Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of July 2023

The rankings

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

875 deceased authors have so far been identified, about 1.3% of all authors.

Rank	Author	Score
1	Alberto Francesco Alesina †	3.03
2	Gary S. Becker †	3.31
3	Robert E. Lucas Jr.†	3.48
4	Alan B. Krueger †	3.92
5	Martin S. Feldstein †	4.82
6	Edward C. Prescott †	7.86
7	Clive W. J. Granger †	7.93
8	Zvi Griliches †	10.3
9	Martin Ravallion †	10.4
10	Michael McAleer †	12.8
11	Halbert White †	13.67
12	Jacob A. Mincer †	14.14
13	Paul A. Samuelson †	14.29
14	Edward Lazear †	14.58
15	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	14.77
16	Kenneth J. Arrow †	15.9
17	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	15.92
18	Martin L. Weitzman †	16.52
19	Rudiger Dornbusch †	17.73
20	Sherwin Rosen †	18.69
21	Julio J. Rotemberg †	19.66
22	Emmanuel Farhi †	20.08
23	William J. Baumol †	20.18
24	Mike Wright †	20.91
25	Stephen A. Ross †	21.3
26	Bennett T. McCallum †	22.68
27	Dale W. Jorgenson †	23.13
28	Milton Friedman †	23.25
29	James Tobin †	31.81
30	Martin Shubik †	33.02
31	Dale T. Mortensen †	33.87
32	Allan H. Meltzer †	34.77
33	J. Peter Neary †	35.12
34	George J. Stigler †	36.45
35	Oliver E. Williamson †	37.98
36	Stephan Klasen †	39.1
37	David Schmeidler †	40.32
38	Clement Allan Tisdell †	43.5
39	Bruce D. Smith †	43.9
40	Ngo Van Long †	43.94
41	Douglass C. North †	46.63
42	Wallace E. Oates †	47.19
43	Gary Chamberlain †	48.72

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
Richard J. Arnott †, David Backus †, Ansgar Belke †, Stephen Knack †, Assar Lindbeck †, James A. Mirrlees †, John M. Quigley †, Piet Rietveld †, 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 †, T. N. Srinivasan †,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank †, James M. Buchanan †, Thomas F. Cooley †, Harold Demsetz †, John Enrico DiNardo †, Steven Klepper †, Herbert A. Simon †, Finis R. Welch †,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Peter F. Christoffersen †, Ronald H. Coase †, Jacques H. Dreze †, Marvin Goodfriend †, Herschel I. Grossman †, Robert John LaLonde †, Ronald I. McKinnon †, John Morgan †, Adam Wagstaff †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Peter Gottschalk †, Andrew J Hughes Hallett †, Ronald W. Jones †, Edward J. Kane †, Simon Kuznets †, Michael Louis Mussa †, Agnar Sandmo †, Shlomo Yitzhaki †,

The data presented here are experimental. They are based on a sample of the research output in Economics and Finance. Only material catalogued in RePEc is considered. For any citation based criterion, only works that could be parsed by the CitEc project are considered. For any ranking of people, only those registered with the RePEc Author Service can be taken into account. And for rankings of institutions, only those listed in EDIRC and claimed as affiliation by the respective, registered authors can be measured. Thus, this list is by no means based on a complete sample. You can help making this more comprehensive by encouraging more publications to be listed (instructions) and more authors to register (form). For more details on the various rankings that are available as well for documentation, follow this link.

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.