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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1801

Elise Brezis

#38140

Overall Influence

Elise Scheiner Brezis, professor of economics at Bar-Ilan University, is the director of the Azrieli Center for Economic Policy. She has been the head of the Statistics division at the Research Department in the Bank of Israel, and from 1999 to 2003, she was the president of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration. She holds a PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

#1802

Wolfgang Franz

#50999

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Wolfgang Franz is a German economist. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. Franz also is the chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts since March 2009. Career Franz studied economics at the University of Mannheim and received his doctoral degree in 1974, under supervision of Heinz König. He held positions at the University of Mainz, the University of Stuttgart, and the University of Konstanz, before returning to University of Mannheim in 1997.

#1803

C. Lowell Harriss

#48073

Overall Influence

1912 - 2009 (97 years)

Clement Lowell Harriss was an American economist, a past president of the National Tax Association and a former executive director of the Academy of Political Science. He was one of the United States' leading tax experts and the author of highly regarded economics textbooks and other books on economic subjects. He was professor emeritus of economics at Columbia University and taught there for 43 years. He was the professor for whom the C. Lowell Harriss Professorship of Economics and International Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia was named.

#1804

Seymour Melman

#12477

Overall Influence

1917 - 2004 (87 years)

Seymour Melman was an American professor emeritus of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. He wrote extensively for fifty years on "economic conversion", the ordered transition from military to civilian production by military industries and facilities. Author of The Permanent War Economy and Pentagon Capitalism, he was an economist, writer, and gadfly of the military-industrial complex.

#1805

Richard Mattessich

Richard Mattessich

#5160

Overall Influence

1922 - 2019 (97 years)

Richard Victor Alvarus Mattessich was an Austrian-Canadian business economist and Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of British Columbia, known for introducing the concept of electronic spreadsheets into the field of business accounting in 1961, as well as pioneering analytical and philosophical methods in accounting.

#1806

V. Lane Rawlins

#13347

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

V. Lane Rawlins is an American academic who served as the President of the University of North Texas from May 2010 to February 2014. He is also the former President of Washington State University and of the University of Memphis.

#1807

Richard Jolly

#19335

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Sir Arthur "Richard" Jolly, is a leading development economist who was named one of the fifty key thinkers globally in this field of economics. Jolly currently serves as Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex focusing on issues of world development and the role of the UN in global governance. From 1982 to 2000 he was an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, first as deputy executive director of UNICEF and from 1996 as Coordinator of the UNDP’s Human Development Report. He co-authored the influential book Adjustment with ...

#1808

Stephen T. Worland

Stephen T. Worland

#55274

Overall Influence

1923 - 2017 (94 years)

Stephen T. Worland was an American economist and professor at the University of Notre Dame. Worland's specialties included the history of economic thought, social economics, and welfare economics. Worland is the author of the book Scholasticism and Welfare Economics, published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 1967. He also authored the Economics and Justice chapter in the book Justice: Views from the Social Sciences, edited by Ronald L. Cohen and published by Springer in 1986.

#1809

Jeremy Atack

#43011

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Jeremy Atack received his B.A. from Jesus College of the University of Cambridge in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington in 1976. He is Research Professor Emeritus of Economics at Vanderbilt University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the Cliometric Society, and was the Kinkhead Research Scholar at the University of Illinois . He is a noted academic economic historian whose primary research focus is on 19th century US industrialization. He has been president of the Economic History Association , the Agricultural History Society ...

#1810

Clarence Barber

#35621

Overall Influence

1917 - 2004 (87 years)

Clarence Lyle Barber was a Canadian economist and academic. Born in Wolseley, Saskatchewan, he received a B.A. in economics from the University of Saskatchewan in 1939. He won a scholarship to Clark University where he obtained his M.A. in 1941 and he received a Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Minnesota.

#1811

Gianmarco Ottaviano

#87207

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Gianmarco Ireo Paolo Ottaviano is an Italian economist and Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. Biography A native of Milan, Gianmarco Ottaviano earned a bachelor's degree in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in 1991, followed by a M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics in 1993, a diploma in international economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva in 1994, a doctorate from Bari in 1995 and a Ph.D. in economics under Jacques-François Thisse at the Université Catholique de Louvain in 1998. He then took up a position as as...

