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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#2601

Randall W. Eberts

Randall W. Eberts

#106629

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Randall W. Eberts is an American economist who specializes in the public workforce system, public finance, urban economics, labor economics, infrastructure and productivity, and policies promoting student achievement. He was president of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1993 until 2019 and is currently a senior researcher there.

#2602

Akihiko Matsui

#119935

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Akihiko Matsui is a Japanese economist. He is a professor at the University of Tokyo. Biography Matsui was born on August 28, 1962, in Tokyo, Japan. He is the nephew of Hideyuki Fujisawa who was a professional Go player.

#2603

W. Michael Hanemann

#119948

Overall Influence

#2604

Herminia Ibarra

#25815

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Herminia Ibarra is a scholar in the fields of organizational behaviour, leadership, and career development. She is the Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School.

#2605

Lisa B. Kahn

#70230

Overall Influence

Lisa Blau Kahn is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on labor economics with interests in organization, education, and contract theory. From 2014 to 2018, she served as an associate professor of economics at Yale School of Management and as an assistant professor of economics at Yale School of Management from 2008 to 2014. From 2010 to 2011, Kahn served as the senior economist for labor and education policy on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.

#2606

Caroline Freund

#79367

Overall Influence

Caroline L. Freund is an American economist who is currently the dean of University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy . She was Director of Trade, Regional Integration and Investment Climate at the World Bank and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2013, a position from which she is on leave.

#2607

Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

#118145

Overall Influence

1943 - 2017 (74 years)

Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize was a Swiss economist. His research focused mainly on agricultural economics in developing countries. Biography A native of Kreuzlingen, Hans Binswanger studied first at the University of Paris, where he earned a certificate in political sciences in 1964, followed by a MS in agricultural sciences from the ETH Zurich in 1969. In 1973, Binswanger completed his PhD in economics at the North Carolina State University. After his PhD, Binswanger worked at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad from 1975 to 1980, during which he also briefly held a position as research associate at Yale University.

#2608

William Moomaw

#58175

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

William R. Moomaw is the Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. Moomaw has worked at the intersection of science and policy, advocating for international sustainable development. His activities have included being a long-time contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and an author on the seminal "Perspective" paper on proforestation.

#2609

Zvi Eckstein

#80201

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Zvi Eckstein is a full professor, dean, Arison School of Business and Tiomkin School of Economics at The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya - IDC. Emeritus Professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University. Head, the Aaron Economic Policy Institute, IDC, Herzliya. University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School, Finance Department, Judith C. and William G. Bollinger Visiting Professor. Served as deputy governor, Bank of Israel . The Walras-Bowely Lecturer, the Econometric Society, North America Summer Meetings, Pittsburgh, US, June 19, 2008. Fellow of the Econometric Socie...

#2610

Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Diana Furchtgott-Roth

#28827

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Diana Furchtgott-Roth is an American economist who is adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University and a columnist. She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the United States Department of Transportation during the Trump administration. She previously served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

#2611

Jens Ludwig

#28439

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Jens Otto Ludwig is a University of Chicago economist whose research focuses on social policy, particularly urban issues such as poverty, crime, and education. He is McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy in the School of Social Service Administration and Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as Co-Director of the university's Urban Education and Crime Labs.

#2612

Yair Mundlak

#101297

Overall Influence

1927 - 2015 (88 years)

Yair Mundlak was an Israeli-American economist. He was a former professor at the University of Chicago and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

#2613

Loretta J. Mester

#120361

Overall Influence

#2614

Joel Waldfogel

#78322

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Joel Waldfogel is an American economist and the Frederick R. Kappel Chair in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. Education and career Waldfogel grew up in South Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he attended Washburn High School. He then attended Brandeis University, where he received his B.A. in economics in 1984. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1990, also in economics. Before joining the University of Minnesota in 2010, he was the Ehrenkranz Family Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2010.

#2615

Paul A. Webley

#120499

Overall Influence

#2616

H. Ian Macdonald

#15974

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Hugh Ian Macdonald, OC, KLJ is a Canadian economist, civil servant, and was President of York University from 1974 to 1984. Biography Born in Toronto, Ontario, Macdonald received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto in 1952. A Rhodes scholar, he received a Master of Arts degree in 1954 and a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1955. In 1955, he started teaching at the University of Toronto and became an assistant professor of economics in 1962.

#2617

Graeme Maxton

#21056

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Graeme Maxton is a British climate change economist and writer. Biography Maxton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and currently lives in Asia. He is related to politicians John Maxton, the Lord Maxton, and the 1930s Leader of the Independent Labour Party James Maxton. Until 2018, he was the Secretary General of the Club of Rome based in Switzerland. He was previously regional director of the Economist Intelligence Unit in Asia, worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, Citigroup and American Express and was a visiting professor at Cass Business School between 1988 and 2002.

