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Top Deceased Economists, as of May 2026

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  • 1196 deceased authors have been identified, about 1.63% of all authors
  • There are 73501 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings

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Rank Author Score
1Alberto Alesina †4.17
2Gary S. Becker †5.61
3Robert E. Lucas, Jr. †6.36
4Alan B. Krueger †6.68
5Martin S. Feldstein †6.95
6Michael C. Jensen †8.39
7Christopher Sims †11.22
8Edward C. Prescott †11.37
9Daniel Kahneman †13.41
10Clive W. J. Granger †13.65
11Martin Ravallion †14.28
12Zvi Griliches †15.91
13Stanley Fischer †16.24
14Halbert White †18.05
15Emmanuel Farhi †18.14
16Jean-Jacques Laffont †18.20
17Martin L. Weitzman †18.32
18Paul A. Samuelson †18.44
19Jacob Mincer †19.51
20Edward Lazear †20.80
21Anthony Barnes Atkinson †23.52
22Michael McAleer †25.10
23Julio Rotemberg †25.14
24Stephen A. Ross †25.15
25Rüdiger Dornbusch (Rudiger Dornbusch) †25.31
26Bennett T. McCallum †25.62
27William Baumol †25.66
28Sherwin Rosen †25.86
29Dale Jorgenson †26.63
30Mike Wright †26.77
31Gary Charness †26.95
32Robert M. Solow †27.06
33Kenneth J. Arrow †27.55
34Jonathan Eaton †27.97
35Milton Friedman †33.99
36Richard R. Nelson †35.48
37Martin Shubik †37.35
38Allan H. Meltzer †37.49
39Takatoshi Ito †40.18
40George J. Stigler †43.84
41Bruce D. Smith †44.56
42Dale T. Mortensen †44.57
43Oliver E. Williamson †45.59
44Clement Tisdell †47.60
45J. Peter Neary †48.02
46Mike Tsionas †48.61
47David Schmeidler †50.00
48James Tobin †51.39
49John Roberts †51.49
50Edward E. Leamer †53.42
51Alex Cukierman †57.60
52Assar Lindbeck †58.09
53Douglass C. North †58.80
54Gary Chamberlain †58.93
55Gert G. Wagner †59.06
56Edmund S. Phelps †60.06
57Stephen Knack †66.31
58Ansgar Belke †67.02
59Piet Rietveld †67.47
60Wallace E. Oates †68.61

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari, Richard Arnott, Nicholas Crafts, David Dollar, Edward J. Kane, Ngo Van Long, C. A. Knox Lovell, Philippe Martin, Charles I. Plosser, John M. Quigley, James P. Smith,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
David Backus, Thomas Cooley, Harold Demsetz, John Enrico DiNardo, Guesnerie Roger, Jack Hirshleifer, Stephan Klasen, Loet Leydesdorff, Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, James A. Mirrlees, Elinor Ostrom,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Ronald H. Coase, Paul A. David, Richard A. Easterlin, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, John Kagel, Robert John LaLonde, John Leahy, Robert E. Lipsey, Roberto S. Mariano, Franco Modigliani, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Finis Welch,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank, James M. Buchanan, Victor A. Ginsburgh, Marvin Goodfriend, Herschel I. Grossman, Andrew Hughes Hallett, Steven Klepper, Ronald I. McKinnon, John McMillan, John Morgan, Herbert Simon, T. N. Srinivasan,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Patrick L. Bajari, Peter F. Christoffersen, Jacques H. Dreze, Victor R. Fuchs, Philippe Jorion, Jack Knetsch, János Kornai (Janos Kornai), Michael Louis Mussa, Roy Radner, Agnar Sandmo, Horst Siebert, Jonathan Temple,
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