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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#2101

Paul Geroski

#60883

Overall Influence

1952 - 2005 (53 years)

Paul Andrew Geroski was a leading economist in the United Kingdom. Although born in Pleasantville, New York, United States, Geroski studied and spent most of his career in Britain, where he settled permanently in 1975.

#2102

Charles Handy

#5105

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Charles Brian Handy CBE is an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he has advanced are the "portfolio career" and the "shamrock organization" .

#2103

Makoto Itoh

#15458

Overall Influence

1936 - 2023 (87 years)

Makoto Itoh was a Japanese economist who was considered internationally to be one of the most important scholars of Karl Marx's theory of value. He taught at Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, and was a professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo.

#2104

Donald Dewey

#41631

Overall Influence

1922 - 2002 (80 years)

Donald Jefferson Dewey was a professor of economics at Duke University and Columbia University. Dewey was best known for his antitrust studies and his work on industrial organization. His books included Monopoly in Economics and Law, Modern Capital Theory, The Theory of Imperfect Competition, Microeconomics, and The Antitrust Experiment 1890-1990. He also published thirty articles and about seventy-five book reviews.

#2105

Alain Caillé

#24038

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Allain Caillé is a French sociologist and economist. He is Professor of sociology at the University of Paris X Nanterre. He is a founding member of the Anti-Utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences and editor of the movement's monthly journal "Revue du Mauss".

#2106

Mark Esposito

#48781

Overall Influence

Mark Esposito is a Swiss economist, has been serving as a professor at universities and business schools such as Harvard University, Hult International Business School, and Arizona State University. Esposito was appointed a fellow of the Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai in 2017 and as a global expert for the World Economic Forum.

#2107

Hans Zeisel

#8196

Overall Influence

1905 - 1992 (87 years)

Hans Zeisel was an Austrian-American sociologist and legal scholar who taught at the University of Chicago Law School from 1953 to 1974. He was best known for using quantitative social science techniques to study the law.

#2108

Dirk Krüger

#43982

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Dirk Krüger is a German economist and currently Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a secondary appointment at the Wharton School. His research focuses on macroeconomic risk, public finance and labor economics.

#2109

Jean-Pierre Roth

#20995

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Jean-Pierre Roth is a Swiss banker who served as chairman of the Swiss National Bank from 1 January 2001 until 31 December 2009. He joined the Swiss National Bank in 1979, working in Zürich and Bern. He became vice-chairman of the governing board in 1996. In 2001, he became chairman of the governing board.

#2110

Bridget Terry Long

#46000

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Bridget Terry Long is the 12th Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Saris Professor of Education and Economics. She is an economist whose research focuses on college access and success. Long is a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the National Academy of Education.

#2111

Kevin W. S. Roberts

#51859

Overall Influence

Kevin W. S. Roberts was the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2020. He was a professorial fellow of Nuffield College, a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Econometric Society.

#2112

Mary Amiti

#78148

Overall Influence

Mary Amiti is an Australian economist and a Vice President of the Microeconomic Studies Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. During her career, she worked at the World Bank, IMF and various universities before joining the Federal Reserve in 2006. She is a research associate at the CEPR.

#2113

Ludwig Heinrich Von Mises

#101746

Overall Influence

#2114

Paul Rubin

#46489

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Paul Harold Rubin is an American economist and the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics Emeritus at Emory University. He was President of the Southern Economic Association in 2012-2013. He is also a research fellow at The Independent Institute.

#2115

Sherry Glied

#49302

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Sherry A. Glied is a Canadian-American economist, currently serving as the Dean of New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. From 2010 to 2012, she served as Assistant Secretary at the United States Department of Health and Human Services under the Obama administration.

#2116

Clayne L. Pope

#66612

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Clayne L. Pope is the Zina Card Williams Young professor of economics at Brigham Young University and specializes in 19th century economic history. Born in Emmett, Idaho, Pope has a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. Pope is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He served for a time as the president of the BYU 3rd Stake.

#2117

George Boyer

#33595

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

George R. Boyer is Professor of Labor Economics in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He is best known for his work in the field of economic history, and in particular his research on the English poor laws of the 18th and 19th centuries.

#2118

Arsenio Balisacan

Arsenio Balisacan

#28928

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Arsenio Molina Balisacan is a Filipino economist and academician currently serving as the Secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority . Balisacan first served as the NEDA Secretary from May 2012 to January 2016 under the Benigno Aquino III administration. He then served under the Duterte administration as the Chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission from February 1, 2016 to June 30, 2022. He was again appointed as NEDA Secretary under the Bongbong Marcos administration. During his first term in 2012, he concurrently served as NEDA Secretary and as Chairman of the...

