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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#2551

Lorraine Eden

#80650

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Lorraine Eden is Professor Emerita of Management in the Mays Business School of Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. She also holds a joint appointment as a research professor in the Texas A&M School of Law. Dr. Eden is an expert in the field of International Transfer Pricing, which is the pricing of products that move between subunits of Multinational Enterprises .

#2552

Jo Ritzen

#54217

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Jozef Marie Mathias "Jo" Ritzen is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party and economist. Ritzen worked as researcher at the Delft Institute of Technology from July 1969 until June 1972 and at the Erasmus University Rotterdam from June 1972 until July 1976. Ritzen worked as a civil engineering consultant in Bangladesh from August 1976 until April 1978 and as a visiting professor of Education economics at the University of California, Berkeley from September 1978 until May 1979. Ritzen worked as an associate professor of Public economics at the Radboud University Nijmegen from May 1978...

#2553

Wesley M. Cohen

#117740

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

#2554

Karl Claxton

#88583

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Professor Karl Claxton is a health economist at the University of York. He has a PhD in Economics, an MSc in Health Economics and a BA in Economics from the University of York. He was a Harkness Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and from 1999 until 2007 he held an adjunct appointment there as Assistant Professor of Health and Decision Sciences. He has been a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Appraisal Committee since 1999. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Health Economics.

#2555

James Orlin Grabbe

James Orlin Grabbe

#74609

Overall Influence

1947 - 2008 (61 years)

James Orlin Grabbe more commonly referred to as J. Orlin Grabbe, or just JOG, was an American economist and prolific writer with contributions in the theory and practice of finance. He was known by his book International Financial Markets, and for mathematical models for options and derivatives used in international finance and foreign exchange.

#2556

Ufuk Akcigit

#99222

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Ufuk Akcigit is a Turkish economist. He is the Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics since 2019. The same year, he also received the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award for his achievements in the field of macroeconomics. In 2021, he was named John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and Econometric Society fellow for his work in Economics. In 2022, he received the prestigious Global Economy Prize in Economics from the Kiel Institute in Germany and the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award.

#2557

Ángel Viñas

#59421

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Ángel Viñas Martín is a Spanish economist and historian. He has published many works dealing with the Spanish Civil War focusing on the war finance as well as the international relations aspects of the conflict.

#2558

Phillip Nelson

#107584

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Phillip Jacob Nelson is an emeritus professor at Binghamton University, where he was Bartle Professor of Economics. He is noted for having been the first to observe the distinction between an experience good and a search good.

#2559

Richard J. Cebula

#118086

Overall Influence

#2560

Hadi Soesastro

#38565

Overall Influence

1945 - 2010 (65 years)

Hadi Soesastro was an Indonesian economist, academic and public intellectual. Hadi was one of the founders of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies , a think tank founded in 1971, where he served as an executive director and economist. The Jakarta Post referred to Soesastro as "one of Indonesia’s foremost economists."

#2561

Susan M. Wachter

#83044

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Susan M. Wachter is the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate, and Professor of Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Director for the Wharton GeoSpatial Initiative and Lab, and the co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research. She also co-directs the Spatial Integration Laboratory for Urban Systems at the University of Pennsylvania. As an economist, she is frequently sought for comment on real estate market trends in well known media outlets—a recent interview with the International Monetary Fund summarizes her views and research.

#2562

Yacine Aït-Sahalia

#110370

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Yacine Aït-Sahalia is the Otto Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics at Princeton University. His primary area of research is financial econometrics. He has been serving as the inaugural director of the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University from 1998 until 2014. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor , associate professor and professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

#2563

Kimberly Clausing

#93122

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Kimberly Clausing is an liberal American economist. She is the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. From 2021 to 2022, she was the deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis at the United States Department of the Treasury. Clausing is known for her work on international trade and tax policy, particularly the taxation of multinational corporations.

#2564

Jennifer Clapp

#80349

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Jennifer Ann Clapp is a Canadian political economist. She is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. Education Clapp earned her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan and her master's degree and PhD in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics.

#2565

Sue Owen

#59863

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Dame Susan Jane Owen is a former British civil servant, economist and former academic. She served as the Permanent Secretary for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from October 2013 until her retirement in March 2019.

#2566

Gilles Paquet

#62078

Overall Influence

1936 - 2019 (83 years)

Gilles Paquet, was a Canadian economist, President of the Royal Society of Canada from 2003 to 2005. He was professor emeritus at the School of Management and senior research fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa until his death at age 82.

#2567

Barbara Sianesi

#81097

Overall Influence

Barbara Sianesi is an Italian economist currently a senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London. She obtained her PhD from University College London and a BA in economics from Bocconi University.

