Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of April 2023

The rankings

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

831 deceased authors have so far been identified, about 1.2% of all authors.

Rank	Author	Score
1	Alberto Francesco Alesina †	2.66
2	Gary S. Becker †	2.82
3	Alan B. Krueger †	3.55
4	Martin S. Feldstein †	4.49
5	Edward C. Prescott †	6.48
6	Clive W. J. Granger †	6.96
7	Zvi Griliches †	9.11
8	Martin Ravallion †	9.83
9	Halbert White †	11.68
10	Jacob A. Mincer †	12.27
11	Michael McAleer †	12.47
12	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	14.21
13	Edward Lazear †	14.32
14	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	14.67
15	Paul A. Samuelson †	14.74
16	Kenneth J. Arrow †	15.04
17	Rudiger Dornbusch †	17.33
18	Sherwin Rosen †	17.33
19	Martin L. Weitzman †	17.56
20	Julio J. Rotemberg †	18.24
21	William J. Baumol †	19.73
22	Emmanuel Farhi †	20.12
23	Mike Wright †	20.17
24	Stephen A. Ross †	20.48
25	Milton Friedman †	21.34
26	Bennett T. McCallum †	21.73
27	Dale W. Jorgenson †	22.91
28	Martin Shubik †	29.59
29	James Tobin †	30.98
30	George J. Stigler †	31.4
31	Dale T. Mortensen †	32.33
32	Allan H. Meltzer †	33.94
33	J. Peter Neary †	34.17
34	David Schmeidler †	37.63
35	Oliver E. Williamson †	37.7
36	Stephan Klasen †	39.24
37	Bruce D. Smith †	39.39
38	Clement Allan Tisdell †	42.5
39	Douglass C. North †	43.94
40	Ngo Van Long †	44.1
41	Wallace E. Oates †	45.53

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
David Backus †, Ansgar Belke †, Gary Chamberlain †, Stephen Knack †, Assar Lindbeck †, James A. Mirrlees †, John M. Quigley †, James P. Smith †,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari †, Paul A. David †, Jack Hirshleifer †, Robert E. Lipsey †, John McMillan †, Merton H. Miller †, Franco Modigliani †, Elinor Ostrom †, Piet Rietveld †,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank †, James M. Buchanan †, Thomas F. Cooley †, Harold Demsetz †, Jacques H. Dreze †, Steven Klepper †, T. N. Srinivasan †, Finis R. Welch †,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Ronald H. Coase †, John Enrico DiNardo †, Marvin Goodfriend †, Robert John LaLonde †, Ronald I. McKinnon †, John Morgan †, Herbert A. Simon †, Adam Wagstaff †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Robert E. Baldwin †, Peter F. Christoffersen †, Herschel I. Grossman †, Ronald W. Jones †, Michael Louis Mussa †, Agnar Sandmo †, Shlomo Yitzhaki †, Arnold Zellner †,

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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.