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List of the most influential people in Economics,

#4201

Greg Weisenstein

#89659

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Greg R. Weisenstein is a former president of West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He became West Chester's 14th president on September 25, 2009. Weisenstein received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Washington, and his doctorate in education from the University of Kansas. He was Dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Development at Montana State University from 1999, then became H Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of North Dakota.

#4202

Tanya Roberts

#186727

Overall Influence

#4203

Roger Benjamin

#96353

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Roger Harold Benjamin is professor of Art History at the University of Sydney. Benjamin is an Australian art historian and curator who was born and raised in Canberra, where he attended the Canberra Grammar School. Moving to Melbourne, he trained in Fine Arts and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne before travelling to the United States for his MA and PhD at Bryn Mawr College, undertaking research in Paris. His first book and articles in French, British, and American journals focused on Matisse and the art of the Fauves .

#4204

George C. Lodge

#47789

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

George Cabot Lodge II is an American professor and former politician. In 1962, he was the Republican nominee for a special election to succeed John F. Kennedy in the United States Senate, but was defeated by Ted Kennedy. He was the son of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who lost reelection to the Senate in 1952 to John F. Kennedy. His father was also the vice presidential nominee for the Republican party in 1960, an election won yet again by Kennedy.

#4205

Gerd Hahn

#116950

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Gerd Jürgen Hahn is a German economist and professor for business economy. He holds an endowed professorship for Operations Management and Process Innovation at the German Graduate School of Management and Law in Heilbronn.

#4206

Per Pinstrup-Andersen

#46181

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Per Pinstrup-Andersen is a Danish economist and a Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. Before retiring in 2013, he was the Howard Edward Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy and the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship at Cornell University. In 1992–2002, Pinstrup-Andersen was the Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute. Pinstrup-Andersen received his PhD in 1969 from Oklahoma State University.

#4207

Devesh Kapur

#186845

Overall Influence

#4208

Scott Cunningham

#179580

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Scott Cunningham is a professor of economics at Baylor University, Research Fellow of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, and Research Affiliate of the Computational Justice Lab. He is known for popularizing advances in non-experimental impact evaluation methods by making it more accessible to practitioners. He wrote the Yale University Press textbook Causal Inference: The Mixtape. He is the organizer of a 5k running race at the annual meetings of the American Economic Association.

#4209

Mark Kamlet

#173039

Overall Influence

Mark S. Kamlet is an American political scientist currently the University Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#4210

Dick Sabot

#183487

Overall Influence

1944 - 2005 (61 years)

Richard Sabot was an economist, scholar, farmer, and Internet pioneer who was co-founder of Tripod.com, one of the first and most successful dot-coms, in 1992. He was also a co-founder of Eziba , an Internet venture which sold handcrafted goods from artisans around the world. He was a professor emeritus of economics at Williams College, and previously taught at Yale University, Oxford University, and Columbia University. He was a leading figure in building the Internet economy of Williamstown, Massachusetts, where the Green River ran past enough digital businesses in the dot-com era to earn ...

#4211

Jeffrey Zwiebel

#180279

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Jeffrey Herman Zwiebel is an American economist and the James C. Van Horne Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. A study he co-authored in 2013, along with Brett Green of the University of California, Berkeley, reported that the "hot-hand fallacy" did not appear to be a fallacy after all. Specifically, they reported that an average-power batter in Major League Baseball on a "hot streak" was about as likely to hit a home run as a good-power batter would normally be.

#4212

Lauren Hersch Nicholas

#178539

Overall Influence

Lauren Hersch Nicholas is an American health economist. She is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Early life and education Hersch Nicholas earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 2002 before enrolling at George Washington University for her Master of Public Policy degree in 2004. As a graduate student, she co-published The cost of privatization: extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans with Brian Biles and Barbara S. Cooper. Their study found that people with private Medicare plans will pay 8.4% more on average than fee-for-service costs.

