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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#2901

Menachem Brenner

#89843

Overall Influence

Menachem Brenner is a professor of finance and a Bank and Financial Analysts Faculty Fellow at New York University Stern School of Business. Biography Brenner's primary areas of research include derivative markets, hedging, option pricing, and the stock market. He developed the VIX volatility index based on the prices of traded index options.

#2902

Edward D. Houde

#133543

Overall Influence

#2903

Beryl Sprinkel

#54262

Overall Influence

1923 - 2009 (86 years)

Beryl Wayne Sprinkel was an Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs in the US Treasury from January 1981 to April 1985, and member of the Executive Office of the US President and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers between April 4, 1985 and January 21, 1989, during the Reagan administration. Prior to government service, Dr. Sprinkel worked at the Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago from 1952 to 1981, rising to the position of executive vice president.

#2904

David E. M. Sappington

#133714

Overall Influence

#2905

Zhao-hua Wang

#133814

Overall Influence

#2906

Franklin D. Roosevelt III

Franklin D. Roosevelt III

#95667

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt III is an American retired economist and academic. Through his father, he is a grandson of 32nd U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and through his mother, he is related to the prominent du Pont family.

#2907

Ofer Azar

#127978

Overall Influence

Ofer H. Azar is an economics professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. He is known for his research in behavioral economics and industrial organization, among other fields. For example, he has published numerous studies on the practice of tipping. These studies include one which estimated that Americans tip about $42 billion per year at full-service restaurants.

#2908

Ilyana Kuziemko

#100330

Overall Influence

Ilyana Kuziemko is a professor of economics at Princeton University, where she has taught since 2014. She previously served as the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School from July 2013 to June 2014 and as associate professor from July 2012 to June 2013. From 2007 to 2012, she was an assistant professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and Woodrow Wilson School. She also served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2009 to 2010 under The Office of Microeconomic Analysis. Duri...

#2909

Maurice Kugler

#83400

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Maurice Kugler is a Colombian American economist born in 1967. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 2000, as well as an M.Sc. and a B.Sc. both from the London School of Economics. Kugler is professor of public policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Prior to this, he worked as a consultant for the World Bank, where he was senior economist before . Most recently he was principal research scientist and managing director at IMPAQ International.

#2910

David Mustard

#54128

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

David Brendan Mustard is an American economist and the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of economics at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business. Research In 1997, when he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Mustard co-authored an influential study with John Lott, examining the effects of right-to-carry laws, which make it easier to obtain a concealed handgun license. The study concluded that these laws reduce violent crime rates, without increasing accidental firearm deaths. This study has been criticized by other researchers, including Ian Ayres and John J.

#2911

Alula Pankhurst

#32083

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Alula Pankhurst is a British scholar and social development consultant whose main focus is Ethiopia and Ethiopian studies. He has worked in Ethiopia for many years in a variety of positions including as an associate professor of anthropology at Addis Ababa University and as the country director for Young Lives.

#2912

Reinhard Bachmann

Reinhard Bachmann

#58635

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Reinhard Bachmann is a German born social scientist who teaches and researches at SOAS University of London. He is Professor of International Management; and the Founder and Director of the Centre for Trust Research at SOAS. He has served as Head of Department at Surrey Business School and as Head of the School of Finance and Management at SOAS. His work focuses on Strategic Management and Organizational Analysis; it includes major contributions to the field of trust research.

#2913

Caterina Faggio

#134031

Overall Influence

#2914

C. Scott Hemphill

#82023

Overall Influence

C. Scott Hemphill is a legal academic whose scholarship focuses on intellectual property law and antitrust law. He is currently a Professor of Law at New York University Law School, where he has taught since 2015. Previously, Hemphill was a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

#2915

Harry C. Katz

#90264

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Harry Charles Katz is an American university professor and academic administrator. He is the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. From November 14, 2014, to July 31, 2015, he served as the interim Provost of Cornell University.

#2916

Thomas G. Mcguire

#134139

Overall Influence

#2917

Peter Englund

#114504

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Peter Englund , is a Swedish economist. He was professor at Uppsala University 1988-1998 and is professor at the Stockholm School of Economics since 1998. Englund is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 1997, and is a member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the so-called "Nobel Prize in Economics". Using mostly well-developed approaches, he researched causal links pertaining to constitution of office space pricing.

