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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1451

Sheen T. Kassouf

#35597

Overall Influence

1928 - 2005 (77 years)

Sheen T. Kassouf was an American economist from New York known for research in financial mathematics. In 1957 he married Gloria Daher in Brooklyn, New York. Kassouf received a PhD in economics from Columbia University and was later professor of economics at University of California Irvine. Together with Edward O. Thorp he co-authored the book Beat the Market in 1967.

#1452

Duran Bell

#16480

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Duran Bell, Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. He was formerly a professor there in two departments, Economics and Anthropology. Education and early career Bell received his B.A. in economics in 1960 and his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1965, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He then joined the faculty in the Economics department at the University of California, Irvine in 1965.

#1453

Carl Kaysen

#18185

Overall Influence

1920 - 2010 (90 years)

Carl Kaysen was an American academic, policy advisor and international security specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-chair of the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the father of Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen. He was married for 50 years to Annette Neutra until her death in 1990. In 1994, he married Ruth Butler.

#1454

Edward Miguel

#45600

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Edward "Ted" Andrew Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Economics at University of California, Berkeley, US. He is the founder and faculty director of the Center for Effective Global Action at U.C. Berkeley.

#1455

Richard W. Roll

#75675

Overall Influence

#1456

Brigitte Granville

#37263

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Brigitte Evelyne Granville is an economist with dual French and British nationality. She is Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. She founded the Centre for Globalisation Research .

#1457

Charles A. Holt

#37148

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Charles A. Holt is a behavioral economist, the A. Willis Robertson Professor of Political Economy at the University of Virginia. He also teaches public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He developed with Susan K. Laury, the main test to measure risk aversion in 2002.

#1458

Ravi Kanbur

#26147

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Sanjiv M. Ravi Kanbur , is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He worked for the World Bank for almost two decades and was the director of the World Development Report.

#1459

Robert Wade

#27184

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Robert Hunter Wade is a political economy and development scholar. He has been Professor of Global Political Economy at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics since 1999.

#1460

Ethan Kaplan

#37555

Overall Influence

Ethan Kaplan is an associate professor of economics at the University of Maryland. Career Prior to his work at the University of Maryland, he was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, a visiting assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and an assistant professor of economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden.

#1461

Werner Güth

#49627

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Werner Güth is a German economist who, together with Rolf Schmittberger and Bernd Schwarze, first described the ultimatum game. He is currently Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.

#1462

Karl Gustav Jöreskog

#24257

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Karl Gustav Jöreskog is a Swedish statistician. Jöreskog is a professor emeritus at Uppsala University, and a co-author of the LISREL statistical program. He is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Jöreskog received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees at Uppsala University. He is also a former student of Herman Wold. He was a statistician at Educational Testing Service and a visiting professor at Princeton University.

#1463

Jonathan Haskel

#25856

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Jonathan Haskel is a British economist, and professor of economics at Imperial College Business School. Haskel currently serves as board member of the UK Statistics Authority, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee and a member of the Financial Conduct Authority Competition Decisions Committee and the Payment System Regulator Enforcement and Competition Decisions Committee.

#1464

Tom Velk

#49660

Overall Influence

Tom Velk is a libertarian-leaning American economist who teaches and lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the chair of the North American studies program at McGill University and a professor in that university's economics department. His research interests are in monetary economics and public policy, specifically the de-regulation of money markets and the usefulness—or lack thereof—of central banks.

#1465

Michael Lipton

#20419

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Michael Lipton was an English development studies economist specializing in the study of rural poverty in developing countries, including issues relating to land reform and urban bias. He spent much of his career at the University of Sussex, but also contributed to the work of international institutions, such as the World Bank's 2000/2001 World Development Report on poverty.

#1466

Leonard Wantchekon

#34643

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Leonard Wantchekon is a Beninese economist and professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and an affiliate of the Economics Department at Princeton University. He taught at Yale University and New York University . He is the founding director of the African School of Economics, which is based in Benin. His study with Nathan Nunn on the impact of slave trading on modern-day trust is among the most-cited studies in economics.

#1467

Edward M. Miller

#21789

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Edward McCarthy Miller, Jr. is an American economist and writer. His writings on race and intelligence have sparked debates on academic freedom. He has written extensively for racialist publications.

#1468

Edward Barbier

#76392

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

#1469

Jón Steinsson

#60090

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Jón Steinsson is Chancellor's Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley, a research associate and co-director of the Monetary Economics program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and associate editor of both American Economic Review: Insights, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard and his AB from Princeton.

