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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1551

Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo

#22821

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Luiz Gonzaga de Mello Belluzzo , better known as Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo or just Belluzzo, is a Brazilian economist and professor, and former president of Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras. Biography As a young man, Belluzzo was a seminarian of the Society of Jesus and a student at St. Louis College.

#1552

Domingo Cavallo

#17019

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Domingo Felipe Cavallo is an Argentine economist and politician. Between 1991 and 1996, he was the Minister of Economy during Carlos Menem's presidency. He is known for implementing the convertibility plan, which established a pseudo-currency board with the United States dollar and allowed the dollar to be used for legal contracts. This brought the inflation rate down from over 1,300% in 1990 to less than 20% in 1992 and nearly to zero during the rest of the 1990s. He implemented pro-market reforms which included privatizations of state enterprises. Productivity per hour worked during his five-years as minister of Menem increased by more than 100%.

#1553

Jonathan Levin

#39786

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Jonathan Levin is an American economist at Stanford University who succeeded Garth Saloner as the dean at Stanford Graduate School of Business on September 1, 2016. He also has an appointment as the Holbrook Working Professor of Price Theory in the Department of Economics at Stanford. He had been Chair of the Economics Department. He was awarded the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology .

#1554

Robert A. Blecker

#54741

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Robert A. Blecker is an American economist who is currently a Professor in the Department of Economics at American University in Washington, DC. He is also Affiliate Faculty of the American University School of International Service and Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute and Political Economy Research Institute. His research has made contributions to the fields of post-Keynesian and neo-Kaleckian macroeconomics, open economy macroeconomics, international trade theory and policy, global imbalances and the U.S. trade deficit...

#1555

Thomas Palfrey

#40230

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Thomas Rossman Palfrey is the Flintridge Professor of Economics and Political Science at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and Fellow of the Econometric Society. He received his Ph.D. in Social Science from Caltech in 1981.

#1556

Tapan Mitra

#32494

Overall Influence

1948 - 2019 (71 years)

Tapan Mitra was an Indian-born economist. Life and career Tapan Mitra was born to parents Ashok and Santi Mitra. He attended St. Xavier's High School, Bombay, and Rajkumar College, Raipur. In 1968, Mitra graduated from the University of Calcutta with a degree in economics. He further studied the subject, completing a master's degree at Delhi University two years later. Mitra subsequently immigrated to the United States, where he obtained a second master's in economics, followed by a doctorate in the same subject at the University of Rochester in 1973 and 1975 respectively. He lectured at Roch...

#1557

Kristin Forbes

#47460

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Kristin J. Forbes is an American economist. She is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Early life The eldest of three children, Forbes was raised in Concord, New Hampshire and attend Concord High School. In 1988, as a high school senior, she was selected as New Hampshire's Presidential Scholar, which gave her the opportunity to meet President Ronald Reagan at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.

#1558

Carlo Giannini

#70592

Overall Influence

1948 - 2004 (56 years)

Carlo Giannini was an econometrician and mathematical economist who taught at the Universities of Ancona, Bergamo, Calabria, Milan and Pavia during the period 1976–2004. He is renowned for his published contributions to mathematical economics and econometrics.

#1559

Franco Parisi

#24776

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Franco Aldo Parisi Fernández is a Chilean business engineer and economist. He received recognition for doing radio and television programs about economy along with his brother Antonino Parisi, and has been nicknamed "the economist of the people". In 2012 he launched his independent candidacy for president for the 2013 elections in Chile. Parisi ideologically identifies himself as a social liberal. In November 2021 he reached the third place of votes in the first round of the presidential elections, behind José Antonio Kast and Gabriel Boric.

#1560

Paul Beaudry

#58709

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Paul Beaudry is professor and Canada Research Chair in the UBC Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia. His main fields of research are macroeconomics, the economics of technical change and labour economics. He is also a Fellow of the Bank of Canada.

#1561

Xiang Songzuo

#47870

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Xiang Songzuo is a Chinese academic and economist. Currently, he is a professor at the Renmin University School of Finance and previously worked as a chief economist at the Agricultural Bank of China, and as a deputy director at the People's Bank of China.

