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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#2401

Norbert Walter

#91594

Overall Influence

1944 - 2012 (68 years)

Norbert Walter was a German economist. He was the chief economist of Deutsche Bank from 1990 to 2009. Born in Weilbach, Bavaria, Walter studied economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, earning his Diplom in 1968.

#2402

Paul Courant

#53821

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Paul N. Courant is an American economist who is an expert in public goods. His recent research focuses on the economics of universities, the economics of libraries and archives, and the impact of new information technologies on the scholarly publishing system.

#2403

Patrick Luke Bolton

#112704

Overall Influence

#2404

Marco Vivarelli

#92818

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Marco Vivarelli is an Italian economist, full professor and director of the Department of Economic Policy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. Biography Marco Vivarelli received his Laurea in 1987 from the Bocconi University, Milan and his Ph.D. in 1992 from the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University.

#2405

Adriana Lleras-Muney

#27041

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Adriana Lleras-Muney is a Colombian-American economist. She is currently a professor in the Department of Economics at UCLA. She was appointed as Associate Editor for the Journal of Health Economics in 2014, and she was elected as one of the six members of the American Economic Association Executive committee in 2018. Her research focuses on socio-economic status and health with a particular emphasis on education, income, and economic development. In 2017, she was received the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama.

#2406

Peter Koslowski

#29727

Overall Influence

1952 - 2012 (60 years)

Peter Koslowski was a professor of philosophy, especially philosophy of management and organisation and history of modern philosophy, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam . Biography He was born in Göttingen, Germany, in 1952, and studied at University of Tübingen, University of Munich, and Virginia Tech. He earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1979 and his master's degree in economics 1980 .1985-87 Professor and director, Institute for the Studium fundamentale, Witten/Herdecke University. Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Political Economy 1987-20041987-2001 Founding director, Forschungs...

#2407

Michael H. Boyle

#112835

Overall Influence

#2408

Howard Warren Buffett

Howard Warren Buffett

#16566

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Howard Warren Buffett is an American philanthropist, political consultant, political scientist, and writer. A grandson of the American businessman and investor Warren Buffett, he is an adjunct professor in public policy and international affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and was previously the executive director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation that funds initiatives aimed at improving the standard of living and quality of life for the world’s most impoverished and marginalized populations. He previously led agr...

#2409

Stefan Hedlund

#32222

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Stefan Peter Hedlund is a Swedish academic, an expert on Soviet and Communist studies/Russian studies, and Professor of East European Studies at Uppsala University . Currently he is also Research Director at UCRS Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He has published extensively on the Soviet economic system, Russian economic reform and the attempted transition to democracy and market economy.

#2410

Peter Kennedy

#111631

Overall Influence

1943 - 2010 (67 years)

Peter E. Kennedy was a Canadian economist who taught for many years at the Simon Fraser University. His most famous work was his noted textbook, A Guide to Econometrics. In this guide, and in a subsequent summary article, he produced Ten Commandments of Applied Econometrics. These are that Thou shalt:Use common sense and economic theoryAsk the right questionKnow the contextInspect the dataNot worship complexityLook long and hard at thy resultsBeware the costs of data miningBe willing to compromiseNot confuse statistical significance with substanceConfess in the presence of sensitivity.He was born in Toronto and grew up close by in Port Credit.

#2411

Benno Ndulu

#44532

Overall Influence

1950 - 2021 (71 years)

Benno Ndulu was a Tanzanian Professor and the governor of the Bank of Tanzania, the country's central bank, from 2008 to 2018. He died on 22 February 2021 from COVID-19. Career As a professor at the University of Dar es Salaam in the early 1980s, he led a series of seminars on the economic crisis Tanzania was facing. This work made important contributions to the economic reforms that were implemented in the second half of the 1980s by the second phase government. After this, he worked as a Lead Economist with the Macroeconomic Division of the World Bank for Eastern Africa from the Tanzania Country Office.

#2412

Charles Blahous

Charles Blahous

#55047

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Charles Paul "Chuck" Blahous III is the J. Fish and Lillian F. Smith Chair and Senior Research Strategist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, as well as a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, specializing in domestic economic policy and retirement security , as well as federal fiscal policy, entitlements, and health care programs.

