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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1401

Robert M. Anderson

#54329

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Robert Murdoch Anderson is Professor of Economics and of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is director of the Center for Risk Management Research, University of California, Berkeley and he was chair of the University of California Academic Senate 2011-12. He is also the Co-Director for the Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk at UC Berkeley.

#1402

Tran Van Tho

#33152

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Trần Văn Thọ is a Vietnamese former economic advisor to the Japanese government, head of a major Japanese bank’s ODA assessment committee, and a professor of economics at the faculty of Social Sciences of Waseda University in Japan.

#1403

Stephen J. Turnovsky

#61556

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Stephen J. Turnovsky is a New Zealand economist and the Ford and Louisa Van Voorhis Professor of Political Economy at the University of Washington. He is one of the most highly cited economists in the world. As of November 2015, Research Papers in Economics ranks him as the 32nd most influential economist. RePEc reports that he has published over 5000 pages in academic journals, making him one of the top 5 most prolific economists.

#1404

Heinz König

#52519

Overall Influence

1927 - 2002 (75 years)

Heinz König was a German researcher, economist and former professor for Economy and Econometrics at the University of Mannheim from 1962 to 1996. Moreover, he served as President of the University of Mannheim between 1979 and 1982. In addition, König was founding director of the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung .

#1405

Ernesto Zedillo

#7063

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is a Mexican economist and politician. He was the 61st president of Mexico from 1 December 1994 to 30 November 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party .

#1406

Karolina Ekholm

#37691

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Karolina Ekholm is a Swedish economist and public official. Education and research Ekholm, obtained a PhD in 1995 from the Department of Economics at Lund University. As a researcher she has focused mainly on the effects of globalisation. Since 1 April 2010 she is also Professor at Stockholm University.

#1407

David T. Ellwood

#15480

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

David T. Ellwood is an American economist and university administrator. He served as the dean of Harvard Kennedy School and as the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.

#1408

Mark J. Machina

#56327

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Mark Joseph Machina is an American economist noted for work in non-standard decision theory. He is currently a distinguished professor at the University of California, San Diego. The Marschak–Machina triangle, a probability diagram used in expected utility theory, bears his name, along with that of Jacob Marschak.

#1409

Matthew J. Slaughter

Matthew J. Slaughter

#30830

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Matthew J. Slaughter is the Paul Danos Dean and the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is also the founding Faculty Director of Tuck's Center for Global Business and Government. In addition, he is currently a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; an adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; a member of the advisory committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a member of the academic advisory board of the International Tax Policy Forum; and an academic advisor to ...

#1410

Diego Comin

#43046

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Diego Comin is a professor of economics at Dartmouth College. Background and research Comin's research focuses on macroeconomics, technology, and innovation economics. He has written on the effects of technology shifts and whether they act to challenge economic disparities, or only exacerbate existing wealth divisions.

#1411

Bent Flyvbjerg

#8919

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Bent Flyvbjerg is a Danish economic geographer. He was the First BT Professor and Inaugural Chair of Major Programme Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School and is the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor and Chair of Major Program Management at the IT University of Copenhagen. He was previously Professor of Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark and Chair of Infrastructure Policy and Planning at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.

#1412

Axel Börsch-Supan

#48458

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Axel Börsch-Supan is a German researcher, economist and director of the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, Germany. He is Professor of Economics and Chair for the Economics of Aging at the Technical University of Munich. Additionally, he is Managing Director of SHARE-ERIC . An important field of his empirical research focuses on socio-political issues that are associated with economic aspects of demographic change and the aging of the population.

#1413

Alex Brenninkmeijer

#47444

Overall Influence

1951 - 2022 (71 years)

Alex Brenninkmeijer was a Dutch lawyer, judge and academic, national ombudsman between 2005 and 2014, and member of the European Court of Auditors from 2014 until his death in 2022 in Luxembourg at the age of 70.

#1414

Monika Piazzesi

#50619

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Monika Piazzesi received her PhD in economics at Stanford University. She was a recipient of the Deutsche Studienstiftung ERP . She has been the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics at Stanford University since 2010. She is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. In 2005, when she was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Business School, she received the Germán Bernácer Prize. She subsequently won the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Her research focuses on asset pricing and time series econometrics, especially related to bond markets and the term structure of interest rates.

