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Top Deceased Economists, as of April 2026

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  • 1184 deceased authors have been identified, about 1.61% of all authors
  • There are 73371 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings

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Rank Author Score
1Alberto Alesina †3.34
2Gary S. Becker †4.39
3Robert E. Lucas, Jr. †4.80
4Martin S. Feldstein †5.54
5Michael C. Jensen †5.98
6Alan B. Krueger †6.19
7Edward C. Prescott †10.80
8Christopher Sims †11.22
9Daniel Kahneman †13.10
10Clive W. J. Granger †13.57
11Martin Ravallion †14.48
12Zvi Griliches †15.20
13Stanley Fischer †16.63
14Halbert White †17.91
15Edward Lazear †18.11
16Jean-Jacques Laffont †19.60
17Martin L. Weitzman †19.73
18Paul A. Samuelson †20.27
19Emmanuel Farhi †20.51
20Jacob Mincer †21.92
21Anthony Barnes Atkinson †22.60
22Sherwin Rosen †24.40
23Julio Rotemberg †25.86
24William Baumol †26.39
25Bennett T. McCallum †27.46
26Dale Jorgenson †27.69
27Stephen A. Ross †28.03
28Kenneth J. Arrow †28.41
29Gary Charness †28.58
30Jonathan Eaton †28.80
31Robert M. Solow †29.15
32Michael McAleer †29.35
33Rüdiger Dornbusch (Rudiger Dornbusch) †29.56
34Mike Wright †31.30
35Milton Friedman †34.90
36Richard R. Nelson †36.14
37Allan H. Meltzer †41.43
38George J. Stigler †42.02
39Takatoshi Ito †43.69
40Martin Shubik †44.22
41Dale T. Mortensen †46.20
42J. Peter Neary †49.59
43David Schmeidler †49.67
44Oliver E. Williamson †50.06
45James Tobin †51.17
46Bruce D. Smith †51.52
47John Roberts †52.08
48Edward E. Leamer †55.64
49Alex Cukierman †59.04
50Gary Chamberlain †60.16
51Assar Lindbeck †67.00
52Stephen Knack †70.47
53John M. Quigley †70.73
54Mike Tsionas †72.21
55James P. Smith †73.10
56Charles I. Plosser †73.44
57Philippe Martin †74.67
58S. Rao Aiyagari †75.23
59David Dollar †76.72
60Wallace E. Oates †79.27

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
Richard Arnott, David Backus, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas Crafts, Richard A. Easterlin, Jack Hirshleifer, Edward J. Kane, Ngo Van Long, James A. Mirrlees, Douglass C. North, Gert G. Wagner,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
Ronald H. Coase, Paul A. David, Harold Demsetz, John Enrico DiNardo, Guesnerie Roger, Robert John LaLonde, John Leahy, Robert E. Lipsey, C. A. Knox Lovell, John McMillan, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Finis Welch,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank, James M. Buchanan, Marvin Goodfriend, John Kagel, Steven Klepper, Stephan Klasen, Roberto S. Mariano, Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, Elinor Ostrom, Herbert Simon, T. N. Srinivasan,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Patrick L. Bajari, Ansgar Belke, Peter F. Christoffersen, Herschel I. Grossman, Philippe Jorion, Loet Leydesdorff, Ronald I. McKinnon, John Morgan, Franco Modigliani, Michael Louis Mussa, Piet Rietveld, Agnar Sandmo,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Jacques H. Dreze, Victor R. Fuchs, Peter Gottschalk, Ronald W. Jones, Nicholas M. Kiefer, Roy Radner, Anna Jacobson Schwartz, Hans R. Stoll, Jonathan Temple, Clement Tisdell, Shlomo Yitzhaki,
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