#2413

Margaret Gardner

Margaret Gardner

#15791

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Margaret Elaine Gardner, is an Australian academic, economist and university executive serving as the 30th and current governor of Victoria since August 2023. She was previously the vice-chancellor of Monash University from 2014 to 2023 and the president and vice-chancellor of RMIT University from 2005 to 2014.

#2414

J. Laurie Snell

J. Laurie Snell

#8349

Overall Influence

1925 - 2011 (86 years)

James Laurie Snell was an American mathematician and educator. Biography J. Laurie Snell was the son of Roy Snell, an adventure author, and Lucille, a concert pianist. Lucille taught the three sons to play piano, cello, and violin. The family had a life-lease on a cabin in Isle Royale National Park where they would go for summer holidays.

#2415

Holger Görg

#109382

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Holger Görg is a German economist who currently works as Professor of International Economics at the University of Kiel. Görg also leads the Kiel Center for Globalization and heads the Research Area "Global Division of Labour" at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. In 2009, he was awarded the Gossen Prize for his contributions to the study of firms' decisions to invest, export and outsource parts of their value chains abroad.

#2416

Bruce E. Stangle

#42134

Overall Influence

Bruce Edward Stangle is an American economist who served as the chief executive officer of Analysis Group from 1981 to 2004. He and Michael F. Koehn co-founded the management consultancy in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts. After stepping down as chief executive Stangle continued to lead Analysis Group as chairman until 2016. He began his career as a senior economist for Arthur D. Little from 1978 to 1980.

#2417

Robert Whaples

#41835

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Robert M. Whaples is a professor of economics at Wake Forest University. He is also the editor of The Independent Review. Education Whaples graduated from the University of Maryland in 1983 with B.A.'s in economics and history, and received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Pennsylvania. His Ph.D. thesis, "The Shortening of the American Work Week: An Economic and Historical Analysis", won the Allan Nevins Prize from the Economic History Association.

#2418

Edmar Bacha

#58666

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Edmar Lisboa Bacha is a Brazilian economist. Biography He was born in Lambari, Minas Gerais, on February 14, 1942. He studied at the João Braulio Junior School Group in Lambari and the Colégio Santo Antônio in Belo Horizonte. Afterwards, he studied economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte and at the Center for the Improvement of Economists, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro. He then moved to the United States, where he pursued graduate studies at Yale University. He obtained his PhD from Yale in 1968, the title of his doctoral dissertation being "An economet...

#2419

Mara Faccio

#66929

Overall Influence

Mara Faccio is an economist and currently the Duke Realty Chair in Finance and Professor of Finance at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. She is a research associate at the NBER. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of Corporate Finance. and previously held editorial positions at Financial Management magazine and The Review of Financial Studies.

#2420

William Hoban Branson

#90938

Overall Influence

1938 - 2006 (68 years)

William Hoban Branson was an American economist. Considered a pioneer in the field of international economics, he was also noted for his intermediate level textbook Macroeconomic Theory and Policy. William Branson had three children, Kristin, William, and Emily. Shortly before his death his granddaughter was born, Maggie Branson Lynch.

#2421

Erica Field

#90006

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Erica Marie Field is an economist who currently works as Professor of Economics and Global Health at Duke University. Her research interests include development economics, labour economics, and health economics. In 2010, her research was awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize.

#2422

Ola Vincent

#28199

Overall Influence

1925 - 2012 (87 years)

Olatunde Olabode Vincent was a Nigerian economist and banker who was Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria between 1977 and 1982. Birth and education Vincent was born on 16 May 1925 in Lagos. He attended CMS Grammar School, Lagos . He served in the Nigerian Armed Forces between 1942 and 1946, and then worked in the Financial Secretary's Office, Lagos between 1946 and 1956. In 1951 he attended the Administrative Staff College in England, and from 1953 to 1956 he studied at the University of Manchester. From 1957 to 1960 he was a part-time lecturer in Economics at the University of Ibadan.

#2423

Marie Claire Villeval

#98524

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Marie Claire Odile Villeval is a French economist and research professor in economics at the National Center for Scientific Research. Education Marie Claire Villeval obtained her PhD in economics from the Paris-Nanterre University in 1982 and her Habilitation from the University of Lyon in 1998.

