Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of January 2017

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The rankings

388 deceased authors have thus far been identified, about 0.7% of all authors.

Rank	Author	Score
1	Gary S. Becker †	1.78
2	Clive W. J. Granger †	3.65
3	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	4.01
4	Zvi Griliches †	4.07
5	Paul A. Samuelson †	4.5
6	Halbert White †	4.98
7	Rüdiger Dornbusch †	6.41
8	Sherwin Rosen †	6.93
9	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	7.24
10	Milton Friedman †	9.01
11	Jacob A. Mincer †	11.32
12	James Tobin †	12.08
13	Dale T. Mortensen †	12.24
14	George J. Stigler †	12.78
15	Bruce D. Smith †	13.29
16	Piet Rietveld †	16.61
17	Robert E. Lipsey †	18.27
18	David Backus †	19.12
19	John M. Quigley †	20.06

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari †, Jack Hirshleifer †, John McMillan †, Douglass C. North †,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
Herschel I. Grossman †, Merton H. Miller †, Franco Modigliani †, Wallace E. Oates †,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Carl Chiarella †, Steven Klepper †, Reinhard Selten †, Alan C. Stockman †,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Ronald I. McKinnon †, Philippe Michel †, Horst Siebert †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Robert E. Baldwin †, James M. Buchanan †, Michael Louis Mussa †, Arnold Zellner †,

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