#4213

Pierre Perron

#89228

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Pierre Perron is a Canadian econometrician at Boston University. Perron is known for the Phillips–Perron test of a unit root in time series regression, which was the result of his Ph.D. studies under Peter C. B. Phillips.

#4214

Punam Anand Keller

#165522

Overall Influence

Punam Anand Keller is the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. In 2018, she was named a fellow of the Association for Consumer Research.

#4215

Andrew Leach

#181854

Overall Influence

Andrew Leach is a Canadian energy and environmental economist and a contributing writer to a number of Canadian news outlets including The Globe and Mail, and Maclean's. His research areas span energy and environmental economics—including topics such as oil sands regulation, clean energy innovations, with a specific focus on climate change policies.

#4216

Peter Whish-Wilson

#165340

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Peter Stuart Whish-Wilson is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Tasmania since 2012, representing the Australian Greens. Formerly a lecturer in economics at the University of Tasmania, Whish-Wilson was appointed to the Senate to fill a casual vacancy caused by the retirement of former party leader Bob Brown, and has since won election in his own right in 2013, 2016 and 2022.

#4217

Kenneth Ray Hall

#187066

Overall Influence

#4218

Patrick C. Kennell

#174253

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Patrick C. Kennell is Director of the Center for Intensive English Studies at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. CIES was founded by his predecessor, Frederick L. Jenks, in 1979. In 1982, Dr. Kennell earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Management at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. Prior to graduation, he was named tri-captain and MVP of Albion's 1982 track and field team. In addition to holding the school's record for the 400 meter dash, he played football at Albion and was inducted into the Albion Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2005, he won a gold medal for hi...

#4219

William Rodgers

#104035

Overall Influence

William M. Rodgers, III is an American economist who is a professor of Public Policy at Rutgers University and the former Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Labor in 2000–2001. Education and early life Rodgers graduated from Dartmouth College and earned a PhD from Harvard University.

#4220

Annick Laruelle

#108368

Overall Influence

Annick Laruelle is a Belgian economist who works as a professor in the faculty of economics and business at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Her research involves social choice, game theory, and voting systems. Beyond her main research efforts in economics and social science, she has also applied game theory to model the competition between cells in cancer.

#4221

Pascal Lissouba

#23329

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Pascal Lissouba was a Congolese politician who was the first democratically elected President of the Republic of the Congo and served from 31 August 1992 until 25 October 1997. He was overthrown by the former and current President Denis Sassou Nguesso in the 1997 civil war.

#4222

Dennis M. Hanno

#25474

Overall Influence

Dennis M. Hanno is an American accountant and academic administrator was served as 11th president of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, for more than seven-year term. He also served as provost of Babson College. Hanno is a Clinical Associate Professor at Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University.

#4223

Max Otte

#169375

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Matthias "Max" Otte is an economist, publicist and political activist who holds German and U.S. citizenship. Otte, who has held professorships in Worms, Graz and Erfurt, is currently a fund manager. He has written several bestsellers, mainly on financial policy topics.

#4224

Uthum Herat

#108650

Overall Influence

1957 - 2009 (52 years)

Amal Uthum Herat born in Colombo, Sri Lanka was Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund. School education Uthum Herat received his early education at St. Thomas' Preparatory School in Kollupitiya and St Thomas' College, Mt. Lavinia. He was a school prefect a member of the English Debating and Drama Societies, , a member of the Classical Quiz competition team which won the National competition a member of the Science Quiz team which reached the semi-finals of the national competition . He was a committee member of...

#4225

Robert Haugen

#181653

Overall Influence

1942 - 2013 (71 years)

Robert Arthur Haugen was a financial economist and a pioneer in the field of quantitative investing and low-volatility investing. He was President of Haugen Custom Financial Systems and also consulted and spoke globally.

#4226

Trevor S. Harris

#121388

Overall Influence

Trevor S. Harris is an American economist currently the Arthur J. Samberg Professor at Columbia Business School and formerly the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business. His interests have included accounting.

