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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#3651

Sara Berry

#83922

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Sara Sweezy Berry is an American scholar of contemporary African political economies, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and co-founder of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins.

#3652

Avishay Braverman

#81541

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Avishay Braverman is an economics professor, politician, and Israeli public figure. Having held senior positions as economist at the World Bank, he was later elected as fifth president of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . As a Knesset member on behalf of the Labor Party he served as Minister of Minority Affairs, Chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee and Chairman of the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee. Israel Prize laureate in 2020 for Lifetime Achievement, for his work as president of Ben-Gurion University.

#3653

David Figlio

#136703

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

David Nicholas Figlio is the Provost of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He is an American economist who formerly served as the Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He also served as the Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and is the former director of Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research. He is known for studying school accountability and school choice, as well as the relationship between children's names and their later educational outcomes. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Resources. In...

#3654

Yingyao Hu

#139845

Overall Influence

Yingyao Hu 胡颖尧 is a Chinese American economist, the Krieger-Eisenhower professor of economics, and currently the Chair of the Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. Early life and education Hu was born in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region . His parents were among the 97,000 Shanghai zhiqing , or zhishi qingnian , “the educated youths,” mobilized by the Chinese state to migrate to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps from 1963 to 1966. Hu went to the elementary, middle, and high school in Xinjiang. He was admitted to the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University as the 14th highest scored student of Xinjiang in 1989.

#3655

Angela Wigger

#134539

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Angela Wigger is a political economist at the Political Science department at the Radboud University in the Netherlands. Her current research focuses on analyzing the global economic crisis, crisis responses and political challenges to these responses from a historical materialist perspective. Focal points are the geopolitics of industrial and antitrust policy, industrial reshoring attempts, the "competitiveness" fetish, internal devaluation and debt-led accumulation in the age of rentier capitalism.

#3656

Eleonora Patacchini

#157290

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Eleonora Patacchini is an economist specializing in applied economics and applied statistics who grew up in Italy with her mother who was also a professor. She is a professor and associate department chair at Cornell University in the Department of Economics. Her research focuses on the empirical analysis of behavioral models of strategic interactions for decision making. Patacchini is an associate editor at Journal of Urban Economics and Statistical Methods & Applications. She is a columnist at the VOX CEPR Policy Portal where research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists are published frequently.

#3657

Sally Herbert Frankel

#108605

Overall Influence

1903 - 1996 (93 years)

Sally Herbert Frankel was Professor firstly of Colonial Economic Affairs, and later the Economics of Underdeveloped Countries at Oxford University in the period following the Second World War. Originally from South Africa, of German-Jewish descent, he moved to England shortly after the Second World War. He joined the Mont Pelerin Society in 1950. While not religiously observant, Frankel was committed to the principle of Jewish peoplehood and was a keen Zionist from the First World War onwards.

#3658

Bhaskar Chakravorti

#70368

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Bhaskar Chakravorti is an economics scholar and consultant. Since 2011 he has been the Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and the executive director of Fletcher's Institute for Business in the Global Context . He teaches innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management.

#3659

Nancy Olewiler

#107445

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Nancy D. Olewiler is a Canadian economist who is currently a professor at the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University. She is affiliated with numerous organizations such as Powertech Labs Inc., BC Hydro, Powerex Corp, TransLink , and the Center for Public Research. Olewiler has received numerous awards for her contributions in the education and environmental economics sector. She was most recently a recipient of the 2017 YWCA Women of Distinction Award for her work at Queen's University and Simon Fraser University. She is also notable for her research in natural resource and enviro...

#3660

Peter K. Schott

#168744

Overall Influence

Peter K. Schott is an American economist, currently the Juan Trippe Professor at Yale School of Management. External links

#3661

Francis Wilson

#50465

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

Francis Wilson was a South African economist. Biography He was the son of the anthropologists Godfrey Wilson and Monica Wilson. Wilson attended St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Cape Town and a master’s degree in economics as well as a doctorate, both from the University of Cambridge.

#3662

Sheri Markose

#105402

Overall Influence

Sheri Marina Markose is a computational economist. She is a professor of Economics at the University of Essex, where she holds a personal chair since 2006. She is the founding director of the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents at Essex. At CCFEA, with the support of the then Vice Chancellor, Ivor Crewe, she pioneered multi-disciplinary research as well as PhD and Masters programs, which include Agent-based computational economics, financial market modelling with extreme events and markets as complex adaptive systems.

