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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#2651

Juan Velarde

#62269

Overall Influence

1927 - 2023 (96 years)

Juan Velarde Fuertes was a Spanish economist. He was serving as President of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. Biography Juan was born in the Asturian town of Salas on June 26,1927.

#2652

John Joseph Mccall

#122011

Overall Influence

#2653

Michael R. Darby

#122015

Overall Influence

#2654

Warren Hogan

#112503

Overall Influence

1929 - 2009 (80 years)

Warren Hogan is Judo Bank's Chief Economic Advisor. He is also the Managing Director and Founder of EQ Economics. Warren is a regular in Australian media , as well as a columnist for the Australian Financial Review. His focus is on the Australian economy and supporting business decision making.

#2655

Javed Ashraf

#32677

Overall Influence

Javed Ashraf is an academic and economist who has led two of Pakistan's most distinguished academic institutions. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of Quaid-i-Azam University from 13 October 2014 until October 12, 2018.

#2656

Kamalini Ramdas

#24640

Overall Influence

Kamalini Ramdas is a Professor of Management Science and Operations and Deloitte Chair in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at London Business School, with expertise in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, and operations management. Ramdas' research examines innovative approaches, including service innovation, operational innovation, and business model innovation, to accelerate value creation in various service and manufacturing industries.

#2657

Jill Rubery

#90646

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Jill Rubery is a Professor of Comparative Employment Systems at Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on comparative analyses of employment systems with a specialisation in gender and labour market structure. She was made a fellow of the British Academy in 2006.

#2658

Paul M. O'Leary

#57622

Overall Influence

1901 - 1997 (96 years)

Paul Martin O'Leary was an American economist and educator, and the first Dean of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management. He served on the faculty of Cornell University from 1924 until 1967, taking several leaves to join other economists from Eastern universities in Franklin D. Roosevelt's brain trust.

#2659

David Galenson

#80720

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

David Walter Galenson is a professor in the Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the American University of Paris. He is the Academic Director of the Center for Creativity Economics, which was inaugurated in 2010 at the Universidad del CEMA, Buenos Aires.

#2660

Andrew Zimbalist

#47288

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Andrew S. Zimbalist is an American economist and author of twenty-four books. He is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College. Biography Zimbalist received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 and 1974 respectively.

#2661

Yew-‐kwang Ng

#122360

Overall Influence

#2662

David A. Lane

#105803

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

David A. Lane is an American economist, who developed the theory of artifact innovation. At the Santa Fe Institute he has been defining the notion of economic complexity and the Santa Fe approach. He is professor of economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and research fellow at the European Centre for Living Technology.

#2663

Li Minqi

#49155

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Li Minqi is a Chinese political economist, world-systems analyst, and historical social scientist, currently professor of economics at the University of Utah. Li is known as an advocate of the Chinese New Left and as a Marxian economist.

#2664

William L. Silber

#52758

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

William L. Silber is a former chaired professor at The Stern School of Business, New York University, most recently as the Marcus Nadler Professor of Finance and Economics and before that as the Abraham Gitlow Professor of Economics and Finance . He has served as Senior Economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisors, was a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and has published eight books, including a college textbook, Principles of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, with Lawrence Ritter and Gregory Udell , that has gone through twelve editions.

#2665

Léopold Simar

#122524

Overall Influence

#2666

Ali Hortaçsu

#50320

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Ali Hortaçsu is a Turkish professor of economics at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Econometric Society. He is a specialist in the functioning of markets. He was a member of the team that used statistical methods to interrogate the records of ancient merchants found at Kanes near the modern Turkish city of Kayseri to locate the probable location of ancient cities. He gathered micro-level data from the market and use it to estimate preference and technology parameters. This discovers rationalize human behaviors, create ...

#2667

James Patrick Smith

#122547

Overall Influence

#2668

Edward Kofler

#19510

Overall Influence

1911 - 2007 (96 years)

Edward Kofler was a mathematician who made important contributions to game theory and fuzzy logic by working out the theory of linear partial information. Biography Kofler was born in Brzeżany, Austrian-Hungarian empire and graduated as a disciple of among others Hugo Steinhaus and Stefan Banach from the University of Lwów Poland and the University of Cracow, having studied game theory. After graduation in 1939 Kofler returned to his family in Kolomyia , where he taught mathematics in a Polish high school. After German attack on the town 1 July 1941 he succeeded to escape to Kazakhstan together with his wife.

