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Top Deceased Economists, as of June 2026

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  • 1207 deceased authors have been identified, about 1.64% of all authors
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1Alberto Alesina †4.40
2Gary S. Becker †5.58
3Robert E. Lucas, Jr. †6.46
4Alan B. Krueger †6.50
5Martin S. Feldstein †6.94
6Michael C. Jensen †8.24
7Edward C. Prescott †11.29
8Christopher Sims †11.41
9Daniel Kahneman †12.47
10Clive W. J. Granger †13.87
11Martin Ravallion †14.41
12Zvi Griliches †15.61
13Stanley Fischer †16.85
14Paul A. Samuelson †17.31
15Halbert White †17.42
16Martin L. Weitzman †18.28
17Edward Lazear †18.47
18Jean-Jacques Laffont †18.66
19Jacob Mincer †19.46
20Emmanuel Farhi †20.10
21Anthony Barnes Atkinson †23.66
22Michael McAleer †24.90
23Sherwin Rosen †24.93
24Stephen A. Ross †25.25
25Bennett T. McCallum †25.30
26Julio Rotemberg †25.79
27Mike Wright †26.27
28William Baumol †26.35
29Rüdiger Dornbusch (Rudiger Dornbusch) †26.57
30Robert M. Solow †26.78
31Gary Charness †27.41
32Dale Jorgenson †27.53
33Kenneth J. Arrow †27.92
34Jonathan Eaton †28.30
35Milton Friedman †34.44
36Richard R. Nelson †34.80
37Martin Shubik †37.18
38Takatoshi Ito †39.34
39Allan H. Meltzer †39.48
40George J. Stigler †43.09
41Dale T. Mortensen †43.89
42Oliver E. Williamson †46.14
43James Tobin †46.81
44Clement Tisdell †47.66
45J. Peter Neary †48.16
46Mike Tsionas †49.05
47David Schmeidler †49.60
48John Roberts †50.47
49Bruce D. Smith †51.14
50Edward E. Leamer †54.08
51Gary Chamberlain †58.08
52Alex Cukierman †58.67
53Assar Lindbeck †58.82
54Edmund S. Phelps †59.04
55Gert G. Wagner †59.59
56Douglass C. North †61.24
57Stephen Knack †66.56
58Ansgar Belke †67.49
59Piet Rietveld †67.64
60Wallace E. Oates †67.81
61Ngo Van Long †69.37

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari, Richard Arnott, David Backus, Nicholas Crafts, David Dollar, C. A. Knox Lovell, Philippe Martin, Harry M. Markowitz, James A. Mirrlees, Charles I. Plosser, John M. Quigley, James P. Smith,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
Harold Demsetz, John Enrico DiNardo, Richard A. Easterlin, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Jack Hirshleifer, Edward J. Kane, Stephan Klasen, Loet Leydesdorff, Robert E. Lipsey, Merton H. Miller, Franco Modigliani, Elinor Ostrom,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Thomas Cooley, Ronald H. Coase, Paul A. David, Guesnerie Roger, John Kagel, Steven Klepper, Robert John LaLonde, John Leahy, Roberto S. Mariano, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Herbert Simon, Finis Welch,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank, James M. Buchanan, Victor A. Ginsburgh, Marvin Goodfriend, Herschel I. Grossman, Andrew Hughes Hallett, Philippe Jorion, Ronald I. McKinnon, John McMillan, John Morgan, Agnar Sandmo, T. N. Srinivasan,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Patrick L. Bajari, Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Peter F. Christoffersen, Jacques H. Dreze, Victor R. Fuchs, János Kornai (Janos Kornai), Michael Louis Mussa, Roy Radner, Anna Jacobson Schwartz, Horst Siebert, Peter Temin, Jonathan Temple,
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