#2618

Faye Duchin

#68873

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Faye Duchin is an American Computer Scientist and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , where she was the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1996 to 2002. She worked in the fields of ecological economics and industrial ecology and employs Input-Output Analysis in her work. Her faculty page at RPI stated that she was "concerned with ways of achieving economic development while avoiding environmental disasters."

#2619

Waltraud Falk

#108062

Overall Influence

1930 - 2015 (85 years)

Waltraud Falk was born in Berlin as Waltraud Tessen and became an economist. After completing her baccalaureate in 1948 in Berlin, Waltraud Falk enrolled to study medicine at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her focus changed to economics and she eventually completed her degree in economics in 1952. She completed her PhD in economics and took up a position as a lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She became a professor and then dean at the faculty of social sciences and remained in that post until 1990. She was one of a small number of female academics who obtained a top post at a leading university in East Germany.

#2620

Roger C. Kormendi

Roger C. Kormendi

#83789

Overall Influence

1949 - 2009 (60 years)

Roger C. Kormendi was an American economist who conducted important research studies in several areas of macroeconomics and finance. A long-time senior member of the Graduate School of Business faculties at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, he was the author of over fifty scholarly books and articles.

#2621

Edmond Malinvaud

#120680

Overall Influence

#2622

Karl P. Sauvant

#120686

Overall Influence

#2623

Christopher J. Ruhm

#120693

Overall Influence

#2624

Anna Bogomolnaia

#89715

Overall Influence

Anna Vladimirovna Bogomolnaia is a Russian economist specializing in microeconomics and game theory. She is a professor in economics at the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow,, and was until 2022 chief research fellow of the International Laboratory for Game Theory and Decision Making at the Higher School of Economics in Russia.

#2625

Kate Ho

#97728

Overall Influence

Kate Ho is an economics professor at Princeton University. Since July 2018, Professor Ho has worked in partnership with Janet Currie, as a co-director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing. Ho specializes in the medical care market and its industrial organization with an emphasis on health insurers and hospitals. Ho studies how price effects and the conditions of care provided by hospitals. She has received several awards for her academic research. Professor Ho is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences across the United States of America.

#2626

Cecilia Conrad

#57208

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Cecilia Ann Conrad is the CEO of Lever for Change, emeritus professor of economics at Pomona College, and a senior advisor to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She formerly served as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Pomona College and previously oversaw the foundation's MacArthur Fellows and 100&Change programs as managing director. Her research focuses on the effects of race and gender on economic status.

#2627

Martine Quinzii

#107472

Overall Influence

Martine Quinzii was a French mathematical economist known for her work in financial markets, incomplete markets, macroeconomics, and general equilibrium theory. Education and career Quinzii studied mathematics at the University of Paris VI, earning a master's degree in 1970, an agrégation in mathematics in 1971, and a Master of Advanced Studies in 1972. She completed a Ph.D. at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas in 1986. Her dissertation, Rendements croissants et équilibre général, was supervised by Jean Fericelli.

#2628

Guy Orcutt

#98063

Overall Influence

1917 - 2006 (89 years)

Guy Henderson Orcutt was an American econometrician. He was a long-time faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and is known for developing the Cochrane–Orcutt estimation procedure.

#2629

Carlos E. Santiago

#57332

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Carlos Enrique Santiago is a Puerto Rican American labor economist and the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education . Previously he was the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the chief executive officer of the Hispanic College Fund.

#2630

Harry G. Broadman

Harry G. Broadman

#79548

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Harry Gerard Broadman is an international investment executive and global business strategist; an authority on trade, antitrust, corporate governance, sustainability, and innovation; and a non-executive corporate director. He is a Partner, managing director, and Chair of the Emerging Markets Practice and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States Practice at the Berkeley Research Group LLC and on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University.

#2631

Dan Bernhardt

#66787

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Mark Daniel Bernhardt is an American-Canadian economist, focusing in industrial organization, finance and political economy, currently the IBE Distinguished Professor of Economics at University of Illinois. Bernhardt is also a professor at the University of Warwick.

#2632

Dominique Foray

#77153

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Dominique Foray holds the Chair of Economics & Management of Innovation at the EPFL in the Collège du Management de la Technologie. Life and career Foray received his Ph.D in 1984 and his habilitation in 1992 from the Université Lumière Lyon 2. In 1985, he joined the CNRS as a research fellow. In 1990 he joined the Ecole Centrale Paris as professor of Economics and returned to the CNRS in 1994. He was invited professor at the University of Padua in 1993, of Santiago de Compostela in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, and of the University of Turin. He did one-to three-month research visits to the WZ...

#2633

William B. P. Robson

#88665

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

William Bertie Provost Robson is president and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute. Robson took office as president and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute in July 2006, after serving as the institute's senior vice president since 2003 and director of research since 2000. He has written more than 200 monographs, articles, chapters and books on such subjects as government budgets, pensions, healthcare financing, inflation and currency issues. His work has won awards from the Policy Research Secretariat, the Canadian Economics Association, and the Donner Canadian Foundation.