#1812

Martin P. Loeb

#32292

Overall Influence

Martin P. Loeb is the Deloitte & Touche Faculty Fellow and Professor of Accounting and Information Assurance at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. Loeb is also an affiliate professor in the University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Studies . Loeb received his Ph.D. from the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences group at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He received his BS in mathematics and economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

#1813

Rehman Sobhan

#11751

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Rehman Sobhan is a Bangladeshi economist. Regarded as one of the country's top public thinkers, he is the founder of the Centre for Policy Dialogue. Sobhan is an icon of the Bangladeshi independence movement due to his role as a spokesman of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh in the United States during the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was awarded the Independence Day Award, Bangladesh's highest civilian honour, in 2008.

#1814

William Poole

#40260

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

William Poole was the eleventh chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He took office on March 23, 1998, and began serving his full term on March 1, 2001. In 2007, he served as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, bringing his District's perspective to policy discussions in Washington. Poole stepped down from the Fed on March 31, 2008.

#1815

Erik Berglöf

#37413

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Erik Berglöf is a Swedish economist, currently the Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank , the Beijing-based multilateral development bank established in 2016 with a mission to improve social and economic outcomes in Asia. In March 2019 Erik Berglöf was appointed to the European Council's High Level Group of Wise Persons on the European financial architecture for development where Berglöf and eight other economists will suggest changes to the EU's development finance structure. In 2017–2018 Erik Berglöf served on the secretariat of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global...

#1816

Junaid Ahmad

#57069

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Junaid Kamal Ahmad is a Bangladeshi economist. He is the current World Bank country director for India. Education Ahmad earned his bachelor's in economics from Brown University and master's in public administration from Harvard University. He obtained his Ph.D. in applied economics from Stanford University.

#1817

Howard C. Kunreuther

#90747

Overall Influence

#1818

Ricardo Lagos

#9788

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military dictatorship and astounded contemporaries in 1988 by openly denouncing dictator Augusto Pinochet on live television. He served as Minister of Education from 1990 to 1992 and Minister of Public Works from 1994 to 1998 under president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle before narrowly winning the 1999-2000 presidential election in a runoff against Independent Democrat Union candidate Joaquín Lavín.

#1819

Paul Johnson

#29724

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Paul Gavin Johnson CBE is a British economist and civil servant, currently serving as director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a member of the Committee on Climate Change, and a visiting professor in Economics at the Department of Economics, University College London.

#1820

J. W. Whalley

#90980

Overall Influence

#1821

Trevor S. Breusch

#52605

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Trevor Stanley Breusch is an Australian econometrician and was until his retirement Professor of Econometrics and Deputy Director of Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is noted for the Breusch–Pagan test from the paper "A simple test for heteroscedasticity and random coefficient variation" . Another contribution to econometrics is the serial correlation Lagrange multiplier test, often called Breusch–Godfrey test after Breusch and Leslie G. Godfrey, which can be used to identify autocorrelation in the errors of a regression model.

#1822

Mars Cramer

#66812

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Jan Salomon Cramer was a Dutch economist, Professor of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam, known for his work of empirical econometrics. Biography Born in The Hague, Mars Cramer was the son of biologist and Professor P. J. S. Cramer He received his PhD in Mathematics in 1961 at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis entitled "A Statistical Model of the Ownership of Major Consumer Durables with an Application to some Findings of the 1953 Oxford Savings Survey" under supervision of .

#1823

Clifford Hildreth

#70584

Overall Influence

1917 - 1995 (78 years)

Clifford George Hildreth was an American econometrician. He was a head of the Department of Economics at Michigan State University. A native of McPherson, Kansas, Hildreth earned his bachelor's from the University of Kansas before entering Iowa State University for graduate studies. After years at University of Chicago and North Carolina State University, he joined the faculty at Michigan State, before going to the University of Minnesota in 1964 where he held joint appointments in the Department of Economics, the School of Statistics and the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. He retired in 1988.

#1824

Andreas Löschel

#74460

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Andreas Löschel is a German economist currently holding the chair of Energy and Resource Economics at the University of Münster. He is the director of the Centre of Applied Economic Research Münster . His research interests include applied microeconomics, energy economics and the economics of climate change. He is ranked among the most influential economists in his field. In an annual Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Ranking, he is among the 25 most influential economists in Germany .