#1415

Jürgen Wolters

#49409

Overall Influence

1940 - 2015 (75 years)

Jürgen Wolters was a German econometrician specializing in time series analysis. He is a former professor of econometrics at the Free University of Berlin. Wolters earned his diplom in mathematics from the University of Stuttgart in 1966, and later a doctorate in economics under supervision of Heinz König at the University of Mannheim.

#1416

Sri Edi Swasono

#57409

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Sri Edi Swasono is a professor of economics at the University of Indonesia. He was a member People's Consultative Assembly of the emissary group in the New Order era of Indonesia, ruled by President Soeharto. He has been involved in the cooperative world. His wife is the first daughter of Mohammad Hatta, the father of cooperative Indonesia and the first vice president of Indonesia. Sri Edi spent his life to study and to fight for the development of cooperatives in Indonesia.

#1417

Ugo Panizza

#32328

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Ugo Panizza is an Italian economist. He is a professor of International Economics and Pictet Chair in Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He is a vice-president of the Centre for Economic Policy Research , the director of the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies, the editor in Chief of Oxford Open Economics and International Development Policy, and the deputy director of the Centre for Finance and Development.

#1418

Ben Polak

#31722

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Benjamin "Ben" Polak is a British professor of economics and management and former Provost at Yale University. From 1999 to 2001 Polak was the Henry Kohn Associate Professor of Economics and is now the inaugural William C. Brainard Professor of Economics. In January 2013, he became the Provost of Yale University.

#1419

Mark V. Pauly

#41083

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Mark V. Pauly is an American economist whose work focuses on healthcare management and business economics. He is currently the Bendheim Professor in the Department of Health Care Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Pauly is a former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission, and has been a consultant to the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the American Enterprise Institute, and served on the Medicare Technical Advisory Panel. He is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Spring...

#1420

Orazio Attanasio

#41372

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Orazio Attanasio is an Italian economist and the Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University. He was the Jeremy Bentham Chair of Economics at University College London. He graduated from the University of Bologna in 1982 and London School of Economics in 1988. He then went to teach at Stanford and was a National Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a visiting professor at the University of Chicago before arriving at University College London. Currently he is also a research director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, co-director of the Centre for the Evaluation of De...

#1421

Barry Bluestone

#22209

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Barry Alan Bluestone is an American academic who is the Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy, founding director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, and the founding dean of the School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

#1422

Fabrizio Zilibotti

Fabrizio Zilibotti

#15261

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Fabrizio Zilibotti is an Italian economist. He is the Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University. Zilibotti was previously professor of economics at University College London, the University of Zürich, and at the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm.

#1423

Michel Chossudovsky

Michel Chossudovsky

#11184

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian economist and author. He is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Ottawa and the president and director of the Centre for Research on Globalization , which runs the website globalresearch.ca, founded in 2001, which publishes falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Chossudovsky has promoted conspiracy theories about 9/11.

#1424

Anna Mikusheva

#49465

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Anna Mikusheva is the Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was the 2012 recipient of the Elaine Bennett Research Prize, a bi-annual prize that recognizes and celebrates research by a woman in the field of Economics, and was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow in 2013. She is a co-editor of the journal Econometric Theory.

#1425

Fiona Scott Morton

#22549

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Fiona M. Scott Morton is an American economist who serves as the Theodore Nierenberg Professor at Yale School of Management. Her research in industrial organization has covered industries including magazines, shipping, pharmaceuticals, and internet retail. She served as associate dean of the Yale School of Management from 2007 to 2010.

#1426

Phoebus Dhrymes

#58836

Overall Influence

1932 - 2016 (84 years)

Phoebus James Dhrymes was a Cypriot American econometrician. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University. Dhrymes made substantial contributions to econometric theory through journal articles and textbooks.

#1427

Hu Xingdou

#26570

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Hu Xingdou is a Chinese economist. He is a professor of economics at Beijing Institute of Technology, and is the founder of China Studies as well as various schools and 100 teaching posts and business management to guide the work of graduate students.

