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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1351

Robert Shimer

#48482

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Robert Shimer is an American macroeconomist and labor economist who currently holds the Alvin H. Baum Chair in the Economics Department of the University of Chicago. He was an editor of the Journal of Political Economy from 2004 to 2012. His research focuses on the search and matching approach to labor economics. He is especially known for arguing that the standard labor market matching model predicts fluctuations in the unemployment rate much smaller than those actually observed over the business cycle, an observation which has sometimes been called the Shimer puzzle. His book Labor Markets ...

#1352

Frédéric Lordon

Frédéric Lordon

#7424

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Frédéric Lordon is a French economist and philosopher, CNRS Director of Research at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique in Paris. He is an influential figure in France's Nuit debout movement and has regularly contributed to French broadcast and print media on French and European politics, and also writes a regular opinion column for Le Monde diplomatique. He has argued in favour of Communism as an alternative to Capitalism in books, articles and media appearances, and has been engaged in a project of re-grounding the social sciences in a Spinoza-inspired materialism. He ...

#1353

Burton Weisbrod

Burton Weisbrod

#34103

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Burton A. Weisbrod is an American economist who pioneered the theory of option value, and the theory of why voluntary nonprofit organizations exist, He also developed the methodology for valuing voluntary labor. He advanced methods for benefit-cost analysis of public policy by recognizing the roles of externality effects and collective public goodss in program evaluation. He applied those methods to the fields of education, health care, poverty, public interest law, and nonprofit organization. Over a career of fifty years, he published 16 books and over 200 scholarly articles. He is current...

#1354

Agneta Stark

#26495

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Agneta Stark , is the vice chancellor of Dalarna University in Sweden and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 2012 to 2013. She is also the vice chair of the Association of Swedish Higher Education.

#1355

Lester G. Telser

#31354

Overall Influence

1931 - 2022 (91 years)

Lester Greenspan Telser was an American economist and Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Chicago. Education and career He was a native of the Hyde Park neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago and a graduate of the Chicago Public Schools and Roosevelt University, where he studied under Abba Lerner. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956, with Milton Friedman as his principal thesis supervisor. He taught briefly at Iowa State University and was conscripted into the United States Army in which he served from 1956 to 1958. He was a member of the University of Chicago faculty from 1958 .

#1356

Alan Manning

#39219

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Alan Manning is a British economist and professor of economics at the London School of Economics. Manning is one of the leading labour economists globally, having made major contributions to the analysis of the imperfections of labour markets, the minimum wage literature, migration, and job polarization.

#1357

Robert Brenner

#13999

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Robert Paul Brenner is an American economic historian. He is a professor emeritus of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, editor of the socialist journal Against the Current, and editorial committee member of New Left Review. His research interests are early modern European history, economic, social and religious history, agrarian history, social theory/Marxism, and Tudor–Stuart England.

#1358

Uwe Reinhardt

#18904

Overall Influence

1937 - 2017 (80 years)

Uwe Ernst Reinhardt was a professor of political economy at Princeton University and held several positions in the healthcare industry. Reinhardt was a prominent scholar in health care economics and a frequent speaker and author on subjects ranging from the war in Iraq to the future of Medicare.

#1359

Martin Hellwig

#31038

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Martin Friedrich Hellwig is a German economist. He has been the director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods since 2004, after spending his academic career as a professor at University of Bonn , University of Basel , Harvard University , and University of Mannheim . Between 2000 and 2004 he was the head of the German . He is a fellow of the European Economic Association.

#1360

Richard G. Newell

#55326

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Richard G. Newell is an American energy economist, environmental economist, and climate policy expert who served as the seventh administrator of the United States Energy Information Administration from 2009 to 2011. He is currently the president and CEO of Resources for the Future, a nonprofit environmental economics research and policy institute in Washington, D.C. He has previously served as Senior Economist for Energy and Environment on the President's Council of Economic Advisers and as Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics at Duke University.

#1361

Cheng Hsiao

#67801

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Cheng Hsiao is a Chinese-American econometrician and statistician, a professor of economics at the University of Southern California. Hsiao is known for his works in time series analysis and panel data analysis.