#2424

Marshall Goldman

#16721

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Marshall Irwin Goldman was an American economist and writer. He was an expert on the economy of the former Soviet Union. Goldman was a professor of economics at Wellesley College and associate director of the Harvard Russian Research Center. Goldman received his Ph.D. in Russian studies from Harvard University in 1961. Goldman was well known for his study of the career of Mikhail Gorbachev. His books on the former Soviet Union include The USSR in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System, Lost Opportunity: What Has Made Economic Reform in Russia So Difficult, and Petrostate.

#2425

Anthony Yezer

#73895

Overall Influence

Anthony Marvin Yezer is a professor of economics at George Washington University in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. He has provided expert testimony for the United States Congress and Federal Trade Commission on sub-prime mortgage lending and trade regulation issues. He is Director of the Center for Economic Research and a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Urban Economics. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for International Economic Policy.

#2426

Roderick Deane

#41456

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Sir Roderick Sheldon Deane is a New Zealand economist, public sector reformer, and businessman. He served as deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and as CEO and chairman of the country's largest telecommunications company, Telecom New Zealand.

#2427

R. Quentin Grafton

#113308

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

#2428

Lawrence J. White

#113312

Overall Influence

#2429

Roy Batchelor

#51672

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Roy A. Batchelor is Professor Emeritus in Political Economy and Statistics in Bayes Business School , City, University of London. Educated at Allan Glen's School and Glasgow University, Roy worked as a government scientist and economist; then at the UK National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He joined City University in 1977, and has since been active there in research, teaching and academic administration, this including spells as Head of Banking and Finance Department, Director of the Bayes Executive MBA programme in Dubai, and of the Executive MBA in London.

#2430

David Ryan Just

#108246

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

David Ryan Just is an American behavioral economist at Cornell University. Just received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, in 2001, after which he joined the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University as an assistant professor; he was appointed professor in 2014.

#2431

Andre Punt

#99589

Overall Influence

Andre Eric Punt is a South African fisheries scientist and mathematician, best known for his work on fisheries stock assessment. He received the K. Radway Allen Award in 1999 for his contributions to fisheries science.

#2432

Asli Demirgüç‐kunt

#113444

Overall Influence

#2433

Hardin Coleman

#27440

Overall Influence

Hardin Coleman is a professor of counseling psychology at the Boston University School of Education, where he served as dean in the School of Education from 2008 to 2017. He graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Williams College, and in 1980 he received his master's degree in Counseling from the University of Vermont. In 1992, Coleman gained a Doctorate in Counseling from Stanford University, where he later studied for a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, with a focus on multicultural counseling. Throughout his professional career, Coleman has been concerned with the mental health needs of ad...

#2434

David Stasavage

#15362

Overall Influence

David Stasavage is an American political scientist. Stasavage attended a bachelor's degree at Cornell University in 1989, then obtained his doctorate from Harvard University in 1995. He subsequently went to Europe, working successively for the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and the Bank of England. Stasavage began teaching as a faculty associate within the London School of Economics in 1999. By 2005, his final year at the LSE, Stasavage had acquired the rank of reader. Stasavage returned to the United States in 2006, as an associate professor at New York University.

#2435

Peter Bossaerts

#55226

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Peter L. Bossaerts is a Belgian-American economist. He is considered one of the pioneers and leading researchers in neuroeconomics and experimental finance. Life Peter Bossaerts grew up in Belgium and studied at the Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen from 1977 to 1982, where he obtained a Licenciate and Doctorandus in applied economics. After coursework towards a PhD in statistics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, he earned a Ph.D. at University of California in Financial Economics under the supervision of Richard Roll.

#2436

Henry Ergas

#48916

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Henry Isaac Ergas is an economist who has worked at the OECD, Australian Trade Practices Commission as well as at a number of economic consulting firms. He chaired the Australian Intellectual Property and Competition Review Committee set up by the Australian Federal Government in 1999 to review Australia's intellectual property laws as they relate to competition policy.

#2437

Guy Routh

#108187

Overall Influence

1916 - 1993 (77 years)

Gerald Guy Cumming Routh was an economist whose academic career was spent largely at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He also had a spell at the ILO as a visiting associate at the IILS. Early life His father, Charles Edward Arthur Routh , joined Imperial Yeomanry for the Boer War, serving in the elite unit 19th Coy. Paget's Horse, and stayed in South Africa after the war. He married Ethel Annie Cumming there and eventually settled in Krugersdorp, where he was superintendent of the hospital for the West Rand Consolidated Mine. He died of a heart attack when Guy was only 8, leaving three children fatherless.