#1470

Atif Mian

#25140

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Atif Rehman Mian is a Pakistani-American economist who serves as the John H. Laporte Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Public Policy, and Finance at Princeton University, and as the Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021, and was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2021.

#1471

Chien-chiang Lee

#76594

Overall Influence

#1472

Edward Stringham

#32350

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Edward Peter Stringham is an Austrian School American economist, former President of the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts , and the Davis Professor of Economic Innovation at Trinity College .

#1473

Edward S. Herman

#342

Overall Influence

1925 - 2017 (92 years)

Edward Samuel Herman was an American economist, media scholar and social critic. Herman is known for his media criticism, in particular the propaganda model hypothesis he developed with Noam Chomsky, a frequent co-writer. He held an appointment as Professor Emeritus of finance at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. He also taught at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

#1474

Parag Pathak

#30141

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Parag A. Pathak is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research where he co-founded and directs the working group on market design.

#1475

Alan Marcus

#27146

Overall Influence

Alan J. Marcus is an American economist, and the first recipient of the Mario J. Gabelli Endowed Professorship at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, where he currently teaches. He is an author of several textbooks widely used in finance and MBA programs internationally, including Fundamentals of Corporate Finance with Stewart Myers and Richard A. Brealey. Marcus serves on the advisory board of the CFA Institute.

#1476

Partha Sen

#64191

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Partha Sen is an Indian professor of economics, associated with the Delhi School of Economics. His research interests are International Trade, Macroeconomic Theory, and International Finance. Early life and education Partha Sen was born on 4 November 1951. In 1972, he completed a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University of Delhi, and an Master of Arts in Economics in 1975. In 1979, he was awarded an MSocSci in Economics by the University of Birmingham. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1984.

#1477

James Abegglen

#23918

Overall Influence

1926 - 2007 (81 years)

James Christian Abegglen was a Japanese business theorist and professor in management and economics at Sophia University. He was one of the founders of the Boston Consulting Group in 1963, and the first representative director of its Tokyo branch, founded in 1966.

#1478

Peter Schmidt

#42444

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Peter Schmidt is an American economist and econometrician. He holds a University Distinguished Professor position at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Schmidt is considered a foundational scholar in econometrics, having authored an early textbook in the field as well as over 150 peer-reviewed articles. In addition, Schmidt has been recognized for his excellence in teaching, with one economist stating that "a top twenty economics department could be started up from" the students he has mentored.

#1479

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

#26886

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a development economist who has gained recognition for her work with the United Nations Development Programme and for her writing in publications including the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, which she founded.

#1480

Huang Da

#17439

Overall Influence

1925 - 2023 (98 years)

Huang Da was a Chinese economist who was the president of Renmin University of China. He is regarded as the founder of modern financial research in China. Life and career Huang Da was born in Tianjin to an intellectual family in 1925. He was educated at Huabei Union University , later Renmin University of China. He was the president of Renmin University of China from 1991 to 1994. He was a founding member of the Monetary Policy Commission of the People's Bank of China, serving from 1997 to 1999.

#1481

Connel Fullenkamp

#55798

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Connel Fullenkamp is an economist and the director of undergraduate studies and professor of the practice in economics at Duke University, where he teaches core economics and financial economics courses. In addition to his work at Duke University, he consults for the IMF Institute for Capacity Development at the International Monetary Fund. As a member of the IMF's finance team, he trains government officials and central bankers in financial market regulation, with a focus on derivatives and emerging financial instruments. He has also collaborated with The Great Courses to produce several lec...

#1482

Alan Heston

#54877

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Alan W. Heston is an American economist best known for his collaborative work with fellow economist Robert Summers and the development of the Penn World Table . Education and early life Heston was born October 18, 1934, and raised in Portland, Oregon. In 1955, he received his B.A. in economics from the University of Oregon. He received his M.A. in economics from the University of Washington in 1957. In 1962, he received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University, where he studied under James Tobin, the winner of the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

#1483

Sydney C. Ludvigson

#56511

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Sydney C. Ludvigson is an economist and the Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at New York University. Since 2017, she serves as chair of NYU's economics department.

#1484

David Bradford

#47915

Overall Influence

1939 - 2005 (66 years)

David Frantz Bradford was a prominent American economist and professor of economics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Bradford was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After his graduation from Amherst College in 1960, Bradford studied at MIT and Harvard . In 1966 he earned his doctorate in economics from Stanford University. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Amherst College in 1985.