#1362

Bruce Caldwell

#25126

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Bruce J. Caldwell is an American historian of economics, Research Professor of Economics at Duke University, and Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy. Prior to holding this position, Caldwell was the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1979, he received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and did post-doctoral work at New York University, where he was influenced by both Ludwig Lachmann and Israel Kirzner.

#1363

Scott Rozelle

#42880

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Scott Douglas Rozelle is an American development economist currently serving as a researcher at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and one of the co-directors of the Rural Education Action Program at Stanford University. As of the late 2010s, Rozelle has spent over 30 years doing research heavily based on the agriculture, economics, and education of mainland China.

#1364

Menzie Chinn

#55232

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Menzie David Chinn is a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research International Finance and Macroeconomics Program.

#1365

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

#40515

Overall Influence

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate at Columbia Business School. For his research on the economic impact of working from home on real estate and public finance, he is called "the prophet of urban doom" by The New York Times.

#1366

Mario Monti

#12583

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Mario Monti is an Italian economist and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis. Monti served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and for Competition from 1999 to 2004. Monti has also been rector and president of Bocconi University in Milan for many years.

#1367

Michael Kalecki

#71846

Overall Influence

#1368

Glen Weyl

#26840

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (39 years)

Eric Glen Weyl is an American economist and a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and author of the book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society with co-author Eric Posner.

#1369

Edwin Mills

#39583

Overall Influence

1928 - 2021 (93 years)

Edwin Smith Mills III was an American economist known for his contributions to urban economics. Mills was a long-time faculty member at Johns Hopkins University , Princeton University , and Northwestern University . He was the founding editor of the Journal of Urban Economics.

#1370

Steven C. Salop

#57713

Overall Influence

Steven C. Salop is an American economist and academic whose work focuses on antitrust policy. He is a professor of economics and law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Salop is known for his scholarship on exclusionary practices and vertical mergers. Together with David Scheffman, he popularized the concept of raising rivals' costs as an antitrust violation.

#1371

Thomas H. Tietenberg

#64462

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Thomas Harry Tietenberg is an American economist and environmentalist, and Emeritus Professor at Colby College, known for his work in the field of resource-based economy. Biography Born in 1942 to Harry Hall and Florence Elaine Tietenberg, Tietenberg obtained his BA in International Affairs at the United States Air Force Academy in 1964. The next year he obtained his MA in Economics from the University of the East. In 1970 he obtained another Msc from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where in 1971 he also obtained his PhD in economics.

#1372

Colin Carter

#50433

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Colin Andre Carter is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. His research/teaching interests include international trade, futures markets, and commodity markets.

#1373

Michael Brennan

#30450

Overall Influence

1942 - 2007 (65 years)

Michael J. Brennan is emeritus professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Brennan co-designed the Brennan-Schwartz interest rate model and was a pioneer of real options theory. His writings on real options and asset pricing, corporate finance, derivative securities, market microstructure, the role of information in capital markets, and risk management have been published extensively.

#1374

Kai A. Konrad

#35855

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Kai A. Konrad is a German economist with his main research interest in public economics. Education Konrad got his university degrees at the University of Heidelberg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich .

#1375

Paresh Narayan

#43502

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Paresh Kumar Narayan , is a Fijian-Australian academic of Fiji Indian origin. He was Australia's youngest Professor of Finance, and is now at Monash University. Early life and education The eldest of three brothers, the others being Nilesh Narayan and Nitesh Narayan, Narayan was born in a farming community in Navua. He attended Vashist Muni Primary School, in Navua, then Mahatma Gandhi Memorial primary and secondary schools and finally, Suva Muslim College. On completing high school, he enrolled at the University of the South Pacific on a Government scholarship in a Bachelor of Arts program, majoring in economics and geography.

#1376

Francis Kramarz

#48498

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Francis Kramarz is a French economist who works as Professor at the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique , where he has been directing the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics . He is one of the leading labour economists in France.

#1377

Edward Wolff

#45386

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Edward Nathan Wolff is an American economist whose work concerns wealth and wealth disparity. He is a professor of economics at New York University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also works at the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being a department of the Levy Economics Institute, where he is in charge of their distribution of income and wealth program.

