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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#1851

Barry Naughton

#34096

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Barry J. Naughton is the So Kwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. =He specializes in the modern Chinese economy and is a recognized expert in the field. His 1995 book "Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978–1993" won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. He stated that the Chinese economic reform was accomplished without a grand vision. Rather, it was the result of a mix between laissez-faire and experimentation with business incentives by the government.

#1852

Kevin Lang

#79675

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Kevin Lang is a professor of economics at Boston University. He is also an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research . He is the author of Poverty and Discrimination and over 100 papers and articles on topics in Labor Economics.

#1853

Alice Nakamura

#64809

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Alice Orcutt Nakamura is an American-Canadian economist and writer. She is a fellow of the Canadian Economics Association, which is the highest honour of the association. She is currently a professor of finance and management science at the University of Alberta where she has taught since 1972. Alice Nakamura was also the first female president of the Canadian Economics Association in 1994–1995. She was also the president of the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth from 2014 to 2016.

#1854

Ajit Singh

#64295

Overall Influence

1940 - 2015 (75 years)

Ajit Singh was an Indian-born Professor of Economics at Cambridge University. One of the world's most renowned Indian-born economists, Singh made fundamental academic contributions in the areas of modern business enterprise, de-industrialisation in advanced and emerging economies and the globalisation of financial and product markets.

#1855

David Foot

#20582

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

David K. Foot is a Canadian economist and demographer. Foot did his undergraduate work at the University of Western Australia and his graduate work in economics at Harvard University, where he was supervised by Martin Feldstein. Following his PhD, he joined the department of economics at the University of Toronto.

#1856

Aleh Tsyvinski

#58477

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Aleh Tsyvinski is a Belarusian-American economist who is currently the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University. On 31 March 2021, it was announced that Tsyvinski became a part-time professor at New Economic School in Russia.

#1857

Torben M. Andersen

Torben M. Andersen

#92331

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

#1858

John Weeks

#35658

Overall Influence

1941 - 2020 (79 years)

John Weeks was an American economist, critic of neoliberal economics and a policy advisor to the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn. Life Weeks was born in Austin, Texas in a middle class family. He received a degree in economics from the University of Texas in 1963 and subsequently enrolled in PhD-studies. Weeks was also active in the US-anti war efforts during the late sixties. Weeks completed his doctorate in 1969 and went on to teach at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria before becoming a lecturer at the University of Sussex in 1971. Weeks later became an advisor for the Nicaraguan government's planning ministry.

#1859

Mario J. Rizzo

#71976

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Mario J. Rizzo is an American economist of the Austrian School. He serves as an associate professor of economics at New York University. Early life Rizzo studied economics at Fordham University where he received his B.A. and M.A. As a student, he was then known as a follower of Murray Rothbard. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

#1860

Rangan Gupta

#92724

Overall Influence

#1861

Clair Brown

#57009

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Clair Brown is an American economist who is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. Brown is a past Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at UC Berkeley. Brown has published research on many aspects of how economies function, including high-tech industries, development engineering, the standard of living, wage determination, poverty, and unemployment.

#1862

Norman Macrae

#36076

Overall Influence

1923 - 2010 (87 years)

Norman Alastair Duncan Macrae was a British economist, journalist and author, considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and society. Career Macrae joined The Economist in 1949 and retired as its deputy chief editor in 1988. He foresaw the Pacific century, the reversal of nationalization of enterprises, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the spread of the internet, which were all published in the newspaper during his time there. He contributed to the books The Third World War: August 1985 and The Third World War: The Untold Story , both attrib...

#1863

Laurens de Haan

Laurens de Haan

#70355

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Laurens de Haan is a Dutch economist and Emeritus Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, specializing in extreme value theory. Biography Born in Rotterdam, De Haan received his MA in mathematics from the University of Amsterdam in 1966, and his PhD in mathematics in 1970 under supervision of Johannes Runnenburg for the thesis "On regular variation and sample extremes".