#3663

Neil Hamilton

#94435

Overall Influence

Neil D. Hamilton "Big Deal Neil" is an American lawyer and agricultural economics writer. Hamilton currently holds the Dwight D. Opperman Chair of Law at Drake Law School in Des Moines, Iowa, where he is also an emeritus professor of law and former director of the Agricultural Law Center. He is a former chairman of the Agriculture Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He was also mentioned as a possible Secretary of Agriculture in the Obama Administration.

#3664

Charles Denton Kemp

#98505

Overall Influence

1911 - 1993 (82 years)

Charles Denton Kemp , was an Australian economist and economic policy commentator, and founder of the Institute of Public Affairs . Kemp was educated at Glamorgan and Scotch College. After taking a Commerce degree at the University of Melbourne, he then worked in economic advisory roles in private enterprise, including as personal assistant to Sir Herbert Gepp, then managing director of Australian Paper Manufacturers. In 1940 he married Elizabeth Noel Wilson, and together they had two sons and a daughter.

#3665

Marco Janssen

#99658

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Marcus Alexander "Marco" Janssen is a Dutch American econometrician and Professor at the Arizona State University and Director of its Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment. He is known for his work on the modelling of socio-ecological systems.

#3666

Pierre Defraigne

#148082

Overall Influence

Pierre Defraigne was executive director for the Brussels-based think tank the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation. From 1970 to 2005 he served as a European civil servant: he was head of cabinet for Étienne Davignon ; director for North–South relations; head of cabinet for Pascal Lamy ; and deputy director-general at DG Trade, European Commission. From 2005 to 2008 Defraigne also established and managed the Brussels branch of the Institut français des relations internationales .

#3667

Ron S. Jarmin

#131176

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Ronald S. Jarmin is an American economist who served as the acting director of the United States Census Bureau from January 20, 2021 to January 5, 2022. He currently serves as the deputy director and previously served as the chief operating officer of the bureau. He also served as acting director from 2017 to 2019 following the resignation of former director John H. Thompson.

#3668

James B. Bullard

#170204

Overall Influence

#3669

Dariusz Rosati

#119219

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Dariusz Kajetan Rosati is a Polish professor of economics and a politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2004–2019, and subsequently as a deputy of the Sejm since 2019. Biography

#3670

Yang Yao

#138797

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Yang Yao is a Chinese economist, academic and author. He is a professor, director of China Center for Economic Research and Dean of National School of Development at Peking University. He is the executive director of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and is an editor of China Economic Quarterly. Yao is also appointed by Ministry of Education as Cheung-Kong Scholar Chair Professor.

#3671

Ramón Díaz

#76199

Overall Influence

1926 - 2017 (91 years)

Ramón Tomás Díaz Gaspar, CBE was an influential Uruguayan journalist, lawyer and economist. He presided over the Central Bank of Uruguay . An advocate of the liberal thought in Uruguay, he was a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, which he presided in 1998.

#3672

Roy G. Poulsen

#119130

Overall Influence

1918 - 2006 (88 years)

Roy George Poulsen was an American economist and business finance professor, spending most of his professional career at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. Poulson earned his PhD in economics from Clark University in 1961. He was best known for his research to develop an econometric model of the Rhode Island State budget and innovations in the field of business education. He served as the director of the Research Center in Business and Economics at URI, and was president of the URI Chapter of the American Association of University Professors from 1966-67. Poulsen was also active ...

#3673

Neale Mahoney

#102185

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Neale Mahoney is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the inaugural George P. Shultz Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2022-2023, Mahoney served in the Biden Administration's National Economic Council as a Special Policy Advisor for Economic Policy.

#3674

Eli Jones

#33394

Overall Influence

Eli Jones III is an academic administrator, entrepreneur, professor, business leader, corporate board member, author, and professional speaker. He is a professor of Marketing and Lowry and Peggy Mays Eminent Scholar at his alma mater, Texas A&M University. He served as a business dean for three flagship business schools, including Dean of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University for six years . He is the former dean of the E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University, followed by the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.

