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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#3301

Andreas Ortmann

#106547

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Andreas Ortmann is a German-born economist and Professor of Experimental and Behavioural Economics at the UNSW Business School. He is best known for his work on experimental methodology in social sciences, heuristics and coordination games. Vernon L. Smith, in the acknowledgement to his A Life in Experimental Economics, described Ortmann as an "economic theorist, experimentalist, and intellectual historian par excellence in all".

#3302

Johannes Hörner

#130523

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Johannes Hörner is a French-German economist and currently Alfred Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University. His research focuses on microeconomics and game theory. Education Hörner graduated from the HEC Paris with an M.Sc. in management in 1994. He went on to study at DELTA, a predecessor of the Paris School of Economics, and received an M.A. in economics in 1994. He then studied for a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 2000.

#3303

Anindya Ghose

#46679

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Anindya Ghose is an Indian-born American academic, and the Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Business at New York University's Stern School of Business and the director of the Masters of Business Analytics program at NYU Stern. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Wharton School of Business. He is the author of TAP: Unlocking The Mobile Economy which is a double winner in the 2018 Axiom Business Book Awards and has been translated into five languages . He is a Leonard Stern Faculty Scholar with an MBA scholarship named after him. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Wharton School of Business.

#3304

Jonathan P. Doh

#152362

Overall Influence

#3305

Stephen Taylor

#89139

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Stephen John Taylor is an emeritus professor of Finance at Lancaster University Management School, an authority on stochastic volatility models and option prices, a researcher in the areas of financial econometrics and mathematical finance, and an author who has published academic books and influential learned papers in Mathematical Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Econometrics and several other academic journals

#3306

Arye L. Hillman

#40469

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Arye L. Hillman is an Israeli economist whose career has been at Bar Ilan University in Israel where he has been William Gittes Chair and Professor of Economics. His main research focus is on political economy, or the study of public policy as the interface between economic and political decisions. From 1994 to 2014 he was an editor of the European Journal of Political Economy for which he remained editorial advisor and editor of various special issues.

#3307

F. Thomas Juster

#116189

Overall Influence

1926 - 2010 (84 years)

Francis Thomas Juster was an American economist known for researching household savings, wealth and time use. He was the founding director of both the landmark Health and Retirement Study and of its companion study, the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old .

#3308

Mandy Ryan

#152550

Overall Influence

#3309

Philip Strahan

#152614

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Philip E. Strahan is an American economist, currently the John L. Collins, S. J., Chair in Finance at Carroll School of Management, Boston College.

#3310

Peter S. Albin

#113171

Overall Influence

1934 - 2008 (74 years)

Peter Steigman Albin was an American economist who wrote and taught primarily in New York City. Among other contributions, he was known for applying cellular automata in the social sciences. Career Peter S. Albin earned his BA, from Yale College in 1956 and Ph.D from Princeton in 1964, both in economics.

#3311

Elliott Sclar

#96720

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Elliott D. Sclar is a professor of urban planning at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation . An economist and urban planner, he is the director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University's Earth Institute. His research interests include urban economic development, transportation, and public service economics.

#3312

Thomas Gerard Gallagher

#20502

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Thomas Gerard Philip Gallagher is a Scottish political scientist. He taught politics at the University of Bradford until 2011 and is now Emeritus Professor of Politics at the university. Career Gallagher obtained a BA hons degree in Politics and Modern History from the University of Manchester in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Government from the same institution in 1978. He taught history at Edge Hill College, Lancashire until 1980, before joining the staff at the University of Bradford where he obtained a personal chair in 1996.

#3313

David W. Chapman

#152786

Overall Influence

#3314

Sydney Caine

#60765

Overall Influence

1902 - 1991 (89 years)

Sir Sydney Caine KCMG was an educator and economist. Early life On 27 June 1902, Caine was born. Caine's father was Harry Caine, a railway clerk. Caine's mother was Jane. Caine attended Harrow County School in London, England.

#3315

Sanjeev Kumar Gupta

#152855

Overall Influence

#3316

Anthony John Bowen

#152857

Overall Influence

#3317

William W. Hogan

#152990

Overall Influence

#3318

Zhang Jun

#114283

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Zhang Jun is a Chinese economist and currently serves as Dean of School of Economics at Fudan University in Shanghai. Biography Zhang was born in January 1963 and has ancestral roots in Bozhou, Anhui province.