#1864

Paul Gertler

#36605

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Paul Gertler is an American economist and the Li Ka Shing Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Haas School of Business and the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. Gertler is considered an early pioneer in the randomized evaluation of social programs in developing countries. He co-led the impact evaluation of the Mexican government welfare program Oportunidades, as well as the Rwandan government's roll-out of results-based financing for health. As Chief Economist for the World Bank Human Development Network , he helped to establish a culture of rigorous impact evaluation.

#1865

Alain Enthoven

#16885

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Alain C. Enthoven is an American economist. He was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965, and from 1965 to 1969, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. Currently, he is Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

#1866

Jörg Huffschmid

#67538

Overall Influence

1940 - 2009 (69 years)

Jörg Huffschmid was a German economist. He held a chair at the University of Bremen. Born in Cologne, Huffschmid attended the University of Freiburg, University of Paris, and Free University of Berlin, majoring in philosophy and economics. He earned his Diplom in 1963, and his Ph.D. in 1967.

#1867

Phyllis Ann Wallace

#58992

Overall Influence

1921 - 1993 (72 years)

Phyllis A. Wallace was a distinguished African-American economist and activist, as well as the first woman to receive doctorate of economics at Yale University. Her work tended to focus on racial, as well as gender discrimination in the workplace.She mentored many students and colleagues.

#1868

Jules Theeuwes

#79387

Overall Influence

1944 - 2012 (68 years)

Jules Jacobus Maria Theeuwes was a Belgian economist, and Professor of Labour Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Biography Born in Noorderwijk, Belgium, Theeuwes received his BA in Trade and Consular Studies at the University of Antwerp in 1967, his MA in Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1970, and his PhD at the University of British Columbia in 1975.

#1869

Alfred Rappaport

#21854

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Alfred Rappaport is an American economist, educator and author. He is the Leonard Spacek Professor Emeritus at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and is best known for further developing the idea of shareholder value, popularized by his 1986 book, Creating Shareholder Value. He was chairman of Chicago consulting firm The Alcar Group and resided in La Jolla, California,

#1870

Amiya Kumar Dasgupta

#53411

Overall Influence

1903 - 1992 (89 years)

Amiya Kumar Dasgupta was an Indian economist who has been described as "one of the founding fathers of modern economics in India" and "a true pioneer in developmental economics". He was the father of the economists Sir Partha Dasgupta.

#1871

Zhiwu Chen

#32044

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Zhiwu Chen is a professor of finance at The University of Hong Kong, specializing in finance theory, securities valuation, and the economy of China. He is a public intellectual in China, with a Sina Weibo following of over 9 million; in 2010 The Time Weekly named him one of "Ten Public Intellectuals Influencing China" and in 2012 public relations agency Burson-Marsteller named him one of China's ten most influential political voices on Weibo.

#1872

Fabio Mercurio

#40499

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Fabio Mercurio is an Italian mathematician, internationally known for a number of results in mathematical finance. Main results Mercurio worked during his Ph.D. on incomplete markets theory using dynamic mean-variance hedging techniques. With Damiano Brigo , he has shown how to construct stochastic differential equations consistent with mixture models, applying this to volatility smile modeling in the context of local volatility models. He is also one of the main authors in inflation modeling. Mercurio has also authored several publications in top journals and co-authored the book Interest ra...

#1873

Bernard Lietaer

Bernard Lietaer

#14615

Overall Influence

1942 - 2019 (77 years)

Bernard Lietaer was a Belgian civil engineer, economist, author, and educator. He studied monetary systems and promoted the idea that communities can benefit from creating their own local or complementary currency, which circulate parallel with national currencies.

#1874

José Manuel Barroso

#13791

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

José Manuel Durão Barroso is a Portuguese politician, lobbyist and university teacher, he previously served as non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International. He previously served as the 11th president of the European Commission and the 115th prime minister of Portugal.

