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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1601

Ingo Walter

#39637

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Ingo Walter is a professor of finance, corporate governance and ethics as well as Vice Dean of Faculty at New York University's Stern School of Business. Academic Interests Walter researches and consults in the areas of international trade policy, international banking, environmental economics, and economics of multinational corporate operations.

#1602

Homa Katouzian

#10822

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Homa Katouzian is an economist, historian, sociologist and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies. Katouzian's formal academic training was in economics and the social sciences but he concurrently continued his studies of Persian history and literature at a professional academic level. He began studying the life and works of the modern Persian writer, Sadeq Hedayat, and that of the Prime Minister of Iran in the early 1950s, Mohammad Mosaddeq, while still a faculty member in the department of economics at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Having taught economics at uni...

#1603

Stanislav Prokofiev

#41245

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Stanislav Evgenievich Prokofiev is a Russian economist. In 2021, he became rector of Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. International sanctions Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the government of Ukraine has introduced sanctions against Prokofiev as well as against the Financial University, and its president Mikhail Eskindarov. In March that year, Prokofiev and Eskindarov had signed an open letter of Russian university rectors supporting the invasion.

#1604

Paweł Wojciechowski

#37015

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Paweł Wojciechowski is a Polish economist. Life He graduated from the Foreign Trade Faculty of the Main School of Planning and Statistics in 1983. In 1986 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics from John Carroll University, Ohio in the United States.

#1605

Ken-Ichi Inada

#82727

Overall Influence

1925 - 2002 (77 years)

Ken-Ichi Inada was a Japanese economist. Beginning in the 1950s, Inada wrote a number of important papers on welfare economics, economic growth and international trade. His contributions include an early extension of Kenneth Arrow's impossibility theorem on the existence of a social welfare function . Inada's extension of the Stolper–Samuelson theorem to the many-good, many-factor case is also considered as a classic piece in trade theory .

#1606

Xiaohong Chen

#63682

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Xiaohong Chen is a Chinese economist who currently serves as the Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of Economics at Yale University. She is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a laureate of the China Economics Prize. As one of the leading experts in econometrics, her research focuses on econometric theory, Semi/nonparametric estimation and inference methods, Sieve methods, Nonlinear time series, and Semi/nonparametric models. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

#1607

Yujiro Hayami

#54484

Overall Influence

1932 - 2012 (80 years)

was a Japanese agricultural economist, widely considered to be an authority on the subject. He was a Rockefeller fellow at Iowa University, a winner of Purple Ribbon Medal and a Lifetime member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists. He is credited with the development Hayami Development Economics, an agricultural philosophy on the relationship of a community to the market and the state. He died on 24 December 2012.

#1608

Miren Etxezarreta

Miren Etxezarreta

#37197

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Miren Etxezarreta Zubizarreta is a Spanish Basque economist and intellectual of the left who is linked to social movements. Since 2007 she has been Professor Emeritus in Applied Economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

#1609

Michael Pettis

#18881

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Michael Pettis is an American professor of finance at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing and a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was founder and co-owner of punk-rock nightclub D22 in Beijing, which closed in January 2012.

#1610

M. Ishaq Nadiri

#60304

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Mohammed Ishaq Nadiri is an Afghan American who is the Jay Gould Professor of Economics at New York University. A former department chair, he was also founder and first director of the C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics. Professor Nadiri was a signatory of the 2001 Bonn meetings where the interim government of Afghanistan was created; a participant in the Tokyo meeting focused on funding Afghanistan’s reconstruction, the White House and UN Security Council meetings during Hamid Karzai’s visit in January 2002, and the Loya Jirga in Kabul in June 2002 that resulted in Mr. Karzai’s election as president.

#1611

Farhang Holakouee

Farhang Holakouee

#23606

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Farhang Holakouee–Naeinee , simply known as Farhang Holakouee, is an Iranian-born American radio personality, psychologist, sociologist, and economist. His radio program—hosted in the past by 670 KIRN, and currently by "Radio Hamrah"—offers relationship advice to callers in Persian. Holakouee was born in Shiraz, Iran, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

#1612

Robert Alexander Mundell

#83160

Overall Influence

#1613

Matin Qaim

#48429

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Matin Qaim is the Schlegel Professor of Agricultural Economics and Director at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn, Germany. His research focuses on issues of food security and sustainable development.