#1485

Nicholas H. Stern

#77126

Overall Influence

#1486

Eduardo Giannetti

#32856

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Eduardo Giannetti da Fonseca is a Brazilian economist and author, educated at the University of São Paulo, with specialization in Social Science, Economics, Administration, and Accounting. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Cambridge, where he was also a professor from 1984 to 1987. From 1988 to 2001 he taught at the FEA/USP . He is currently a full-time professor at Insper, São Paulo.

#1487

Francis X. Diebold

#65939

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Francis X. Diebold is an American economist known for his work in predictive econometric modeling, financial econometrics, and macroeconometrics. He earned both his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, where his doctoral committee included Marc Nerlove, Lawrence Klein, and Peter Pauly. He has spent most of his career at Penn, where he has mentored approximately 75 Ph.D. students. Presently he is Paul F. and Warren S. Miller Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Finance and Professor of Statistics at Penn’s Wharton School.

#1488

Xu Xiaonian

#21771

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Xu Xiaonian is Professor of Economics and Finance at China Europe International Business School, named by Businessweek as one of China's Most Powerful People in 2009. From 1981 to 1985, he worked at Center of Development and Research, State Council of the People's Republic of China as Research Fellow. He got Doctor of Economics at University of California, Davis in 1991. From 1991 to 1995, he worked as assistant professor at Amherst College.

#1489

Leonard Mirman

#50467

Overall Influence

1940 - 2017 (77 years)

Leonard Jay Mirman was an American mathematician and economist. He was the Paul G. McIntire Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. Mirman was known for his contributions to economics of uncertainty.

#1490

Philippe Martin

#44109

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Philippe Joseph Martin is a French Professor of Economics at Sciences Po in Paris. He currently serves as chair of the French Council of Economic Analysis. He is the Vice President and a research fellow at the London-based CEPR .

#1491

Iván Werning

#41788

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Iván Werning is an Argentine economist who has served as the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2014. Born in Argentina, Werning received a BA from the Universidad de San Andrés and an MA from the Universidad Torcuato di Tella, both in Buenos Aires. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 2002, where he studied under Gary Becker, Robert Lucas, Fernando Alvarez, and Pierre-André Chiappori.

#1492

Morgan Reynolds

#18064

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Morgan O. Reynolds is the former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, Texas, and a retired professor of economics at Texas A&M University. He served as chief economist for the United States Department of Labor in 2001–2002, during George W. Bush's first term. A member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, Reynolds was one of the first prominent government officials to claim that 9/11 was an inside job.

#1493

Christian Gouriéroux

#26795

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Christian Gouriéroux is an econometrician who holds a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from the University of Rouen. He has the Professor exceptional level title from France. Gouriéroux is now a professor at University of Toronto and CREST, Paris [Center for Research in Economics and Statistics].

#1494

Andrew Metrick

#37160

Overall Influence

Andrew Metrick is an American economist who is the current Janet L. Yellen Professor of Finance and Management at the Yale School of Management. His research has touched on topics including game theory, venture capital and private equity, and most recently on financial stability. He is also the director of the Yale Program on Financial Stability.

#1495

Javier Suárez

#28186

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Javier Suárez Bernaldo de Quirós is a Spanish economist who is known for his specialization in financial crises. He studied economics at the Complutense University of Madrid and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

#1496

John Friedman

#46284

Overall Influence

John N. Friedman is an economist who currently serves as Professor of Economics, Chair of Economics, and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He additionally co-directs Opportunity Insights and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

#1497

Frank Cowell

#68643

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Frank A. Cowell is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work includes important contributions to the fields of income and wealth distribution, inequality, poverty and taxation.

#1498

Olivia S. Mitchell

#16972

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Olivia S. Mitchell is an American economist and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests focus on pensions and social security, and she is the executive director of the Pension Research Council, the oldest U.S. center devoted to scholarship and policy-relevant research on retirement security. She also heads Wharton's Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research.

#1499

Victoria Bateman

#36765

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Victoria N. Bateman is a British feminist economist and academic, specialising in economic history. She is a fellow in economics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is Director of Studies for the Economics Tripos at Gonville and Caius College.

#1500

Hollis B. Chenery

#36348

Overall Influence

1918 - 1994 (76 years)

Hollis Burnley Chenery was an American economist well known for his pioneering contribution in the field of development economics. Early life Chenery was born in Richmond, son of Christopher Chenery, a businessman and horseman. He was educated in Virginia, Pelham Manor, New York and at the University of Arizona , the University of Oklahoma , and California Institute of Technology . He served in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. After the war he earned degrees from the University of Virginia and Harvard University . His doctoral dissertation, entitled Engineering Bases of Eco...

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