#2568

Christoph Scherrer

Christoph Scherrer

#40951

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Christoph Scherrer is a German economist and political scientist. Currently, he is a professor of globalization and politics and Executive Director of the International Center for Development and Decent Work at the University of Kassel.

#2569

Stefan. Dercon

#118536

Overall Influence

#2570

Yoshinori Fujikawa

#33773

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Yoshinori Fujikawa is a Japanese academic and economist. He is an Associate Vice President at Hitotsubashi University, and serves as Associate Professor and MBA Program Director at Hitotsubashi University Business School, School of International Corporate Strategy .

#2571

Ted Joyce

#20610

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Theodore Jay Joyce is a professor of economics and finance at Baruch College and also at CUNY Graduate Center He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Education Joyce received his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in education in 1976 and his Ph.D. in economics from the CUNY Graduate Center in 1985.

#2572

Peter Hannes Egger

#118634

Overall Influence

#2573

Abraham Rotstein

#53758

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Abraham Rotstein was a Canadian economist who was a professor of economics at the University of Toronto. He was a fellow of Massey College. He is best known as a co-founder of the Committee for an Independent Canada. He received his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1967 for the thesis Fur Trade and Empire: An Institutional Analysis. He was a student of Karl Polanyi.

#2574

Maureen Cropper

#91701

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Maureen Cropper is an economist who serves as Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Maryland. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

#2575

Ron Martin

#118687

Overall Influence

#2576

Duc Khuong Nguyen

#118737

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

#2577

Charles Franklin Phillips

#66428

Overall Influence

1910 - 1998 (88 years)

Charles Franklin Phillips was an American economist who served as the fourth President of Bates College from March 1944 to November 1967. Previous to his assumption of the Bates presidency, he was the deputy administrator of the U.S. Office of Price Administration from March 1937 to July 1941.

#2578

Ramanan Laxminarayan

#99298

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Ramanan Laxminarayan Ph.D., M.P.H., FIDSA is an economist and an epidemiologist. He is founder and director of the One Health Trust – formerly known as the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy – in Washington, D.C., and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Antimicrobial Resistance. Laxminarayan is a senior research scholar at Princeton University, an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, a senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde. In 2023, he was...

#2579

John Deeble

#21160

Overall Influence

1931 - 2018 (87 years)

John Stewart Deeble was an Australian academic, health economist and the architect of Medicare in Australia. Early life A native of Wimmera, Deeble grew up near Donald, Victoria, and left school aged 15. His first job was a clerical position at the Peter McCallum Institute in Melbourne. While working he completed a Commerce Degree at Melbourne University and a Diploma of Hospital Administration at the University of New South Wales.

#2580

Chris Matthews

#4665

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Christopher John Matthews is an American political commentator, retired talk show host, and author. Matthews hosted his weeknight hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, on America's Talking and later on MSNBC, from 1997 until March 2, 2020. He announced on his final episode that he was retiring, following an accusation that he had made inappropriate comments to a Hardball guest four years earlier. On that occasion, he stated: "The younger generation's out there ready to take the reins. We see them in politics, in media, in fighting for their causes. They're improving the workplace...

#2581

Alberto Giovannini

#99719

Overall Influence

1955 - 2019 (64 years)

Alberto Giovannini was an Italian Macroeconomist and Financial Economist. His career spanned roles in academia, public and private organizations, and his contributions to monetary policy and financial market infrastructure in the European Union were particularly notable. He died on 25 April 2019.

#2582

Jean-Pierre Ponssard

#79332

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Jean-Pierre Ponssard is a French economist, senior research fellow of the CNRS, and professor of economics and research vice president of the economic department of the École Polytechnique. His degrees are : Ingénieur Ecole Polytechnique , and PhD of Stanford University .

#2583

Paul Washington Miller

#118945

Overall Influence

#2584

Matthew Richardson

#89164

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Matthew Richardson is the Charles E. Simon Professor of Applied Economics and Professor of Finance in the Finance Department at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University . He is also the Director of Alternative Investments at the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at NYU. and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Richardson is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Financial Economics.

#2585

Jan van Ours

#58300

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Jan C. van Ours is a Dutch economist and currently Professor of Applied Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam . He belongs to the most highly cited economists in the Netherlands and is the 1996 winner of the Hicks-Tinbergen Award .

#2586

Michel Grabisch

#119137

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

#2587

René Cortázar

#28674

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

René Cortázar is a Chilean economist, researcher, academic, and politician of the Christian Democratic Party . He was Minister of State for Presidents Patricio Aylwin and Michelle Bachelet. Biography He is the second of the children of the marriage of the agricultural engineers and Carmen Sanz Briso-Montiano. His father worked for many years at La Platina, a property of the University of Chile, where he carried out agricultural research. He was awarded the National Prize for Applied and Technological Sciences in 1994.

