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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#2201

Francis M. Bator

#60356

Overall Influence

1925 - 2018 (93 years)

Francis Michel Bator was a Hungarian-American economist and educator. He was a professor emeritus at Harvard Kennedy School of political economy. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. Bator attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a Ph.D. in 1956. He was Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States from 1965 to 1967. He was also a Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson.

#2202

Hans Stoll

#37464

Overall Influence

1939 - 2020 (81 years)

Hans Reiner Stoll was the Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr. Professor of Finance and Director of the Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. He was a Public Director of Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.

#2203

Harry Kaiser

#85283

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Harry Kaiser is an economist and the Gellert Family Professor of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. He is the father of three children, and currently teaches at Cornell University.

#2204

Derek C. Jones

#38069

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Derek C. Jones is the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics at Hamilton College who has contributed to the economics of participation, and pioneered the econometric analysis of productivity of worker cooperatives, employee ownership, and profit-sharing firms.

#2205

Attila Chikán

#43722

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Attila Chikán is a Hungarian economist, university professor, Full Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. His research areas are national and firm competitiveness, business policy, and logistics. He is Founding Principal of Rajk László College for Advanced Studies . Minister of Economic Affairs in 1998–99, Rector of Corvinus University of Budapest . Currently he is Professor Emeritus and Director, Competitiveness Research Center of CUB.

#2206

Melissa Kearney

#66006

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Melissa Schettini Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research . She is also director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group; a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution; a scholar affiliate and member of the board of the Notre Dame Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities ; and a scholar affiliate of the MIT Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab . She has been an editorial board member of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy since 2019 and of the Journal of Economic Literature since 2017.

#2207

Gustavo Franco

#15376

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Gustavo Henrique de Barroso Franco is a Brazilian economist. Former Governor of the Brazilian Central Bank, is best known for being one of the "fathers" of the Real Plan, the 1994 monetary reform that ended hyperinflation in Brazil. He teaches economics at the Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro since 1986. He is also a businessman, consultant and has served on many boards. He founded Rio Bravo Investimentos where he works as Senior Advisor. He has written several books, academic papers and contributes regularly to newspapers and magazines.

#2208

Jean-Louis Arcand

#61972

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Jean-Louis Arcand is a Canadian economist. He is a professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where he also head of the PhD Development Economics programme. Arcand is also the head of the Department of Economics at the Graduate Institute. He is president of the Global Development Network, a founding fellow of the European Union Development Network and senior fellow at the Fondation pour les études et recherches en développement international.

#2209

Bruce E. Hansen

#105427

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

#2210

Jennifer F. Reinganum

#50645

Overall Influence

Jennifer F. Reinganum is an American economist. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee where she is the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University. She has been a professor of economics since 1995. Reinganum was the president of the American Law and Economics Association for 2012 and has received multiple grant awards from the National Science Foundation.

#2211

Jeff Faux

#40101

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Jeff Faux is the principal founder of the Economic Policy Institute and was its first president, from 1986 to 2002. He is now the Institute's Distinguished Fellow and also serves on its board of directors.

#2212

Toni Whited

#90500

Overall Influence

Toni Whited is the Dale L. Dykema Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. in economics and French from the University of Oregon in 1984 and then went on to receive her PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1990. She has taught in multiple areas including: finance, econometrics, and macroeconomics. In her work, she has also published over 30 articles in high level economics and finance journals. During her research she covers subjects such as corporate investment corporate cash policy, structural estimation...

#2213

Finn Tarp

#87354

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Finn Tarp is a Danish professor of development economics at the University of Copenhagen and former director of UNU-WIDER , Helsinki, Finland. Biography Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more generally, including longer-term assignments in Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Vietnam.

#2214

Benny Moldovanu

#74001

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Benny Moldovanu is a German economist who currently holds the Chair of Economic Theory II at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on applied game theory, auction theory, mechanism design, contests and matching theory, and voting theory. In 2004, Moldovanu was awarded the Gossen Prize for his contributions to auction theory and mechanism design.

#2215

Steven C. Hackett

#71107

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Steven C. Hackett is an American economist, and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cal Poly Humboldt , known for his contributions to the fields of environmental and natural resources economics. Biography Born and raised in Arcata, California in 1960, Hackett obtained his BS in Agricultural Business and Economics at the Montana State University in 1983. He then moved to the Texas A&M University, where he obtained his MS in economics 1986, and his PhD in economics in 1989.

#2216

Julia Lane

#73832

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Julia Ingrid Lane is an economist and economic statistician who works as a professor at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, as well as NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress, helping CUSP to build CUSP data facility. Also, she works in NYU's GovLab as a Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics and Senior Fellow.

#2217

Ferdinand A. Hermens

#26338

Overall Influence

1906 - 1998 (92 years)

Ferdinand A. Hermens was a German-American political scientist and economist. He was born in Nieheim, Kreis Höxter in Germany and he died in Rockville, MD . His major books "Democracy or Anarchy?" and "The Representative Republic" were translated into German, Italian and Hebrew. His most important contribution to the progress of political science was his analysis of the impact that electoral systems have in structuring party competition. Hermens advised U.S. Congressional committees on Presidential Election Procedure, the Judiciary and Divided Powers and Economic Policy, the U.S. governmen...

