The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
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List of the most influential people in Economics,
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Dong Hyun Park
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Jeremy Bulow
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Siwan Anderson
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Siwan Anderson is a Canadian economist and professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia . Her area of focus is on development economics with a micro-level approach focusing on institutions in developing countries, and also gender economics focusing on the role of women in the economy. Siwan Anderson is also an Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research , an Associate of the Theoretical Research in Development Economics , a Fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development , and a Faculty Associate of the Center for Effective Global Action .
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Laurent Weill
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アジア経済研究所
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Jonathan B. Wiener
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Jonathan B. Wiener is the William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, and Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy, at Duke University. He is a leading scholar of regulation and risk analysis.
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Hunt V. Allcott
#165427
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John Craven
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1949 - Present (77 years)
John Anthony George Craven CBE is a British economist, a former vice-chancellor of the University of Portsmouth. In 2006, he founded the University Alliance, and served as its first chair until 2009.
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Axel Michaelowa
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1968 - Present (58 years)
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Louis Preston Garrison
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Louis Preston Garrison Jr. is an American health economist who has made significant contributions to pharmacoeconomics, pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine, regulatory benefit-risk analysis, insurance, pricing, reimbursement and risk-sharing agreements. He also made numerous contributions on the economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, devices, surgical procedures, and vaccines, particularly as related to organ transplantation, influenza, measles, obesity, and cancer. Garrison has published over a hundred manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to several book...
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John Denis Hey
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Steven Robert Sorrell
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J. Paul Leigh
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J. Paul Leigh is an American economist and professor of health economics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He is also a member of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research's core faculty there. He is known for his research in the fields of health economics, labor economics, and econometrics. For instance, he has studied the costs of occupational injuries.
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Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
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Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell is an economist and professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, tenured scientist at CSIC-IAE, MOVE research fellow, and a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. She was an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and currently is a member of the London School of Economics-based World Well-Being Panel. She holds two PhDs in economics, one from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the other from the Tinbergen Institute and the University of Amsterdam.
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Darren Dahl
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Darren Dahl is a Canadian business professor of marketing, currently the BC Innovation Council Professor and current Dean and Director of the Robert H. Lee Graduate School, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia , and also a published author. At UBC, he was formerly the Fred H. Siller Professor in Applied Market Research.
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Athanasios Orphanides
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Donato Masciandaro
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William Andrews Sahlman
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Polly Hill
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1914 - 2005 (91 years)
Polly Hill was a British social anthropologist of West Africa, and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Life and career Hill came from a family of distinguished academics – her father, A. V. Hill, had earned a Nobel prize in physiology and her mother Margaret Hill was a leading social reformer. Hill's maternal grandfather was economist John Neville Keynes, and maternal uncles were economist John Maynard Keynes and surgeon Geoffrey Keynes. Her brothers were the physiologist David Keynes Hill and the oceanographer Maurice Hill, while her sister Janet married the immunologist John Herber...
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Renfu Lu
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Carl Riskin
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Carl Riskin is an American economist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York and the CUNY graduate school. He also taught at Columbia University, where he was a senior research scholar and remains a research associate.
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Lutz Vollrath
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Masashi Mukoyama
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Mario Marcel
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1959 - Present (67 years)
Mario Marcel Cullell is a Chilean economist who has been serving as Chile Minister of Finance since 11 March 2022. He previously served as Governor of the Central Bank of Chile. He was named Governor in December 2016 and member of the Bank's Board from October 2015. He has been a close collaborator to the governments of the centre-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy , and for six years held the position of Budget Director, where he played a key role in the design of the structural surplus rule.
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Richard A. Normann
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Richard A. Normann is a Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Utah. He is known for inventing the Utah array in-vivo electrode array for brain–computer interfaces and is presently on the advisory committee of the White House BRAIN Initiative. He received his PhD in 1973 from UC Berkeley in electrical engineering. He received an honorary doctorate in 2012 from Miguel Hernández University in Elche, Spain.
