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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#2501

Robert E. Lipsey

#98103

Overall Influence

1926 - 2011 (85 years)

Robert E. Lipsey was an American economist associated with National Bureau of Economic Research and Queens College, City University of New York. He is known for his contributions to the U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes.

#2502

Anirudh Lal Nagar

#105873

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

Anirudh Lal Nagar was an Indian econometrician notable for his work on the finite-sample inference in econometrics. Born in Allahabad, Nagar earned a Master's in statistics from Lucknow University in 1951, and a Ph.D. in Economics from what is now Erasmus University Rotterdam under the supervision of Henri Theil. He died on 4 February 2014, in Pune.

#2503

Carol Graham

#52475

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a College Park professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor , and the author of numerous books, papers and edited volume chapters.

#2504

W. Chan Kim

#11243

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

W. Chan Kim is a South Korean business theorist. He is a Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD, and co-director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in Fontainebleau, France. He is known as co-author of the 2005 book Blue Ocean Strategy.

#2505

Petr Šnapka

#37392

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Petr Šnapka is a Czech economist and university professor. Life Šnapka graduated 1967 from the Technical University of Ostrava at Faculty of Mining and Geology in the field of Economics and Organization in the mining industry. 1967/1968 he works as system analyst at OKD computer center in Ostrava. 1969 he became Assistant Professor for research at VŠB-TUO , from 1971 to 1976 as Assistant Professor for economics . 1972 he earned his Ph.D. in the field of economics of industrial sectors at the VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava.

#2506

Leeat Yariv

#86522

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Leeat Yariv is the Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics at Princeton University, a research fellow of CEPR, and a research associate of NBER. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and has held positions at UCLA and Caltech prior to her move to Princeton in 2017, where she is the founder and director of the Princeton Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences . Yariv’s research focuses on political economy, market design, social and economic networks, and experimental economics.

#2507

Walter Enders

#116246

Overall Influence

#2508

Herman A. Berliner

#71780

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Herman Albert Berliner was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of Hofstra University. He was appointed provost of Hofstra University in 1990 and served as Provost for 28 years in total. He also served as Business School Dean and Interim Dean for 12 years in total.

#2509

Rema Hanna

#80965

Overall Influence

Rema Hanna is an economist and is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South East Asia Studies at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Moreover, she currently serves as co-director of the Evidence for Policy Design research programme at Harvard's Center for International Development and a scientific co-director for Southeast Asia at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab . Her research focuses on the efficiency and effectiveness of public services in developing countries, with specific focus on service delivery and the impacts of corruption. She is also the co-chair of the editoria...

#2510

Haider A. Khan

#61508

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Haider A. Khan is a professor of economics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He has been widely recognized for his expertise on social accounting matrix -based economic modeling, which he employs to study problems in international economics and development. His areas of research include poverty and inequality, environment, foreign aid, trade and investment, as well as economy-wide modeling. Khan is listed among the top five percent of almost 14,000 professional contributors to IDEAS, and his report on women's rights as human rights is among the ...

#2511

Judith K. Hellerstein

#100207

Overall Influence

Judith K. Hellerstein is the Chair of the Economics department and Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. She is a former co-editor of The Journal of Human Resources, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and she chairs the Technical Review Committee for the National Longitudinal Surveys. She served as Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisers during 2011–2012.

#2512

Biman Prasad

#29584

Overall Influence

Biman Prasad is a Fijian politician and economist who has served as the leader of the National Federation Party since 2014, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance since 2022. Early life and education Prasad was born in Dreketi in Vanua Levu and was educated at Muanidevo Indian School, Dreketi Junior Secondary School and Labasa College. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and economics from the University of the South Pacific, he pursued a Masters of Commerce from the University of New South Wales and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland.

#2513

Tim Harcourt

#64819

Overall Influence

Tim Harcourt is an Australian economist who is the J.W. Nevile Fellow in economics at the UNSW Business School, and an advisor to the Government of South Australia on international engagement. Harcourt was awarded a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide, and a Master of Arts in economics from the University of Minnesota, and also completed the Trade Union Program at Harvard Law School. He was the Chief Economist of Austrade until 2011, and earlier worked for the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and the Reserve Bank of Australi...

