systems at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Red Holocaust In Red Holocaust, Rosefielde's main point is that communism in general, although he focuses mostly on Stalinism, is less genocidal, and that is a key distinction from Nazism. According to German historian , the term is not popular among scholars in Germany or internationally. Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine writes that usage of this term "allows the reality it describes to immediately attain, in the West...

#1271

Eli Noam

#18913

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Eli M. Noam is a professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School, and holds the Paul Garrett Chair in Public Policy and Business Responsibility. He is the director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information . He works on the economics, management, and policy of media and the digital world, most recently on global media ownership and on next-generation “Cloud-TV”. He has written over 400 articles and has authored, edited, and co-edited over 30 books.

#1272

Gilbert E. Metcalf

#38017

Overall Influence

Gilbert E. Metcalf is the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service, emeritus, at Tufts University, where he was a professor of economics. Currently, he is a visiting professor at the MIT Sloan School as well as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a University Fellow at Resources For The Future. Under the Obama Administration, he served as the deputy assistant secretary for environment and energy at the U.S. Department of Treasury where he was the founding U.S. Board Member for the UN based Green Climate Fund. His research interests are in th...

#1273

Linda Datcher Loury

#48041

Overall Influence

1952 - 2011 (59 years)

Linda Datcher Loury was an American economist who was a professor of economics at Tufts University. Her work on family and neighborhood economics put her among the founders of social economics. Biography Loury was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1952. She attended the Friends School of Baltimore, Swarthmore College , and earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. She held research and teaching positions at the University of Michigan and the Harvard Kennedy School before joining the faculty of Tufts University in 1984, where she worked for the remainder of her life. She married her graduate school classmate Glenn Loury in 1983, and together they raised two sons.

#1274

Paul McCracken

#14787

Overall Influence

1915 - 2012 (97 years)

Paul Winston McCracken was an American economist born in Richland, Iowa. He held an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in Economics and a B.A. from William Penn University. He was the Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Economics, and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. McCracken was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors from 1969 to 1971 under President Richard Nixon. He took the lead in developing economic policy at the outset of the Nixon administration.

#1275

Hélène Rey

#19007

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Hélène Rey is a French economist who serves as Professor at London Business School . Her work focuses on international trade, financial imbalances, financial crises and the international monetary system.

#1276

Harry J. Holzer

#36439

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Harry Joseph Holzer is an American economist, educator and public policy analyst. Early life Holzer grew up in a rural area near Atlantic City, New Jersey. His parents, Simon and Suzanne , were Holocaust survivors from Poland. His father owned and operated a small chicken farm, while his mother was a seamstress and operated a fabric shop. His only sister, Marilyn, is an occupational therapist in Jerusalem.

#1277

Paul Dembinski

#43025

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Paul H. Dembinski is a Polish-Swiss economist. Life Paul Dembinski studied economics and political science in Krakow, Geneva, Fribourg, Cameroon and at Oxford University's St. Anthony College. Starting in 1979, he was a research assistant at the University of Geneva. That same year, he obtained a postgraduate diploma in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. In 1982, he received his doctorate in economics from the University of Geneva. In 1990, he became an associate professor at the University of Fribourg where he holds the professorship for strategy and international competition.

#1278

Michael Walker

#18719

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Michael Angus Walker is a Canadian economist. He is best known as the founder of the Fraser Institute. He is a journalist, broadcaster and consultant. Biography Walker earned a BA from St. Francis Xavier University, and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He worked at the Bank of Canada and the Department of Finance Canada. He then taught at the University of Western Ontario and Carleton University. Under his leadership, a series of conferences were started in the mid-1980s to measure economic freedom and rank countries accordingly.

#1279

Alexandre Lamfalussy

Alexandre Lamfalussy

#19276

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Alexandre, Baron Lamfalussy was a Hungarian-born Belgian economist who served as President of the European Monetary Institute from 1994 to 1997, which was the forerunner to the European Central Bank .

#1280

Sartaj Aziz

#4985

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Sartaj Aziz is a Pakistani economist and strategist, having previously served as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan, member of the federal cabinet as the de facto Minister for Foreign Affairs, a Federal Senator as well as the National Security Advisor.

#1281

Paul Roderick Gregory

#18026

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Paul Roderick Gregory is a professor of economics at the University of Houston, Texas, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a research fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research. He has written about Russia and the Soviet Union.

#1282

Arthur O'Sullivan

#64497

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Arthur O'Sullivan is an American economist, Professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark College, and author of college textbooks on economics. Works Sole authorUrban Economics, Irwin / McGraw-Hill Series in Urban Economics, 1990 – 2008 . With Steven M. SheffrinEconomics: Principles in Action, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2003. Microeconomics: Principles and Tools, Prentice-Hall, 2004.