#1875

Eric van Damme

#64792

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Eric Eleterius Coralie van Damme is a Dutch economist and Professor of Economics at the Tilburg University, known for his contributions to game theory. Biography Born in Terneuzen Van Damme received his MA in Mathematics at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1979, and his PhD in Technical Sciences in 1983 at the Eindhoven University of Technology with a thesis entitled "Refinements of the Nash Equilibrium Concept" under supervision of Jaap Wessels and Reinhard Selten.

#1876

James Bessen

#48206

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

James Bessen is an economist who has been a Lecturer at Boston University School of Law since 2004,. He is presently best known for his data-led research concerning software and innovation. He has also demonstrated the diverse impacts of automation on employment and wages. In more recent work, he has established links between investment in software and market dominance in a number of sectors. Before entering academia professionally, Bessen was previously a software developer and CEO of Bestinfo, a software company. Bessen was also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

#1877

A. Colin Cameron

#59865

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Adrian Colin Cameron is an Australian economist. He is a professor of economics at University of California, Davis. Cameron is known for his graduate-level textbook Microeconometric Methods and Applications, co-authored with Pravin K. Trivedi.

#1878

Martin Carnoy

#51054

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Martin Carnoy is an American labour economist and Vida Jacks Professor of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education as well as of the International Academy of Education. Professor Carnoy has graduated nearly 100 PhD students, a record at Stanford University.

#1879

Peter M. Robinson

#93627

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

#1880

Nicholas Theocarakis

#46888

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Nicholas Theocarakis, also transcribed as Nikos Theocharakis , is a Greek economist and professor of economics at Athens University. He is the author of several books and contributions on economic theory and history of economic thought.

#1881

Shlomo Eckstein

#9627

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Shlomo Raber Eckstein was an Israeli economist, and President of Bar-Ilan University. Biography Eckstein was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. His family emigrated from Germany before World War II to Mexico, which is where he was raised.

#1882

Peter Dixon

#49241

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Peter Bishop Dixon AO FASSA is an Australian economist known for his work in general equilibrium theory and computable general equilibrium models. He has published several books and more than two hundred academic papers on economic modelling and economic policy analysis.

#1883

Paul J. Zak

#29962

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Paul J. Zak is an American neuroeconomist. Background Zak graduated with degrees in mathematics and economics from San Diego State University before acquiring a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is professor at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California. He has studied brain imaging, and was among the first to identify the role of oxytocin in mediating trusting behaviors between unacquainted humans. Zak directs the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University and is a member of the Neurology Department at Loma Linda University Medical Center.

#1884

Amitabh Chandra

#72221

Overall Influence

Amitabh Chandra is an Indian-American academic and healthcare economist who is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Chandra received his BA and PhD in economics from the University of Kentucky; his dissertation was titled Labor Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap, 1940-1990.

#1885

Robert Holzmann

Robert Holzmann

#72656

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Robert Holzmann is an Austrian economist and the current Governor of Austria’s central bank, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank . His term of appointment runs from September 1, 2019, to August 31, 2025.

#1886

Ed Mayo

#39173

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Ed Mayo , is the CEO of the London-based charity Pilotlight. He is the former Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, the UK trade association for co-operatives and former chief executive of the British National Consumer Council and CEO of the NCC's successor, Consumer Focus.

#1887

Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri

#33508

Overall Influence

1934 - 2015 (81 years)

Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri , popularly known as MDC, was an Indian theoretical economist, academic and a professor of the Delhi School of Economics. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2005, for his contributions to literature and education.

#1888

Elizabeth Bailey

#37875

Overall Influence

1938 - 2022 (84 years)

Elizabeth Ellery Bailey was an American economist. She was the John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Bailey studied deregulation, market competition and regulatory capture through her career and contributed to the deregulation of the airline industry in the United States in the late 1970s.

