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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#2751

Stephen F. Knack

#126786

Overall Influence

#2752

Roger Noll

#87067

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Roger Noll is an American economist and emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University. He is also a fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the director of the Program in Regulatory Policy there. He is known for his research on sports economics, such as the construction of professional sports stadiums. He has testified against the NCAA in multiple court cases, including O'Bannon v. NCAA. In 1983, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in economics.

#2753

Renato Brunetta

#66247

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Renato Brunetta is an Italian economist and politician. He was the Minister of Public Administration and Innovation from 8 May 2008 to 16 November 2011 in the Berlusconi government. He was also the Minister for Public Administration in the Draghi government, from 13 February 2021 until 22 October 2022. He was the head of Forza Italia's deputies group at the Chamber of Deputies from 2013 to 2018.

#2754

Ester Boserup

#126889

Overall Influence

#2755

Daniel Polsky

#41525

Overall Influence

Daniel Elias Polsky is an American health economist. He is the 40th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Economics at Johns Hopkins University. Early life and education Polsky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned his Bachelor of Science at the University of Michigan before enrolling at their Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy for his Master's degree. He returned home to Pennsylvania for his PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

#2756

Claudio E. V. Borio

#127007

Overall Influence

#2757

Stephen Morris

#104930

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Stephen Edward Morris is an economic theorist and game theorist especially known for his research in the field of global games. Since July 2019, he has been a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to that he taught at Princeton, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was the editor of Econometrica for the period 2007–2011, and in 2019 served as president of the Econometric Society.

#2758

Frederick Van Der Ploeg

#127043

Overall Influence

#2759

Michael Arthur Firth

#127054

Overall Influence

#2760

Mira Wilkins

#19767

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Mira Wilkins is an American economic and business historian and a world authority on the history of American business and foreign direct investment. She is Professor Emerita at the Department of Economics, Florida International University.

#2761

Nigel Healey

#15462

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Nigel Healey is a British-New Zealand academic in management and higher education, who is Professor of International Higher Education and currently Vice-President of Global and Community Engagement at the University of Limerick. He served as Interim Provost and Deputy President during the Covid-19 pandemic from September 2020 to June 2022, returning to his substantive position in July 2022. His current research interests are in the internationalization of higher education, transnational education and higher education policy and management.

#2762

Édouard Balladur

#11897

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Édouard Balladur is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under François Mitterrand from 29 March 1993 to 17 May 1995. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1995 French presidential election, coming in third place.

#2763

Renata Mansini

#50065

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Renata Mansini is an Italian applied mathematician, economist, and operations researcher known for her research on problems in mathematical optimization including portfolio optimization and vehicle routing. She is a professor of operations research at the University of Brescia.

#2764

George Grantham

#85461

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

George Grantham is an American economic historian and Emeritus Professor at McGill University. His contribution to economics has focused mainly on the agricultural development, particularly of the French rural economy in the 18th and 19th centuries. For many years before his retirement in 2009, he was a prominent teacher of economics at McGill University and in 2000 he was awarded the Cliometric Society's annual prize – the Clio Can for exceptional support to the field of cliometrics.

#2765

Magnus L. Kpakol

Magnus L. Kpakol

#23630

Overall Influence

Magnus Lekara Kpakol is a Nigerian American educator who is the CEO, Chairman and Chief Strategist at the Economic and Business Strategies. He is the principal leadership, management and business coach/trainer at the Economic and Business Strategies Ltd. He was the principal consultant at VIJONS International in Dallas Texas and a visiting professor of economics at the University of Dallas, where he taught economic development and international economics before being appointed in 2001 as Chief economic adviser to the president of Nigeria by President Olusegun Obasanjo.

#2766

Glenn Ellison

#108916

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Glenn David Ellison is an American economist who is Gregory K. Palm Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Elected Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory and American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is the father of Caroline Ellison, an American felon and former CEO of Alameda Research.

#2767

Joseph Deiss

#78746

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Joseph Deiss is a Swiss economist and politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1999 to 2006. A member of the Christian Democratic People's Party , he first headed the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs before transferring to the Federal Department of Economic Affairs . Deiss was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly for its 65th session in 2010.

#2768

Gordon Phillips

#47887

Overall Influence

Gordon Phillips is an American financial economist, currently at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He obtained his bachelor's degree at Northwestern University in 1986 and his Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University in 1991.