#1562

Leslie Melville

#39700

Overall Influence

1902 - 2002 (100 years)

Sir Leslie Galfreid Melville was a renowned Australian economist, academic and public servant. He helped form Australia's central banking system and gave his voice in international economic forums in the years following World War II. He also played an important role in the early years of the Australian National University, serving as its Vice-Chancellor between 1953 and 1960.

#1563

Victor Lavy

#47391

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Victor Chaim Lavy is an Israeli economist and professor at the University of Warwick and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include labour economics, the economics of education, and development economics. Lavy belongs to the most prominent education economists in the world.

#1564

Richard Sylla

#17248

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Richard Eugene Sylla is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Museum of American Finance. Before his retirement in 2015, he served as the Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets and a professor of economics, entrepreneurship, and innovation at New York University Stern School of Business, where he taught courses in financial history, economic and business history of the United States, and comparative enterprise systems. Professor Sylla also taught for the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program alliance of NYU Stern, the London School of Economics and H...

#1565

Nitasha Kaul

#25664

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Nitasha Kaul is a British academic, writer and poet based in London. In addition to fiction, she writes and speaks about topics that cover the political economy, Bhutan, Kashmir, nationalism in India, gender and identity.

#1566

Jayson Lusk

#70333

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Jayson Lusk is an economist, Distinguished Professor and Department Head in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. He authors books and articles related to contemporary food policy issues.

#1567

David K. Backus

#68372

Overall Influence

1953 - 2016 (63 years)

David King "Dave" Backus was an American economist, specializing in financial economics and international macroeconomics. He was the Heinz Riehl Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

#1568

Jean‐jacques Laffont

#80633

Overall Influence

#1569

Stephen Machin

#45289

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Stephen Jonathan Machin is a British economist and professor of economics at the London School of Economics . Moreover, he is currently director of the Centre for Economic Performance and is a fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Labor Economists and the European Economic Association. His current research interests include labour market inequality, the economics of education, and the economics of crime.

#1570

John Thomas Dunlop

#23234

Overall Influence

1914 - 2003 (89 years)

John Thomas Dunlop was an American administrator, labor economist, and educator. Dunlop was the United States Secretary of Labor between 1975 and 1976 under President Gerald Ford. He was Director of the United States Cost of Living Council from 1973 to 1974, Chairman of the United States Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations from 1993 to 1995, which produced the Dunlop Report in 1994. He was also arbitrator and impartial chairman of various United States labor-management committees, and a member of numerous government boards on industrial relations disputes and economic stab...

#1571

Martin Uribe

#30723

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Martín Uribe is a professor of economics at Columbia University. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Economics. Biography Uribe is born in Argentina. He received his B.A. from National University of Córdoba, M.A. from University of CEMA in Buenos Aires, and received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1994. Uribe joined the Duke University faculty in 2003 after spending five years at the University of Pennsylvania and four years at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He moved to Columbia University in 2008.

#1572

Anthony de Jasay

Anthony de Jasay

#29316

Overall Influence

1925 - 2019 (94 years)

Anthony de Jasay was a Hungarian writer, economist, and right-libertarian philosopher. He studied in Székesfehérvár and Budapest, and obtained a degree in agriculture. He then worked as a freelance journalist, but emigrated from Hungary in 1948 after the Communist government nationalized his father's farm.

#1573

Pascaline Dupas

#35139

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Pascaline Dupas is a French economist whose research focuses on development economics and applied microeconomics, with a particular interest in health, education, and savings. She is a professor in economics and public affairs at Princeton University and is a co-chair of the Poverty Action Lab's health sector. She received the Best Young French Economist Prize in 2015.

#1574

Oded Stark

#70010

Overall Influence

Oded Stark is an economist and Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Distinguished Professor at the University of Warsaw, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Tuebingen.

#1575

Günter Schmölders

#42478

Overall Influence

1903 - 1991 (88 years)

Günter Schmölders was a German economist at Breslau and Cologne universities. Work He was among the early pioneers of behavioral studies in economics. His first works dealt with the failure of prohibition and alcohol regulation laws e.g. in Sweden.

#1576

Peter Reinhard Hansen

#58764

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Peter Reinhard Hansen is the Henry A. Latané Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has previously taught at Brown University, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and the European University Institute.

