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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#2701

Joshua Aizenman

#123905

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

#2702

John Culbertson

#86915

Overall Influence

1921 - 2001 (80 years)

John Mathew Culbertson was an American professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was also an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as well as a consultant to the Subcommittee on International Finance of the House Banking and Currency Committee.

#2703

Leonard Waverman

#51797

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Dr. Leonard Waverman is dean of the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. He was formerly dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. With Lars Hendrik Röller, Dr. Waverman published the influential "Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development" . His analysis of the impacts of mobile phone rollout on economic growth in Africa was the cover page article of the March 12, 2005, issue of The Economist and a special report in 2009.

#2704

Andrew T. Levin

#115196

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Andrew T. Levin is a professor of economics at Dartmouth College and previously served numerous roles at the Federal Reserve Board. Background and research Levin's research in monetary economics has been published in many top economic journals such as the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He is ranked among the top 200 economists in the world in terms of total citations. In addition to his research, he teaches undergraduate courses at Darmouth College. Levin is also a regular visiting scholar at the IMF He often provides commentary on a wide range of media sources...

#2705

Eddie Dekel

#87967

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Eddie Dekel is an Israeli-American economist. He is a professor at Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University. His fields of research include game theory and decision theory. Born in New York City, Dekel studied economics and statistics at Tel Aviv University before earning a PhD in economics from Harvard University under supervision of Andreu Mas-Colell.

#2706

Sven Wunder

#124125

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

#2707

Mai Chao-cheng

#73745

Overall Influence

1941 - 2019 (78 years)

Mai Chao-cheng was a Taiwanese economist. He was a distinguished professor of Tamkang University and served as an advisor to President Chen Shui-bian. He was elected an academician of Academia Sinica in 1994.

#2708

María Beatriz Nofal

#66733

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

María Beatriz Nofal is an Argentine economist and civil servant from Mendoza. She has been president of Argentina's National Agency for Investment Development , part of the Ministry of Economy, since October 2006. She earlier served, from January 1986 until January 1989, as Under-Secretary of Industrial Development in the office of the Secretary of Industry and Foreign Trade.

#2709

Erik Angner

#85885

Overall Influence

Erik Angner is a Swedish-American Author and Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University. Angner is a moral philosopher whose research and teaching grapple with the classical philosophical question “How should people live?” by exploring issues of well-being, rationality, and social order. His work is thoroughly interdisciplinary, bridging philosophy and economic fields and studying rationality and well-being, particularly in the context of decision theory, behavioral decision research and the relationships between happiness, poverty, and health with ways to quantify happiness.

#2710

Kenneth Alan Froot

#124331

Overall Influence

#2711

Monroe Berkowitz

#85773

Overall Influence

1919 - 2009 (90 years)

Monroe Berkowitz was Professor of Economics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he was chair for many years, and director of the Bureau of Economic Research. Berkowitz was a leading authority on the economics of disability and rehabilitation in public programs, private disability insurance, and public and private rehabilitation systems in the U.S. and other countries. Berkowitz developed the "Ticket to Work" program that was enacted into law in 1999. He was the 2006 recipient of the National Academy of Social Insurance Robert M. Ball Award for outstanding achievements in s...

#2712

Nicole Fortin

#49906

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Nicole M. Fortin is a Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at University of British Columbia, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Economics. Before moving to Vancouver, B.C. in 1999, Fortin taught at Université de Montréal for ten years in her hometown. She was the President of the Canadian Women Economic Network in 2013–2014. Her research focus is placed on three main themes, including the linkage between labour market institutions and wage inequality, issues related to the economic progress of gender equality, as well as contributions to decomposition methods. Notably, Fortin contri...

#2713

Sven Voelpel

#26373

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Sven Constantin Voelpel is a German organizational theorist and Professor of Business Administration at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, known for his work in the field of strategic management, business models and knowledge management.

#2714

Rajshree Agarwal

#43146

Overall Influence

Rajshree Agarwal is a professor of economics, the Rudolph Lamone Chair of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, and the Director of the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the University of Maryland. She "studies the evolution of industries, firms and individual careers, as fostered by the twin engines of innovation and enterprise."

#2715

Kim Sang-jo

#28585

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Kim Sang-jo is a South Korean professor of international trade at Hansung University who served as the top policy aide to President Moon Jae-in and as his first Chairperson of Fair Trade Commission .

#2716

Robin Sickles

#108999

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Robin C. Sickles is an American economist. Life and work He has worked extensively in modeling productivity and efficiency and health outcomes and risk factors that impact health. His research provides new methodological approaches to model and measure complicated economic behaviors and outcomes. His work also focuses on the role that econometrics plays in policy issues, such as market regulation, market transition, and deterrence versus preventive measures in the criminal justice system. After graduating from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1972 , he earned a Ph.D. in Economics in 1976 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

#2717

Joseph Huber

#39592

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Joseph Huber is a retired German professor of sociology. From 1992 to 2012, he was the chair of economic and environmental sociology at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He has written influential papers on Monetary System Analysis and Sovereign Money Theory, for instance "Seigniorage Reform and Plain Money". Huber is known widely also as one of the founders of ecological modernization theory.