#2769

Anke Hoeffler

#86235

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Anke Hoeffler is a German economist and political scientist who is known for her work on social causes of morbidity and mortality. Life Hoeffler studied in Würzburg and London and received her PhD from Oxford University . Following her Ph.D., she was a research officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at St Antony's College, Oxford. In 2018, she was awarded a Humboldt Professorship at the University of Konstanz, where she has established the Chair of Development Research at the department of Political Science and Public Administration.

#2770

Hippolyte d'Albis

#90720

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Hippolyte d'Albis is a French economist, born November 24, 1973, in London, specializing in demographic issues. He is a professor at Pantheon-Sorbonne University and the Paris School of Economics. He is Deputy Director for Science at the CNRS Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities in charge of research in economics, management, geography and regional studies and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the Cercle des économistes.

#2771

François Schaller

#52077

Overall Influence

1920 - 2006 (86 years)

François Schaller was a Swiss economist.

#2772

Fouad Laroui

#17986

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey , he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées , where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga , he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch.

#2773

Ephraim R. McLean

#32346

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Ephraim R. McLean is an American organizational theorist, and Professor of Information Systems at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, known as one of the founders of the MIS discipline in the 1960s and for his work with William H. DeLone on the information systems success model.

#2774

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

#67501

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Jessica Gordon Nembhard is an American political economist. She has published books and articles in major economics journals. She is currently Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Department of Africana Studies at John Jay College, City University of NY.

#2775

Julia Steinberger

Julia Steinberger

#67140

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Julia K. Steinberger is Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Lausanne. She studies the relationships between the use of resources and performance of societies. She is an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report, contributing to the report's discussion of climate change mitigation pathways.

#2776

Antonio Mele

#77712

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Antonio Mele is an Italian economist. He is currently Professor of Finance at USI and at the Swiss Finance Institute after a decade with the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of several works on uncertainty and volatility in financial markets, the interlinks between financial markets and business cycles, and financial market microstructure.

#2777

Patrick Kline

#109159

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Patrick McGraw Kline is an U.S. American economist and Professor of Economics of the University of California at Berkeley. In 2018, his research was awarded the Sherwin Rosen Prize by the Society of Labor Economists for "outstanding contributions in the field of labor economics". In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious IZA Young Labor Economist Award.

#2778

William J. Trent

#46676

Overall Influence

1910 - 1993 (83 years)

William Johnson Trent, Jr. was an African-American economist, non-profit director and civil rights activist from Atlanta, Georgia. Career Trent was born in Asheville, North Carolina and moved with his family to Atlanta at an early age. His father, William J. Trent, Sr., was an early organizer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . He graduated from a black private high school in Atlanta and attended Livingstone College, from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1930. His father was president of Livingstone at the time. He then earned a master's degree in...

#2779

Peter Cramton

#121309

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Peter Cramton is an American economist and academic. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, Emeritus since 2018, and holds the Market Design Chair in Economics at the University of Cologne.

#2780

Xin Meng

#117433

Overall Influence

Xin Meng is a Chinese economist and professor at the Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics , Australian National University . She is also a member of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, the American Economic Association, the Society of Labor Economics and Royal Economic Society. Her main research interests include Labour Economics, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics and Economics of Education. She focuses on researching issues about the Chinese labour market during transition, the influence of corporations and gender discrimination, the economic assimilation of immigrants and the economic implications of major catastrophes.

#2781

Yu-Chin Chen

#91311

Overall Influence

Yu-Chin Chen is an economist and researcher at the University of Washington. Her research fields include international finance, macroeconomics, open economy macroeconomics, trade and development, and applied economics. She has served as a staff economist for the Clinton administration and is currently an economics professor at the University of Washington. Classes she teaches include Macroeconomic Analysis, International Financial Monetary Economics, and Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics.

#2782

Jurgen Brauer

#88978

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Jurgen Brauer is a retired German-American economist and contributor to the growing field of peace economics, the study of economic aspects of peace and security. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Augusta University, Augusta, GA,USA,and Visiting Professor of Economics at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

#2783

William W. Fisher

#18890

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

William "Terry" W. Fisher III is the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. His primary research and teaching areas are intellectual property law and legal history.

#2784

Lyndon LaRouche

#27749

Overall Influence

1922 - 2019 (97 years)

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees . He was a prominent conspiracy theorist and perennial presidential candidate. He began in far-left politics but in the 1970s moved to the far-right. His movement is sometimes described as, or likened to, a cult. Convicted of fraud, he served five years in prison from 1989 to 1994.

