Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of February 2021

The rankings

642 deceased authors have thus far been identified, about 1% of all authors.

Rank	Author	Score
1	Gary S. Becker †	2.4
2	Alberto Francesco Alesina †	2.61
3	Martin S. Feldstein †	3.57
4	Alan B. Krueger †	3.83
5	Clive W. J. Granger †	6.05
6	Halbert White †	8.04
7	Zvi Griliches †	8.81
8	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	10.63
9	Paul A. Samuelson †	10.88
10	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	11.25
11	Edward Lazear †	11.42
12	Martin L. Weitzman †	13.18
13	Sherwin Rosen †	14.1
14	Julio J. Rotemberg †	15.13
15	Rüdiger Dornbusch †	15.23
16	Kenneth J. Arrow †	15.26
17	Stephen A. Ross †	15.99
18	William J. Baumol †	16.09
19	Milton Friedman †	18.02
20	Mike Wright †	19.85
21	Jacob A. Mincer †	20.14
22	Emmanuel Farhi †	21.19
23	Martin Shubik †	21.35
24	James Tobin †	22.06
25	Dale T. Mortensen †	26.83
26	Allan H. Meltzer †	27.38
27	Stephan Klasen †	27.41
28	Bruce D. Smith †	27.87
29	George J. Stigler †	27.9
30	Ansgar Belke †	29.71
31	Oliver E. Williamson †	31.37
32	Assar Lindbeck †	35.1

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
David Backus †, Gary Chamberlain †, Stephen Knack †, John McMillan †, Wallace E. Oates †, John M. Quigley †,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari †, Harold Demsetz †, Robert E. Lipsey †, James A. Mirrlees †, Douglass C. North †, Piet Rietveld †,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Marvin Goodfriend †, Herschel I. Grossman †, Jack Hirshleifer †, Andrew J Hughes Hallett †, Merton H. Miller †, Franco Modigliani †, Elinor Ostrom †,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Steven Klepper †, Ronald I. McKinnon †, Agnar Sandmo †, T. N. Srinivasan †, Alan C. Stockman †, Arnold Zellner †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
James M. Buchanan †, Peter F. Christoffersen †, John Enrico DiNardo †, Reinhard Selten †, Hans R. Stoll †, Adam Wagstaff †, Finis R. Welch †,

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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.