#1428

Marcel van Meerhaeghe

#39409

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

Marcel Alfons Gilbert van Meerhaeghe was a Belgian economist, professor, publicist and columnist. Marcel van Meerhaeghe was Professor of International Economic Relations at the State University of Ghent.

#1429

Coen Teulings

#46080

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Coenraad Nicolaas Teulings is a Dutch economist and distinguished professor at Utrecht University. He was formerly professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Cambridge and former Director of the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, as well as Chairman of Merifin Capital.

#1430

Annamaria Lusardi

Annamaria Lusardi

#30148

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Annamaria Lusardi is an Italian-born economist and the Denit Trust Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Economics and Accountancy at The George Washington University School of Business. In 2011 she founded and continues to serve as the Academic Director of the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center. Her interests focus on financial literacy and financial education.

#1431

Franco Amatori

#15187

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Franco Amatori is professor of economic history at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. With a scholarship of the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission, Amatori spent three semesters in the individual studies program of Harvard Business School under the tutelage of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

#1432

Robert W. Rosenthal

#21738

Overall Influence

1945 - 2002 (57 years)

Robert W. Rosenthal was an American economist, most known for his contributions to game theory. He obtained a B.A. in political economy from Johns Hopkins University , M.S. and Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University, advised by Robert B. Wilson. He worked as assistant professor in the department of Industrial Engineering and management science at Northwestern University , was member of the technical staff at Bell Labs , was professor of economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , State University of New York at Stony Brook and Boston University where he worked until his death from a heart attack.

#1433

Claudia Maria Buch

#18782

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Claudia Maria Buch is a German economist who currently serves as Vice President of the Bundesbank. She previously worked as professor at the University of Tübingen and served as a member of the German Council of Economic Experts. Buch worked as scientific director at the Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung in Tübingen and as chairperson of the economic council at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. She still teaches at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. Her research focuses on regulation and supervision of banking.

#1434

John Sutton

#39443

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

John Sutton is the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Education Sutton received his undergraduate education at University College Dublin, a graduate degree from Trinity College Dublin, and earned his Ph.D. at University of Sheffield.

#1435

Makoto Yano

#64608

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Makoto Yano is a Japanese economist, currently the president and chief research officer of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry . He is also a professor emeritus at Kyoto University and a professor by special appointment at Kyoto University's Institute of Economic Research and Sophia University.

#1436

Charles Andrew Myers

#36704

Overall Influence

1913 - 2000 (87 years)

Charles Andrew Myers was an American labor economist, and Professor of Labor Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known from his study on "Management in the industrial world," published in 1959 and his work on labor and management.

#1437

Lars-Hendrik Röller

#19646

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Lars-Hendrik Röller is a German economist who served as the Director General for Economic and Financial Policy at the German Chancellery from 2011 to 2022, a position that made him Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief economic advisor. He previously was the president of the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. In 2002, he was awarded the Gossen Prize in recognition for his contributions to empirical industrial economics.

#1438

Jonathan Morduch

#44780

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Jonathan Morduch is a professor of public policy and economics at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He is a development economist most well known for his significant academic contributions to assessing the impact of microfinance since the early years of the movement. He has written extensively on poverty and financial institutions in developing countries and on tensions between achieving social impacts and meeting financial goals in microfinance.

#1439

Pratima Bansal

#22951

Overall Influence

Pratima "Tima" Bansal is a Canadian economist and management professor. She is a professor of strategy at the Ivey Business School and director of Ivey's Centre on Building Sustainable Value. She is the founder and executive director of the Network for Business Sustainability, a vehicle aimed at sharing academic research on business sustainability with managers. In April 2020, she was appointed to chair the expert panel on the circular economy by the Council of Canadian Academies.

#1440

Catharine Bond Hill

Catharine Bond Hill

#22516

Overall Influence

Catharine "Cappy" Bond Hill is the former president of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She began in 2006, after former president Frances D. Fergusson retired. Before coming to Vassar, Hill was provost at Williams College. In September 2016 she became managing director of Ithaka S+R.