#2669

Clark Kerr

#122649

Overall Influence

#2670

Michael S. Weisbach

#122651

Overall Influence

Michael Steven Weisbach is an American economist, currently the Ralph W. Kurtz Chair in Finance at Ohio State University.

#2671

Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

#109220

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Yana van der Meulen Rodgers is a professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University,. She also serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers.

#2672

Soo Hong Chew

#100505

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Chew Soo Hong is a Singaporean economist who is Professor at the National University of Singapore and an adjunct professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is considered one of the pioneers in axiomatic non-expected utility models.

#2673

Keywan Riahi

#122716

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

#2674

José Antonio Ocampo

#83853

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria is a Colombian writer, economist and academic who was the professor of professional practice in international and public affairs and director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University from July 2007 to August 2022. Prior to his appointment, Ocampo served in a number of positions in the United Nations and the Government of Colombia, most notably in the United Nations as Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for ...

#2675

Robert Lampman

#79146

Overall Influence

1920 - 1997 (77 years)

Robert James Lampman was an American economist known for his research on poverty and the measurement of income distribution. Academic career Lampman was a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1958 until his retirement in 1987. From 1962 to 1963, he was a member of President John F. Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisors, where he began working after being brought to Washington, D.C. by Walter Heller. He is well known for his work on the Council, which played a major role in the design of the United States government's War on Poverty in the 1960s, including writing the chapter on poverty in the 1964 Economic Report of the President.

#2676

Zhao Xiao

#74123

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Zhao Xiao is a Chinese economist who has gained attention for arguing that China’s economy would benefit from the spread of Christianity. In 2002 he published a paper entitled "Market Economies With Churches and Market Economies Without Churches", which argued that the key to America's commercial success was its churches.

#2677

Cam Donaldson

#104447

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Cameron Richard Donaldson is a Scottish economist who is Yunus Chair and distinguished Professor of Health Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University, the University for the Common Good. From 2016 to 2021, he was Pro Vice Chancellor Research, during which time Glasgow Caledonian became the first university to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals as the framework for its Research Strategy. Donaldson is also a Professor of Health Economics at the Australian National University.

#2678

Helen Ladd

#105612

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Helen F. Ladd is an education economist who currently works as the Susan B. King Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Economics at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. In recognition of her research on the economics of education, she has been elected to the National Academy for Education and the National Academy of Sciences.

#2679

Ricardo López Murphy

#45631

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Ricardo Hipólito López Murphy is an Argentine economist, academic and politician. He served as Minister of Defense and Minister of Economy during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa. His time at the helm of the economy portfolio lasted only 15 days, as he was forced to leave office after announcing an unpopular austerity plan. Since 2021, he has been a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires for the Juntos por el Cambio coalition.

#2680

William F. Pounds

#38263

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

William F. Pounds was Dean and is a professor emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was chief financial adviser to the Rockefeller family and an executive in many of their holdings. He is an undergraduate alumnus Carnegie Mellon University in Chemical Engineering and a masters and PhD graduate of Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business studying under Herbert Simon.

#2681

Tharman Shanmugaratnam

#39096

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Tharman Shanmugaratnam , also known mononymously as Tharman, is a Singaporean politician and economist who has been serving as the ninth president of Singapore since 2023. Prior to his presidency, Tharman served as Senior Minister of Singapore between 2019 and 2023, Coordinating Minister for Social Policies between 2015 and 2023, and Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore between 2011 and 2023.

#2682

John J. Siegfried

#108461

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

John J. Siegfried is an American economist and Emeritus Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University. He is one of the world's leading education economists in terms of research output. Biography A native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, John J. Siegfried earned a B.Sc. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in economics in 1967, a M.A. in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 1969, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1972.

#2683

Kevin Keasey

#55649

Overall Influence

Kevin Keasey is Professor of Accounting and Finance, Director of the International Banking Institute and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.

#2684

Willy van Ryckeghem

#37447

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Willy van Ryckeghem is a Belgian economist and statistician who devoted much of his career to Latin America. He studied economics in Ghent, Copenhagen and Paris and taught Business cycles at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Econometrics at Ghent University from 1968 to 1982. He was also visiting Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963-64 and Visiting Professor at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang in 1976.

#2685

George M. von Furstenberg

#49309

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

George M. von Furstenberg is a noted economist, currently serving as the James H. Rudy Professor of Economics at Indiana University and best known for his work in the areas of monetary policy, free trade policy and international finance.

#2686

Andrew Bernard

#60240

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Andrew Barnes Bernard is an American economist, currently the Kadas T'90 Distinguished Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. He has been on the faculty at Tuck since 1999. He received his A.B. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in economics in 1991 and was on the faculty at MIT and Yale School of Management prior to coming to Tuck.

