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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#2801

Alison Booth

#112684

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Alison L. Booth is an Australian labour economist and novelist who is professor of economics at the Australian National University. She is the author of six novels. These are Stillwater Creek , The Indigo Sky , A Distant Land , A Perfect Marriage , The Philosopher's Daughters and The Painting .

#2802

Rommert Dekker

#128874

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

#2803

Frank Jotzo

#100383

Overall Influence

Frank Jotzo is a professor at the Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy, Head of Energy at the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Director for the ANU Zero Carbon Energy for Asia-Pacific Grand Challenge initiative and Director of the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy at Australian National University. As an environmental economist, his research focuses on policy relevant aspects of climate change, energy, and broader issues of environment, development and economic reform.

#2804

Bishnodat Persaud

#51068

Overall Influence

1933 - 2016 (83 years)

Prof The Honourable Bishnodat Persaud CHB, Ph.D, FRSA was a Guyanese economist who served as Alcan Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies, and Director of Economic Affairs, Commonwealth Secretariat. In November 2013 he was awarded The Companion of Honour in the Barbados Independence Day Honours List for distinguished national achievement and merit for his outstanding contribution to the regional and international public service.

#2805

Stephen Coate

#95187

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Stephen Thomas Redvers Coate is a British-American economist and currently Kiplinger Professor of Public Policy at Cornell University. His research focuses on developing economic models to analyze public policy issues.

#2806

Joseph D. Reid

#74586

Overall Influence

Joseph D. Reid is an American retired professor of economics with specializations in economic history and development economics. A graduate of the University of Chicago , he taught at multiple universities, including his alma mater and George Mason University. Reid has published considerable work in the field American economic history, with emphasis on agricultural and early American history. Two such examples are “Sharecropping and Agricultural Uncertainty” and “Economic Burden: Spark to the American Revolution?”

#2807

Enrique R. Arzac

#89957

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Enrique R. Arzac is a financial economist and Professor Emeritus of finance and economics at Columbia University specialized in corporate finance. Education Enrique R. Arzac obtained a CPN degree from the University of Buenos Aires, and MBA, MA in economics and Ph.D. in financial economics from Columbia University. His research spans several areas of economics including asset pricing, commodity markets and corporate finance.

#2808

Robert R. Glauber

#24918

Overall Influence

1939 - 2021 (82 years)

Robert Rudolf Glauber was an American academic who was a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a visiting professor at the Harvard Law School. He was the former chairman, president, board member and chief executive officer of NASD, and Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance from 1989 to 1992. Glauber was executive director of the task force appointed by President Reagan to report on the 1987 stock market crash. He was also a director of Moody's Corporation, a trustee of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation; and director of XL Capital Ltd.

#2809

John Schmitt

#71310

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

John Schmitt is an American economist, who serves as a senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He has written extensively on economic inequality, unemployment, the new economy, the welfare state, and other topics for both academic and popular audiences. He has also worked as a consultant for national and international organizations including the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, the Global Policy Network, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America, and others.

#2810

Gonzalo Anes

#75091

Overall Influence

1931 - 2014 (83 years)

Gonzalo Anes Álvarez de Castrillón was a Spanish economist, professor and historian. He was director of the Royal Academy of History. He was born in Trelles, Coaña, Asturias, and died on 31 March 2014 in Madrid.

#2811

Maria G.m. Purwanto And Klaus Weisz

#129468

Overall Influence

#2812

Jean-Luc Migué

#98234

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Jean-Luc Migué born in Saint-Jacques in 1933, is a Canadian economist. He is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute of Vancouver and at the Montreal Economic Institute. Education Migué graduated in 1953, with a cum laude mention, from the Collège de l'Assomption and holds a master's degree in economics from the Université de Montréal. From 1958 to 1960, he was a research student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1968, he received a PhD in economics from the American University of Washington.

#2813

Li Zinai

#72106

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Li Zinai is a Chinese economist, who was Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University School. Li is best known for his work on econometrics. Personal life Li was born in November 1946 in Funing, Jiangsu. Li received bachelor's degree from Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University in 1970, and master's degree in nuclear engineering in 1981 before working as an econometrics scholar in Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in 1986.

#2814

Cristina Bosetti

#129553

Overall Influence

#2815

Benjamin Cohen

#84516

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Benjamin Jerry Cohen is the Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At UCSB, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1991, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international political economy.

#2816

D. Mark Kennet

#101035

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

David Mark Kennet is an independent economic consultant. He has previously been on the faculties of three universities and written a number of professional journal articles and has authored or co-authored two books.

#2817

William L. Megginson

#43330

Overall Influence

William L. Megginson is an American economist, currently the Price Chair in Finance at Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma and also the Saudi Aramco Chair Professor in Finance at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. In 2008, he was the Fulbright Tocqueville Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Paris Dauphine University.