#2718

Matthias Doepke

#97288

Overall Influence

Matthias Doepke is a German economist, currently Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History at Northwestern University. His research focuses on economic growth, development, political economy and monetary economics.

#2719

Werner Z. Hirsch

#84678

Overall Influence

1920 - 2009 (89 years)

Werner Zvi Hirsch was a German-born American economist. Born in small-town Germany, Hirsch emigrated to Mandatory Palestine to escape the Nazis in the late 1930s, where he attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He emigrated to the United States in 1946 and received a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949. He was a professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1963 to 1990. He was an expert on urban economics and higher education policy.

#2720

Timothy Luehrman

#18161

Overall Influence

Timothy A. Luehrman is a finance academic, formerly a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. He is best known for his work on valuation and real options; specifically, he conceived the idea of treating business strategy as a series of options, and his papers here are widely quoted.

#2721

Richard Douthwaite

#46299

Overall Influence

1942 - 2011 (69 years)

Richard Douthwaite was a British economist, ecologist, campaigner and writer living in Ireland. He died of cancer at his home near Westport, Co. Mayo aged 69. Biography Douthwaite studied engineering at the University of Leeds but failed to complete a degree, and later economics at the University of Essex. He was a masters student at the University of the West Indies, building two homes, and then built concrete boats at a cooperative in Port Antonio, Jamaica in the early 1970s. He spent two years as government statistician in the British Caribbean colony of Montserrat before moving to Ireland to write and campaign about climate and energy issues and local economic development.

#2722

Valentin Katasonov

#103400

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Valentin Yuryevich Katasonov is a Russian scientist-economist, Doctor of Economics. He is associated with the Strategic Culture Foundation . Biography In 1972 he graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a degree in foreign trade economist. In 1976 he defended his Ph.D. thesis State-monopoly regulation of environmental protection in the United States. In 1976-1977 and 2001-2018 he taught at MGIMO. In 1991 he defended his doctoral dissertation Features of the internationalization of economic life in the context of an exacerbation of the global environmental situation .

#2723

Andrea Weber

#75727

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Andrea Weber is an applied labor economist and currently a professor at the Central European University. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. She is a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics and a fellow at the CEPR.

#2724

Leonard Marsak

#28001

Overall Influence

1924 - 2013 (89 years)

Leonard Marsak was a scholar of Modern European History, especially intellectual history. Biography After military service during World War II, Marsak earned his B.S. in Literature at Cornell University in 1948, . He became the first Jewish graduate student in History at Cornell University and earned his M.A. in History at Cornell in 1949. While writing his dissertation under the direction of Henry Guerlac at Cornell, Marsak accepted a position as Instructor of History and the Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1953. While teaching at Reed College in 1954, Marsak was questioned...

#2725

Mark Duggan

#59464

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Mark Gregory Duggan is the Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at Stanford University, where he is also the director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research . Education and career Duggan received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1999, whereupon he joined the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of economics. In 2003, he left the University of Chicago to become an associate professor in the University of Maryland's economics department, where he became a full professor in 2007.

#2726

Kazuya Kamiya

#33131

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

is a Japanese economist. He is a professor at Kobe University. Career Kamiya earned his B.A. from Kyoto University in 1981, his M.A. from Osaka University in 1983, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1986. He received the Nakahara Prize in 2000.

#2727

Salah M. Kamel

#125121

Overall Influence

#2728

Amintore Fanfani

#10573

Overall Influence

1908 - 1999 (91 years)

Amintore Fanfani was an Italian politician and statesman, who served as 32nd prime minister of Italy for five separate terms. He was one of the best-known Italian politicians after the Second World War and a historical figure of the left-wing faction of Christian Democracy. He is also considered one of the founders of the modern Italian centre-left.

#2729

John Mathews

#118949

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

John A. Mathews is an Australian professor of competitive dynamics and global strategy. He currently holds the Eni Chair of Competitive Dynamics and Global Strategy at LUISS Guido Carli University, in Rome, and concurrently holds a Chair of Strategy at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, in Sydney.

#2730

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

#18558

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard , also known simply as PPK , is a Peruvian economist, public administrator, and former politician who served as President of Peru from 2016 to 2018. He served as Prime Minister of Peru and as Minister of Economy and Finance during the presidency of Alejandro Toledo. Kuczynski resigned from the presidency on 23 March 2018, following a successful impeachment vote and days before a probable conviction vote. Since 10 April 2019 he has been in pretrial detention, due to an ongoing investigation on corruption, money laundering, and connections to Odebrecht, a public work...

#2731

Alison Evans

#76291

Overall Influence

Alison Evans is a British economist. She is director general of Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank Group since January 2019. Before her current role, Evans was the Chief Commissioner of the UK’s Independent Commission for Aid Impact based in London, England, where she led the evolution of that organization's scrutiny mandate. Prior to joining ICAI, she was executive director of the Overseas Development Institute in the United Kingdom.