#1614

Michael Posner

#36542

Overall Influence

1931 - 2006 (75 years)

Michael Vivian Posner was a University of Cambridge economics lecturer turned government adviser, who later worked to safeguard social science research in the United Kingdom. Biography Posner was born to Jack and Lena Posner. His father, originally a cabinet-maker, had immigrated from Russia to escape pogroms against the Jewish community. Posner’s maternal grandparents had also fled European persecution. He grew up in Ilford. After World War II the family settled in Croydon, where Posner attended Whitgift School. He then went to Balliol College, Oxford.

#1615

Michael Keane

#31758

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Michael Patrick Keane is an American-born economist; he is the Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Keane was previously a professor at the University of New South Wales and the Nuffield Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. He is considered one of the world's leading experts in the fields of Choice Modelling, structural modelling, simulation estimation, and panel data econometrics.

#1616

Mario Coccia

#83469

Overall Influence

#1617

Michael R. Powers

#10338

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Michael Roland Powers is an American academic who is the Chair Professor of Finance at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in China. Since 2014, he has held a dual appointment as professor at Tsinghua's Schwarzman College. An internationally recognized risk and insurance expert, he was a 2011 recipient of China’s Thousand Talents Plan award. In 2013, he won the Kulp-Wright Book Award for Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance .

#1618

Franco Archibugi

Franco Archibugi

#53726

Overall Influence

1926 - 2020 (94 years)

Franco Archibugi was an Italian scholar in political, economic and social sciences, university professor in economic policy and spatial planning. He largely operated in Italy and in international governmental agencies; including in the field of economic development, social welfare and cooperation policy. Archibugi was the author of several works in planning theory and methodology, and was among the theorists and promoters of a new unitary discipline of planning – the “Planology” – aimed at creating a bridge between the theoretical scientific progress in economics and other social sciences with the actual political and administrative efficiency and management.

#1619

Roger G. Ibbotson

#14532

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Roger G. Ibbotson is Professor Emeritus in Practice of Finance at the Yale School of Management. He is also chairman of Zebra Capital Management LLC. He has written extensively on capital market returns, cost of capital, and international investment. He is the founder, advisor, and former chairman of Ibbotson Associates, now a Morningstar Company. He has written numerous books and articles including Bonds, Bills, and Inflation with Rex Sinquefield, which serves as a standard reference for information and capital market returns.

#1620

Lauchlin Currie

Lauchlin Currie

#9597

Overall Influence

1902 - 1993 (91 years)

Lauchlin Bernard Currie was an economist who worked as White House economic adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II . From 1949 to 1953, he directed a major World Bank mission to Colombia and related studies.

#1621

Mario Baldassarri

#22116

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Mario Baldassarri is an Italian economist and politician. He was a senator from 2006 to 2013. Born in Macerata, he was the vice-minister of economy and finance in Silvio Berlusconi's second and third governments, from 2001 to 2006.

#1622

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

#13588

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Amiya Kumar Bagchi is an Indian political economist. Biography His academic career began when he started teaching in Presidency College, Kolkata. In the 1960s, he taught in the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge , but resigned his post in 1969, to resume his academic career in Presidency College, Kolkata.

#1623

Jean Shackelford

#64480

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Jean A. Shackelford , is a professor of economics emerita in the department of economics at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, central Pennsylvania, US and, from 1993 to 1995, was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics . Her book Economics: a tool for critically understanding society, co-written with Tom Riddell, Stephen C. Stamos and Geoffrey Schneider, is now in its ninth edition.

#1624

Gilles Saint-Paul

#24733

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Gilles Saint-Paul is a French economist at Paris School of Economics. He also is a scientific advisor to the Economic Studies Directorate at the French Ministry of the Environment. His main interests include the political economy of unemployment and how information technology affects wage inequality.