#2687

Eban Goodstein

#59816

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Eban Goodstein is an economist, author, and public educator who directs both the Center for Environmental Policy and the MBA in Sustainability at Bard College. He is known for organizing national educational initiatives on climate change, which have engaged thousands of schools and universities, civic institutions, faith groups, and community organizations in solutions-driven dialogue. He is the author of three books and numerous journal articles. He and his wife, Chungin Chung Goodstein, live in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. They have three daughters.

#2688

Vítor Constâncio

Vítor Constâncio

#54000

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Vítor Manuel Ribeiro Constâncio is a Portuguese economist and academic who most recently served as Vice President of the European Central Bank, from 2010 to 2018. He previously served as Minister of Finance in 1978 and Governor of the Bank of Portugal from 1985 to 1986 and from 2000 to 2010.

#2689

Gerard Bekaert

#123587

Overall Influence

#2690

Carolyn Shaw Bell

#78562

Overall Influence

1920 - 2006 (86 years)

Carolyn Shaw Bell was the Katharine Coman professor in economics at Wellesley College known for her mentorship of her own students' careers, as well as mentorship of female economists more broadly, through the efforts of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, of which she was founding chair.

#2691

María Ángeles Durán

María Ángeles Durán

#21814

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

María Ángeles Durán Heras is a Spanish sociologist best known for being a pioneer in research on unpaid work, the social situation of women and their social and work environment, health economics, and inequality in the use of time. She was the first woman to attain a chair of sociology in Spain, in 1982. She was one of the first researchers in her field who carried out works with a feminist perspective in the Spanish academic world. In 1979, she was the founder and director of the of the Autonomous University of Madrid, the first university institute for women's studies created in Spain. In 2002 she received the in Economic and Legal Sciences.

#2692

Krzysztof Rybiński

Krzysztof Rybiński

#63100

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Krzysztof Ireneusz Rybiński is a Polish economist and author, professor of social sciences, vice-president of the National Bank of Poland . Life and career In his youth he was a scout and a student of one of the schools in Warsaw's Praga district. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics and from the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw, where he subsequently obtained a PhD in economics with an econometric specialty. In 2009, he was habilitated on the basis of a dissertation entitled "Globalization in Three Editions. Offshoring - Global...

#2693

Agnes Quisumbing

#56046

Overall Influence

Agnes Quisumbing is an economist and a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. She holds a PhD from the University of the Philippines and a bachelor's degree from De La Salle University.

#2694

Antoaneta Vassileva

Antoaneta Vassileva

#59664

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Antoaneta Vassileva is a Bulgarian economist and Professor of Global Economics and International Economic Relations at the International Economic Relations and Business Department at the University of National and World Economy . She was Dean of the International Economics and Politics Faculty of the UNWE from 2011 until 2014.

#2695

Cuno Pümpin

#64276

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Cuno Pümpin is a Swiss economist, entrepreneur and consultant. He was born in Basel, Switzerland. Background Cuno Pümpin was the second son of Fritz Pümpin and Rose Gerster. He is a citizen of Gelterkinden.

#2696

Robert LaLonde

#112023

Overall Influence

1954 - 2018 (64 years)

Robert John LaLonde was an American economist who specialized in the fields of labor economics and econometrics. He grew up in Syracuse, NY and attended Westhill High School. He received his A.B. degree from the University of Chicago in 1980. He then attended Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1985 under the supervision of Orley Ashenfelter. His own Ph.D. students included Brian Jacob. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1985 as Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at the Graduate School of Business and was a Visiting Associate Professor of The Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies from 1994-1995.

#2697

Fernando Haddad

#24736

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Fernando Haddad is a Brazilian scholar, lawyer and politician who has served as the Brazilian Minister of Finance since 1 January 2023. He was previously the mayor of São Paulo from 2013 to 2017 and the Brazilian minister of education from 2005 to 2012.

#2698

Allyson Pollock

#30629

Overall Influence

Allyson Pollock is a consultant in public health medicine and was the Director of the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University. She is an academic who is known for her research into, and opposition to, part privatisation of the UK National Health Service via the Private Finance Initiative and other mechanisms.

#2699

Timothy Groseclose

Timothy Groseclose

#61464

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Timothy Jay Groseclose is an American academic. He is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, where he holds the Adam Smith Chair at the Mercatus Center. Early life Timothy Groseclose was born on September 22, 1964, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

#2700

Glenn D. Rudebusch

#123890

Overall Influence

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