#2438

Edward J. Mills

#113541

Overall Influence

#2439

Adrianus Mooy

#20597

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Adrianus Mooy is an Indonesian economist and diplomat. He hold the office of Governor of Bank of Indonesia, serving the role from 1988 to 1993 during Soeharto's reign. He served as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in 1995—2000. He studied at Gadjah Mada University and University of Wisconsin. From 1993 to 1995, he was appointed as Ambassador of Indonesia to Belgium. He held to post of Rector of Pelita Harapan University Surabaya from 2010 until 2018.

#2440

M. V. Mathur

#9100

Overall Influence

1915 - 2004 (89 years)

Mukut Vehari Mathur was an Indian economist and scholar. He was the vice-chancellor of Rajasthan University and founder chairman of the Jaipur-based Institute of Development Studies, also known as IDS.

#2441

Hollis Burnley Chenery

#113641

Overall Influence

#2442

Yuriy Bazhal

#46502

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Bazhal, Yuriy is a Ukrainian scientist in a field of economic theory, innovations, and technological development; Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Academic from 2010. Biography Yuriy Bazhal was born in Odessa in 1950. In 1971 he finished plan-economic faculty of Odessa State Economics University. Worked at the Economics Institute of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Academy of Sciences since 1988, and at the Institute of Economic Forecasting of National Academy of Science of Ukraine during 1997-1999. He has taught at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy since 1994, from 2000 ...

#2443

Christopher Ragan

#82915

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Christopher Thomas Southgate Ragan is a Canadian academic and economist. He has published extensive research on macroeconomics and monetary policy. Ragan is the inaugural director of McGill University's Max Bell School of Public Policy, where he also teaches core macroeconomic and microeconomic policy courses. He is the former chair of Canada's Ecofiscal Commission, a group of Canadian economists that sought to broaden the discussion of environmental pricing reform beyond the academic sphere and into the realm of practical policy application.

#2444

Nicoli Nattrass

#25063

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Nicoli Nattrass is a South African development economist who is professor of economics at the University of Cape Town . She is the co-director of the Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa and was the founding director of the Centre for Social Science Research .

#2445

Kenneth Sokoloff

Kenneth Sokoloff

#60003

Overall Influence

1952 - 2007 (55 years)

Kenneth Lee Sokoloff was an American economic historian who was broadly interested in the interaction between initial factor endowments, institutions, and economic growth. In particular, he examined the influence of factor endowments on economic development in the New World and the role of 19th century United States patent law in encouraging innovation.

#2446

Alexei Kudrin

#31996

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Alexei Leonidovich Kudrin is a Russian liberal politician and economist. Previously he served as the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber from 2018 to 2022 and as Minister of Finance from 2000 to 2011. Since December 9, 2022 Corporate Development Advisor at Yandex.

#2447

Susanna Loeb

#37818

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Susanna Loeb is an American education economist and director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. She was previously the Barnett Family Professor of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where she also served as founding director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis . Moreover, she directs Policy Analysis for California Education . Her research interests include the economics of education and the relationship between schools and educational policies, in particular school finance and teacher labor markets.

#2448

Rex Bergstrom

#60893

Overall Influence

1925 - 2005 (80 years)

Albert Rex Bergstrom was a New Zealand econometrician recognised for his work in continuous time econometrics. Biography Bergstrom was born on 9 July 1925 in Christchurch where he attended Christchurch Boys' High School. He studied at Canterbury University College part-time from 1942 to 1947 while working in accountancy and serving in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He gained a first-class honours degree in 1948 and subsequently won a travelling scholarship in commerce which he took up in 1952 to do his doctoral work at the University of Cambridge, completing his PhD in 1955. He taught at Ma...

#2449

Paul Glewwe

#59167

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Paul William Glewwe is an economist and Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include economic development and growth, the economics of the public sector, and poverty and welfare. He formerly was the Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy and served as co-chair of the education programme of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab .

#2450

Martin Friedrich Hellwig

#114008

Overall Influence

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