#1889

Howard Shelanski

Howard Shelanski

#27364

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Howard Shelanski is an American attorney, economist, and legal scholar. He is a professor of law at Georgetown University, where he holds the Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation, and a partner in the law firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell. He served in the Obama administration as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs , part of the Office of Management and Budget.

#1890

Pierre Pestieau

Pierre Pestieau

#43126

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Pierre Pestieau is a Belgian economist. Pierre Pestieau received his master's degree in economics from the University of Louvain and his doctorate in economics from Yale University. From 1971 to 2006 he taught at Cornell University, then became professor of economics at the University of Liege, Belgium, from 1975 through 2008, when he became Professor Emeritus. He also a member of CORE and associate member of the Paris School of Economics as well as a fellow of IZA and CESIfo.

#1891

Georg Nöldeke

#69290

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Georg Nöldeke is an economist and currently serves as Professor of Economics at the University of Basel. His research interests focuses on microeconomic theory, game theory, and social evolution. In 2007, Georg Nöldeke's contributions to economics of information - in particular on the communication within financial markets - as well as to game theory and contract theory were awarded the Gossen Prize by the German Economic Association.

#1892

Hukukane Nikaido

#78914

Overall Influence

1923 - 2001 (78 years)

Hukukane Nikaido was a Japanese economist. Career He received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Tokyo and a D.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Tokyo in 1961. honors 1962, Fellow, Econometric Society.2000, Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class.

#1893

Eric Helland

#40244

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Eric Helland is the William F. Podlich Professor of Economics in Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University, George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, and Senior Economist, Institute for Civil Justice, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA.

#1894

Muriel Niederle

#65007

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Muriel Niederle is a professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Niederle teaches courses at Stanford University focusing specifically on experimental economics and market design. Muriel Niederle is interested in studying behavioral and experimental economics. Niederle's most recent publication was "Probabilistic States versus Multiple Certainties: The Obstacle of Uncertainty in Contingent Reasoning" in November 2017. She was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2017.

#1895

Leigh Tesfatsion

#53976

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Leigh Tesfatsion is a computational economist who taught at Iowa State University. She received her doctorate at the University of Minnesota, and taught at the University of Southern California before moving to Iowa State. She is known for promoting agent-based models as an alternative to rational expectations general equilibrium models for studying markets, finance, and macroeconomic phenomena. Her works are widely cited in the literature on the subject.

#1896

John J. Albers

#94044

Overall Influence

#1897

Abolhassan Banisadr

#10922

Overall Influence

1933 - 2021 (88 years)

Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr was an Iranian politician, writer, and political dissident. He was the first president of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution abolished the monarchy, serving from February 1980 until his impeachment by parliament in June 1981. Prior to his presidency, he was the minister of foreign affairs in the interim government. He had resided for many years in France where he co-founded the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

#1898

Slobodan Milošević

#2260

Overall Influence

1941 - 2006 (65 years)

Slobodan Milošević was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician who was the president of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until his оverthrow in 2000. Formerly a high-ranking member of the League of Communists of Serbia during the 1980s, he led the Socialist Party of Serbia from its foundation in 1990 until his death in 2006. Milošević played a major role in the Yugoslav Wars. During his reign, numerous anti-government and anti-war protests took place, and hundreds of thousands deserted the Milošević-controlled Yugoslav People's Army, leading to mass emigration from Serbia.

#1899

Guntram Wolff

#37146

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Guntram Wolff is a political economist and the Director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations DGAP. From 2013 to 2022, he was the Director of Bruegel. He is a honorary professor at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at University Erfurt and was a Professor at the Solvay school of Université libre de Bruxelles. Under his leadership, Bruegel became a leading institute for European economic policy and has been ranked the top international think tank outside of the US by the University of Pennsylvania Think tank ranking . His research is focused on European political economy, ...

#1900

Nawab Haider Naqvi

#39508

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi is a Pakistani economist and scholar. Early life and education Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi was born in Meerut, British India on 11 July 1935. He migrated to Karachi, Pakistan in 1950.

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