Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of November 2025

The rankings

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

1139 deceased authors have so far been identified, about 1.5% of all authors.

Rank	Author	Score
1	Alberto Francesco Alesina †	3.11
2	Gary S. Becker †	3.38
3	Robert E. Lucas Jr.†	4.41
4	Martin S. Feldstein †	5.11
5	Alan B. Krueger †	5.23
6	Michael C. Jensen †	6.61
7	Edward C. Prescott †	9.97
8	Clive W. J. Granger †	11.35
9	Daniel Kahneman †	11.47
10	Zvi Griliches †	12.25
11	Martin Ravallion †	12.26
12	Stanley Fischer †	14.96
13	Michael McAleer †	15.59
14	Paul A. Samuelson †	16.6
15	Halbert White †	17
16	Jacob A. Mincer †	17.24
17	Martin L. Weitzman †	17.65
18	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	18.05
19	Edward Lazear †	18.6
20	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	18.98
21	Emmanuel Farhi †	19.08
22	Robert M. Solow †	19.58
23	Kenneth J. Arrow †	22.33
24	Gary Charness †	22.39
25	Mike Wright †	22.47
26	Sherwin Rosen †	24.71
27	William J. Baumol †	25
28	Rudiger Dornbusch †	25.16
29	Julio J. Rotemberg †	25.47
30	Stephen A. Ross †	25.64
31	Jonathan Eaton †	27.12
32	Dale W. Jorgenson †	27.78
33	Bennett T. McCallum †	28.41
34	Richard R. Nelson †	28.87
35	Milton Friedman †	30.22
36	Mike Tsionas †	32.14
37	Gert G. Wagner †	34.83
38	Takatoshi Ito †	38.11
39	Martin Shubik †	39.75
40	Dale T. Mortensen †	40.85
41	Allan H. Meltzer †	44.16
42	J. Peter Neary †	44.94
43	James Tobin †	45.35
44	Clement Allan Tisdell †	45.43
45	Oliver E. Williamson †	46.37
46	Douglass C. North †	46.58
47	David Schmeidler †	48.22
48	George J. Stigler †	48.66
49	Stephan Klasen †	49.69
50	Philippe Martin †	50.22
51	Edward E. Leamer †	50.79
52	Alex Cukierman †	53.31
53	Bruce D. Smith †	53.34
54	Ngo Van Long †	57.05
55	Gary Chamberlain †	59.72
56	C. Knox Lovell †	61.66

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari †, Richard J. Arnott †, David Backus †, Ansgar Belke †, Nicholas Crafts †, David Dollar †, Stephen Knack †, Assar Lindbeck †, Merton H. Miller †, James A. Mirrlees †, Wallace E. Oates †, James P. Smith †,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
Paul A. David †, Richard A. Easterlin †, Jack Hirshleifer †, Edward J. Kane †, John McMillan †, Franco Modigliani †, Elinor Ostrom †, Charles I. Plosser †, John M. Quigley †, Piet Rietveld †, Elisabeth Sadoulet †,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Peter F. Christoffersen †, Thomas F. Cooley †, Harold Demsetz †, John Enrico DiNardo †, Jacques H. Dreze †, Steven Klepper †, Robert John LaLonde †, Loet Leydesdorff †, Robert E. Lipsey †, Herbert A. Simon †, T. N. Srinivasan †, Finis R. Welch †,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank †, James M. Buchanan †, Ronald H. Coase †, Marvin Goodfriend †, Herschel I. Grossman †, Roberto S. Mariano †, Harry M. Markowitz †, Ronald I. McKinnon †, Philip Molyneux †, John Morgan †, Shlomo Yitzhaki †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Robert Zelwin Aliber †, Patrick L. Bajari †, Robert E. Baldwin †, Jean-Paul Fitoussi †, Andrew J Hughes Hallett †, Ronald W. Jones †, Nicholas M. Kiefer †, Michael Louis Mussa †, Agnar Sandmo †, Adam Wagstaff †,

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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, institution database, and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann.
• RePEc has been initiated by Thomas Krichel.