#2818

Andrew Charles Worthington

#129893

Overall Influence

#2819

Carlo A. Favero

#119606

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Carlo Ambrogio Favero is an Italian economist who is Deutsche Bank Professor of Asset Pricing and Quantitative Finance at Bocconi University Biography Favero graduated in Economics from Bocconi in 1984, obtained an MSc in economics from the LSE and a DPhil in Economics from Oxford University under the supervision of David Hendry and John Muellbauer. He has been Lecturer in Economics at Queen Mary College University of London before joining Bocconi in 1994. He is a research fellow of CEPR in the International Macroeconomics programme and a fellow of the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for the Economic Research at Bocconi University .

#2820

Cristiano Antonelli

#129934

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

#2821

Robert Östling

#129946

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Robert Östling is a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics . Östling obtained his PhD from SSE in 2008 with the dissertation Bounded Rationality and Endogenous Preferences. After that he obtained a position at the Institute for International Economics Studies at Stockholm University, where he worked until 2018 when he returned to SSE.

#2822

Edward C. Norton

#129977

Overall Influence

#2823

Adam Glapiński

#91179

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Adam Glapiński is a Polish economist and politician, the current President of the National Bank of Poland, Economics professor, a member of the first term of the Sejm, a member of the fourth term of the Senate and between 2010–16 a member of the Monetary Policy Council. He also served as the Minister for Construction and Spatial Planning and later as the Minister for Foreign Economic Cooperation.

#2824

Robert Van Straelen

#78930

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Robert Alphonse Paul Van Straelen is a Belgian economist and organizational theorist, and Emeritus Professor at the Antwerp Management School, known for his work on large empirical macroeconomic models.

#2825

Jonathan Leape

#94416

Overall Influence

Jonathan Leape is the Executive Director of the International Growth Centre, and an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His areas of research include public economics, teaching and learning in higher education, financial sector reforms, taxation, congestion charging, and capital flows. He has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.

#2826

Kjetil Storesletten

Kjetil Storesletten

#124868

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Kjetil Storesletten is a Norwegian economist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota. Between 2009 and 2012, he was a monetary advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He also served as the European Economic Association's president in 2019.

#2827

Sebastian Ehrlichmann

#130256

Overall Influence

#2828

Andrew Chesher

#112596

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Andrew Chesher, FBA is a British economist and the William Stanley Jevons Professor of Economics and Economic Measurement at the Department of Economics, University College London and Director of the ESRC Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association, and Fellow of the British Academy where he chaired its Economics and Economic History Section from 2009 to 2012. Additionally, Chesher was the President of the Royal Economic Society from 2016-2018 and from 20...

#2829

John D. Kasarda

John D. Kasarda

#28909

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

John D. Kasarda is an American academic and airport business consultant focused on aviation-driven economic development. He is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, the CEO of Aerotropolis Business Concepts LLC and the President of the Aerotropolis Institute in China. He was the founding editor-in-chief of Logistics, an open-access journal published by MDPI. Kasarda is often referred to as "father of the aerotropolis".

#2830

Erik E. Lehmann

#78378

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Erik E. Lehmann is a German economist. He is a professor of Management and Organization at Augsburg University and Director of the CisAlpino Institute of Comparative Studies in Europe , Augsburg University and University of Bergamo, Italy. Beyond, Lehmann is a visiting professor at University of Bergamo, an adjunct professor at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, co-director of the Augsburg Center for Entrepreneurship , and a board member of the Bavarian America Academy in Munich. He has been highly cited on his publications on entrepreneurship, with 11 authored or co-authored papers e...

#2831

David Zilberman

David Zilberman

#111917

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

David Zilberman is an Israeli-American agricultural economist, professor and Robinson Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Zilberman has been a professor in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at UC Berkeley since 1979. His research has covered a range of fields including the economics of production technology and risk in agriculture, agricultural and environmental policy, marketing and more recently the economics of climate change, biofuel and biotechnology. He won the 2019 Wolf Prize in Agriculture, he is a...

#2832

Michèle Tertilt

#34870

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Michèle Tertilt is a German professor of economics at the University of Mannheim. Before, Tertilt was an assistant professor at Stanford University. She also spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania and one year as a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is currently a director of the Review of Economic Studies and associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics. In 2017 she received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award – a biennial award by the European Economic Association and the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation to a European economist no older than 45 years, who has made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to economics in Europe.

#2833

Francisco Louçã

#84042

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Francisco Anacleto Louçã is a Portuguese economist and politician. Biography He is the second son of António Seixas Louçã, a Portuguese Navy Officer, and his wife Noémia da Rocha Neves Anacleto, lawyer, granddaughter of António Neves Anacleto, from Silves, brother of Isabel Maria, António, João Carlos and Jorge Manuel, and cousin of Vítor Gaspar, former Minister of Finances at the right winged Pedro Passos Coelho's government.

#2834

Piet A. Verheyen

#101958

Overall Influence

1931 - 2021 (90 years)

Petrus Antonius Verheyen is a Dutch economist, and Emeritus Professor of Econometrics at the Tilburg University. Verheyen received his Ph.D in 1962 from the Tilburg University with a thesis entitled "Economie en techniek : beschouwingen over de technische coëfficiënten, de groeifactor en het kapitaalrendement in de theoretische economie" under supervision of Dirk B.J. Schouten.