#1378

Martha Chen

#16014

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Martha Chen is an American academic, scholar and social worker, who is presently a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and senior advisor of the global research-policy-action network WIEGO and a member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research . Martha is a development practitioner and scholar who has worked with the working poor in India, South Asia, and around the world. Her areas of specialization are employment, poverty alleviation, informal economy, and gender. She lived in Bangladesh working with BRAC, ...

#1379

Amir Sufi

#35781

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Amir Sufi is the Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was awarded the 2017 Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association, given biennially to a financial economics scholar under the age of 40 for significant original research that is relevant to finance practice. He was awarded for his work on household debt and the financial crisis.

#1380

Menahem Yaari

#14056

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Menahem E. Yaari is an Israeli economist who has been the S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was the President of the Open University of Israel from 1992 to 1997. He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1987, the Rothschild Prize in the Social Sciences in 1994, and the EMET Prize in the Social Sciences in 2012.

#1381

Tyler Goodspeed

#24172

Overall Influence

Tyler Beck Goodspeed is an American economist and economic historian who was the acting chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from June 2020 to January 2021. He resigned from his position on January 7 in the wake of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.

#1382

Claude d'Aspremont Lynden

#53291

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Count Claude d'Aspremont Lynden is a Belgian economist and professor at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics , and Département des sciences économiques . He obtained a PhD at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University in 1973. His research focus is mathematical economics, social choice theory, and industrial organization. In 1995, he was awarded the Francqui Prize in Human Sciences.

#1383

James Andreoni

#51326

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

James Andreoni is a Professor in the Economics Department of the University of California, San Diego where he directs the EconLab. His research focuses on behavioral economics, experimental economics, and public economics. Andreoni is well known for his research on altruism, and in particular for coining the term warm-glow giving to describe personal gains from altruistic acts. Andreoni's research uses a mixture of economic theory, experiments, and standard analysis of survey data to explore a variety of topics including: moral decision making, time preferences, charitable giving and altruistic decisions.

#1384

Denis Patrick O'Brien

#57847

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Denis Patrick O'Brien, FBA was an English economist who worked in industrial economics and the history of economic thought. O'Brien graduated in 1960 with a BSc from University College London. From 1963 to 1972 he was Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer and then Reader in Economics at Queen's University Belfast. From 1972 to 1997 he was Professor of Economics at the University of Durham where he was Emeritus until his death in 2023.

#1385

Paul J. J. Welfens

#37771

Overall Influence

1957 - 2022 (65 years)

Paul J.J. Welfens was a German economist. He was born in Düren, West Germany and studied economics in Wuppertal, Duisburg and Paris. He obtained his PhD in 1985 and his full professorship in 1989, after which he became professor at the Wilhelms University of Münster and the University of Potsdam.

#1386

Richard Sutch

#30393

Overall Influence

1942 - 2019 (77 years)

Richard Charles Sutch was a professor of economics at the University of California Riverside. He is noted for his work on the economic analysis of U.S. slavery and emancipation. He was awarded a "Clio" Award For Exceptional Support to the Field of Cliometrics, by the Cliometric Society and his work has received recognition by the Economic History Association via its awarding him the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the Outstanding Article in The Journal of Economic History. Over the period 1989-1990 he served as the president of the Economic History Association.

#1387

Kim B. Clark

#13810

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Kim Bryce Clark is an American scholar, educator, and religious leader who has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since April 2015, and was the church's seventeenth Commissioner of Church Education from 2015 to 2019. He served previously as the 15th president of Brigham Young University–Idaho from 2005 to 2015, and as the dean of the Harvard Business School from 1995 to 2005, where he was also the George F. Baker Professor of Business Administration.

#1388

Michael Baye

#34914

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Michael Roy Baye is the "Bert Elwert" Professor of Business Economics in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Education and profession Baye received his B.S. from Texas A&M University in 1980 and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University in 1983. Baye has held appointments at Cambridge, Oxford, Erasmus, Tilburg, and the New Economic School in Moscow. He has won many awards for outstanding teaching, and regularly teaches courses in managerial economics and industrial organization at the undergraduate, M.B.A., and Ph.D. level.