#1625

Alan S. Duncan

#70778

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Alan Stewart Duncan is a British economist and econometrician. He is currently the Bankwest Professor of Economic Policy and Director of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre at Curtin University, Australia.

#1626

Rajnish Mehra

#35612

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Rajnish Mehra is an Indian American financial economist. He currently holds the E.N. Basha Arizona Heritage Endowed Chair at the Arizona State University and is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

#1627

Witold Kieżun

#24629

Overall Influence

1922 - 2021 (99 years)

Witold Jerzy Kieżun was a Polish economist, soldier of the Home Army , participant of the Warsaw uprising and prisoner in the Soviet Gulags. Kieżun was a former professor at Temple University, Duquesne University, Universite de Montreal, Université du Québec à Montréal, Bujumbura University, Warsaw University. He served as Chief Technical Advisor of the United Nations Development Programme in Burundi, Rwanda, and Burkina Faso. Witold Kieżun was a lecturer at Kozminski University in Warsaw. He received Doctor Honoris Causa from Jagiellonian University and the National Defence University of Warsaw.

#1628

Andreu Mas-Colell

#56548

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Andreu Mas-Colell is an economist, an expert in microeconomics and a prominent mathematical economist. He is the founder of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He has also served several times in the cabinet of the Catalan government. Summarizing his and others' research in general equilibrium theory, his monograph gave a thorough exposition of research using differential topology. His textbook on microeconomics, co-authored with Michael Whinston and Jerry Green, is the most used ...

#1629

Karl And Michael Polanyi

#83744

Overall Influence

#1630

Ekkehart Schlicht

#79544

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Ekkehart Schlicht is a German economist. He is best known for his work in labor economics, custom in the economy, and his contributions to the field of institutional economics. Early life Ekkehart Schlicht was born in 1945 in the Northern German city of Kiel. He attended the Freie Waldorfschule Rendsburg where he completed his Abitur in 1965.

#1631

Carolyn Fischer

#23431

Overall Influence

Carolyn Fischer is an environmental economist. She was born in Ontario, later moving to the United States. She is a senior fellow for Resources for the Future, as well as being a Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation, and Policy. She is also a professor of environmental and natural resource economics at Vrije Universiteit-Amsterdam.

#1632

Roger Koenker

#45276

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Roger William Koenker is an American econometrician mostly known for his contributions to quantile regression. He is currently a Honorary Professor of Economics at University College London. Education and career He finished his degree at Grinnell College in 1969 and obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1974. In the same year, he was employed as an assistant professor at UIUC. By 1976, he left the university to work as part of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories. He came back to UIUC in 1983 to teach as a William B. McKinley Professor of Economics a...

#1633

Milan Zeleny

#15290

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Milan Zeleny is a Czech American economist, currently a professor of management systems at Fordham University, New York City. He has done research in the field of decision-making, productivity, knowledge management, and business economics. Zeleny is also a visiting professor at the Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic, and has been academic vice dean and professor at Xidian University in Xi’an, China. He is a distinguished visiting professor at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei in 2006, at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur in 2007, and at IBMEC in Rio de Janeiro in 2009–10.

#1634

Susan Dynarski

#40325

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Susan Marie Dynarski is an American economist who is currently professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also a faculty research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

#1635

Tadeusz Rybczynski

#49975

Overall Influence

1923 - 1998 (75 years)

Tadeusz Mieczysław Rybczyński was a Polish-English economist who is known for the development of the Rybczynski theorem . He studied at the London School of Economics. Soon after discovering his famous theorem, he joined Lazard and spent the rest of his career there as an investment banker.

#1636

Fernando Alvarez

#64804

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Fernando Enrique Alvarez is an Argentine macroeconomist. He is professor of economics at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. in Economics at Universidad Nacional de La Plata in 1989 and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1994. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2008. He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

#1637

Gopal Krishna Sarangi

#22678

Overall Influence

Gopal Krishna Sarangi is an Indian economist specializing in energy economics, climate change, energy regulations, energy access, etc. He is at present an Assistant Professor at Department of Policy Studies, Teri University.

