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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#3701

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

#125126

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath is a German economist, sinologist, and philosopher of economics. He is the professor of Economics and Permanent Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University, Germany.

#3702

Ishac Diwan

#128714

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Ishac Diwan is a prominent Lebanese economist. He currently teaches economics at l'École normale supérieure and is Director of Research at a new center which he co-founded with the French economist Daniel Cohen and other colleagues called Finance for Development Lab located at the Centre pour la recherche économique et ses applications .

#3703

Pedro Malan

#76252

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Pedro Sampaio Malan is a Brazilian economist and former Minister of Finance of Brazil. He is the father of journalist and correspondent Cecília Malan. Early life Pedro Sampaio Malan was born in 1943 in Petropolis, a town named in honor of Dom Pedro II to the north of Rio de Janeiro. Malan was educated in a Jesuit school before studying electrical engineering at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.

#3704

Jonathan Berk

#91894

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Jonathan B. Berk is the A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has held this position since 2008. Prior to his arrival at Stanford University, he was the Sylvan Coleman Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as an analyst for Goldman Sachs before beginning his academic career.

#3705

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

#139888

Overall Influence

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is a Spanish-American economist currently the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is co-editor, with Daniel F. Spulber, of the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.

#3706

Elena Yanovskaya

#74777

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Elena Yanovskaya is a Soviet and Russian mathematician and economist known for her contributions to cooperative game theory. Biography Elena Yanovskaya was born in Leningrad on May 20, 1938. She studied at the School of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Leningrad State University majoring in probability theory and statistics. After graduation in 1959, she started working as a junior researcher at the Leningrad Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics, where she worked until 1965. Yanovskaya defended her doctoral thesis in 1964. From 1965 to 1975, Yanovskaya worked at the Leningrad branc...

#3707

Danuše Nerudová

#124040

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Danuše Nerudová, née Peslarová is a Czech economist and university professor. She was formerly the chair of the Commission for Fair Pensions and rector of Mendel University in Brno, both from 2018 to 2022. She was a candidate in the 2023 Czech presidential election, finished in third place in the first round vote.

#3708

Michael Waterson

#169867

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Michael Waterson is a British economist, researcher and academic. He is Professor of Economics at University of Warwick. Waterson's research is focused in the area of Industrial Economics, both theoretical and empirical. He has conducted research on Consumer Behaviour, firms' reactions to this and related policy issues; Energy Economics, including both supply and generation aspects; Supermarket pricing behaviour; and Transport policy. He has written or co-written 4 books, edited 2 books, written around 75 learned journal articles and several book chapters.

#3709

Choi Kwang

#125882

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Choi Kwang is a South Korean economist who specialises in public sector economics. He served as the Minister of Health and Welfare during the presidency of Kim Young-sam. Early life Choi was born in Namhae, South Gyeongsang Province. He received his B.A. in Business Administration from Seoul National University before moving to the United States, where he earned an M.A. in Public Policy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Maryland.

#3710

Catherine C. Eckel

#159864

Overall Influence

Catherine Millay Coleman Eckel is the Sarah and John Lindsey Professor in the Liberal Arts and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Behavioral Economics and Policy Program. She has been a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, Virginia Tech, and the University of Texas at Dallas, where she founded and oversaw the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economic Science. Her research focuses on experimental economics, and she has studied charitable giving; cooperation, trust, and risk tolerance in poor, ur...

#3711

Arthur J. Robson

#132224

Overall Influence

Arthur J. Robson is a New Zealand economist whose research interests include game theory and the biological evolution of economic behaviour. In the period between 2003 and 2017, Robson held a Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution at Simon Fraser University, where he has been a University Professor since 2017.

#3712

Edward B. Montgomery

Edward B. Montgomery

#91844

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Edward B. Montgomery is an American economist, academic, and politician who currently serves as the president of Western Michigan University. He is one of the key players in helping pull the United States out of the automotive crisis. He served in President Barack Obama's administration and was coined the auto czar of the United States.

#3713

Race Mathews

#119377

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Charles Race Thorson Mathews is an Australian co-operative economist, and former member of Victoria's State Parliament and Australia's Federal Parliament for the Australian Labor Party . he was a senior research fellow at Monash University's Faculty of Business and Economics.