#2218

Peter Shergold

#27790

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Peter Roger Shergold is an Australian academic, company director, and former public servant. Shergold was the Chancellor of Western Sydney University from 2011 through 2022. Between February 2003 and February 2008, he was the Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and as such was the most senior official in the Australian Public Service.

#2219

Norman Lamont

#25537

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, Baron Lamont of Lerwick, is a British politician and former Conservative MP for Kingston-upon-Thames. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1990 until 1993. He was created a life peer in 1998. Lamont was a supporter of the Eurosceptic organisation Leave Means Leave.

#2220

Robert Higgs

#41542

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Robert Higgs is an American economic historian and economist combining material from Public Choice, the New institutional economics, and the Austrian school of economics; and describes himself as a "libertarian anarchist" in political and legal theory and public policy. His writings in economics and economic history have most often focused on the causes, means, and effects of government power and growth.

#2221

Norton Garfinkle

#42220

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Norton Garfinkle is an American economist, writer, and businessman. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate work at Columbia University and Princeton University. He taught economics and economic history at Amherst College, where he was an editor the Journal of Economic History.

#2222

Adya Prasad Pandey

Adya Prasad Pandey

#37354

Overall Influence

Prof. Adya Prasad Pandey is notable person with various development in field of education and economic activity in Country . ,currently he is having State Minister Cadre in Government of Manipur. He is Former Vice Chancellor of Manipur University. Prof. Pandey is currently National President of Indian Economic Association ,'One of the Biggest Association of Economist',Prof. Pandey is also Independent Director of National Small Industries Corporation National Small Industries Corporation

#2223

Richard Vangermeersch

#31638

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Richard G.J. Vangermeersch is an American economist, and Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Rhode Island, particularly known for his History of Accounting: An International Encyclopedia, edited with Michael Chatfield.

#2224

Rita Klímová

#40415

Overall Influence

1931 - 1993 (62 years)

Rita Klímová, née Rita Budínová was a Czech economist and politician. She was Czechoslovakia's ambassador to the United States before that country's breakup in 1992. Early life Klímová was born in Romania. Her father was Stanislav Budín , a prominent Communist writer who used the pen name Batya Bat. Due to their Jewish ancestry, her family fled to the United States not long after Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939. She settled in New York City in 1939, returning to Czechoslovakia in 1946 to finish her education. As a result, for the rest of her life she spoke American English with an...

#2225

Pietro Balestra

#31198

Overall Influence

1935 - 2005 (70 years)

Pietro Balestra was a Swiss economist specializing in econometrics. He was born in Lugano and earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Fribourg. Balestra moved for graduate work to the University of Kansas and Stanford University. He was awarded the Ph.D. in Economics by Stanford University in 1965.

#2226

Howard C. Thomas

#106342

Overall Influence

#2227

James R. Markusen

#106425

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

#2228

Léonce Ndikumana

Léonce Ndikumana

#97399

Overall Influence

Léonce Ndikumana, is a Burundian Professor of Economics and specialist in African economy development, macroeconomics, external debt and capital flight. Biography Ndikumana got his bachelor's degree in economics at the University of Burundi in 1986. He became a lecturer in 1987 and finally Director of Finance and Administration at the same university. In 1992, he got a Masters in Economics and in 1996 his doctorate at the Washington University in St. Louis, United States. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the Africa Development Program at the Institute of Res...

#2229

Jacek Purchla

#51771

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Jacek Purchla is a Polish art historian and economist, Professor of Humanities, founder and director of the International Cultural Centre in Kraków. He specialises in urban development, social history and art history of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the theory and protection of cultural heritage.

#2230

W. Bentley MacLeod

#79401

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

William Bentley MacLeod is a Canadian-American economist. He is the Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and an Affiliated Faculty at Columbia Law School. He is a specialist in the fields of law, labor and contract theory.

#2231

Justin Yifu Lin

#48456

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Justin Yifu Lin is a Chinese economist and professor of economics at Peking University. He served as the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank from 2008 to 2012. He has been appointed as China State Council Counsellor since September 2013.

#2232

Colm Kearney

#56305

Overall Influence

1954 - 2018 (64 years)

Colm Kearney was an Irish economist and academic, who was dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, until 2017, shortly before his death on 28 March 2018.

#2233

Carl B. Weinberg

#85150

Overall Influence

Carl Weinberg is an American economist. He is the founder, Chief Economist and managing director of High Frequency Economics, an economic research firm located in Valhalla, NY. Weinberg was born in the Bronx and raised in Teaneck, NJ. He earned his bachelor's degree from Rutgers University. He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, as a student of Nobel laureate Lawrence Klein. At the University of Pennsylvania, Weinberg also worked under prominent economists F. Gerald Adams, Robert Summers, Oliver E. Williamson and Albert Ando.