#1825

Cees Veerman

#46594

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Cornelis Pieter "Cees" Veerman is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal party and economist. Veerman applied at the Rotterdam School of Economics in May 1967 majoring in Economics obtaining a Bachelor of Economics degree in June 1969 working as a student researcher before obtaining a Master of Economics degree in July 1973. Veerman worked as an economics teacher in Delft from October 1971 until January 1976. Veerman served on the Municipal Council of Nieuw-Beijerland from May 1973 until June 1980 and on the Municipal Council of Korendijk from February 1986 until September 1991.

#1826

Harrison Hong

#78194

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Harrison Hong is the John R. Eckel Jr. Professor of Financial Economics at Columbia University. He was awarded the 2009 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.

#1828

Bob Coats

#72942

Overall Influence

1924 - 2007 (83 years)

Alfred William "Bob" Coats was a British economist, economic historian and historian of economic thought. He made important contributions to the study of the history, methodology, sociology, professionalisation and internationalisation of economics, and was for many decades a central figure in professional societies in these specialised fields.

#1829

Andrea Beltratti

Andrea Beltratti

#60487

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Andrea Beltratti is professor at Bocconi University, director of the Executive Master in Finance - EMF at SDA Bocconi School of Management and Chairman of Eurizon Capital. He has been Chairman of the Management Board of Intesa Sanpaolo until May 2013.

#1830

Anne Mills

#40157

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Dame Anne Jane Mills, is a British authority on health economics. She is deputy director and Provost and Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

#1831

Stephan Klasen

#54400

Overall Influence

1966 - 2020 (54 years)

Stephan Johannes Klasen was a German development economist and professor of economics at Georg August University in Göttingen. He was also director of the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research and founder of the Courant Research Center "Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries". He was a member of the UN Committee on Development Policy, president of the European Development Research Network, and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the 5th Assessment Report.

#1832

James M. Buchanan

#91398

Overall Influence

#1833

Stephen Redding

#76493

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Stephen Redding is a British-American economist, focusing in international trade and economic geography and productivity and economic growth, currently the Harold T. Shapiro *64 Professor in Economics at Princeton University.

#1834

Suzanne Scotchmer

#38979

Overall Influence

1950 - 2014 (64 years)

Suzanne Scotchmer was an American professor of law, economics and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley and also a noted author on many economic subjects. She earned her B.A. from University of Washington magna cum laude in 1970, her M.A. in statistics from UC Berkeley in 1979, and her PhD in economics from UC Berkeley in 1980.

#1835

Scott Freeman

#67370

Overall Influence

1954 - 2004 (50 years)

Scott John Freeman was an American economist. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1983. Between undergraduate and graduate school he worked for the Peace Corps in Africa.

#1836

Adriana Kugler

#44814

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Adriana Debora Kugler is an American economist who serves as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She previously served as U.S. executive director at the World Bank, nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2022. She is a professor of public policy at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and is currently on leave from her tenured position at Georgetown. She served as the Chief Economist to U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis from September 6, 2011 to January 4, 2013.

#1837

Helmut Bester

#88537

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Helmut Bester is a German economist who was a professor of economics at the Free University of Berlin until 2020. His research focuses on microeconomic theory, contract theory and industrial organisation.

#1838

C. Arden Pope

#54374

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

C. Arden Pope III is an American professor of economics at Brigham Young University and one of the world's foremost experts in environmental science. He received his B.S. from Brigham Young University in 1978 and his Ph.D. in economics and statistics from Iowa State University in 1981. Although his research includes many papers on topics in the fields in which he was trained—environmental economics, resource economics, and agricultural economics—he is better known for his cross-disciplinary work in environmental epidemiology and public health. He is world-renowned for his seminal work on the effects of particulate air pollution on mortality and health.

#1839

Robert E. Forsythe

#43518

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Robert E. Forsythe is an American economist. He is a former dean of the School of Business at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Prior to that, he was the dean of the school of business at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, Florida. He is a former professor and senior associate dean at the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. He is also the founder of the Iowa Electronic Markets, an educational and research project that is an online futures market in which contract payoffs are based on real-world events.