#3675

Benny Dembitzer

#132705

Overall Influence

Benny Dembitzer is a British economist who has specialized in international economic development issues and consequences of climate change, in particular in the economies of sub-Saharan Africa. He is Visiting Professor of Global Economics at the China Centre of University College, London and a Rockefeller Fellow. He has worked for a variety of NGOs and United Nations agencies. His work has taken him to 35 different countries in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as Indonesia, Pakistan, Chile and Brazil. He was director of the European Office of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear W...

#3676

Thomas Espenshade

#121785

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Thomas J. Espenshade is an American sociologist known for his work on social demography. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at Princeton University's Office of Population Research, as well as the director of the National Study of College Experience and the Campus Life in America Student Survey. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton in 1972 and joined their faculty in 1988.

#3677

Harm G. Schroeter

#64578

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Harm G. Schröter is a German professor of economic history at the University of Bergen, Norway. Background After studying history, geography, and pedagogy, Schröter received his PhD in 1981 from the Department of History at the University of Hamburg and, in 1992, his Habilitation from the Department of Economics at the Free University of Berlin. Since then he has taught history and economics at universities in Germany, Norway, and the United States.

#3678

Tom Campbell

#62599

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Thomas John Campbell is an American academic, educator, and politician. He is a professor of law at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law, and a professor of economics at the George Argyros School of Business and Economics, at Chapman University, in Orange, California.

#3679

László Andor

#136923

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

László Andor is a Hungarian economist and the Secretary General of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies . From 2010 to 2014 he was Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion in the Barroso II administration of the European Commission. From 2005 to 2010 he was a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development , representing the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia.

#3680

Shawna Grosskopf

#91625

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Shawna Patricia Grosskopf is an American economist who is Professor Emerita at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, United States, and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics in Umeå, Sweden. She was named one of the 250 most-cited scholars in economics and finance by the ISI Web of Knowledge in 2005.

#3681

James Van Horne

#89721

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

James Carter Van Horne is an American economist. Van Horne completed his bachelor's degree at DePauw University in 1957, followed by master's doctoral degrees at Northwestern University in 1961 and 1964, respectively. In 1965, Van Horne began teaching at the Stanford Graduate School of Business , where he was later named the A. P. Giannini Professor of Banking and Finance. He served as deputy assistant secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury from 1975 to 1976. Van Horne served as president of the Western Finance Association from 1981-1982. Van Horne was the 1984 president of...

#3682

Patrick Hillery

#32698

Overall Influence

1923 - 2008 (85 years)

Patrick John Hillery was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as the sixth President of Ireland from December 1976 to December 1990. He also served as Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Social Affairs from 1973 to 1976, Minister for External Affairs from 1969 to 1973, Minister for Labour from 1966 to 1969, Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1965 to 1969 and Minister for Education from 1959 to 1965. He served as a Teachta Dála for the Clare constituency from 1951 to 1973.

#3683

Allan Fels

#34883

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Allan Herbert Miller Fels is an Australian economist, lawyer and public servant. He was most widely known in his role as chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission from its inception in 1995 until 30 June 2003. Upon his retirement from the ACCC, he became foundation dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government until January 2013.

#3684

Denise R. Osborn

#139007

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Denise Rae Osborn is an Australian and British economist who currently works as the Secretary-General at the Royal Economic Society and as an Emeritus Professor of Econometrics at the University of Manchester. Her principal research interests have been in applied Time-Series modelling, particularly in seasonality in economic variables and dynamic modelling of macroeconomic relationships. Osborn has over 70 research publications in referred academic journals including Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of the Royal Sta...

#3685

Wing Chuen Suen

#170558

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Wing Chuen Suen is a Hong Kong economist. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of Hong Kong and pursued graduate study at the University of Washington in the United States. He began teaching at the University of Hong Kong in 1989, and in 2006 was named the Henry G Leong Professor in Economics.

#3686

Asli Demirguc-Kunt

#144120

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Asli Demirgüç-Kunt is a Turkish economist. She is a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and a former chief economist of the Europe and Central Asia Region of The World Bank. During her 33-year career at The World Bank, she also served as the Director of Research, Director of Development Policy, and the Chief Economist of the Finance and Private Sector Development Network, conducting research and advising on financial and private sector development issues. She has authored more than 100 research papers, as well as books, is widely published in academic journals, and is among the most-cited researchers in the world.

