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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#3851

Robert N. Barone

#138953

Overall Influence

Robert N. Barone is the co-founder and partner, economist, and portfolio manager of Universal Value Advisors, an investment advisory firm in Reno, NV. He is a contributor to various investment publications and currently serves on the AAA Finance and Investment Committee. He is most known for serving as Chairman and CEO of Comstock Bancorp from 1984–1999, selling the institution in 1999. He founded Adagio Trust Company in 2000, opened Ancora West Advisors in 2006 , and served as the Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco in 2004. He has held positions as the director of AAA of ...

#3852

Preben Munthe

#57104

Overall Influence

1922 - 2013 (91 years)

Preben Hempel Munthe was a Norwegian economist. He was born in Aker, the son of librarian Wilhelm Munthe and his wife Jenny Hempel . Gerhard Munthe was his elder brother. The younger Munthe finished his secondary education in 1941, and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.oecon. degree five years later. He was employed as a research fellow at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in the following year, and was promoted to docent in 1956. He took his doctorate in 1961, and was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1961 to 1992. Parallel to this he served as the State Conciliator of Norway from 1965 to 1974.

#3853

Steven N. S. Cheung

#175502

Overall Influence

#3854

Lourdes Beneria

Lourdes Beneria

#159683

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Lourdes Benería is a Spanish–American economist. She was Professor Emerita at Cornell University's Department of City and Regional Planning. The author and editor of many books and articles, her work has concentrated on topics having to do with labor economics, women's work, the informal economy, Gender and development, Latin American Development and globalization. Before Cornell, she taught at Rutgers University and has given courses in other international centers. She worked at the ILO for two years and has collaborated with other UN organizations, such as UNIFEM and UNDP, and with several NGOs.

#3855

Frédéric Godart

#78572

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Frédéric Godart is a French sociologist and researcher who is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau . His work is on the dynamics of creative industries, and fashion and luxury. He is co-editor-in-chief of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts. Godart's 2012 book is called Unveiling Fashion: Business, Culture, and Identity in the Most Glamorous Industry.

#3856

Alla O. Starostina

#156037

Overall Influence

Alla Oleksiivna Starostina is a Ukrainian economist. She is a professor and heads the international economics and marketing department at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Starostina was the head of the industrial marketing department at National Technical University of Ukraine from 1993 to 2002.

#3857

Lorenzo Fioramonti

#77309

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Lorenzo Fioramonti is a political scientist and Former Minister of Education, University and Research of the Italian Republic. Fioramonti is a professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences of the University of Surrey , where he directs the Institute for Sustainability. Prior to joining the University of Surrey, Fioramonti was a professor of political economy at the University of Pretoria and an associate fellow of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation .

#3858

Elizabeth Asiedu

Elizabeth Asiedu

#141909

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Asiedu is a professor of economics at the University of Kansas. She has facilitated research that is centered around foreign aid, foreign directed investment , and gender. She is a founder of the Association for the Advancement of African Women , as well as the current president of the organization. Asiedu is an editor of the Journal of African Development.

#3859

Henryk Kierzkowski

#148020

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Henryk Kierzkowski is a Polish economist known for his work on imperfect competition and international trade. Kierzkowski was a senior economist at the Bank of Canada, Deputy Chief-Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, economic advisor to the governments of Poland and Albania, and has been appointed for putting forward candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics. His book Monopolistic Competition and International Trade "helped to launch the New Trade Theory". With Ronald W. Jones, he collaborated "to develop the theory of fragmentation of production".

#3860

John E. Garen

#88022

Overall Influence

John E. Garen is an American economist, currently the BB&T Professor and Director of the John H. Schnatter Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise, and formerly the Carol Martin Gatton Endowed Professor, at Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky.

#3861

Stephen Smith

#21540

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Stephen A. Smith is a University of Arkansas communications professor who was a top gubernatorial aide to Bill Clinton in Arkansas, helping the governor run his office. He is an internationally known First Amendment scholar and author of numerous books.

#3862

Kenichi Ohmae

#128616

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

is a Japanese organizational theorist, management consultant, Former Professor and Dean of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and author, known for developing the 3C's Model. Biography Born in 1943 in Kitakyūshū, Ohmae earned a BS in chemistry in 1966 from Waseda University, an MS in nuclear physics in 1968 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970.

#3863

Andrew Leigh

#94654

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Andrew Keith Leigh is an Australian politician, author, lawyer and former professor of economics at the Australian National University. He currently serves as the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury as well as the Assistant Minister for Employment. He briefly served as the Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2013 and then served as Shadow Assistant Treasurer from 2013 to 2019. He has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2010 representing the seat of Fraser until 2016 and Fenner thereafter. Leigh is not a member of ...

#3864

David Bailey

#93637

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

David Bailey is a British academic economist at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, a Vice-Chair of the Regional Studies Association, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Regional Studies, and senior fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe.