#1283

Şevket Pamuk

#11759

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Şevket Pamuk is Professor of Economics and Economic History at Boğaziçi University. Between 2007 and 2013, Pamuk was chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.

#1284

Gary Libecap

#33774

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Gary Don Libecap is a Distinguished Professor of Corporate Environmental Management at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California Santa Barbara. Libecap is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; a research fellow at the Hoover Institution; and a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, and a member of the Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy, Harvard University. He was the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge U...

#1285

Mathias Dewatripont

Mathias Dewatripont

#29716

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Mathias François Dewatripont is a Belgian economist and professor at the and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He studied economics at the ULB, and obtained a PhD at Harvard University in 1986 . He is a member of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy of the DG Competition , since 2004. He is a member of European Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso's Group of Economic Policy Analysis, since 2005. In 2005, he was President of the European Economic Association. He is a member of the Econometric Society and Research Director at CEPR.

#1286

Brock Blomberg

#41895

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Stephen Brock Blomberg is the 8th president of California Institute of Integral Studies. An internationally known scholar and former President of Ursinus College, Blomberg is best known in academia for his work on the economics of terrorism.

#1287

Perry Mehrling

#44195

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Perry G. Mehrling is professor of economics at Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He was professor of economics at Barnard College in New York City for 30 years. He specializes in the study of financial theory within the history of economics.

#1288

Susan M. Collins

Susan M. Collins

#42237

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Susan M. Collins is an American economist who has served as the 14th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston since July 1, 2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to lead any of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. Collins previously served as the 16th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan from 2020 to 2022.

#1289

Katherine Baicker

#18721

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Katherine Baicker is an American health economist best known for the Oregon Medicaid health experiment. She serves as the provost of the University of Chicago. Biography Baicker received her B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1993 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1998. She began her academic career teaching economics at Dartmouth College from 1998 to 2005 and her political career in 2001, serving as a senior economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors. From 2005 to 2007, she taught public policy at the University of California Los Angeles School of Public Affairs.

#1290

Irma Adelman

#28407

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Irma Glicman Adelman was a Romanian-American economist. Early life and education Adelman was born in Chernivtsi, Romania in March 1930. In 1939, fleeing the Nazi regime, she moved with her family to Palestine where she continued her education through high school.

#1291

Oriol Amat

#30952

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Oriol Amat is a Catalan economist. He has served as Rector of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona from 2021 to 2023. He is also Full Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting at the same university since 2001.

#1292

Laurence Iannaccone

#8894

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Laurence Robert Iannaccone is a Professor of Economics at Chapman University, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Orange County, California. Before moving to Chapman in 2009 he was a Koch Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He has established "Religion, Economics, and Culture", an interdisciplinary "Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture" , and a new "Consortium for the Economic Study of Religion" . He is currently working on two books on the economics of religion. He is considered one of the pioneers of the field, and one of its most staunch advoca...

#1293

Arun Sundararajan

Arun Sundararajan

#8180

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Arun Sundararajan is the NEC Faculty Fellow, Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics and a Doctoral Coordinator at the Stern School of Business, New York University. For 2010–12, he is the Distinguished Academic Fellow at the Center for IT and the Networked Economy, Indian School of Business. Sundararajan is an expert on the economics of digital goods and network effects. He also conducts research about network science and the socioeconomic transformation of India.

#1294

Amir Yaron

#33834

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Amir Yaron is an Israeli-American economist and the current Governor of the Bank of Israel. Prior to serving as Governor, Yaron served as Professor of Banking and Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

#1295

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

#40186

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Pinelopi "Penny" Koujianou Goldberg is a Greek-American economist who served as chief economist of the World Bank from 2018 until 2020. She holds the named chair of Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

#1296

Albert O.hg Hirschman

#68371

Overall Influence

#1297

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

#22038

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Jomo Kwame Sundaram , fondly known just as Jomo, is a prominent Malaysian economist. He is a senior adviser at the Khazanah Research Institute, visiting fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, and an adjunct professor at the International Islamic University .

#1298

Rick Levin

#13002

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Richard Charles Levin is an American economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera.

#1299

David Schmidtz

#11614

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

David Schmidtz is a Canadian-American philosopher. He is Presidential Chair of Moral Science at West Virginia University's Chambers College of Business and Economics. He is also editor-in-chief of the journal Social Philosophy & Policy. Previously, he was Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic at the University of Arizona. While at Arizona, he founded and served as inaugural head of the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science.

#1300

Gregory C. Chow

#68580

Overall Influence

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