#1389

Ray Marshall

#32281

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

Freddie Ray Marshall is an American economist who is the professor emeritus and Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Early life and education Marshall was born in 1928 in Oak Grove, Louisiana and had lived in an orphanage. Marshall joined the United States Navy in 1943 when he was fifteen years old and served during World War II. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Millsaps College, a Master of Arts from Louisiana State University, and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in economics. ...

#1390

Henrik Kleven

#42247

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Henrik Jacobsen Kleven is a Danish economist who is currently a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also co-editor of the American Economic Review. His research lies inside the domain of public economics and inequality, in particular questions about tax policy and welfare programs. He combines economic theory and empirical evidence to show ways of designing more effective public policies. His work has had policy impact in both developed and developing countries.

#1391

John Williams Mellor

#31146

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

John Williams Mellor is a French-born American economist, known for his work in the field of economic and agricultural development in third world countries. In 1985, he was awarded the Wihuri International Prize, for his “constructive work that has remarkably promoted and developed the security of nutrient supply for mankind.” A Fulbright Scholar, he spent most of his academic career at his alma mater, Cornell University. In the early 1970s, he became an economist for USAID, eventually becoming their chief economist in 1976. After leaving USAID, he became the second director-general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in 1977, where he remained until 1990.

#1392

Max Corden

#59976

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (97 years)

Warner Max Corden AC was an Australian economist. He was mostly known for his work on the theory of trade protection, including the development of the Dutch disease model of international trade. He was also active in the fields of international monetary systems, macroeconomic policies of developing countries and Australian economics. Corden, originally German, emigrated from Nazi Germany to Melbourne in 1939. Corden died on 21 October 2023, at the age of 96.

#1393

Xavier Vives

#54505

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Xavier Vives is a Spanish economist regarded as one of the main figures in the field of industrial organization and, more broadly, microeconomics. He is currently Chaired Professor of Regulation, Competition and Public Policies, and academic director of the Public-Private Sector Research Center at IESE Business School in Barcelona.

#1394

Dora L. Costa

#41428

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Dora L. Costa is an American economics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is the Kenneth L. Sokoloff Professor of Economic History. She is also the department chair of the economics department. In addition to her teaching position, Costa is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research .

#1395

Lawrence M. Kahn

#59188

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Lawrence M. Kahn is the Braunstein Family Professor and Professor of Economics at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Education Kahn received his B.A. with High Honors and High Distinction in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1971 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975 with a dissertation entitled "Unions and Labor Market Segmentation".

#1396

Michael Munger

#15571

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Michael Curtis Munger is an American economist and a former chair of the political science department at Duke University, where he continues to teach political science, public policy, and economics. He is a prolific writer, and his book Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices is now a standard work in the field of policy analysis. In 2008 he was the Libertarian candidate for Governor of North Carolina.

#1397

James C. Miller III

James C. Miller III

#23340

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

James Clifford Miller III is an American economist and former government official who served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission between 1981 and 1985 and as Budget Director for President Ronald Reagan between 1985 and 1988. Miller was the first member of the FTC with a background as a career economist, as opposed to a legal background as is common.

#1398

Paul Seabright

#29095

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Paul Seabright is British Professor of Economics in the Industrial Economics Institute and Toulouse School of Economics at the University of Toulouse, France. Education Seabright did his undergraduate studies at New College, Oxford, and gained congratulatory first class honours in 1980. He completed his Master of Philosophy in Economics in 1982 and Doctor of Philosophy in Economics in 1988 from the University of Oxford.

#1399

Ariél Pakes

#63768

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Ariél Stanley Pakes is the Thomas Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He specializes in econometrics and industrial organization. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a winner of the Frisch Medal, and a recipient of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017. Ariel was the Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization in 2007. In 2017 he received the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize and in 2018 the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award. In 2019 Ariel was appointed a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association.

#1400

George Provopoulos

George Provopoulos

#37385

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

George Provopoulos was the Governor of the Bank of Greece from 2008 to 2014, and was a member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council. Prior to his appointment as Central Bank Head, he was a professor at the University of Athens.

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