#2588

Shirzad Abdullayev

Shirzad Abdullayev

#75015

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Shirzad Abdullayev, Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan , Executive Director of the National Entrepreneurship Support Fund , PhD in economics, professor. Biography Shirzad Abdullayev was born on October 16, 1970, in Agdash District of Azerbaijan. He went to the secondary school at the native district. S. Abdullayev has served in the Air Defense Forces. He is married.

#2589

Geoffrey Ingham

#61617

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Geoffrey Ingham is a British sociologist, political economist, and author of books on capitalism and money. Career Ingham was born in 1942, and read sociology at the University of Leicester, graduating in 1964. He attended Cambridge University as a postgraduate student, where he was awarded a Ph.D degree in 1968. After teaching at Sussex and Leicester Universities, he became a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1972. He was Reader in Sociology and Political Economy at Cambridge, and remains Emeritus Reader and a Fellow of Christ's.

#2590

Herbert G. Grubel

#119432

Overall Influence

#2591

Alejandro Toledo

#12479

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a Peruvian former politician who served as President of Peru, from 2001 to 2006. He gained international prominence after leading the opposition against president Alberto Fujimori, who held the presidency from 1990 to 2000.

#2592

Jonathan Skinner

#108480

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Jonathan Snowden Skinner is an American health economist and the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics at Dartmouth College, as well as a professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He is known for his research on health care spending. He has been a member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2007.

#2593

István Hont

#37688

Overall Influence

1947 - 2013 (66 years)

István Hont was a Hungarian-born British historian of economics and political thought, University Reader in the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. Hont was supervised as a doctoral student at Oxford by Hugh Trevor Roper. He was elected a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge in 1978. From 1978 to 1984 he directed a King's College Research Centre project 'Political Economy and Society 1750–1850' with Michael Ignatieff, out of which grew their co-edited volume Wealth and Virtue. Hont was invited to be a professor in political thought at Columbia University, and was a visiting fellow at the Collegium Budapest in 1993–4., but remained at Cambridge until his death.

#2594

Mwai Kibaki

#10296

Overall Influence

1931 - 2022 (91 years)

Emilio Mwai Kibaki was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013. He had previously served as the fourth Vice-President of Kenya for ten years from 1978 to 1988 under President Daniel arap Moi. He also held cabinet ministerial positions in the Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi governments, including as minister for Finance under Kenyatta, and Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Health under Moi.

#2595

Rulon D. Pope

#119750

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Rulon Dean Pope is the Warren and Wilson Dusenberry Professor at Brigham Young University, specializing in agricultural economics, econometrics and microeconomic theory. He received his B.S. from Brigham Young University in 1971 and his Ph.D. in economics from Berkeley in 1976. He taught at the University of California, Davis and Texas A&M University prior to moving to BYU. Pope served as Chair of the BYU Economics department 1986-1992 and as Associate Dean of the College of Family, Home, and Social Science 2001–2006.

#2596

Joel L. Horowitz

#119761

Overall Influence

#2597

Luc-Normand Tellier

Luc-Normand Tellier

#40118

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Luc-Normand Tellier is a Professor Emeritus in spatial economics of the University of Quebec at Montreal. Education and teaching After teaching for two years at the Collège Saint-André of Kigali, Rwanda, as a Canadian Peace Corps volunteer, Tellier studied both economics and city planning. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Economics and a master's degree in City planning from the University of Montreal, as well as a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Regional science from the "Ivy League" University of Pennsylvania. Later, he taught urban economics at the "Institut d’urbanisme" of the Univ...

#2598

Dennis Epple

#90345

Overall Influence

Dennis N. Epple is a US American economist and currently the Thomas Lord University Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business. He belongs to the leading scholars in the fields of the economics of education, and urban and real estate economics.

#2599

Masanao Aoki

#117685

Overall Influence

1931 - 2018 (87 years)

Masanao Aoki was a Japanese engineer and economist. He was a Professor emeritus of Economics at University of California, Los Angeles. Selected publications A revised edition: External links Website at UCLA

#2600

Sam Aaronovitch

#44801

Overall Influence

1919 - 1998 (79 years)

Sam Aaronovitch was a British economist, academic, working class intellectual and senior member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was born in the East End of London to Jewish immigrants and his early years were devoted to activity as a Communist Party militant and then a party full timer. In 1945 he was the election agent for one of only two Communist candidates ever elected to the London County Council.

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