#3714

Rhonda M. Williams

#118125

Overall Influence

1957 - 2000 (43 years)

Rhonda Michèle Williams was an American professor, activist and political economist whose work combined economics with multiple other social fields including race and gender analysis, law, politics, public policy and cultural studies. She aimed to show how the examination of the roles of race and gender in economics benefitted from an inclusive approach rather than a separate and fragmented analysis in order to ensure that issues of economic inequality and discrimination were aptly addressed. Williams was also noted as being consistent in aligning her own ethics with economic analysis resulti...

#3715

Norman Girvan

#72444

Overall Influence

1941 - 2014 (73 years)

Norman P. Girvan was a Jamaican professor, Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States between 2000 and 2004. He was born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica. He died aged 72 in Cuba on 9 April 2014, after having suffered a fall while hiking in Dominica in early 2014. He had been a member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy since 2009, and in 2010 was appointed the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's personal representative on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy. He was Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies .

#3716

Tassilo Pellegrini

#87170

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Prof. Dr. Tassilo Pellegrini studied International Trade, Communication Science and Political Science at the University of Linz, University of Salzburg and University of Málaga. Since the end of 2007 he has been working as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in St. Pölten. He obtained his master's degree in 1999 from the University of Salzburg on the topic of telecommunications policy in the European Union, which was followed by a PhD in 2010 on the topic of bounded policy-learning in the European Union with a focus on intellectual property policies. His current research encompasses economic effects of internet regulation with respect to market structure and outcome.

#3717

Thorsten Teichert

#57650

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Thorsten Teichert is a German economist and Professor of Business Administration, especially marketing and innovation at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Hamburg. Biography Thorsten Teichert studied engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and received his BA in engineer. Subsequently, he obtained his MBA from Union College in Schenectady, New York.

#3718

Eric Monkman

#129942

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Eric Monkman is a Canadian academic and television personality based in the United Kingdom. Monkman comes from Oakville, Ontario, Canada. His father, a doctor, died when Eric was thirteen. Monkman obtained his first degree from the University of Waterloo and then studied for a master's degree in economics at Wolfson College, Cambridge, when he captained the college's University Challenge team. The team lost in the 2017 final to a team from Balliol College, Oxford.

#3719

Paul C. Bishop

#19113

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Paul C. Bishop is a British scholar and William Jacks Chair in Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow. Books The Archaic: the Past in the Present. Routledge: London. 2012. A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche, Life and Works. Camden House: New York, NY, USA. 2012. Reading Goethe at Midlife : Ancient Wisdom, German Classicism, and Jung. Spring Journal Books: New Orleans, Louisiana. 2011. Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller and Jung, 2 vols. Routledge: London, UK.

#3720

Valarie Zeithaml

#21665

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Valarie Zeithaml is a marketing professor and author. She is the David S. Van Pelt Family Distinguished Professor of Marketing at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Zeithml is an expert in the area of services marketing and service quality. In the 1980s Zeithaml and her co-authors developed SERVQUAL, a quality management framework for services. She was named a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in the report on "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds."

#3721

Steven Raphael

#91752

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Steven Paul Raphael is an American economist. He is Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy as well as a director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, and an adjunct fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. He is also a research fellow at the University of Michigan National Poverty Center, the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany.

#3722

Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans

#94415

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans is an American economist, focusing in operations research, quantitative analysis of decisions and mathematical programming for management science and operations research, decision sciences, currently the IBE Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois.

#3723

Damon Jones

#106552

Overall Influence

Damon Jones is an American economist and associate professor at the Harris School of Public Policy in the University of Chicago. Alongside his academic research, Jones is a popular science communicator and regularly provides expert commentary on issues related to economics and public policy. During the COVID-19 pandemic he investigated the disproportionate impact of coronavirus disease on communities of color, and delivered evidence on his findings before the United States House Committee on the Budget.

#3724

Susana Mourato

#168944

Overall Influence

Susana Mourato is a professor of environmental economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds a leader position at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

#3725

Lise Vesterlund

#169582

Overall Influence

Lise Vesterlund is a behavioral and experimental economist, and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1997 to 2001 she was assistant professor at the Iowa State University. She is on the board of editors of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and of the Experimental Economics journal. Since 2018, she is a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Economics.

