Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of May 2021

The rankings

661 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 †	2.5
3	Alan B. Krueger †	3.74
4	Martin S. Feldstein †	3.82
5	Clive W. J. Granger †	6.01
6	Halbert White †	8.12
7	Zvi Griliches †	8.8
8	Paul A. Samuelson †	11.25
9	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	11.35
10	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	11.4
11	Edward Lazear †	11.46
12	Sherwin Rosen †	13.77
13	Martin L. Weitzman †	13.93
14	Kenneth J. Arrow †	14.95
15	Julio J. Rotemberg †	15.05
16	William J. Baumol †	15.52
17	Rudiger Dornbusch †	15.54
18	Stephen A. Ross †	16.19
19	Milton Friedman †	18.05
20	Jacob A. Mincer †	18.87
21	Mike Wright †	19.42
22	Emmanuel Farhi †	21.01
23	Martin Shubik †	21.35
24	James Tobin †	24.07
25	Dale T. Mortensen †	27
26	Stephan Klasen †	27.05
27	Allan H. Meltzer †	27.99
28	Bruce D. Smith †	28.05
29	George J. Stigler †	28.26
30	Ansgar Belke †	29.15
31	Oliver E. Williamson †	30.99
32	Piet Rietveld †	37.06
33	Gary Chamberlain †	38

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
David Backus †, Stephen Knack †, Assar Lindbeck †, Douglass C. North †, Wallace E. Oates †, John M. Quigley †,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari †, Harold Demsetz †, Robert E. Lipsey †, John McMillan †, Merton H. Miller †, James A. Mirrlees †, Franco Modigliani †,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Marvin Goodfriend †, Herschel I. Grossman †, Jack Hirshleifer †, Steven Klepper †, Elinor Ostrom †, Arnold Zellner †,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Peter F. Christoffersen †, John Enrico DiNardo †, Andrew J Hughes Hallett †, Ronald I. McKinnon †, Agnar Sandmo †, T. N. Srinivasan †, Adam Wagstaff †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
James M. Buchanan †, Peter Gottschalk †, Reinhard Selten †, Herbert A. Simon †, Alan C. Stockman †, Hans R. Stoll †, Finis R. Welch †,

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• 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.