#4227

Feng Shunhua

#180393

Overall Influence

1934 - 2019 (85 years)

Feng Shunhua was a Chinese economist and expert on Russian and Eastern European affairs. She was professor and Chair of World Economic Research at Liaoning University. She was a delegate to the National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

#4228

Terry Babcock-Lumish

#114274

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Terry Babcock-Lumish is an American professor, entrepreneur, and policymaker. She is the Executive Secretary of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Early life Babcock-Lumish was born in Miami, Florida. Her father, Dr. Robert Lumish, was an infectious disease specialist and Chief of Infectious Diseases at UPMC Mercy Hospital.

#4229

David M. Dror

#149482

Overall Influence

David Mark Dror is a specialist in health insurance. He is managing director and chairman of the Micro Insurance Academy in New Delhi. Dror is a former hon. professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

#4230

Charles Elworthy

Charles Elworthy

#125539

Overall Influence

1961 - 2023 (62 years)

Charles Herbert Elworthy was a New Zealand economist and social scientist. Early life and family Elworthy was born in Timaru on 5 November 1961, one of four children of Fiona Elizabeth Elworthy and Peter Herbert Elworthy.

#4231

Paolo Malanima

#187664

Overall Influence

#4232

José Ángel Sánchez Asiaín

#175909

Overall Influence

1929 - 2016 (87 years)

José Ángel Sánchez Asiaín, 1st Marquess of Asiaín, was a Spanish industrialist, university professor and economist. Early life Sánchez Asiaín received a master's degree in law at the University of Deusto, Bilbao and was awarded a Doctorate in Economy by the Central University of Madrid in 1958.

#4233

Kathleen McGinn

#106722

Overall Influence

Kathleen L. McGinn is an American economist currently the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She currently serves on the global Advisory Council for CFK Africa, a leading NGO working in Kenyan informal settlements.

#4234

Robert A. Sutermeister

#172555

Overall Influence

1913 - 2008 (95 years)

Robert Arnold Sutermeister was an American microeconomist. Life Sutermeister was a grandson of Civil War Captain Arnold Sutermeister. He got his AB in Economics at Harvard University in 1934 and his MA at University of Washington. Once married, he had three children born in the 1950s , but was later divorced from his wife after Jack left home for college. Sutermeister was also a heavy proponent of honesty and hard work, and valued education highly.

#4235

Gong Byeong-ho

#172386

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Gong Byeong-Ho is a South Korean economist, and author. After graduating from Korea University, Gong received his Ph.D in Economics at Rice University in 1987. Some of the books authored are, 10 Years Later, Gong Byeong-Ho's Self-Management, Standing Up as a One-Man Company, Thoughts of a Rich Man and Poor Man, Gong Byeong-Ho's Greek Classics. In the year 2013, Gong wrote Gong Byeong-Ho’s Life Philosophy, To My Son in the Military, Korea, 5 Years Later through the Lens of Developmental Psychology. In 2014, Gong wrote Gong Byeong-Ho’s Bible Study, God that Gong Byeong-Ho Met, Jesus that Gong Byeong-Ho Met.

#4236

Giovanni Battista Dagnino

#169233

Overall Influence

Giovanni Battista Dagnino is an Italian economist, academic and engaged speaker and educator. He is the Chair of Management and Professor of Digital Strategy at the Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta University of Rome, where he is the Founding Director of the MSc Degree in Economics and Management.

#4237

Romano Prodi

#127607

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Romano Prodi is an Italian politician, economist, academic, senior civil servant, and business executive who served as the tenth president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served twice as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 18 May 1996 to 21 October 1998, and then from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008. Prodi is considered the founder of the Italian centre-left and one of the most prominent and iconic figures of the Second Republic. He is often nicknamed Il Professore due to his academic career.

#4238

Julian Wright

#183199

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Julian Wright is a Singapore-based academic and economist. He is the Lim Chong Yah Professor at the National University of Singapore and was head of the Department of Economics from 2012 to 2019. Wright completed a Bachelor of Science with honors at University of Canterbury in 1991. In 1996, he completed a doctorate at Stanford University. Wright works in the area of industrial organization, and specializes in the economics of multi-sided platforms such as online marketplaces, payment platforms, and booking platforms. He has consulted on the economics of platforms, and related competition po...