#2634

Robert Ashford

#48733

Overall Influence

Robert Ashford is Professor of Law at the Syracuse University College of Law, in Syracuse, New York. He teaches subjects including Binary Economics, Business Associations, Corporations, Securities Regulation and Professional Responsibility.

#2635

Felix Eckstein

#121097

Overall Influence

#2636

Laura Carvalho

#121158

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Laura Barbosa de Carvalho is a Brazilian economist, associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of São Paulo. Carvalho has a master's degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a doctorate from the New School. Her research area is macroeconomics, focusing on economic development and income redistribution.

#2637

Marcus Alexis

#58608

Overall Influence

1932 - 2009 (77 years)

Marcus Alexis was professor emeritus of management & strategy at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. He was a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and a commissioner with the Interstate Commerce Commission during the Carter Administration. He was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1959, and was known for his work training and mentoring other African American Economists. He was awarded the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award by the National Economic Association in 1979, and was also awarded the Outstan...

#2638

Johannes Lützen Bouma

#85197

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Johannes Lützen Bouma is a Dutch economist. He was a professor of business home economics at the University of Groningen from 1966 to 1999. Bouma was born in Twijzelerheide. In May 1966 he obtained his PhD at the University of Groningen with a dissertation titled: Ondernemingsdoel en winst : een confrontatie van enkele theorieën van het ondernemingsgedrag.

#2639

Kenneth Button

#111077

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Kenneth John Button is a British transport expert. He is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

#2640

Robert P. Strauss

#58294

Overall Influence

Robert Philip Strauss has been professor of economics and public policy at the H. John Heinz III College since 1979. Academic career Robert P Strauss is a native of University Heights, Ohio where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Cleveland Heights High School, and subsequently attended and graduated from the Honors College of the University of Michigan, where he earned his AB in economics; he attended the London School of Economics his junior year abroad. He earned his PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he was a Fellow of the Institute for Research on Poverty, and a research assistant to Karl and Alma Taeuber as well as Burt Weisbrod and W.

#2641

Fabian Tassano

#49062

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Fabian Michael Wadel , known professionally as Fabian Tassano, is an economist and author, known for his radical views on the medical profession, and for his critique of ideological aspects of modern culture.

#2642

Anne van den Ban

#81543

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Anne Willem van den Ban was a Dutch scholar, whose work focused on agricultural extension. Biography Van den Ban studied Agricultural Economics at the Landbouwhogeschool in Wageningen between 1945 and 1953. The Landbouwhogeschool is currently known as Wageningen University .

#2643

Michael Michael Keen

#121708

Overall Influence

#2644

Krishna Bharadwaj

#97450

Overall Influence

1935 - 1992 (57 years)

Krishna Bharadwaj was an Indian Neo-Ricardian economist mainly known for her contributions to the economic development theory and the revival of the ideas of classical economics. She believed that economic theory should be based on concepts which can be observed and be amenable to measurement in reality.

#2645

Harald Malmgren

#82250

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Harald Bernard Malmgren is a scholar, ambassador, and international negotiator who has been senior aide to US Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford, and to US Senators Abraham A. Ribicoff and Russell B. Long, United States Senate Committee on Finance. He has acted as an advisor to many foreign leaders and CEOs of financial institutions and corporate businesses and has been a frequent author of articles and papers on global economic, political, and security affairs.

#2646

James W. Friedman

#58354

Overall Influence

1936 - 2016 (80 years)

James W. Friedman was an American economist. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, born to parents Theodore and Gertrude, Friedman grew up in Bay City, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan, and completed a doctorate at Yale University in 1963. Friedman began teaching at Yale, and later joined the faculties of the University of Rochester, and Virginia Tech. In 1977, he was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society. Friedman moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985, and was named Kenan Professor of Economics. He held the professorship until retirement in 2001.

#2647

Lawrence J. Jamison Dean T. Louat Frederic F. Lau

#121828

Overall Influence

#2648

Roger H. Gordon

#116769

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Roger Hall Gordon is an American economist whose research deals primarily with taxation. He graduated from Harvard in 1972 and received a PhD in economics from MIT in 1976. In 1984, he moved to the University of Michigan, first as an associate professor, then professor, and later as the Reuben Kempf Professor of Economics. He has also taught at Princeton, and been a visiting professor all over the world. Since 2001, he has been a professor of economics at UCSD.

#2649

Stuart Altman

#39928

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Stuart H. Altman is an American economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy. He is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University, in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Altman is considered one of the most influential people in American healthcare. He served as interim president of Brandeis from 1990 to 1991.

#2650

Eric Bettinger

#99905

Overall Influence

Eric P. Bettinger is an American economist and currently works as the Conley-DeAngelis Family Professor of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He ranks among the world's leading education economistss.

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