#3865

Lionel Cliffe

#74968

Overall Influence

1936 - 2013 (77 years)

Lionel R Cliffe was an English political economist and activist whose work focused on the struggle for land rights and freedom in Africa from the 1960s. He was Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds.

#3866

Robert Allen Phillips

#19372

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Robert Phillips is the George R. Gardiner Professor in Business Ethics and Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the Schulich School of Business; York University. In 2016–17, he was the Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business. He has also taught at the University of Richmond, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business , the University of San Diego, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

#3867

Dušan Radonjič

#100615

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Dušan Radonjič is a Slovenian economist, university professor and member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . Education and work In Maribor he finished primary and high school; he studied economics at University of Ljubljana and Zagreb. At latter he completed PhD. He is a tenured professor at Faculty of Economics and Business and also at Faculty of Logistics.

#3868

Tsung-Tung Chang

#137178

Overall Influence

1930 - 2000 (70 years)

Tsung-Tung Chang was a Taiwanese-German economist and Sinologist. Biography Chang was born in a village near Taichung in Taiwan in 1930. He acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Taihoku Imperial University in the 1940s. In 1956 he moved to Frankfurt am Main, where in February 1961 he received his doctorate degree. He then worked as an employee at the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden. During this time, he became a German citizen.

#3869

Yvonne Tsikata

#112935

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Yvonne Tsikata is a Ghanaian economist and currently serves as the World Bank Vice President and Corporate Secretary. She previously served as the Chief of Staff and Director of the Office President of the World Bank Group. Yvonne was also the sector director for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department of the Europe and Central Asia Region.

#3870

Paul Weinstein

#91301

Overall Influence

Paul J. Weinstein Jr. founded and directs the Graduate Program in Public Management at Johns Hopkins University and has also taught at Columbia University and Georgetown University. From 2001 to 2009 he was Chief Operating Officer and currently serves as a Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist think tank based in Washington, D.C. that was affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council. Weinstein, who worked for eight years in the Clinton White House, first as Special Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff of the Domestic Policy Council, and ...

#3871

Adam Jaffe

#176239

Overall Influence

#3872

Jeanne Lafortune

#165227

Overall Influence

Jeanne Lafortune is a Canadian economist who currently works as an Full Professor in Economics and Director of Research at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She is also a researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab , which is a global research center that aims to reduce poverty and improve life quality of people in the Caribbean and Latin America. Lafortune holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her research interests focus on three main fields, including economic history, family and development economics.

#3873

Jane Broadbent

#98706

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Jane Broadbent is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost of Roehampton University. Broadbent was born on 3 March 1952 in Barnsley, England. Prior to her appointment at Roehampton University, Broadbent held the position of Senior Vice-Principal at Royal Holloway, University of London.

#3874

Y. Claire Wang

#115425

Overall Influence

Y. Claire Wang is an associate professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Her research focuses on obesity prevention strategies and techniques, such as soda taxes, and how effective they may be in reducing the economic costs of obesity.

#3875

Ignacio Briones

#106949

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Ignacio Briones Rojas is a Chilean economist, scholar and politician who served as Minister of Finance in the second government of Sebastián Piñera from 2019 until 2021. Prior to this appointment, Ignacio served as Dean of the School of Government of Adolfo Ibáñez University.

#3876

Robert Jensen

#148732

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Robert Todd Jensen is an American economist who currently works as a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Program on Social Enterprise at the Yale School of Management. His research focuses on the microeconomics of international poverty and economic development.

#3877

Ziya Öniş

#175994

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Ziya Öniş is a Turkish political economist, and professor of international relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is a former Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University.

#3878

Raymond Lombra

#155575

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Raymond Eugene "Ray" Lombra is an American economist and professor at Penn State University, where he is also the senior advisor to the Dean. Education Lombra graduated from Providence College in 1967 with a BA in economics. He went on to graduate from Penn State in 1968 with a master's degree, and received his PhD there in 1971.

#3879

Yan Chen

#141220

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Yan Chen is a Chinese American behavioral and experimental economist. She is Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information, research professor in the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, and distinguished visiting professor at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, where she directs the Economics Science and Policy Experimental Lab. She is a former president of the Economic Science Association, an international organization of experimental economists.

#3880

Jürgen Trittin

#66737

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Jürgen Trittin is a German Green politician. He was Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005 in Germany.

#3881

Paul E. Green

#18803

Overall Influence

1927 - 2012 (85 years)

Paul E. Green He was the founder of conjoint analysis and one of "major architects of modern marketing science and practice", having popularised the use of Bayesian statistics, multidimensional scaling, clustering, and qualitative data analysis within the marketing discipline. He wrote more than sixteen books and 200 articles on market research-related subjects. His seminal article, "Conjoint Analysis in Consumer Research: Issues and Outlook," has been cited more than 750 times in ISI and has some 4,000 citations on Google Scholar.

#3882

Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong

#141968

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong is Ghanaian American economist who is a professor of economics and economics department chair at the University of South Florida, and a former president of the National Economic Association. He serves on the editorial boards of Southern Economic Journal and the Journal of African Development.