#4239

Michael Ward

#118853

Overall Influence

1939 - 2008 (69 years)

Michael Ward was a British economist and statistician who contributed significantly to the evolution of the international statistical system in the post-war period. Education and career Ward took an honours degree in statistics and economics at the University of Exeter in 1958 and was later awarded his Master of Arts at the University of Cambridge. In 1965 he was elected fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and worked as Director of Economic Studies. He served as dean of the college from 1970 to 1972. In 1975 he was appointed Director of the Statistical Program at the Institute of Development...

#4240

Thorsten Beck

#187866

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

#4241

Rudy Fichtenbaum

#178828

Overall Influence

Rudy H. Fichtenbaum is an American economist. He is a professor emeritus at Wright State University, and in 2012, was elected the president of the American Association of University Professors.

#4242

Ian Gazeley

#176862

Overall Influence

Ian Stuart Gazeley, FAcSS, is an economic historian specialising in poverty and nutrition in Britain. Career He completed an undergraduate degree in Economics and Economic History at the University of Warwick and then a doctorate in Modern History at St Antony's College, Oxford, with a thesis entitled standard of living of the working classes, 1881–1912: The cost of living and the analysis of family budgets. He then held a Prize Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, before joining the University of Sussex in 1985; until 2018, he was Professor of Economic History there, and has since been an emeritus professor in the History Faculty.

#4243

Andrew M. Rosenfield

#178059

Overall Influence

Andrew M. Rosenfield is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the president of Guggenheim Partners, which he joined in 2004 as Managing Partner. He is a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he has taught since 1986. He is one of America’s foremost scholars on antitrust law.

#4244

Gavan McDonell

#104387

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Gavan McDonell is an Australian civil engineer, economist and political sociologist in the fields of national infrastructure policy reform, international development and academic education for advanced sustainability studies.

#4245

Lawrence Patrick

Lawrence Patrick

#66521

Overall Influence

1920 - 2006 (86 years)

Lawrence Patrick may well be considered one of the fathers of the crash test dummy. Between 1960 and 1975, while a biomechanics professor at Detroit's Wayne State University, Patrick described his work by saying "I was a human crash-test dummy". Patrick allowed himself to be subject to over 400 rocket sled rides, crushing blows to the head and body, and other forms of physical abuse in an effort to develop a body of data on how the human body responded in a vehicle accident. One of his students, Harold Mertz, went on to develop Hybrid III, the current worldwide standard crash test dummy. Law...

#4246

Michael Cooper

#187975

Overall Influence

#4247

David Smith

#187995

Overall Influence

#4248

Quinn Weninger

#187827

Overall Influence

Quinn Rone Arthur Weninger is a Canadian-American economist. Weninger was born in Kelowna, British Columbia on 27 January 1962. Weninger graduated from the University of Alberta in 1989 with a degree in forest science, and completed doctoral studies at the University of Maryland in 1995, specializing in agricultural and resource economics. From 1996 to 2000, he taught at Utah State University. In 2000, Weninger joined the Iowa State University faculty, where in April 2016, he was appointed to the John F. Timmons Endowed Professorship in Environmental and Resource Economics.

#4249

Paul Dolan

#152112

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science in the Department in Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is Director of the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science which began in September 2014. Dolan conducts research on the measurement of happiness, its causes and consequences, and the implications for public policy, publishing in both scholarly and popular outlets. He has previously held academic posts at York, Newcastle, Sheffield and Imperial College London and he has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University. He is the auth...

#4250

Ippolit Dioumoulen

#181722

Overall Influence

1927 - 2016 (89 years)

Bold text Hyppolite Hyppolitovich Dumoulin was a Soviet and Russian international economist, developer of Russian foreign trade policy and the Customs Union legislation, a key figure in the negotiations for Russia's accession to the WTO. Adviser for Economic Policy, Budget and Finance for the Russian Parliament.

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