#2785

Timothy Coelli

#128104

Overall Influence

#2786

William R. Kerr

#88408

Overall Influence

William R. Kerr is the Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff – MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration professor at Harvard Business School, where he is a co-director of Harvard's Managing the Future of Work project and faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program for executive education.

#2787

Marian Gorynia

#86441

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Marian Gorynia is a Polish economist, professor, and rector of the University of Economics in Poznań from 2008 year. Biography Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980, at the University of Economics in Poznan . From the beginning of his career he was inextricably linked with the university, where he passed all levels of promotion. His professional career started in 1983 the year of assistantship at the Institute of International Economic Relations. After his doctorate in 1985 he was promoted to the position of senior assistant, then a year later assumed the position of assistant professor at the same institute.

#2788

Henrich R. Greve

#128141

Overall Influence

#2789

Gerrit Zalm

#50664

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Gerrit Zalm is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and businessman. Zalm studied Economics at the Free University Amsterdam obtaining a Master of Economics degree and worked as a civil servant for the Ministries of Finance, Economic Affairs and the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis from June 1975 until August 1994 and worked as a professor of Political economy at his alma mater from January 1990 until August 1994. After the election of 1994 Zalm was appointed as Minister of Finance in the Cabinet Kok I taking office on 22 August 1994. After the election of 1998 Zalm continued his position in the Cabinet Kok II.

#2790

Michael Waldman

#65011

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Michael Waldman is an American economist, academic and researcher. He is the Charles H. Dyson Professor in Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.

#2791

Yishay Yafeh

#82896

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Yishay Yafeh is an Economist and a Professor of Finance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Business Administration in Israel. Between 2010–2012 he was the vice- dean of the Hebrew University School of Business Administration and the Dean of the School between 2012–2016.

#2792

Josué Modesto dos Passos Subrinho

#70068

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Josué Modesto dos Passos Subrinho is a Brazilian professor of economics at the Federal University of Sergipe. He is currently Rector of the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana Brazil.

#2793

Catherine Wolfram

#106339

Overall Influence

Catherine D. Wolfram is an American micro-economist, academic and researcher. Catherine Wolfram was named in March 2021 as the United States Department of the Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics She is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration and associate dean for academic affairs at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley where she also serves as a faculty director of The E2e Project and as scientific director for energy and the environment at Center for Effective Global Action. She also directs the National Bureau ...

#2794

Charles W. Upton

#110784

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Charles W. Upton is an American economist. In 1974, Upton published together with Merton H. Miller a textbook, Macroeconomics: A Neoclassical Introduction , which is considered a landmark in modern macroeconomics. The book was the first to put the neoclassical growth model at center stage, and the first place that in print discussed what has later become known as Ricardian Equivalence. Written at the very dawn of the rational expectations–market-clearing revolution in macroeconomic theory, yet it provides a deeper understanding of those ideas than most contemporary texts. The textbook also makes a radical break with IS-LM model and proposes an operationalizable alternative.

#2795

Carlos Alós-Ferrer

Carlos Alós-Ferrer

#85398

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Carlos Alós-Ferrer is a professor of decision and neuroeconomic theory at the University of Zurich and is currently the editor in chief of the Journal of Economic Psychology. He holds a M.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Valencia and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Alicante . He has been assistant professor at the University of Vienna , associate professor at the University of Salamanca , and associate professor at the University of Vienna . He became a full professor of microeconomics at the University of Konstanz and later moved to the University of Cologne . In 2018,...

#2796

Ann Bartel

#112461

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Ann Pelcovits Bartel is the Merrill Lynch Professor of Workforce Transformation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970, and completed her PhD in economics at Columbia University in 1974.

#2797

Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur

Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur

#96536

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur is a French economist and Professor at the Paris School of Economics. Hautcoeurs research interests include money, credit and long-run finance. His research was awarded the Best Young French Economist Award in 2003.

#2798

Rati Ram

#128603

Overall Influence

#2799

Tilman Brück

#54260

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Tilman Brück is a German economist specializing in development and the economics of peace, conflict and terrorism. He was full professor of development economics at Humboldt University of Berlin. He also headed the department of Development and Security at the German Institute for Economic Research .

#2800

Pierre Marie Pestieau

#128839

Overall Influence

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