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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#3351

James R. Barth

#154901

Overall Influence

#3352

Aaditya Schuknecht Ludger Mattoo

#154907

Overall Influence

#3353

Thomas F. Rutstrom E.e. Tarr David Rutherford

#154967

Overall Influence

#3354

Richard H. Holton

#63989

Overall Influence

1926 - 2005 (79 years)

Richard Henry Holton was an American economist and the E. T. Grether Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the eighth dean of Haas School of Business. Books The Canadian Economy: Prospect and Retrospect" Marketing Efficiency in Puerto Rico, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Henry Holton, Robert E. Branson, Jean Ruth Robinson, Carolyn Shaw Bell, Harvard University PressUnited States-China Relations, University of California Press, 1989

#3355

Douglas W. Allen

#112874

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Douglas Ward Allen is a Canadian economist and the Burnaby Mountain Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He is known for his research on transaction costs and property rights, and how these influence the structure of organizations and institutions. His research covers four broad areas: transaction cost theory, economic history, agricultural organizations, and the family.

#3356

Paula Jarzabkowski

#126514

Overall Influence

Paula Jarzabkowski is a financial researcher and Professor of Strategic Management at the Bayes Business School, University of London. Biography Jarzabkowski worked as the Professor of Strategic Management at Aston Business School from 2007 to 2013. She joined the University of London in 2016. Jarzabkowski was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.

#3357

David McKenzie

#61063

Overall Influence

David McKenzie is a lead economist at the World Bank's Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit in Washington, D.C. His research topics include migration, microenterprises, and methodology for use with developing country data.

#3358

Thierry Mayer

#155274

Overall Influence

#3359

Michael G. Harvey

#155288

Overall Influence

#3360

Dwight M. Jaffee

#155408

Overall Influence

#3361

Dwayne Benjamin

#97662

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Dwayne Benjamin is a Canadian economist and member of the University of Toronto faculty, where he previously served as Chair of the Dept of Economics and Vice-Dean, Graduate Education in the Faculty of Arts and Science. As of July 1, 2021 Prof. Benjamin is the University of Toronto's Vice Provost for Strategic Enrolment Management.

#3362

Paul Woolley

#108278

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Paul Kerrison Woolley is a British economist. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and obtained a D. Phil from the University of York. Woolley worked for the fund management firm GMO, retiring as Chairman of GMO Europe in 2006. He then founded the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality at the London School of Economics in 2007.

#3363

Jonathan Klick

#99231

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Jonathan Klick is an American economist who has written numerous works on empirical law and economics. His scholarship addresses tort liability and moral hazard, criminal punishment, health regulation, and business regulation. He is a Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School and previously served on the faculty at Florida State University College of Law. He is an editor-in-chief of the International Review of Law and Economics.

#3364

Anindya. Banerjee

#155662

Overall Influence

#3365

Hilde Behrend

#104612

Overall Influence

1917 - 2000 (83 years)

Hilde Behrend was an economist known for her research into industrial relations and the motivational differences between workers. Background and education Hilde Behrend was born on 13 August 1917 in Berlin, Germany. Her father, Felix Wilhelm Behrend, was a physics and mathematics teacher and well-known educationalist, who was demoted and dismissed by the Nazis due to his Jewish heritage. Her brother, Felix Behrend, became a mathematician.

#3366

Per Pinstrup‐andersen

#155771

Overall Influence

#3367

Jay Pil Choi

#119213

Overall Influence

Jay Pil Choi is the University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Michigan State University and also a published author of works and books. Early life and career Choi graduated from Seoul National University in Economics in 1982, and received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1990. He served as an associate professor at Columbia University and Seoul National University before moving to Michigan State University in 2000. In 2015, he held the Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Hitotsubashi University.

#3368

Richard E. Howitt

#155926

Overall Influence

#3369

John Duffy

#110611

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

John Duffy is an American economist. He is a professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine. Education and career Duffy earned an AB in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine. He was previously a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. Duffy's research interests are behavioral economics, experimental economics, game theory and macroeconomics. His work has been published in The American Economic Review and...

#3370

Pierre L. Siklos

#155974

Overall Influence

#3371

Giacomo Grasselli

#155983

Overall Influence

#3372

Stephen F. Witt

#156021

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

#3373

Johnâ T.â Addison

#156074

Overall Influence

#3374

Stanislav Edward Shmelev

#109874

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Stanislav Edward Shmelev is an ecological economist affiliated with the International Society for Ecological Economics . He currently holds several directorial positions at non-governmental organizations and consults with the UN Development Programme. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Torino, University of Geneva, Paris Dauphine, Sciences Po Caen, National University of Colombia, Kazakh National University and lectured at the University of St. Gallen, University of Edinburgh, University of Buckingham, and is the author of multiple books and articles on sustainability and ...

#3375

Christoph Engel

#156188

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#3376

Robert James Flanagan

#156191

Overall Influence

#3377

Nader Habibi

#67144

Overall Influence

Nader Habibi is an Iranian-American economist and Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in the Economics of the Middle East at Brandeis University. Career Habibi received his PhD in Economics from Michigan State University in 1987. Since then, He has served in academic and research institutions in Iran, Turkey and the United States. Before joining Brandeis University in June 2007, he worked at Global Insight Ltd as managing director of economic forecasting and risk analysis for Middle East and North Africa. Habibi is a member of the board of directors of Hollings Center and a founding member of ...

#3378

Onno Ruding

#67923

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Herman Onno Christiaan Rudolf "Onno" Ruding is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal party and businessman. Ruding worked as student researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam from June 1964 until July 1969 and worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of Finance from February 1965 until June 1971 and as Deputy Director-General of the department for International Monetary Affairs from February 1965 until September 1966 and Director-General of the Department for International Monetary Affairs from September 1966 until June 1971. Ruding worked as an investment banker for the AMRO Bank from June 1971 until January 1977.