#3726

Donald Ratajczak

#101593

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Donald Ratajczak is an American economist specializing in economic forecasting. He is Emeritus Regents' Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Early life and education Ratajczak was born in Philadelphia, where he was educated at Girard College after his father died when he was six years old. He earned a bachelor's degree from Haverford College and a PhD in economics from MIT in 1972, with a dissertation titled "An examination of the impact of World War II upon economic development in the United States".

#3727

Reza Hamzaee

#94715

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Reza G. Hamzaee is an Iranian-American economist and BOG-Distinguished Professor of Economics at Missouri Western State University. He is known for his research on banking and managerial economics.

#3728

Vladimír Dlouhý

#106452

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Vladimír Dlouhý is a Czech economist and politician. Dlouhý is a former deputy chairman of the ODA political party and Minister of Industry and Trade between 1992 and 1997 in the government of Václav Klaus. Between 1989 and 1992 he served as the Minister of Economy of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic . He currently works in the private sector and in the field of consulting and pedagogy activities. In May 2014, he was elected a President of the Czech Chamber of Commerce.

#3729

Jorge Niosi

#135341

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Jorge Niosi was an Argentine-born Canadian academic who was a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal from 1970. He became a Full Professor in 1984, and a member of the Department of Management and Technology at the School of Management Science, UQAM. From 2001 to 2015, he was the Chairholder of Canada Research Chair on the Management of Technology and Technology Policy. He was the founder of CREDIT , of which he was the director from 1986 to 1993. Right after that, he became director of CIRST of which he was a regular member. He held a 3rd cycle degree in economics from the Instit...

#3730

Michael Wachter

#100586

Overall Influence

1943 - 2022 (79 years)

Michael Wachter is the William B. and Mary Barb Johnson Professor of Law and Economics Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics. Biography Wachter was born in New York City, and earned a B.S. from Cornell University in 1964, an M.A. from Harvard University in 1967, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970. From 1964 to 1965 he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

#3731

Hans-Jürgen Burchardt

#82265

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Hans-Jürgen Burchardt is a German economist and social scientist. Since 2005 he is Full Professor of International and Intersocietal Relations at the University of Kassel. His main areas of teaching and research include North-South-Relations, commodity-, environmental and social regimes in an international perspective, SDGs, social inequality and wealth research, theory and politics of development and Latin America.

#3732

Pérsio Arida

#110850

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Pérsio Arida is a Brazilian economist and a former president of the Central Bank of Brazil. He has a bachelor's degree in economics from University of São Paulo and a Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#3733

Barbara Fraumeni

#129084

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Barbara Morry Fraumeni is a Special-term Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, a Senior Fellow at Hunan University in China, Professor Emerita of Public Policy at the Muskie in the School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, United States, and a Research Fellow of the IZA Network, Germany. She is an authority on human capital and nonhuman capital, economic growth, productivity, and non-market accounts. She is a former program officer with the National Science Foundation and Chief Economist at the U.S.

#3734

Curtis Grimm

#140162

Overall Influence

1953 - 2018 (65 years)

Curtis M. "Curt" Grimm was an American economist. Born in Red Wing, Minnesota, on July 10, 1953, Grimm moved with his family to Elkhorn, Wisconsin, where he attended high school. Grimm completed his bachelor's degree in economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 1975. He then enrolled at the University of Freiburg in Germany, returning to the United States for a doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

#3735

Juliet Elu

#110358

Overall Influence

Juliet U. Elu is an American economist who is currently Charles E. Merrill Professor of Economics and Chair of the Division of Business and Economics at Morehouse College. She was previously Vice Chancellor of Gregory University in Nigeria and she is a former president of both the National Economic Association and the African Finance and Economics Association.

#3736

David Donnison

#55350

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

David Vernon Donnison was a British academic and social scientist, who was Professor of Social Administration at the London School of Economics from 1961 to 1969, and Professor of Town and Regional Planning and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.

#3737

Harald Bathelt

#172181

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Harald Bathelt is a German-Canadian geographer, currently a Canada Research Chair at University of Toronto. External links

#3738

Sheldon Levy

#50903

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Sheldon Levy is a veteran Canadian business leader in higher education who is currently President and Vice-Chancellor of University Canada West in Vancouver and a special advisor on the development of the forthcoming University of Niagara Falls. He previously served as president and vice-chancellor of Ryerson University , as Deputy Minister in the Government of Ontario , and in many other leadership roles. He has been honoured many times for his lifelong contributions to student entrepreneurship and digital innovation in higher education.