#3319

James Ziliak

#145547

Overall Influence

James Ziliak is an American business economist, currently the Gatton Endowed chair in Microeconomics and the Founding Director of the Center for Poverty Research at the Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky. He is also a published author.

#3320

Arye L. Schnytzer Adi Hillman

#153140

Overall Influence

#3321

John Lipsky

#98841

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

John Phillip Lipsky is an American economist. He was the acting managing director of the International Monetary Fund from May to July 2011. He assumed the post of acting managing director after Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested in May 2011 accused of sexual assault. After the appointment of Christine Lagarde he returned to his post as the first deputy managing director of the IMF. He retired from the IMF in November 2011 and is currently a distinguished visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies .

#3322

James W. Friedman

#153211

Overall Influence

#3323

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe

#133358

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé is a German economist who currently works as a professor of economics at Columbia University. Schmitt-Grohé's research has been focused on macroeconomics as well as fiscal and monetary policy in open and closed economies. In 2004 she was awarded the Bernacer prize, for her research of monetary stabilization policies.

#3324

Morten Hviid

#114865

Overall Influence

Morten Hviid, MA , Cand Oecon , PhD , is Professor of Competition Law at the University of East Anglia. He has previously held posts in the Economics Departments at University of Copenhagen and University of Warwick and in the School of Economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia. He has published in both fields, including papers in Economic Journal, European Competition Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Law and Economics and Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. He is a founding member and a principal investigator of the ESRC Centre for Competition Po...

#3325

Michael Earl

#43236

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Michael John Earl is a British academic, Formerly Dean of Templeton College, Oxford, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, and Professor of Information Management in the University of Oxford, known for his work on strategic information systems planning.

#3326

David John Cooper

#153276

Overall Influence

#3327

Adesoji Adelaja

#127004

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Adesoji O. Adelaja is an academic and John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor in Land Policy at Michigan State University. A native of Lagos born in 1956, Adelaja attended Pennsylvania State University in the United States, where he received his B.S. and pursued graduate study at West Virginia University, receiving two M.S. degrees and his Ph.D. Upon completing his doctorate, Adelaja taught at Idaho State University for a year, then joined the faculty of Rutgers University in 1986, later becoming Executive Dean. He became John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor in Land Policy at Michigan State University in 2004.

#3328

Florin Cîțu

#83554

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Florin Vasile Cîțu is a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania between December 2020 and November 2021 . Sometimes labeled as Romania's first libertarian Prime Minister, he was also the leader of the National Liberal Party between September 2021 and April 2022.

#3329

Anat Admati

#108929

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Anat Ruth Admati is an economist and currently the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2014, Time listed her as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

#3330

Allen C. Kelley

#138309

Overall Influence

1937 - 2017 (80 years)

Allen Charles Kelley was an American economist who taught at University of Wisconsin–Madison and later Duke University, where he was James B. Duke Professor of Economics. Born in Everett, Washington, Kelley enrolled at Linfield College before transferring to Stanford University, where he joined Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a doctorate in economics from Stanford in 1964. He then joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, moving to Duke University in 1973. Kelley chaired Duke's Department of Economics from 1974 to 1980, and was eventually named James B. Duke Professor of Economics. Kelley's research interests included the modeling of computational general equilibrium.

#3331

Allan Drazen

#153422

Overall Influence

#3332

Armando Castelar

Armando Castelar

#110756

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Armando Castelar is a Brazilian economist who was Head of the Economics Department of the Brazilian Development Bank for eight years, leading the Bank's research work and advising the Executive Board on macroeconomic issues. He is also a former analyst of Arminio Fraga and his Gávea Investimentos. Since 2010 he has been Coordinator of Applied Economic Research at Instituto Brasileiro de Economia /Fundação Getúlio Vargas , Brazil's leading think tank, and Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

#3333

Manju Puri

#153645

Overall Influence

#3334

Derek D. Headey

#153658

Overall Influence

#3335

Robert Cassen

#70919

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Professor Robert Harvey Cassen OBE , is a British economist and former Professor of the Economics of Development at the University of Oxford. Biography Robert Cassen was born on 24 March 1935 and educated at Bedford School, at New College, Oxford, at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard University, where he completed his doctorate in economics. He taught in the department of economics at the London School of Economics between 1961 and 1969, was Senior Economist at the Overseas Development Ministry between 1966 and 1967, Senior Economist at the World Bank between 1969 and 1972...