#3687

Péter Balázs

#110164

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Péter Balázs is a Hungarian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010. In addition to his native Hungarian, he speaks English, French, German and Russian. He graduated from Budapest School of Economics in 1963 and worked in the Hungarian government until 1 May 2004, when his country joined the European Union and was appointed to the European Commission with Michel Barnier under Romano Prodi.

#3688

Marc Johnson

#108178

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Marc Anton Johnson is an American agricultural economist and academic administrator. He became the 16th president of the University of Nevada, Reno on April 16, 2011, after his predecessor Milton Glick died while in office.

#3689

Rashi Fein

#105884

Overall Influence

1926 - 2014 (88 years)

Rashi Fein was an American health economist termed "a father of Medicare" in the United States and "an architect of Medicare", was Professor of Economics of Medicine, Emeritus, in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the author of the book Medical Care, Medical Costs: The Search for a Health Insurance Policy .

#3690

Mariam Atlas

#110626

Overall Influence

1912 - 2006 (94 years)

Mariam Semyonovna Atlas was a Soviet and Russian economist, full Ph.D. in Economics, professor of Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation , Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation, one of the oldest employees of the State Bank of the USSR.

#3691

Giorgio Coricelli

#112289

Overall Influence

Giorgio Coricelli is professor of economics and psychology at the University of Southern California, specializing in neuroeconomics. Having done his undergraduate studies at La Sapienza in Rome, he then completed his Ph.D. at the Economic Science Laboratory of the University of Arizona studying with Vernon Smith, shortly before Smith received his Nobel Prize in economics in 2002.

#3692

Wolfgang Drobetz

#89140

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Wolfgang Drobetz is an economist at the University of Hamburg. He is known for his work in corporate finance and asset management. He also is in the editor board of the journal Financial Markets and Portfolio Management .

#3693

Anatoly Karpovich Pokrytan

#112886

Overall Influence

1920 - 2003 (83 years)

Anatoly Karpovich Pokrytan was a Soviet economist. He founded the Odessa Scientific School of Economic Thought at Odessa National Economics University, where he worked for over fifty years and was head of the Department of Political Economy.

#3694

Jeffrey R. Kling

#142317

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Jeffrey Richard Kling is the research director at the Congressional Budget Office, and was previously the associate director for economic analysis. Kling is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a senior investigator for the long-term evaluation of the Moving to Opportunity randomized housing mobility experiment.

#3695

Christopher Snyder

#124350

Overall Influence

Christopher Mark Snyder is an American economist and the Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is the co-author of two textbooks, Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions and Intermediate Microeconomics and its Application.

#3696

Bambang Brodjonegoro

#88828

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Bambang Permadi Soemantri Brodjonegoro is an Indonesian economist. He was the Minister of Research and Technology/National Research and Innovation Agency of Republic of Indonesia. Previously, he was the Minister of National Development Planning of Indonesia, taking office after a cabinet reshuffle by President Joko Widodo

#3697

Madhavi Venkatesan

Madhavi Venkatesan

#106051

Overall Influence

Madhavi Venkatesan is an American economist and environmental activist. She is an associate teaching professor of economics at Northeastern University. Biography Venkatesan received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Economics from Vanderbilt University. She then held senior level positions in investor relations for three Fortune 250 companies in the insurance sector. In 2014, she re-entered academic employment as an assistant professor of Economics at Bridgewater State University and in 2017, she joined the faculty of the Department of Economics at Northeastern University as an assistant teaching p...

#3698

Haroon Bhorat

#100421

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Haroon Bhorat is Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. His area of research has concentrated on labour economics and poverty/income distribution mainly in his native South Africa, and recently, been expanded to other parts of Africa - in which he is world-renowned authority.

#3699

Christopher T. Whelan

#119684

Overall Influence

Christopher T. Whelan is an Irish academic who is professor and head of sociology in UCD. He was formerly a research professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland, where he coordinated the research programmes of social inclusion and social cohesion and quality of life.

#3700

Marshall Medoff

#147886

Overall Influence

1945 - 2016 (71 years)

Marshall Hilary Medoff was an American economist who taught at California State University, Long Beach and the University of California, Irvine. Education and career Medoff received his B.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology, his M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973. He joined the faculty of CSULB in 1973, where he remained until he retired from there in 2012.

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