#3739

Kevin McCabe

#85877

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Kevin McCabe is an American economist and economic theorist. He works in the fields of experimental economics, neuroeconomics and the study of human trust and decision making. Biography McCabe spent his early career at the University of Arizona where he began collaborating with Vernon Smith, co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics . He received his BS in Economics in 1976 from Villanova University and PhD in 1985 from the University of Pennsylvania. He did post-doctoral studies at Washington University in St. Louis with Douglass North.

#3740

Jamus Lim

#110616

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Jamus Jerome Lim Chee Wui is a Singaporean politician, economist and associate professor. A member of the opposition Workers' Party , Lim has been the Member of Parliament representing the Anchorvale division of Sengkang GRC and has been elected to the party's Central Executive Committee as Deputy Head of Policy Research Team since 2020.

#3741

James R. Millar

#146976

Overall Influence

1936 - 2008 (72 years)

James Robert Millar was an American political scientist and economist. He was a renowned expert on the Soviet economy. A native of San Antonio, Texas, Millar attended the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1958. He went on to pursue a doctorate degree at Cornell University, including a year spent as an exchange student at Moscow State University.

#3742

Soumodip Sarkar

#80396

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Soumodip Sarkar is an economist and management scholar. Education and academic positions Soumodip Sarkar studied economics at the University of Calcutta, graduating in 1988, receiving his MSc and PhD in economics from Boston's Northeastern University in 1991 and 1995, respectively. He previously worked at the Harvard Institute for International Development and later at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, .

#3743

Ruth Cohen

#125755

Overall Influence

1906 - 1991 (85 years)

Ruth Louisa Cohen, CBE was a British economist, who served as Principal of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge from 1954 to 1972. Life She studied at Newnham College as an undergraduate in the 1920s. In 1930, she received a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to go to the US. She spent two years at Stanford and Cornell.

#3744

David L. Hawk

#59514

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

David L. Hawk is an American management theorist, architect, and systems scientist, specializing in climate change as environmental deterioration. From 1981 to 2010 he was professor of management in the School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and professor of architecture at the College of Architecture and Design at NJIT.

#3745

Harland Whitmore

#133399

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Harland William Whitmore was an American economist. An emeritus professor of economics, he formerly worked at the University of Cincinnati. He published several books related to the economy and the world. He also consulted and worked with the United States Environmental Protection Agency on the integration of the macroeconomy with ecological systems. Harland earned a bachelor's in mathematics from Lawrence University, a master of business administration, and a PhD in economics from Michigan State University.

#3746

Massimo Bergami

Massimo Bergami

#69704

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Massimo Bergami is a full professor of organizational behavior at the University of Bologna and dean of Bologna Business School. He is married with Ludovica Leone and father of Giovanni Romano. Massimo Bergami is a non-executive director at SNAM, Ferrarelle and a member of the Board of Trustees at EFMD. He also serves as Senior Advisor at the MAST Foundation and as Director of the Ferrari Corporate EMBA . He served as an independent director at Ferretti Group, Ducati Motor Holding, Brunello Cucinelli , Tuscia University, and Telecom Italia Media. He has been a member of the Italian Panel of the 50 Best Restaurants of the World.

#3747

Christine Ennew

#161385

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Christine Thelma Ennew OBE is the Provost of the University of Warwick. Ennew's early academic career was as an agricultural economist at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She subsequently moved into marketing and became the professor of marketing at the University of Nottingham.

#3748

Dean Jamison

#75635

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Dean Tecumseh Jamison is an American economist and leader in the study of global health. He is currently Senior Fellow in Global Health Sciences at University of California, San Francisco and an Emeritus Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published in health economics, global health, education economics, and decision theory.

#3749

Yuval Steinitz

#67959

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Yuval Steinitz is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Likud party. He also held several ministerial posts, including Minister of Finance, Minister of Intelligence, Minister of Strategic Affairs and Minister of Energy. Steinitz holds a PhD in philosophy and was a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa.

#3750

Yoav Kislev

#156962

Overall Influence

1932 - 2017 (85 years)

Yoav Kislev was an Israeli agricultural and water economist, who continued until his death with active research as professor emeritus of agricultural economics at the Department of Environmental Economics and Management in the Rehovot Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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