#3336

Cristovam Buarque

#72575

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque is a Brazilian university professor and member of Cidadania. He was a senator for the Federal District from 2003 to 2019. Biography Buarque graduated in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco in 1966. At that time he engaged in student politics becoming a militant of the Ação Popular, a group of the Leftist Progressive Church. After the 1964 coup, he was persecuted and exiled to France, where he earned a PhD in economics from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris, in 1973. He worked at Inter-American Development Bank in Ecuador, Honduras, and the United States from 1973–79.

#3337

George W. Johnson

#39940

Overall Influence

1928 - 2017 (89 years)

George William Johnson Jr. was an American academic and academic administrator who served as the President of George Mason University from 1978 to 1996. Johnson is credited with transforming George Mason University from largely a commuter college into a nationally recognized research university during his 18-year tenure as president. Under Johnson, total student enrollment doubled from 10,000 in 1979 to more than 24,000 students in 1996. Johnson also oversaw the addition of 34 new academic programs , the creation of GMU's first doctoral programs, and the establishment of the George Mason Uni...

#3338

Jacob Karl Frenkel

#153835

Overall Influence

#3339

Michael Artis

#145226

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Michael John "Mike" Artis, FBA was a British economist. A leading macroeconomist, his research encompassed monetary economics, fiscal policies, and European institutions and policies. Educated at Baines Grammar School and Magdalen College, Oxford, Artis joined the Oxford Institute of Statistics in 1959 and the National Institute for Economic and Social Research in 1967. He joined the Victoria University of Manchester in 1975. In 1994 he joined the European University Institute.

#3340

Scott H. Irwin

#127600

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Scott H. Irwin is the Laurence J. Norton Chair of Agricultural Marketing and professor in the department of agricultural and consumer economics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Career Irwin earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural business from Iowa State University in 1980 and both an MS and PhD in agricultural economics from Purdue University in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He currently teaches courses on commodity price analysis and futures and options market research.

#3341

Jolande Sap

#94008

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Johanna Catharina Maria "Jolande" Sap is a former Dutch politician and former educator and civil servant. A member of GroenLinks , she replaced Wijnand Duyvendak as a member of the House of Representatives on 3 September 2008, after his resignation. She had temporarily been replacing Mariko Peters from the previous day who was on parental leave. From 16 December 2010 to 5 October 2012 she was party leader as well as parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives, replacing Femke Halsema who announced her retirement from politics as of that date.

#3342

Karl Gunnar Persson

#93907

Overall Influence

1943 - 2016 (73 years)

Karl Gunnar Persson was a Swedish economic historian whose contribution lies mainly in comparative European economic history. Life Karl Gunnar Persson was born in Borås, Sweden, then a textile industry centre, and was educated as an economic historian at Lund University. In the 1960s and 1970s he mostly worked as a freelance journalist for the Swedish Radio, journals and newspapers. Persson's early academic work was in sociometrics investigating social mobility. He returned to economic history in the early 1980s.

#3343

Mordecai Kurz

#151343

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Mordecai Kurz is an economist whose research work has covered a variety of problems in economic theory and policy. He has written extensively on growth theory, game theory, the formation of beliefs, and the effect of market power on inequality and growth, and he has worked on various policy projects. He contributed to the design of minimum income guarantee experiments in Seattle and Denver from 1971 to 1975, and in Manitoba in 1974. He also served as a special economic advisor to President Carter’s Commission on Pension Policy in 1979.

#3344

Ian W. H. Parry

#154687

Overall Influence

#3345

Eric So Rosengren

#154714

Overall Influence

#3346

Michael C. McFarland

#17640

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Michael C. McFarland, S.J. was the 31st president of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He succeeded Acting President Frank Vellaccio on July 1, 2000, and was succeeded by Rev. Philip Boroughs, S.J.

#3347

Carlisle Moody

#101877

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Carlisle E. Moody is an American economist, criminologist, and professor of economics at the College of William & Mary. Education Moody received his B.A. from Colby College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, all in economics.

#3348

Gilles Duranton

#154798

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

#3349

Shigeyuki Hamori

#154833

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

#3350

William F. Pontual Ribeiro Eduardo Maloney

#154834

Overall Influence

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