#2514

Donald Winch

#31119

Overall Influence

1935 - 2017 (82 years)

Donald Norman Winch, was a British economist and academic. He was Professor of the History of Economics at the University of Sussex from 1969 to 2000, and its Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1986 to 1989.

#2515

Peer Steinbrück

#41051

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Peer Steinbrück is a German politician who was the Chancellor-candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the 2013 federal election. Steinbrück served as the eighth Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2002 to 2005, a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2016, and as Federal Minister of Finance in the first Cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2009.

#2516

Khosrow Doroodian

#106328

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Khosrow Doroodian is an academic. Doroodian received his bachelor and master's degrees in economics from Pahlavi University . He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oregon in 1981. His area of specialization is International Economics. After graduation, he taught economic courses at Portland State University as an adjunct Professor for one year. He joined Ohio University in 1982. He has been nominated two times for the Presidential Teaching Award and has taught courses in both undergraduate and graduate levels . He has published numerous scholarly articles in journals and has made numerous presentations in various professional conferences.

#2517

Joop Klant

#76602

Overall Influence

1915 - 1994 (79 years)

Jacobus Johannes Klant , was a Dutch economist, novelist and professor of political economy at the University of Amsterdam. Biography His parents were Pieter Klant en Geertje de Moor. He studied economics at the University of Amsterdam. In the late 1930s he broke off his studies to succeed his deceased father, who had been paymaster of the vegetable auction in Warmenhuizen. Later in 1954 he completed his studies in economics. Again twenty years later in 1973, he published his PhD thesis entitled "Spelregels voor Economen" . This methodological treatise attracted much attention and was honored...

#2518

Elisabeth Sadoulet

#112212

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Elisabeth Sadoulet is an economist and Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley who has carried out field research in China, India, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. Sadoulet was the editor of the World Bank Economic Review from 2010 to 2013, and is a fellow of several scholarly associations in the fields of agriculture and economics.

#2519

Joel Sobel

#65748

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Joel Sobel is an American economist and currently professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on game theory and has been seminal in the field of strategic communication in economic games. His work with Vincent Crawford established the game-theoretic concept of cheap talk.

#2520

David S. Scharfstein

#77049

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

David S. Scharfstein is the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. Biography He received an AB in 1982 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, at Princeton University, and, in 1986, a PhD in economics from MIT. He then joined Harvard Business School in 1986 as Assistant professor of Business Management, moving to the Sloan School of Management at MIT as Assistant Professor of Finance in 1987. He was promoted there to Associate Professor in 1990, and to Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Professor of Management and Professor of Finance, in 1994.

#2521

Eduard Gaugler

#55617

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Eduard Gaugler was a German researcher, economist and former professor for human resource management at both the University of Regensburg and the University of Mannheim from 1972 to 1989. Moreover, he served as rector of the University of Mannheim between 1973 and 1976.

#2522

Grigory Yavlinsky

#27291

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Grigory Alekseyevich Yavlinsky is a Russian economist and politician. Serving as Deputy Premier of the Russian SFSR and later the entire Soviet Union, Yavlinsky authored the 500 Days Program, a plan for the transition of the Soviet economy to a free-market one. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, he created the Yabloko party, which has advocated for a centrist alternative to the right-wing economic policies of President Boris Yeltsin. Between 1994 and 2003, he led his party in the State Duma.

#2523

Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir

#22896

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir is a Bangladeshi politician. He is a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Chandpur-1 constituency since 2008, and was Minister of Home Affairs from 2011 to 2013. He is also an economist, civil servant, and writer in Bangladesh.

#2524

Valerie Ramey

#85274

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Valerie Ramey is an American economist at University of California, San Diego and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2018, she was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and research associate at the NBER. She was awarded the R. K. Cho Economics Prize in 2020.

