Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of March 2023

The rankings

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

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

Rank	Author	Score
1	Gary S. Becker †	2.77
2	Alberto Francesco Alesina †	2.8
3	Alan B. Krueger †	3.55
4	Martin S. Feldstein †	4.48
5	Clive W. J. Granger †	6.79
6	Edward C. Prescott †	6.84
7	Zvi Griliches †	9.31
8	Martin Ravallion †	9.56
9	Michael McAleer †	11.76
10	Halbert White †	11.86
11	Jacob A. Mincer †	12.25
12	Edward Lazear †	13.83
13	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	14.32
14	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	14.61
15	Paul A. Samuelson †	15.03
16	Kenneth J. Arrow †	15.28
17	Rudiger Dornbusch †	16.68
18	Martin L. Weitzman †	17.37
19	Sherwin Rosen †	17.38
20	William J. Baumol †	17.67
21	Julio J. Rotemberg †	18.4
22	Mike Wright †	19.72
23	Bennett T. McCallum †	19.9
24	Stephen A. Ross †	20.43
25	Milton Friedman †	21.14
26	Emmanuel Farhi †	21.91
27	Dale W. Jorgenson †	23.89
28	Martin Shubik †	30.61
29	James Tobin †	30.91
30	Dale T. Mortensen †	32.2
31	Allan H. Meltzer †	33.16
32	J. Peter Neary †	36.8
33	George J. Stigler †	37.11
34	Oliver E. Williamson †	38.24
35	David Schmeidler †	38.58
36	Bruce D. Smith †	39.23
37	Wallace E. Oates †	41.27
38	Stephan Klasen †	42.33
39	Ngo Van Long †	43.72
40	Douglass C. North †	43.83
41	Clement Allan Tisdell †	44.68

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 †, Robert E. Lipsey †, John McMillan †, Merton H. Miller †, Franco Modigliani †, Elinor Ostrom †, Piet Rietveld †,

Top 8%

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

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank †, Ronald H. Coase †, John Enrico DiNardo †, Herschel I. Grossman †, Robert John LaLonde †, Ronald I. McKinnon †, Herbert A. Simon †, Adam Wagstaff †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Robert E. Baldwin †, Peter F. Christoffersen †, Andrew J Hughes Hallett †, Ronald W. Jones †, John Morgan †, Michael Louis Mussa †, Agnar Sandmo †, Arnold Zellner †,

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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.