#2119

Kunibert Raffer

#35667

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Professor Kunibert Raffer is a development researcher. His main contributions are on international economic relations and the problems of unequal exchange. From 1979–1980 he was Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna and from 1983–84 consultant to UNIDO. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt and then Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. He spent 1990–93 as honorary research fellow, Department of Commerce, University of Birmingham and in 1998 participated in the UNDP's research project "International Development Cooperation and Global Public Goods".

#2120

Evert Gummesson

#30871

Overall Influence

1936 - 2023 (87 years)

Evert Gummesson was Professor Emeritus of Service Marketing and Management at the Stockholm Business School, where he was formerly the Director of Research. He received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University, Stockholm School of Economics. He was a Fellow and Honorary Doctor of Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, and a Fellow of the University of Tampere, Finland.

#2121

Teresa Ghilarducci

#54378

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Teresa Ghilarducci is an American scholar on labor and retirement issues. She has advocated for government to extend occupational retirement plan coverage to all workers. She published Rescuing Retirement in 2018; the book makes the case for a Guaranteed Retirement Account that would supplement Social Security. In 2016 she wrote a popular book, How to Retire with Enough Money: And How to Know What Enough Is. One of her most recent books, When I’m Sixty Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, investigates the loss of pensions on older Americans and proposes a comprehensive system of reform.

#2122

Thomas Lemieux

#91788

Overall Influence

Thomas Lemieux is a Canadian economist and professor at the University of British Columbia. Lemieux belongs to the world's foremost labour economists in terms of research output, in particular on wage inequality.

#2123

Edward Lawrence Wheelwright

#38861

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

Edward Lawrence Wheelwright was an Australian economist, radio host and anti-war activist who taught at the University of Sydney from 1952 until 1986. He has written on Australian economic history, often from an institutionalist or Marxian perspective, and his published works have included the analysis of capitalism in Australian history and an analysis of the influence and development of transnational corporations. He authored 11 books independently and 5 with co-editors, and made frequent appearances on ABC Radio's Notes on the News program. He is the namesake of a memorial lecture at the University of Sydney and an annual prize in the university's political economy course.

#2124

Anne Carter

#63125

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (99 years)

Anne Pitts Carter is an American educator and economist, specializing in technical change and technology transfer. Life The daughter of Jacob J. Pitts, she was born Anne Pitts in New York City. She completed a bachelor's degree at Queens College and pursued graduate studies at Harvard University although, due to the conventions of the time, she was enrolled through Radcliffe College. In 1946, she married Robert Grosse, also a graduate student in economics. While she was working on her PhD thesis at Harvard, she taught part-time at Bates College and was professor of economics at Brooklyn College; she received her PhD in 1949.

#2125

Patrick Low

#102153

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Patrick Low was the Chief Economist at the World Trade Organization Secretariat and an honorary professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

#2126

George Judge

#90687

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (99 years)

George Garrett Judge is an American econometrician and Professor in the Graduate School in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources. Biography Judge was born on a farm in Nicholas, Kentucky on Mary 2, 1925. During World War II, he served on Saipan Island, flying B-29 missions over Japan. After the war he attended the University of Kentucky, earning his bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics in 1948. Judge went on to earn his PhD in economics and statistics from Iowa State University, and became an Assistant Professor at the Uni...

#2127

Trevon Logan

#45363

Overall Influence

Trevon D'Marcus Logan is an American economist. He is the Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University, where he was awarded the 2014 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2014, he was the youngest-ever president of the National Economic Association. In 2019, he was the inaugural North Hall Economics Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2020, he was named the inaugural di...

#2128

Ilya Strebulaev

#66177

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Ilya A. Strebulaev is a Russian- American financial economist, researcher, author, and speaker with expertise in venture capital, startups, and corporate innovation. He has been a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2004. From 2018 to 2022 he was on the board of directors of Yandex, the Russian equivalent of Google.

#2129

Roy Thurik

#101621

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Aadrian Roy Thurik is a Dutch economist who is professor of Entrepreneurship and Economics at Montpellier Business School in France. He is also an emeritus professor at both the Free University in Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

#2130

Toby Moskowitz

#21198

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Tobias Jacob "Toby" Moskowitz is an American financial economist and a professor at the Yale School of Management. He was the winner of the 2007 American Finance Association Fischer Black Prize, awarded to a leading finance scholar under the age of 40.