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Anastasios Xepapadeas
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Scott Neslin
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1952 - Present (74 years)
Scott Neslin is an American economist, currently the Albert Wesley Frey Professor at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College.
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Jeffrey Andrew Smith
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1962 - Present (64 years)
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Robert Eugene Hoyt
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Riccardo Scarpa
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1957 - Present (69 years)
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Hans Gersbach
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Richard I. D. Harris
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1957 - Present (69 years)
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Gianfranco Walsh
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1970 - Present (56 years)
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R. Kerry Turner
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Jason A. Dominitz
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Edeltraud Günther
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1965 - Present (61 years)
Edeltraud 'Edel' Günther is a German business and sustainability assessment researcher, and university educator. Günther is currently the Director of the United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources while on leave from the Technische Universität Dresden, where she has held the Chair of Business Management, esp. Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting since 1996. She has also undertaken multiple international visiting professorships, and is the founding member of the Centre for Performance and Policy Research in Sustainabilit...
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Clifford M. Winston
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Christopher Woodruff
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Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Christopher Woodruff is an American economist and Professor of Development Economics at Oxford University. Biography Christopher Woodruff earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1980, followed by a M.A. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1984. In parallel, from 1981 to early 1987, Woodruff worked as economist and manager of financial planning of the Central Power and Light Company in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 1994, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin with a thesis on specific investments and industry location in Mexico under Dale O.
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Benjamin Miranda Tabak
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Timothy J. Hatton
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
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Gordon W. Dewald
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Hamidullah Farooqi
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Hamidullah Farooqi is an Afghan politician, economist and activist. He has written several research papers and served in higher positions within the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s government. Farooqi currently serves as the Chancellor of Kabul University and Advisor Minister to President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Higher Education. He previously served as Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation from March 2009 to January 2010 in the cabinet of former President Hamid Karzai.
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Bruce Evan Kaufman
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Ingrid Woolard
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1970 - Present (56 years)
Ingrid Woolard is dean at Stellenbosch University's faculty of economic and management sciences and professor of economics at Stellenbosch University. She was a professor of economics at the University of Cape Town and a Research Associate of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit . Her research focuses primarily on Labour markets, social protection and assistance, poverty and inequality, tax policy, fiscal policy, unemployment, and survey methodology.
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Charles R. Hulten
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Magda Kandil
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Overall Influence
1958 - 2020 (62 years)
Magda ElSayed Kandil was an Egyptian economist, and most notably the chief economist and head of the research and statistics department at the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates. Previously she was a senior economist at the IMF and a professor at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
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Craufurd Goodwin
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Overall Influence
1934 - 2017 (83 years)
Craufurd D. W. Goodwin was an historian of economic thought and the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Economics, Vice-Provost, and Dean of the Graduate School at Duke University. His work for the Ford Foundation is included in the Duke University archives, and the Craufurd D. W. Goodwin Papers are in the collection of Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. He was editor of the scholarly journal HOPE and a member of the Center for the Study of Political Economy.
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John D. Coates
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Hessel Oosterbeek
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Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Hessel Oosterbeek is a Dutch economist. He currently works as Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. In particular, Oosterbeek has conducted extensive research on the returns to schooling, the economics of training, investment contracts, and overeducation and has performed impact evaluations for various interventions in especially education. Oosterbeek ranks among the most-cited Dutch economists and the world's leading education economists.
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Michael A. Schwarz
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1970 - Present (56 years)
Michael A. Schwarz is an economist who specializes in marketplace design and decision-making theory. He is known especially for his role in designing advertising auctions for technology companies. Early life and education Schwarz was born in Moscow on June 18, 1970. His father is Albert Schwarz, a mathematician and theoretical physicist. He emigrated to the United States in 1990, and earned a doctorate in economics from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and an MS in Physics from the University of California Davis.
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