#2525

Ole-Kristian Hope

#34258

Overall Influence

Ole-Kristian Hope is a Norwegian economist, and Professor of Accounting at the Rotman School of Management, particularly known for his work on accounting standards and disclosure practices. Biography Hope obtained his Siviløkonom degree in 1988 from the Norwegian School of Economics, his MBA with High Distinction in 1991 from the University of Michigan. In 2002 he received his PhD in Accounting Information and Management at the Kellogg School of Management with a thesis entitled "A Study of International Variations in the Financial Reporting Environment, Disclosure Practices and Analysts’ For...

#2526

Mark McClellan

#23363

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Mark Barr McClellan is the director of the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at Duke University. Formerly, he was a senior fellow and director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at The Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C. McClellan served as commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration under President George W. Bush from 2002 through 2004, and subsequently as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from 2004 ...

#2527

Hugh Gravelle

#115882

Overall Influence

Professor Hugh Stanley Emrys Gravelle studied at the University of Leeds , where he graduated in BComm. He joined the staff at Queen Mary College, University of London, lecturing in theories and applied microeconomics. He then moved to The University of York, Centre for Health Economics in January 1998 to present.

#2528

David Shapiro

#87117

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

David Shapiro is an American economist at the Pennsylvania State University. He joined the Penn State faculty in 1980. He is a leading academic in the field of Economic Demography, specializing in fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa and in the study of children's schooling in Africa. In addition to research and teaching, Shapiro currently heads the economics honors program and previously served as first director and then co-director of undergraduate studies in the department of economics.

#2529

David Canning

#60569

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

David Canning is a British economist. He is Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and Professor of Economics and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University and is deputy director of the Program on the Global Demography of Aging. Before assuming his role at the Harvard School of Public Health, Canning held faculty positions at the London School of Economics, Cambridge University, Columbia University, and Queen's University Belfast, where he received his B.A. in economics and mathematics.

#2530

Rowland Percy Moss

#75737

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

Rowland Percy Moss was an Economist and researcher of the United Nations University interested in the relationship between geography and wealth. He is known for his works on Development in Tropical Africa.

#2531

Robert Basmann

#115714

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (98 years)

Robert Leon Basmann is an American econometrician. He was a Professor of Econometrics at Texas A&M University until his retirement. He served as a lecturer at Binghamton University after his retirement. As of at least as recently as 2019 Basmann was still listed on Binghamton Universities listing of emeritus professors.

#2532

Forrest Capie

#58252

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Forrest Hunter Capie is an economics academic and historian of the Bank of England. Biography Capie was educated at Nelson College, New Zealand, from 1954 to 1957. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Auckland before completing MSc and PhD degrees at the London School of Economics.

#2533

Reuben Gronau

#99226

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Reuben Gronau is an Israeli economist, notable for his contributions to labour economics and economic sociology, in particular the Gronau model of time allocation and home production. Gronau received his Ph.D. in 1967 from Columbia University, under supervision of Jacob Mincer and Gary Becker, with a thesis on transport economics.

#2534

Kenneth Wolpin

#103932

Overall Influence

Kenneth I. Wolpin is an American economist, currently the Distinguished Research Professor and Lay Family Professor of Economics at Rice University. At University of Pennsylvania, he was previously the Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Professor of Social Sciences and Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics. From 2008 to 2011, he was also Editor of Wiley journal International Economic Review and also, from 1987 to 1997, co-editor of University of Wisconsin journal Journal of Human Resources.

#2535

Jozef Konings

#99594

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Jozef Konings is a Belgian economist and Professor in Economics at KU Leuven. He is director of research and full professor at the Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business in Kazakhstan NUGSB, director of the Flemish Institute for Economics and Science at KU Leuven and research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. He is a former advisor in economics for the Barroso cabinet in the European Commission, in the Bureau of European Policy Advisers .

#2536

John Chipman

#70639

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (98 years)

John Somerset Chipman was a Canadian-born American economist who was a noted expert on the econometrics of international trade. He was Regents' Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota, where he later held emeritus status. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.

#2537

Ann-Kristin Achleitner

#35745

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Ann-Kristin Achleitner is a German economist, currently a professor at Technical University of Munich. Career Before taking on her current position, Achleitner held an Endowed Chair for Banking and Finance at EBS University of Business and Law from 1995 to 2001 and Honorary Professor at EBS from 2002 to 2013. She is a member of acatech.