#2234

David de la Croix

David de la Croix

#57203

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

David de la Croix is a Belgian scholar and author in the field of economic growth and demographic economics. He is professor at the University of Louvain . Contributions David de la Croix and his co-authors Raouf Boucekkine and Omar Licandro developed a unified framework encompassing longevity, education and economic growth. The basic link is that a longer life expectancy justifies a greater investment in education , which in turn fosters economic growth by promoting human capital accumulation. The resulting model has been taken to several sets of demographic data pertaining to the 17th and 18th centuries, providing evidence on the role of demographics in the Industrial Revolution.

#2235

Dominic Kwiatkowski

Dominic Kwiatkowski

#77247

Overall Influence

2000 - 2023 (23 years)

Dominic Kwiatkowski was an English medical researcher and geneticist who was head of the parasites and microbes programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge and a Professor of Genomics at the University of Oxford. Kwiatkowski applied genomics and computational analysis to problems in infectious disease, with the aim of finding ways to reduce the burden of disease in the developing world.

#2236

Stefan Nagel

#81932

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Stefan Nagel is a German-American financial economist and the Fama Family Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Centre of Economic Policy Research . After completing a degree at the University of Trier, Nagel earned his PhD at London Business School. Prior to joining the University of Chicago faculty, he previously taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

#2237

Graciela Márquez Colín

Graciela Márquez Colín

#25890

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Graciela Márquez Colín is a Mexican academic and economist. She held the position of Mexican Minister of Economy from 2018–2020, under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. As of January 2021, she holds the position of Vice President of the Governing Board of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography . She is set to occupy this role for an eight-year term, until December 2028. Previously she was Professor of Economic History at the El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City where she was a full professor at the Centro de Estudios Historicos. She was also a Visiting Professor at the Univers...

#2238

Peter Nolan

#35342

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Peter Hugh Nolan CBE is the Chong Hua Chair in Chinese Development and is Director of the University’s Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He previously held the Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, at the Cambridge Judge Business School also at the University of Cambridge. Nolan is a member of the Advisory Board of Cambridge Journal of Eurasian Studies.

#2239

H. Scott Gordon

#60280

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

Howard Scott Gordon was a Canadian economist. His seminal 1954 article Economic Theory of a Common Property Resource: The Fishery marked the beginning of the modern economics study of fisheries. He spent most of his career teaching and writing in the history and philosophy of economics.

#2240

Martin Browning

#76997

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Martin James Browning is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and an emeritus Fellow of the European Economic Association.

#2241

Kathryn M. Dominguez

Kathryn M. Dominguez

#39093

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Kathryn Mary Elizabeth Dominguez is a Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan and is a former nominee for the Governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Early life and education Dominguez was born on November 26, 1960, in Los Angeles, California. She received her Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1982 from Vassar College. She received a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics in 1987 from Yale University. Prior to attaining her Ph.D., she served on the research staff of the Fiscal Analysis Division of the Congressional Budget Office during the summer of 1984 and as a ...

#2242

David A. Wise

#106890

Overall Influence

#2243

Shane Frederick

#57539

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Shane Frederick is a tenured professor at the Yale School of Management. He earlier worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the creator of the cognitive reflection test, which has been found to be "predictive of the types of choices that feature prominently in tests of decision-making theories, like expected utility theory and prospect theory. People who score high on the CRT are less vulnerable to various biases, and show more patience in intertemporal choice tasks.

#2244

Ulrich Brand

#38449

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Ulrich Brand is a German political scientist. Since September 2007 he has been a professor of International Politics at the University of Vienna. Biography In 1989, Ulrich Brand graduated from Business Administration Studies with a specialisation in tourism at the Berufsakademie Ravensburg with a diploma. Between 1989 and 1996 he studied political science at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main and at the Universidad de Belgrano as well as at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, finishing his studies also with a diploma. In 2000, Ulrich Brand completed his PhD in Political Science at Goethe University.

#2245

Vincent Kerry Smith

#107114

Overall Influence

#2246

Benno Torgler

#107177

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

#2247

Charles E. Bishop

#95128

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

Charles Edwin Bishop was an American academic. He was chancellor of the University of Houston System from 1980 to 1986, president of the University of Arkansas from 1974 to 1980, and chancellor of the University of Maryland, College Park from 1970 to 1974. Bishop attended Berea College, the University of Kentucky, and University of Chicago. He had a B.S. in agriculture educations, an M.S. in agriculture economics, and a Ph.D. in economics. He also taught at North Carolina State University and served as vice president of the University of North Carolina.

#2248

Joachim von Braun

Joachim von Braun

#31088

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Joachim von Braun is a German agricultural scientist and currently director of a department of the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn and President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

#2249

Albert N. Link

#107206

Overall Influence

#2250

Manfred M. Fischer

Manfred M. Fischer

#48721

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Manfred M. Fischer is an Austrian and German regional scientist, Emeritus Professor of economic geography at the WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

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