Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of September 2024

The rankings

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

1008 deceased authors have so far been identified, about 1.4% of all authors.

Rank	Author	Score
1	Alberto Francesco Alesina †	3.17
2	Gary S. Becker †	3.6
3	Robert E. Lucas Jr.†	4.03
4	Alan B. Krueger †	4.78
5	Martin S. Feldstein †	4.96
6	Michael C. Jensen †	6.7
7	Edward C. Prescott †	9.13
8	Clive W. J. Granger †	10.71
9	Martin Ravallion †	11.41
10	Zvi Griliches †	12.04
11	Daniel Kahneman †	12.39
12	Michael McAleer †	15.71
13	Halbert White †	15.73
14	Paul A. Samuelson †	16.38
15	Jacob A. Mincer †	16.73
16	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	17.04
17	Edward Lazear †	17.2
18	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	17.68
19	Martin L. Weitzman †	18.11
20	Robert M. Solow †	18.41
21	Kenneth J. Arrow †	19.83
22	Emmanuel Farhi †	21
23	Gary Charness †	22.1
24	Mike Wright †	22.35
25	Sherwin Rosen †	22.53
26	Rudiger Dornbusch †	22.87
27	Julio J. Rotemberg †	23.32
28	Stephen A. Ross †	23.46
29	William J. Baumol †	23.79
30	Bennett T. McCallum †	24.91
31	Milton Friedman †	25.04
32	Jonathan Eaton †	27.07
33	Dale W. Jorgenson †	27.27
34	Gert G. Wagner †	30.51
35	Martin Shubik †	33.17
36	Mike Tsionas †	34.03
37	James Tobin †	38.55
38	Dale T. Mortensen †	38.89
39	Allan H. Meltzer †	39.27
40	George J. Stigler †	40.14
41	J. Peter Neary †	41.29
42	Bruce D. Smith †	44.04
43	David Schmeidler †	44.73
44	Oliver E. Williamson †	44.79
45	Alex Cukierman †	47.68
46	Douglass C. North †	47.78
47	Clement Allan Tisdell †	47.92
48	Stephan Klasen †	51.16
49	Ngo Van Long †	53.02
50	Gary Chamberlain †	54.08

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
Richard J. Arnott †, David Backus †, Ansgar Belke †, Stephen Knack †, Assar Lindbeck †, Philippe Martin †, Merton H. Miller †, Wallace E. Oates †, John M. Quigley †, James P. Smith †,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari †, Paul A. David †, Harold Demsetz †, John Enrico DiNardo †, David Dollar †, John McMillan †, James A. Mirrlees †, Franco Modigliani †, Elinor Ostrom †, Piet Rietveld †,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank †, Thomas F. Cooley †, Jacques H. Dreze †, Jack Hirshleifer †, Steven Klepper †, Robert E. Lipsey †, Ronald I. McKinnon †, Herbert A. Simon †, T. N. Srinivasan †, Finis R. Welch †,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
James M. Buchanan †, Peter F. Christoffersen †, Ronald H. Coase †, Marvin Goodfriend †, Herschel I. Grossman †, Ronald W. Jones †, Robert John LaLonde †, Loet Leydesdorff †, John Morgan †, Agnar Sandmo †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Victor R. Fuchs †, Edward J. Kane †, Harry M. Markowitz †, Michael Louis Mussa †, Roy Radner †, Anna Jacobson Schwartz †, Alan C. Stockman †, Hans R. Stoll †, Adam Wagstaff †, Shlomo Yitzhaki †,

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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.