#2835

Runjan Chetty

#130541

Overall Influence

#2836

Bitange Ndemo

#53503

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Professor Elijah Bitange Ndemo , a global technocrat and currently serving as Kenya’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and the European Union. Professor Ndemo is also an academician and newspaper columnist with the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation and its sister publication, the Business Daily. He currently serves part-time as a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi’s Business School. He teaches and researches entrepreneurship and research methods, with most of his research work being focused on ICT within small and medium enterprises, and their influence on economic development in Kenya.

#2837

Meral Akşener

#36373

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Meral Akşener is a Turkish politician, teacher, historian and academic who is the founder and current leader of the Good Party . Akşener first entered parliament as a deputy of the True Path Party in the 1995 and 1999 general election, and served as the interior minister in the coalition government established by Necmettin Erbakan between 1996 and 1997. Distrustful of her coalition partner, she played a key role in the downfall of her own government in the 1997 military memorandum.

#2838

Felix Oberholzer-Gee

#53004

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Felix Oberholzer-Gee is a Swiss academic. He is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. A member of the faculty since 2003, Professor Oberholzer-Gee received his master's degree, summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich.

#2839

Jan Pronk

#56666

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Johannes Pieter "Jan" Pronk Jr. is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Labour Party and activist. Pronk studied Economics at the Rotterdam School of Economics obtaining a Master of Economics degree and worked as a researcher at his alma mater and the Economics Institute from July 1960 until May 1971 and was also active as a political activist in the New Left movement. After the election of 1971 Pronk was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives on 11 May 1971 and served as a frontbencher and spokesperson for Development Cooperation. Pronk was also selected as a Member of the European Parliament on 13 March 1973 and dual served in both positions.

#2840

Dilip Mookherjee

#130746

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

#2841

Lawrence Bacow

#9077

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Lawrence Seldon Bacow is an American economist and retired university administrator. He was the 29th president of Harvard University from 2018 to 2023. Before that, Bacow was the Hauser leader-in-residence at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School.

#2842

Roland G. Fryer Jr.

Roland G. Fryer Jr.

#22243

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. is an American economist and professor at Harvard University. Following a difficult childhood, Fryer earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington, but once there chose to concentrate instead on academics. Graduating cum laude in years, he went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 2002 and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago with Gary Becker. He joined the faculty of Harvard University and rapidly rose through the academic ranks; in 2007, at age 30, he became the second-youngest professor, and the youngest African-American, ever to be awarded tenure at Harvard.

#2843

Hillel Rapoport

#110994

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Hillel Rapoport is an economist at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and Paris School of Economics. He specializes on the dynamics of migration and its impact on economic development as well as on the economics of immigration, diversity, and refugees' relocation and resettlement and ranks as one of the leading economists on the topic of migration.

#2844

Denise Konan

#33168

Overall Influence

Denise Eby Konan is the Dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. She served as the Interim Chancellor of the University from 2005–2007. Konan is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and prior to her appointment as Interim Chancellor, she was the department chair. She has been a member of the university faculty since 1993. Her research interests include international trade, computational economics, regional integration, multinationals, and services liberalization.

#2845

Miroljub Labus

#71713

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Miroljub Labus is a Serbian economist and former politician. He is currently a University of Belgrade professor, lecturing political economy at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. He is also the owner of consulting firm Belox Advisory Service.

#2846

Norbert Thom

#55954

Overall Influence

1946 - 2019 (73 years)

Norbert Thom is a German-Swiss economist and emeritus professor at the University of Bern where he taught business administration, organization design and human resource management until he retired in summer 2012.

#2847

Marcel Bélanger

#73020

Overall Influence

1920 - 2013 (93 years)

Marcel Bélanger, was a Canadian academic. Born in Deschaillons, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1940 and a Master of Commerce degree in 1943 from Université Laval. He received a Master of Arts in economics from Harvard University in 1948.

#2848

Alejandro Foxley

#54826

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Alejandro Tomás Foxley Rioseco is a Chilean economist and politician. He was the Foreign Minister of Chile from 2006 to 2009 and previously served as Minister of Finance from 1990 to 1994 and leader of the Christian Democrat Party from 1994 to 1996.

#2849

Greg Hess

#78056

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Gregory D. Hess is an American economist, business executive, and former academic administrator. Hess served as Professor of Economics, Dean of the Faculty, and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Claremont McKenna College, prior to his appointment as the 16th President of Wabash College. Hess now serves as President and CEO of IES Abroad.

#2850

David O. Meltzer

David O. Meltzer

#37626

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

David Owen Meltzer is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. He holds faculty appointments in the Department of Medicine, Department of Economics and the Harris School of Public Policy. He is Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine, and is the Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences , as well as the Director of the Urban Health Lab in Chicago, IL. In 2015 he was appointed a member of the faculty for the forthcoming Barack Obama Presidential Center which will be located in Chicago's South Side.

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