#1840

Laura Gardini

#52198

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Laura Gardini is an Italian mathematician who studies chaos in dynamical systems, with applications in mathematical finance. She is professor in mathematics for economic applications at the University of Urbino.

#1841

Ted Gayer

#25673

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Ted Gayer is an American economist and the president of the Niskanen Center. He is formerly the executive vice president of the Brookings Institution, where he also once served as the vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow. On June 12, 2022, Gayer was appointed acting president of the Brookings Institution following the resignation of John R. Allen that same day.

#1842

Yuriy Gorodnichenko

#86048

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Yuriy Gorodnichenko is an economist and Quantedge Presidential professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Gorodnichenko is also a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor. Gorodnichenko was the chair of the International Academic Board of the Kyiv School of Economics.

#1843

Heleen Mees

#28565

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Heleen Mees is a Dutch opinion writer, economist, and lawyer. Involved with politics and public policy in the Netherlands and the US, she has also taught at universities in both countries. Biography Mees graduated in Economy and Law at University of Groningen. From 1992 to 1998, she worked for the Dutch Treasury in The Hague, for two years as spokeswoman for former State Secretary Willem Vermeend. She then worked for the European Commission in Brussels from 1998 to 2000. In 2000 she emigrated to the US, where she changed her surname from Nijkamp to Mees.

#1844

Wen Tiejun

#31210

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Wen Tiejun is a Chinese agricultural economist who is a professor at the Renmin University of China. Biography Wen was born in Beijing, in May 1951, while his ancestral home in Changli County, Hebei. After graduating from the Journalism Department of the Renmin University of China in 1983, he was sent by the Chinese government to study in the Institute of Social Investigation of the University of Michigan and the World Bank, and then studied at Columbia University, Cornell University and the University of Southern California.

#1845

David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone

#28418

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

David Anthony Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone is a British economist specialising in regulation, and a cross-bench member of the House of Lords. Currie was the inaugural Chairman of the Competition and Markets Authority .

#1846

Panicos O. Demetriades

#61364

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Panicos Onisiphorou Demetriades in :Limassol, :Cyprus, is a Cypriot :economist, currently Professor of Financial Economics at the :University of Leicester. During 3 May 2012 - 10 April 2014, Demetriades was a European Central Bank Governing Council member and the Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus. According to RePEC he is in the top 2% of economic authors in Europe. He is the author of "A Diary of the Euro Crisis in Cyprus: Lessons for Bank Recovery and Resolution", published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.

#1847

Esfandiar Maasoumi

#27681

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Esfandiar Maasoumi is an econometrician and an economist. He is a Distinguished Professor at Emory University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the London School of Economics. He earned his Ph.D.in 1977, also from the London School of Economics. He is fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics. He is ranked in the Econometricians Hall of Fame. Maasoumi has served as Editor of Econometric Reviews since 1987. He has influential contributions in forecasting, specification analysis, information theory, multidimensional welfare/wellbeing, mobility and inequality.

#1848

Leopold Kohr

#43482

Overall Influence

1909 - 1994 (85 years)

Leopold Kohr was an economist, jurist and political scientist known both for his opposition to the "cult of bigness" in social organization and as one of those who inspired the Small Is Beautiful movement. For almost twenty years, he was Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the University of Puerto Rico. He described himself as a "philosophical anarchist." His most influential work was The Breakdown of Nations. In 1983, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "his early inspiration of the movement for a human scale."

#1849

S. Akbar Zaidi

#34915

Overall Influence

Syed Akbar Hussain is a Pakistani political economist, academic and author. He is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi. Early life and career Zaidi is from a Muhajir Shia family in Karachi. He received his Bachelors in Economics from the University College London in 1977–80. Then, he completed his master's in social planning of developing countries from the London School of Economics in 1981–82. For further studies, he went to the University of Cambridge from where he completed his doctorate degree.

#1850

Timothy Swanson

#49200

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Timothy Swanson is an American economics scholar specializing in environmental governance, biodiversity, water management, as well as intellectual property rights and biotechnology regulation. He is a professor in resource economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, currently the holder of the Andre Hoffmann Chair in Environmental Economics.

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