#1577

James Edward Meade

#81219

Overall Influence

#1578

Giancarlo Gandolfo

#81243

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Giancarlo Gandolfo is an Italian economist. He has been a Professor of International Economics at Sapienza University of Rome from 1974 to 2010. Gandolfo is notable for his popular graduate-level textbook on dynamic economic theory.

#1579

Kalman J. Cohen

#37574

Overall Influence

1932 - 2010 (78 years)

Kalman J. Cohen was an American economist and among the pioneers of studying market microstructure. Cohen was the Distinguished Bank Research Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He served at Duke since 1974. Prior to joining the Duke faculty, he was a tenured professor at Carnegie Mellon University and New York University. He also taught as a visiting professor in Sweden, Denmark, China, and Singapore.

#1580

Nathan Rosenberg

#20493

Overall Influence

1927 - 2015 (88 years)

Nathan Rosenberg was an American economist specializing in the history of technology. Biography Rosenberg earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1955, and taught at Indiana University , the University of Pennsylvania , Purdue University , Harvard University , the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University , where he was the Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Public Policy in the Department of Economics. In 1989 he was visiting Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge.

#1581

Karthik Muralidharan

#36995

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Karthik Muralidharan is an Indian economist who currently serves as a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego, where he also holds the Tata Chancellor's Endowed Chair in Economics. His primary research interests include development economics, public economics, and labour economics. Moreover, Muralidharan is co-chair of the education programme of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab . He also founded CEGIS, an organization aimed to improve lives by helping state governments deliver better development outcomes.

#1582

Simon Wren-Lewis

#42647

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Simon Wren-Lewis is a British economist. He is a professor of economic policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University and a Fellow of Merton College. Education Wren-Lewis was educated at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith; Clare College, Cambridge ; and Birkbeck College, London .

#1583

Rudolf Hickel

#42088

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Rudolf Hickel is a German economist and author. He transferred to the University of Bremen in 1971, accepting the chair in "Finanzwissenschaft" in 1993. Between 2001 and 2009 he served as director of the university's Institute for Labour and Economics . A long standing critic of developments in western Market Capitalism since the 1980s, he has engaged powerfully in the economic debates emerging during the aftermath of the 2007/2008 Financial crisis.

#1584

Stephanie Seguino

Stephanie Seguino

#63640

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Stephanie Seguino is a feminist professor of economics at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, United States. She was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 2010 to 2011 and has also carried out research for both the United Nations and the World Bank.

#1585

Friedrich L. Sell

#40646

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Friedrich Leopold Sell is a professor of Economics at Bundeswehr University Munich as well as chief of the scientific council of Halle Institute for Economic Research. Furthermore, he is vice chief of studies at the Academy for Business and Administration in Munich.

#1586

Wilhelm Krelle

#50930

Overall Influence

1916 - 2004 (88 years)

Wilhelm Krelle was a German economist. Krelle was born in Magdeburg, Germany. During World War II he served as a Sturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS. After returning from World War II, he studied physics, mathematics and economics in Tübingen and Freiburg. He received his Ph.D. in economics from University of Freiburg in 1948. His thesis advisor was Walter Eucken. In 1951 he received his habilitation from University of Heidelberg, where he was working under Erich Preiser. From 1951 to 1956 he worked as a lecturer at University of Heidelberg and visited Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Chicago.

#1587

Marianne Baxter

#74107

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Marianne Baxter is a professor of economics at Boston University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Chicago and a bachelor from the University of Rochester. She is a research associate at the NBER. She is the 412th most cited economist in the world according to IDEAS.

#1588

Ludger Wößmann

#21758

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Ludger Wößmann is a German economist and professor of economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . Moreover, being one of the world's foremost education economists, he is the director of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. Beyond the economics of education, his research interests also include economic growth and economic history. In 2014, Wößmann's empirical research on the effects of education and his corresponding contribution to public debate were awarded the Gossen Prize , followed by the Gustav Stolper Prize in 2017.