#3379

Warner Norton Grubb III

#143182

Overall Influence

1948 - 2015 (67 years)

Warner Norton Grubb III was an American author, educational economist, and professor. His academic focus was inequality in society, particularly institutional sources of inequality. Life Grubb was born in Santiago, Chile while his father was on foreign assignment with the Eastern Standard Oil Company . He was the grandson of U.S. Navy Commodore Warner Norton Grubb and a descendant of John Grubb, who came from Cornwall in 1677 and settled in Delaware. Grubb's father moved the family to Rhode Island several years before he died, when Grubb was eleven.

#3380

Wendy Stock

#156321

Overall Influence

#3381

Roger Harold Hull

#87608

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Roger Harold Hull is the founder, chairman, and president of the Help Yourself Win Foundation. The foundation is the result of the consolidation of the Help Yourself and Schenectady-Win foundations. Prior to creating the Help Yourself Foundation in 2005, he served for nine years as the president of Beloit College and fifteen years as President of Union College . In addition, Hull was founder and president of the Schenectady-Win Foundation. Hull was also a founder and is president of Avon Associates, a not-for-profit educational consulting firm.

#3382

Leemore Dafny

#103669

Overall Influence

Leemore S. Dafny is an American economist currently the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a member of the faculty at John F. Kennedy School of Government. She graduated from Harvard College and received a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#3383

Hristos Doucouliagos

#156402

Overall Influence

#3384

B. F. Kiker

#156492

Overall Influence

#3385

Ali Tayebnia

#103463

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Ali Tayebnia is an Iranian academic, economist and former minister of finance. He was designated by President Hassan Rouhani for the position of finance minister on 4 August 2013 and was confirmed by the parliament on 15 August. He left the office on 20 August 2017.

#3386

Manfred Zeller

#156793

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

#3387

Daniel Dăianu

#102713

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Daniel Dăianu is a Romanian economist, professor, and politician. Early life He was born in Bucharest, Romania in a family of high-ranking Securitate officers. Up to 9th grade he studied at High School nr. 35, after which he switched to , where he attended a special math class from 1968 to 1971. In 1975, he obtained a Master of Economics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest and, in 1988, a Ph.D. in Economics from the same institution. He held a post-doctoral research position at Harvard University's Russian Research Center, from 1990 to 1991 and attended Harvard Business Schoo...

#3388

V. G. Narayanan

#27788

Overall Influence

V. G. Narayanan is an Indian-born American economist. He is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration Chair at Harvard Business School. He is the author of two self-published books, and the author of many research articles.

#3389

David A. Moss

#33810

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

#3390

Markus Giesler

#46626

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Markus Giesler is a consumer sociologist and Professor of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University. His research examines how ideas and things such as products, services, experiences, technologies, brands, and intellectual property acquire value over time, technology consumption, moral consumption, and the role of multiple stakeholders in the market creation process. Before doing his PhD in marketing, Giesler spent ten years operating his own record label and recording business in Germany. In 2014, he was named "one of the most outstanding business school professors und...

#3391

Daniele Bianchi

#157093

Overall Influence

#3392

Anne de Bruin

#55619

Overall Influence

Anne Marguerite de Bruin is a socio-economist and Professor of Economics in the School of Economics and Finance at the Albany campus of Massey University, New Zealand. Her research focuses on social enterprises and women's entrepreneurship and innovation.

#3393

Scott Weisbenner

#78749

Overall Influence

Scott Weisbenner was an American economist, focusing on household portfolio decisions and the financial and operational decisions made by corporate executives and other institutional managers. He was the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance for the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois and before that, the A.J. Pasant Professor of Finance at Michigan State University.

#3394

Kenneth Frank Wallis

#157223

Overall Influence

#3395

Hubert Gatignon

#157262

Overall Influence

#3396

Matthias Finger

#88039

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Matthias Finger is Swiss and French political and educational scientist. He was a professor of management of network industries at EPFL . Career He received his Ph.D. in education in 1986 and his Ph.D. in political science in 1988, both from the University of Geneva. After having been Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, New York and Associate Professor at Columbia University, New York , Matthias Finger was appointed Full Professor at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration in Lausanne in 1995. This is where he developed his research on the transformation of the network in...

#3397

Bernard M. S. Van Praag

#157384

Overall Influence

#3398

Hanan Jacoby

#119202

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Hanan G. Jacoby is an American economist and Lead Economist in the World Bank's Development Research Group. Biography Hanan Jacoby received a B.A. in economics from the University of Washington in 1983, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1985 and 1989. After his Ph.D., he taught at the University of Rochester as assistant professor from 1989 to 1996, during and after which he also held visiting appointments at Princeton, Penn, and IFPRI before joining the World Bank in 1998. Having joined the World Bank as economist, Jacoby was promoted later promoted to Senior and then Lead Economist of the World Bank's Development Economics Research Group.

#3399

Raimund Bleischwitz

Raimund Bleischwitz

#89921

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Raimund Bleischwitz is a German economist. He is the Scientific Director of the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research in Bremen, Germany. Work Bleischwitz is academic work is focused on environmental and resource economics. He worked as an policy adviser in topics of resource efficiency, circular economy, resource nexus, raw material conflicts, eco-innovation, incentive systems and policies, industry and sustainability.

#3400

Karen R. Polenske

#96904

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Karen Rosel Polenske is an American regional economist specialized in energy, environmental, and infrastructure analyses, and input-output accounts and models, particularly at the subnational scale. She is currently the Peter de Florez Professor of Regional Political Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

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