#2732

Etienne Schneider

#14134

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Etienne Schneider is a Luxembourgish politician and economist who served as First Deputy Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 2013 to 2020. He is a member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party . Schneider was a municipal councillor in Kayl from 1995 to 2005, and from 1997 to 2004, he was secretary general of the parliamentary group of the LSAP in Parliament. He was elected first alderman of the municipality of Kayl in 2005, a mandate he held until May 2010.

#2733

Ebonya Washington

#88645

Overall Influence

Ebonya L. Washington is the Laurans A. and Arlene Mendelson Professor of Economics at Columbia University and a professor of public and international affairs. She is also a National Bureau of Economic Research Faculty Research Fellow in the Programs on Political Economy and the Economics of Children. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2021.

#2734

Pascal Morand

#57600

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Pascal Morand is the Executive President of the Fédération française de la couture. He is also a professor at ESCP Business School, a member of Académie des Technologies , a member of the Commission d'évaluation des formations et diplômes de gestation and, a member of the Conseil national éducation-économie, an organization established by the French National Education Ministry to foster greater cooperation between business and higher education.

#2735

Chris Brooks

#117125

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Chris Brooks is Professor of Finance in the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Biography Brooks was formerly Professor of Finance at the ICMA Centre, part of Henley Business School, University of Reading, and the Bayes Business School, City University London. He holds a PhD and a BA in Economics and Econometrics, both from the Department of Economics at the University of Reading. His teaching has included statistics, econometrics, asset pricing and portfolio management, corporate finance and the philosophy of research. Brooks has acted as advisor an...

#2736

Solomon William Polachek

#125689

Overall Influence

#2737

Michael Driscoll

#21122

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Michael John Driscoll is an economist, sometime Chair of the Coalition of Modern Universities in the UK and from 1996 to 2015 was Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University in London. In 2016, he was appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of Taylor's University in Malaysia.

#2738

Victoria Curzon-Price

#54348

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Victoria Curzon-Price is a professor of economics. Education She holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Career She became a professor of economics at the University of Geneva in 1982, and was director of the university's now-defunct Institut universitaire d'études européennes from 1994 to 1998. Her academic work has encompassed international trade, economic integration, institutional competition and political economy. She has been involved with organizations that defend classical liberalism, namely as president of the Mont Pelerin Society from 2004 to 2006...

#2739

Hillel Ticktin

#65790

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Hillel H. Ticktin is a Marxist theorist and economist. He was born in South Africa in 1937, but had to leave to avoid arrest for political activism. He then lived and studied in the Soviet Union, where his PhD thesis, which was critical of official Communist Parties, was rejected. In 1965 he began teaching at Glasgow University, which in 2000 appointed him professor of Marxist studies. He retired in 2002. In 1973, he co-founded Critique, a Journal of Socialist Theory.

#2740

David Martimort

#96401

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

David Martimort is a French economist and Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics. Martimort is one of the most highly cited researchers in the field of contract theory. His research has been awarded the Best Young French Economist Award in 2004.

#2741

Philip Jefferson

#28050

Overall Influence

Philip Nathan Jefferson is an American economist who serves as vice chair of the Federal Reserve. He has been a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2022. He was nominated for the position by President Joe Biden in January 2022, and was confirmed by the Senate in May 2022. Upon taking office, he became the fourth Black man to serve on the board.

#2742

James R. Alm

#126060

Overall Influence

#2743

Oldřich Dědek

#120494

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Oldřich Dědek is a Czech economist. He graduated in agricultural economics from the University of Economics, Prague. He was born in Chlumec nad Cidlinou. Career After completing his studies in 1978, Dedek was employed by the Economic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he worked as a researcher specialising in economic policy. In 1992, he joined the Czech National Bank as Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics, and in 1996, he was appointed an adviser to the ČNB Governor. He was formerly a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charl...

#2744

Myer Rashish

#126178

Overall Influence

1924 - 1995 (71 years)

Myer Rashish was a Harvard-trained economist who served as United States Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from 1981 to 1982. Biography Rashish was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 10, 1924. He attended Harvard College, receiving his B.A. in 1944. He then received an M.A. in economics from Harvard University in 1947. Rashish spent the 1940s teaching economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Williams College, Tufts College, and Bowdoin College.

#2745

Royston Greenwood

#126314

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

#2746

Samuel Kortum

#114613

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Samuel S. Kortum is an American economist and currently James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics at Yale University. His research focuses on international trade and industrial organisation. Education Kortum graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University in 1983. He went on to further study at Yale University and received his Ph.D. in economics in 1992.

#2747

Dabo Guan

#126600

Overall Influence

#2748

David J. Pannell

#126614

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

#2749

Teng Weizao

#47682

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Teng Weizao , was a Chinese economist and educator. He served as President of Nankai University, and the Chairman of China and United States Economic Association . Teng was a pioneer of Chinese modern economics study, especially in the fields of multinational corporation and Japanese economy.

#2750

Frank Restle

#126776

Overall Influence

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