#3883

Morsi El Sayed Hegazy

#159807

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Morsi El Sayed Hegazy is an Egyptian academic and economist who as briefly finance minister, from 6 January to 7 May 2013. He was the fifth finance minister of Egypt since 2011. Education Hegazy has a master's degree in economics, which he obtained from Alexandria University in 1976. He received a PhD in economics from Connecticut University in 1985.

#3884

Anya Samek

#149101

Overall Influence

Anya Samek is an American economist who works in the fields of applied economics, behavioral economics, experimental economics, and strategy. She is currently an associate professor of economics at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego.

#3885

Charles Brown

#176591

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

#3886

Martin Fassnacht

#86325

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Martin Fassnacht is a German economist, professor and director of the Chair of Strategy and Marketing at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Managementin Düsseldorf. Early life and education Fassnacht was born in 1965 in Freiburg in Breisgau in Germany.

#3887

Safwan M. Masri

Safwan M. Masri

#49722

Overall Influence

Safwan M. Masri is a Jordanian professor, senior academic administrator, global educator, and scholar of education in the Arab World. He is the current Dean of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University and was head of Columbia Global Centers as well as director of Columbia Global Center in Amman since its founding in 2009.

#3888

Ettore Gotti Tedeschi

#22938

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Ettore Gotti Tedeschi is an Italian economist and banker, and ex-President of the Institute for Works of Religion, also known as the Vatican Bank . Biography Tedeschi worked as an industrial and financial strategy consultant with the French IT company Sema-Metra from 1973 to 1984. In 1985 he began to work on finance for the financier Procomin Imi-BNL, and then switched to Sogei. He worked on the IPO of Parmalat, an Italian dairy and food corporation, which led him to be involved in the negotiations for the acquisition of Federconsorzi in 1991. Meanwhile, Tedeschi entered the Board of Directo...

#3889

Richard J. Herring

#174260

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Richard J. Herring is an American economist, currently the Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Bibliography

#3890

Maria Floro

#131503

Overall Influence

Professor Maria S. Floro is professor emerita of Economics at American University in Washington, DC. She served, for the most part, as co-director of the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics since it was established in 2008.

#3891

Karl Milford

#122306

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Karl Milford is an Austrian economist, emeritus professor of economics, and an associated member of the Institute Vienna Circle and the Department of Social and Economic History at the University of Vienna.

#3892

James Peoples

#82001

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

James H. Peoples Jr. is an American economist who is a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and a former president of the National Economic Association and the Transportation and Public Utilities Group. He is an expert in the economics of transportation and transportation labor issues.

#3893

Ellen Meara

#136424

Overall Influence

Ellen Rose Meara is a professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, part of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States. Her research is in the fields of health economics and health policy. She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct professor in economics at Dartmouth College.

#3894

Wendy Lee Gramm

#124506

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Wendy Lee Gramm is an American economist and former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the Reagan administration. She is also the wife of former United States Senator Phil Gramm. Gramm has gained notoriety for her role in the Enron scandal.

#3895

Alexey Ulyukaev

#112506

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Alexey Valentinovich Ulyukaev is a Russian politician, scientist, and economist. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. Between 24 June 2013 and 15 November 2016, he held the office of Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation in Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet. From 2004 to 2013, he held the post of Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia.

#3896

Don Drummond

#50469

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Don Drummond, is a noted Canadian economist, having served extensively in the federal Department of Finance Canada, as Chief Economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank and as a scholar at Queen's University. He is known for his wide contributions to public policy in Canada and extensive citation on economic issues.

#3897

Rik Hafer

#174998

Overall Influence

Rik W. Hafer is an American economist and professor of economics in the Plaster School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Lindenwood University. He is also the Director for the Center of Economics and the Environment in the Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise. Before joining the faculty of Lindenwood in 2016, he taught at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville , where he first became a professor of economics in 1989. While at SIUE he held multiple positions, including Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance, and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics and Finance. Prio...

#3898

Jakob B. Madsen

#101783

Overall Influence

Jakob Brøchner Madsen is an economist, professor and former financial analyst and deputy chief economist . He was one of few economists who predicted the IT bubble in 2001 and the housing bubble in 2006 and the global financial crisis. In 2006 he and Jens Kjaer Sørensen wrote: "The bursting of this housing bubble will have a severe impact on the world economy and may even result in a recession."

#3899

Elizabeth Cascio

#167498

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Elizabeth Cascio is an applied economist and currently a Professor of Economics who holds the DeWalt H. 1921 and Marie H. Ankeny Professorship in Economic Policy at Dartmouth College. Her research interests are in labor economics and public economics, and focus on the economic impact of policies affecting education in the United States. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research associate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and Co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources.

#3900

Joel Kotkin

#22894

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Joel Kotkin is a fellow in urban studies at Chapman University in Orange, California. He writes about demographic, social, and economic trendss in the U.S. and internationally. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Beast and the conservative magazine The Spectator.

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