#2131

Gregory Dow

#50604

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Gregory Keith Dow is an economist at Simon Fraser University who has contributed to the economics of participation and particularly to research on worker cooperatives. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1981 with a thesis "Investment under uncertainty : the capital market and the behavior of the firm"

#2132

Séverine Deneulin

#50632

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Séverine Marie Paule Deneulin is a senior lecturer in International Development at the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, and a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association ; she is also the HDCA's secretary with a place on the executive council.

#2133

Lars Lefgren

#78602

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Lars Lefgren is an American Economist trained at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business who is a professor of economics at Brigham Young University , specializing in labor economics and applied econometrics.

#2134

Andrey Ivanovich Kolganov

#102520

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Andrey Ivanovich Kolganov is a Soviet Russian economist. Doktor Nauk , Professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Principal Researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also an opinion journalist and a fiction writer.

#2135

Walter Galenson

#83754

Overall Influence

1914 - 1999 (85 years)

Walter Galenson was a professor of economics at Cornell University and a noted U.S. labor historian and economist. Education and early career He received his bachelor's degree in 1934, his Master of Science in 1935 and his Ph.D. in 1940—all from Columbia University.

#2136

Robin L. Bartlett

#72508

Overall Influence

Robin L. Bartlett is a professor of economics at Denison University. She was among the founders of the International Association for Feminist Economics , and served as its president from 2005 to 2006.

#2137

Edi Karni

#78529

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Edi Karni is an Israeli born American economist and decision theorist. Karni is the Scott and Barbara Black Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and an Economic Theory Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.

#2138

Bruce Kingma

#35957

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Bruce Kingma is an American economist and academic entrepreneur, who since 1988 has taught and worked in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Kingma is a pioneer in experiential entrepreneurship education and community engagement and his work cover topics ranging from academic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and religion, information economics, online education, community engagement, library science, and nonprofit management.

#2139

Kálmán Mizsei

#62511

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Kálmán Mizsei is a Hungarian economist. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Budapest University of Economics. Mizsei has held senior positions at many Hungarian and international organizations. From 2001 until 2006, he served as UNDP Regional Director for Europe and the CIS. He was the European Union Special Representative for Moldova in 2007–2011. In 2019, he joined the European Union High Level Advisers' Mission to help the Moldovan government to strengthen its reintegration policy.

#2140

Joan Robinson

#102685

Overall Influence

#2141

Romain Wacziarg

Romain Wacziarg

#72448

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Romain Wacziarg is an American economist. He is a professor of economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and holds the Hans Hufschmid Chair in Management . He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining UCLA, he was on the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research interests span international economics, political economy, economic growth, and development.

#2142

John Driffill

#95016

Overall Influence

Edward John Driffill is a professor of economics at Yale-NUS College, specialising in international macroeconomics and labour economics. With Lars Calmfors, he is the creator of the Calmfors–Driffill hypothesis.

#2143

Magnus Johannesson

#102728

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Gunnar Magnus Johannesson is a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, as well as a former member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He is known for his research in the field of experimental economics.

#2144

Peter Pedroni

#28257

Overall Influence

Peter Louis Pedroni is an American econometrician and Professor of Economics at Williams College. An active researcher in economics and econometrics, his areas of expertise include stationary and non-stationary panel time series methods, international finance, economic development, and economic growth.

#2145

Imran Rasul

#68345

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Imran Rasul is a professor of economics at the University College London, managing editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. His research interests include labour, development and public economics and he is considered to be one of the leaders within social norms and capital economics.

#2146

Gregory Grossman

#23326

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

Gregory Grossman was late professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, an authority on the economy of the Soviet Union. He is credited with the introduction of the terms "second economy" and "command economy".

#2147

Clifford Winston

#70255

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Clifford Winston is an applied microeconomist and senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He studies microeconomic policy and its impact on government performance, specializing in industrial organization, regulation, and transportation.

#2148

Jon Danielsson

#54781

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Jón Danielsson is an icelandic economist teaching at the London School of Economics. Danielssons work focuses on artificial intelligence, risk forecasting, international finance, cryptocurrencies, and systemic causes of financial instability. He has written several books on finance and risk analysis, and is active in both domestic and international policy debates on financial regualtion.

#2149

Botond Kőszegi

#94574

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Botond Kőszegi is an economist and a professor at Central European University. Early life and education A bronze medallist in the International Math Olympiad 1991, Kőszegi graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from Harvard University in 1996. He earned his doctoral degree in economics from MIT in 2000, under the supervision of Nobel laureate Peter Diamond and Romneycare/Obamacare architect Jon Gruber.

#2150

Randolph Cohen

#35344

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Randolph Baer Cohen is an American financial economist and MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School. Career At Harvard, Cohen teaches Field X and Field Y, entrepreneurship classes designed to enable students to develop and grow their businesses.

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