Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of November 2024

The rankings

The top 5% are ranked, the next 5% are listed alphabetically in 1% buckets.

1027 deceased authors have so far been identified, about 1.4% of all authors.

Rank	Author	Score
1	Alberto Francesco Alesina †	3.17
2	Gary S. Becker †	3.35
3	Robert E. Lucas Jr.†	4.36
4	Alan B. Krueger †	4.72
5	Martin S. Feldstein †	5.07
6	Michael C. Jensen †	6.5
7	Edward C. Prescott †	9.29
8	Clive W. J. Granger †	10.73
9	Martin Ravallion †	11.48
10	Daniel Kahneman †	12.08
11	Zvi Griliches †	12.13
12	Halbert White †	15.66
13	Michael McAleer †	15.77
14	Jacob A. Mincer †	16.71
15	Martin L. Weitzman †	17.18
16	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	17.28
17	Edward Lazear †	17.55
18	Paul A. Samuelson †	17.76
19	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	18.16
20	Robert M. Solow †	18.29
21	Rudiger Dornbusch †	20.45
22	Kenneth J. Arrow †	20.68
23	Emmanuel Farhi †	21.89
24	Gary Charness †	22.42
25	Mike Wright †	22.46
26	Sherwin Rosen †	22.82
27	Julio J. Rotemberg †	23.63
28	Stephen A. Ross †	23.92
29	William J. Baumol †	24.57
30	Milton Friedman †	25
31	Bennett T. McCallum †	26.11
32	Dale W. Jorgenson †	26.57
33	Jonathan Eaton †	26.95
34	Gert G. Wagner †	30.81
35	Martin Shubik †	32.47
36	Mike Tsionas †	33.88
37	James Tobin †	38.08
38	Dale T. Mortensen †	38.95
39	Allan H. Meltzer †	39.65
40	J. Peter Neary †	40.46
41	George J. Stigler †	40.64
42	David Schmeidler †	42.94
43	Oliver E. Williamson †	45.3
44	Douglass C. North †	46.01
45	Alex Cukierman †	47.89
46	Clement Allan Tisdell †	48.09
47	Bruce D. Smith †	48.54
48	Stephan Klasen †	50.15
49	Ngo Van Long †	52.81
50	Philippe Martin †	54.81
51	Gary Chamberlain †	55.03

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
Richard J. Arnott †, David Backus †, Ansgar Belke †, David Dollar †, Stephen Knack †, Assar Lindbeck †, Merton H. Miller †, Wallace E. Oates †, John M. Quigley †, James P. Smith †,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari †, Nicholas Crafts †, Paul A. David †, Harold Demsetz †, Jack Hirshleifer †, John McMillan †, James A. Mirrlees †, Franco Modigliani †, Elinor Ostrom †, Piet Rietveld †,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank †, James M. Buchanan †, Ronald H. Coase †, Thomas F. Cooley †, John Enrico DiNardo †, Steven Klepper †, Robert E. Lipsey †, Ronald I. McKinnon †, Herbert A. Simon †, T. N. Srinivasan †, Finis R. Welch †,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Peter F. Christoffersen †, Jacques H. Dreze †, Marvin Goodfriend †, Herschel I. Grossman †, Robert John LaLonde †, Loet Leydesdorff †, Harry M. Markowitz †, John Morgan †, Agnar Sandmo †, Shlomo Yitzhaki †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Robert E. Baldwin †, Victor R. Fuchs †, Andrew J Hughes Hallett †, Ronald W. Jones †, Edward J. Kane †, Michael Louis Mussa †, Roy Radner †, Alan C. Stockman †, Hans R. Stoll †, Adam Wagstaff †,

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Credits:

• Citations from CitEc project by José Manuel Barrueco Cruz, University of Valencia, Spain. Hardware provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE), Valencia, Spain.
• Abstract views and downloads statistics from LogEc project by Sune Karlsson, Örebro University, Sweden.
• Author registration by Ivan Kumanov, Minsk, Belarus.
• Institutions database and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• RePEc has been initiated by Thomas Krichel.