#2918

Maureen Brunt

#79506

Overall Influence

1928 - 2019 (91 years)

Maureen Brunt was an Australian economist and academic who specialised in the field of competition law. She was Emeritus professor of Economics at Monash University. Early life and education Brunt received a degree in economics from the University of Melbourne in 1951 and a Doctor of Philosophy in industrial organization from Harvard University in 1964.

#2919

Robert Arlinghaus

#134204

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

#2920

Richard Rumelt

#13738

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Richard Post Rumelt is an American emeritus professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management. He joined the school in 1976 from Harvard Business School. Academic career Richard Rumelt earned Bachelor's and Master's of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He worked as a systems design engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1963-65. He received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School in 1972 and joined the Harvard Business School faculty as an Assistant Professor. On leave from HBS, he helped found and teach at the Iran Center for Management Studies during 1972-74.

#2921

Anthony F. Shorrocks

#134254

Overall Influence

#2922

Eric Rasmusen

#79390

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Eric Rasmusen is an American economist and former Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of the book Games and Information: An Introduction to Game Theory.

#2923

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

#120443

Overall Influence

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark is an Australian economist. She is currently working as a Professor in the University of Sydney and as a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course. She has also worked in Bonn, Germany at the Institute for the Study of Labor since 2000, where she holds the position of director of the Program in Gender and Families.

#2924

Felix Kübler

#109711

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Felix Kübler is a German economist who currently works as Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Zurich. His research interests include computational economics, general equilibrium theory and portfolio choice. In 2012, he was awarded the Gossen Prize in recognition of his contributions to economic research.

#2925

Vincenzo Galasso

#64530

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Vincenzo Galasso is Professor of economics at Bocconi University focusing on political economics, political economy, Early life, education, and professional experience Born in Naples, Galasso read for a Bachelors in economics from Bocconi. He then proceeded to earn a PhD in Economics from UCLA.

#2926

Laura Starks

#51256

Overall Influence

Laura T. Starks is an American academic administrator. Starks earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Austin, a master's of business administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and returned to UTAustin for a doctorate. She was the Charles E. & Sarah M. Seay Regents’ Chair in Finance at the McCombs School of Business until her 2015 appointment as interim dean of the school. After Starks vacated the deanship, she was named George Kozmetsky Centennial University Distinguished Chair.

#2927

Jeffrey Hammer

#104613

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Jeffrey Stuart Hammer is a health and development economist. Hammer was the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Economic Development at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University. His primary research focus is the economics of health policy and health service provision in poor countries. He was on the core team of the 2004 World Development Report “Making Services Work for Poor People,” alongside Lant Pritchett, Shanta Devarajan, and other notable economists. He is currently a senior non-resident scholar at the National Council of App...

#2928

David John Mckenzie

#134485

Overall Influence

#2929

Mario Vella

#32382

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Mario Vella is a Maltese philosopher, economist and politician. He was Governor of the Central Bank of Malta from 2016 to 2020. Biography Studies and academic career Vella was born to a Maltese family in Tripoli, Libya, and lived his boyhood within the Italian community there. He started his education at a Catholic school in Tripoli, then returned to Malta with his family and attended De La Salle College at Cottonera.

#2930

Joshua D. Rauh

#106482

Overall Influence

Joshua D. Rauh is an American economist. Rauh is the Ormond Family Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From November 2019 to March 2020 he was principal chief economist of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and prior to that served as director of research at the Hoover Institution. He graduated with a B.A. in economics, magna cum laude with distinction, from Yale University in 1996 and received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004.

#2931

Jean‐phiilippe Platteau

#134522

Overall Influence

#2932

Olav Harald Jensen

#80873

Overall Influence

1917 - 1991 (74 years)

Olav Harald Jensen was a Norwegian economist. He was educated in business administration, and was hired in 1955 as a lecturer at the Norwegian School of Economics . He was a professor at Åbo Akademi University from 1958, before returning to NHH as a professor from 1960 to 1984. He served as rector there from 1973 to 1978.

#2933

Anming Zhang

#134565

Overall Influence

#2934

Willard G. Manning

#134677

Overall Influence

#2935

Georg Milbradt

#78005

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Georg Milbradt is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who served as Minister-President of Saxony from 2002 to 2008. Early life Milbradt was born in Eslohe. His family originally was from Wągrowiec near Poznań but ended up in Dortmund after World War II, and he passed his Abitur there in 1964.