#2538

Nicholas Mbaya Odhiambo

#117172

Overall Influence

#2539

Kirabo Jackson

#70350

Overall Influence

C. Kirabo "Bo" Jackson is an American economist who is Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously served as co-editor at Journal of Human Resources and is currently Editor in Chief of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. In 2020, he was elected to the National Academy of Education and was awarded the David N. Kershaw Award and Prize for contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management .

#2540

James Crabtree

#39832

Overall Influence

James Crabtree is a British author and policy analyst living in Singapore. He is currently executive director of the Asia branch of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Crabtree writes columns for Nikkei Asian Review, Foreign Policy, and The Straits Times. Previously, he was an associate professor of practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and a senior fellow at the school’s Centre on Asia and Globalisation. He was also a non-resident fellow at Chatham House, the London-based think tank. His first book, The Billionaire Raj: A J...

#2541

Jacques Mairesse

#101105

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Jacques Mairesse is a French economist. He is the posthumous son of Jacques Mairesse , an international French association footballer. Biography Mairesse was director of studies of EHESS from 1978 onwards. He was director of ENSAE from 1980 to 1990. He was general inspector of INSEE from 1988 to 2005. He is a founding member of the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics , the research centre of INSEE, that was created in 1990. He is a senior researcher of the microeconometric laboratory at CREST and at GRECSTA . He is a research associate of the NBER since 1980. He is professor o...

#2542

Linda S. Goldberg

#99882

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Linda S. Goldberg is an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and is currently Senior Vice President in the Research Policy Leadership division. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Economics from Queens College of the City University of New York.

#2543

Jane Waldfogel

#56649

Overall Influence

Jane Waldfogel FBA is an American social economist and the Compton Foundation Centennial Professor of Social Work for the Prevention of Children's and Youth Problems at Columbia University. Her research focuses on work-family policies, improving the measurement of poverty, and understanding social mobility across countries and child welfare. She has published studies about the impact of public policies on child and family well-being.

#2544

Raymond J. Saulnier

#55415

Overall Influence

1908 - 2009 (101 years)

Raymond Joseph Saulnier was an American economist who served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1956 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Education Saulnier graduated Middlebury College, 1929 where he was President of the Class. He studied at Braker Teaching Fellowship at Tufts College where he earned an MA in Economics in 1931. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1938.

#2545

Christian Leuz

#76152

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Christian Leuz is a German business economist, specializing in finance, accounting, and institutional economics. He is the Charles F. Pohl Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

#2546

Andries de Grip

#39813

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Andries de Grip is a Dutch economist, academic, and author. He is a Professor of Economics at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market , School of Business and Economics , Maastricht University and has been Director of ROA from 2013 to 2020.

#2547

Rufus Pollock

#32574

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Rufus Pollock is a British economist, activist and social entrepreneur. He has been a leading figure in the global open knowledge and open data movements, starting with his founding in 2004 of the non-profit Open Knowledge Foundation which he led until 2015. From 2007–2010 he was the Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and from 2010–2013 he was a Shuttleworth Foundation fellow. In 2012 was appointed an Ashoka Fellow and remains an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge and continues to serve on the board of Open Knowledge International.

#2548

Sampie Terreblanche

#35475

Overall Influence

1933 - 2018 (85 years)

Solomon Johannes "Sampie" Terreblanche was a South African academic economist and writer, author of numerous economics books and was most famous for his History of Inequality in South Africa, 1652–2002. He was Professor emeritus of Economics at Stellenbosch University, where he built a reputation as a lecturer in History of economic thought, Economic history, the Economy of South Africa, and economic systems.

#2549

Milton Moore Snodgrass

#96204

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Milton Moore Snodgrass was an American author. Born July 9, 1931 in Linesville, Pennsylvania to Clifford Marshall and Anna Snodgrass. Received Ph.D. 1956 Purdue University. Was part of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

#2550

Li Choh-ming

#33207

Overall Influence

1912 - 1991 (79 years)

Li Choh-ming was a Chinese-born American economist and educator. He was the founding Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1963. He compiled The Li Chinese Dictionary . He was an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and at Nankai University in Tianjin during his academic career.

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