#1441

Jeffrey Miron

#26109

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Jeffrey Alan "Jeff" Miron is an American economist. He served as the chairman of the department of economics at Boston University from 1992 to 1998, and currently teaches at Harvard University, serving as a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in Harvard's economics department. Miron holds the position of director of economic policy studies at the Cato Institute.

#1442

J. Barkley Rosser Jr.

#14290

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

John Barkley Rosser Jr. was a mathematical economist and Professor of Economics at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia since 1988. He was known for work in nonlinear economic dynamics, including applications in economics of catastrophe theory, chaos theory, and complexity theory . With Marina V. Rosser he invented the concept of the "new traditional economy". He introduced into economic discourse the concepts of chaotic bubbles, chaotic hysteresis , and econochemistry. He also invented the concepts of the megacorpstate and hypercyclic morphogenesis. He was the first to provide a mathematical model of the period of financial distress in a speculative bubble.

#1443

Charles C. Holt

#22589

Overall Influence

1921 - 2010 (89 years)

Charles C. Holt was Professor at the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is well known for his contributions to exponential smoothing. Holt held BS and MS degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He later earned a MA and a PhD from the University of Chicago.

#1444

Marilyn Waring

#30644

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Dame Marilyn Joy Waring is a New Zealand public policy scholar, international development consultant, former politician, environmentalist, feminist and a principal founder of feminist economics. In 1975, aged 23, she became New Zealand's youngest member of parliament for the liberal-conservative New Zealand National Party. As a member of parliament she chaired the Public Expenditure Committee. Her support of the opposition Labour Party's proposed nuclear-free New Zealand policy was instrumental in precipitating the 1984 New Zealand general election, and she left parliament in 1984.

#1445

Leonard Rapping

Leonard Rapping

#43843

Overall Influence

1934 - 1991 (57 years)

Leonard Alan Rapping was an American economist, who advised several Federal agencies. He also helped develop theories on the interplay of human behavior and business cycles. He was most famous for his work with Robert E. Lucas which laid the foundations for real business cycle theory, which holds that the financial expectations of business executives and consumers help mold their decisions, therefore influencing economic outcomes. That theory helped analyze the 1970s phenomenon of "stagflation", in which prices rose despite economic stagnation and recession.

#1446

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi

#21902

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi , is an Italian economist, investment professional and manager. Biography Born in 1968 in Cremona, Italy, he graduated from Liceo Classico "Daniele Manin". In 1986 he moved to Milan, Italy to attend Bocconi University. From 1992 to 1995 he lived in Barcelona, Spain where he studied and taught at ESADE and worked at Pirelli. In 1995 he moved to Washington, DC, USA to work at the Inter-American Development Bank. In 1999 he joined Harvard University as a Research Associate and earned a Ph.D. from ESADE. In 2001 he returned to Washington, DC, recruited by the World Bank Y...

#1447

Robin Matthews

#50862

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Robert Charles Oliver "Robin" Matthews was an economist and chess problemist. Matthews was born in Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford from 1965 to 1975 and the Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge from 1980 to 1991. He was also the Master of Clare College, Cambridge from 1975 to 1993.

#1448

Paul A. Gompers

#43749

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Paul A. Gompers is an American economist. He is the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is the co-author of three books. Early life Paul A. Gompers grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology from Harvard University in 1987. He earned a Marshall Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford, where he earned an MSc in economics. He earned a PhD in business economics from Harvard University in 1993.

#1449

Isaac Ehrlich

#58017

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Isaac Ehrlich is an American economist. He has done research in the economics of crime and law enforcement and the economics of deterrence, including the death penalty and its deterrent effects. Ehrlich has served as the Chair of the Department of Economics at the State University of New York at Buffalo since 2000.

#1450

Rajeev Dehejia

#46916

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Rajeev Dehejia is a professor of public policy in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He is the author of numerous academic articles in econometrics, labor economics, and development economics, including two widely cited papers on the evaluation of propensity score matching. He graduated in 1988 from Sir Robert Borden High School and in 1992 from Carleton University with the Governor General's Medal. He completed his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1997.

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