#2936

John Bound

#133734

Overall Influence

John Bound is an American labor economist who serves as George E. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Economics and Director of Doctoral Admissions in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists.

#2937

Michael Yates

#29862

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Michael D. Yates is an economist and a labor educator, and editorial director of the socialist publishing house Monthly Review Press. He advocates a socialist view of economics. Early life and education Yates was born in a small coal mining town about 40 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His grandmother worked on a barge boat as a cook and a servant for families in Manhattan, Newport and other wealthy enclaves. His immediate family had a long history working at dangerous, unhealthy jobs in the coal mines. At the age of 14, his mother took a job unloading dynamite at the entrance of the coal mines.

#2938

Robert Helsley

#71931

Overall Influence

Robert Helsley is a business economist, formerly the Dean of the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia , and also the university's Grosvenor Professor of Cities, Business Economics and Public Policy, and also a published author. Before his Dean position, he was Associate Dean of the UBC Centre for Real Estate and Urban Economics and Chair of Urban Land Economics, and in the United States, he was part of the University of California, Berkeley, as Professor and Chair in Real Estate Development and the Co-Chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics.

#2939

Rachel Croson

#116129

Overall Influence

Rachel Toni Algaze Croson is an economist currently serving as Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Minnesota, and McKnight Endowed Professor of Economics. Until March 2020, she served as Dean of the College of Social Science and MSU Foundation Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. She earned her bachelor's degree in economics and the philosophy of science from the University of Pennsylvania and her master's and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

#2940

Federico Girosi

#134894

Overall Influence

#2941

Robert Mitchell Stern

#134937

Overall Influence

#2942

Derek Morris

#48345

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Sir Derek James Morris is former Chairman of the Competition Commission and was the Provost of Oriel College, Oxford until Moira Wallace replaced him in 2013. Morris was educated at Harrow County School for Boys, studied PPE at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and then took a D.Phil. in Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford before taking up a Research Fellowship at the Centre for Business and Industrial Studies at University of Warwick. From 1970 until 1998 he was Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Oriel. This included three years on secondment as Economic Director of the National Economic Development Council.

#2943

Manisha Shah

#95974

Overall Influence

Manisha Shah is an economist, as well as Vice-Chair and Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She received her PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in agricultural and resource economics in 2006. Additionally, she is the founding director of the Global Lab for Research in Action, an editor at the Journal of Health Economics as well as a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor, and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.

#2944

Derrick Gosselin

#47768

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Derrick-Philippe B. J., Baron Gosselin is a Belgian engineer and economist. He is chairman of the Belgian Nuclear Sciences Research Center SCK CEN, vice-chairman of Belgonucleaire and vice-chairman of the Royal Higher Institute for Defence . He is on the board of the Von Karman Institute.

#2945

Reuven Brenner

#43023

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Reuven Brenner is a Romanian-born Israeli-Canadian economics professor, holding the REPAP Chair of Economics at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management. Notability Forbes magazine has called the professor one of "six economists every entrepreneur should Know". Additionally, Asia Times praised him for creating a model that makes real world sense.

#2946

Andrew B. Bernard

#135202

Overall Influence

#2947

Jan Marco Leimeister

Jan Marco Leimeister

#58971

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Jan Marco Leimeister is a German university professor for business information systems from Bietigheim-Bissingen. He is tenured professor of business information systems and director at the Institute of Information Management . at the University of St. Gallen as well as head of the Department of Information Systems and director at the Research Center for Information System Design at the University of Kassel.

#2948

Jean-Marie Dufour

#108977

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Jean-Marie Dufour, OC is an econometrician and statistician from Quebec who teaches at McGill University. He has degrees from McGill University, Université de Montréal, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. He also taught at the Université de Montréal. He is noted for his work on econometric methodology.

#2949

Jens Weidmann

#69577

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Jens Weidmann is a German economist who served as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank between 2011 and 2021. He also served as chairman of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements. Before moving to the Bundesbank, Weidmann served as Head of Division IV in the Federal Chancellery from February 2006. He was the chief negotiator of the Federal Republic of Germany for both the summits of the G8 and the G20.

#2950

David Wildasin

#124634

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

David Wildasin is an American economist, currently the William T. Bryan Endowed Professor in Public Finance Emeritus at Martin School, University of Kentucky, and also a published author. Education Ph.D., University of Iowa 1976 Dissertation title: “Theoretical Issues in Local Public Finance” B.A., University of Virginia 1972

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