#1638

Antoine Bozio

#39156

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Antoine Bozio is a French-Swiss economist who currently works as Associate Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and Associate Researcher at the Paris School of Economics , where he directs the Institut des politiques publiques. His research focuses on labour economics and the economics of ageing. In 2017, Bozio was awarded the Prize of the Best Young Economist of France for his research on the structure of pension systems and the impact of social security contributions on the supply of labour and wage levels.

#1639

Margit Osterloh

Margit Osterloh

#40831

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Margit Osterloh is a German and Swiss economist. Research Osterloh’s research areas include: Organizational Theory, Theory of the Firm, Innovation and Technology Management, Process Management, Knowledge Management, Trust Management, Philosophy of Science, Gender Economics, Corporate Governance, Research Governance, Migration Policy and Aleatoric Democracy. In the media she expresses her opinion on the following research topics:

#1640

Roberto Serrano

#40461

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Roberto Serrano is a Spanish–American economist, currently serving as the Harrison S. Kravis University Professor of Economics at Brown University. Serrano is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a former Member of the Council of the Game Theory Society.

#1641

Dave Donaldson

#48224

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Dave Donaldson is a Canadian economist and a professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal and elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

#1642

Mark Jaccard

#31348

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Mark Kenneth Jaccard is a Canadian energy economist and author. He develops and applies models that assess sustainability policies for energy and material. Jaccard is a professor of sustainable energy in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University.

#1643

David C. Mowery

#32768

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

David C. Mowery is the William A. & Betty H. Hasler Professor of New Enterprise Development at the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He earned a BA, an MA, and a Ph.D. in economics, each from Stanford University. He began his teaching career as an assistant professor in the Social and Decision Sciences Department, Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982, being promoted to associate professor prior to moving to UC Berkeley in 1988. He has also served as Assistant to the Counselor, Office of the United States Trade Representative and a Fellow at the Council on For...

#1644

Badi Baltagi

#77714

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Badi Hani Baltagi is a Lebanese-American economist who specializes in econometrics. He is a Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where he is also a senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research. He has published more than 200 articles, several of which are highly cited. He is also the part-time Chair of Economics at the University of Leicester. He is a co-editor-in-chief of Economics Letters and Empirical Economics.

#1645

Joseph A. Swanson

#17836

Overall Influence

Joseph A. Swanson is visiting scholar in finance at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management—where he was Professor of Finance from 1975 through 1986; Adjunct Professor of Finance, 1988-2007; Clinical Professor of Finance, 2007-2014. Since 2007 he has been the Board Chair of Jos. Swanson & Co., a Milwaukee-based management consulting firm.

#1646

François Grin

#19057

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

François Grin is a Swiss economist. One of his research fields is the economics of language. Grin studied economics at the University of Geneva, where he obtained a doctorate summa cum laude in 1989. He then was a teacher at the universities of Montreal and Washington , assistant professor at the University of Geneva and vice-director of the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. Since 2001 he is a visiting professor at the University of Lugano, in 2003 he became professor at the University of Geneva.

#1647

Ayumi Yasutomi

#51661

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

is a Japanese economist and politician. She is a professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo. Yasutomi came out as a transgender woman in 2014. Education Yasutomi graduated from Kyoto University in 1991 with a degree in economics and continued to graduate with a PhD in 1997 on the financial history of Manchuria.

#1648

Anna Aizer

#25908

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Anna Aizer is a labor and health economist, who currently serves as the Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics at Brown University where she is also a Faculty Associate at the Population Studies and Training Center. Her research focuses on child health and well-being, in particular the effect of societal factors and social issues on children's health.

#1649

Anil K. Bera

#47222

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Anil K. Bera is an Indian-American econometrician. He is Professor of Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's Department of Economics. He is most noted for his work with Carlos Jarque on the Jarque–Bera test.

#1650

Julian Le Grand

#33723

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Sir Julian Ernest Michael Le Grand, FBA is a British academic specialising in public policy. He is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and was a senior policy advisor to former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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