#1589

Sagiri Kitao

#67701

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

is a Japanese economist and professor at the University of Tokyo. Career Kitao was born on 1972 , in Saitama, Japan. She graduated from Waseda University in 1996. She worked for Goldman Sachs, originally in the Investment Banking Division, then moved to the Fixed Income Division, before leaving the company in 1999. After working for Goldman Sachs, she returned to school to further her education.

#1590

Rita Almeida

#45273

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Rita K. Almeida is a Portuguese economist who joined the World Bank in 2002 as a research economist. After serving as a senior economist with responsibilities for lending and analysis in support of education in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa, as of June 2020 she is human development programme leader for the countries of Central America. Over the years, Almeida has coordinated a range of World Bank and IZA publications in the areas of education, job training and public social spending. Since 2003, she has been a Research Fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor...

#1591

Vernon Wesley Ruttan

#67283

Overall Influence

1924 - 2008 (84 years)

Vernon Wesley Ruttan was a development economist at the University of Minnesota, where he was Regents Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Economics and Applied Economics. Ruttan's research focused on agricultural development, induced innovation, technical change and productivity growth, institutions, and development assistance policy. His book with Yujiro Hayami, Agricultural Development: An International Perspective was considered a classic in the field and was translated into four other languages.

#1592

Gary L. Wolfram

#23449

Overall Influence

Gary Lee Wolfram is an American economist. He is the William E. Simon Professor in Economics and Public Policy at Hillsdale College and President of Hillsdale Policy Group, a consulting firm specializing in taxation and policy analysis.

#1593

Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh

#67236

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Jeroen Cornelis Johannes Maria van den Bergh is an environmental economist of Dutch origin. As of January 2015 he was ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and deputy director for Research of its Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, and professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at VU University Amsterdam.

#1594

Cielito Habito

#31059

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Cielito Flores Habito or "Ciel" Habito is a Filipino economist, professor, and columnist. He served concurrently as the Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority and Socio-Economic Planning Secretary during the Ramos administration.

#1595

Todd M. Sandler

#82152

Overall Influence

#1596

Jong-Wha Lee

#75172

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Jong-Wha Lee is a South Korean economist and former senior advisor for international economic affairs to former president Lee Myung-bak of South Korea and Korean G-20 Sherpa. He is currently a professor of economics at Korea University, where he has been a member of the faculty since March 1993. He has previously served as Chief Economist and head of the Office of Regional Economic Integration at the Asian Development Bank.

#1597

George Herbert Borts

#53536

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

George Herbert Borts was an American economist. Born in New York City on August 29, 1927, to parents Elias Alexander Borts and his wife Etta Borts, née Silberg, George Herbert Borts earned his bachelor's degree in economics and history from Columbia University. Borts continued graduate study in economics under Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago, earning his master's degree in 1949, and his doctorate in 1953. Borts began teaching at Brown University in 1950, and later became the George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics. He was managing editor of The American Economic Review from 1969 to 1980.

#1598

Tomas J. Philipson

Tomas J. Philipson

#34521

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Tomas J. Philipson is a Swedish-born American economist who served as the Acting Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump administration. He departed from the position and the Council at the end of June, 2020, to return to the University of Chicago. He holds the Daniel Levin Chair in Public Policy at the University of Chicago, with posts in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Department of Economics, and the Law School. He was a Director of the Becker Friedman Institute at the university.

#1599

Nikolay Nenovsky

Nikolay Nenovsky

#26237

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Nikolay Nenovsky is a Bulgarian economist, working in the fields of monetary theory and policy, monetary history and history of economic thought. He is Professor of economics at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, LEFMI, Amiens, France from 2012. Nikolay Nenovsky is currently associate researcher at SU HSE, department of theoretical economics and also associate professor at RUDN University. Since June 2020 he is a Member of the Governing Council of the Bulgarian Central Bank.

#1600

Claude Montmarquette

#65988

Overall Influence

1942 - 2021 (79 years)

Claude Montmarquette was a Canadian economist. He taught at the Université de Montréal for several decades. Biography Montmarquette studied at the Université de Montréal and earned a degree in economic sciences. He then earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He became a researcher at CIRANO and at the Centre de recherche en développement économique. He became a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1998 for his contributions to the fields of experimental economics and applied econometrics. In 2005, he was a signatory of Pour un Québec lucide.

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