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Top Deceased Economists, as of July 2026

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  • 1219 deceased authors have been identified, about 1.65% of all authors
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Rank Author Score
1Alberto Alesina †3.45
2Gary S. Becker †4.20
3Robert E. Lucas, Jr. †5.04
4Martin S. Feldstein †5.77
5Michael C. Jensen †5.95
6Alan B. Krueger †6.16
7Edward C. Prescott †11.17
8Christopher Sims †11.40
9Daniel Kahneman †11.60
10Clive W. J. Granger †13.96
11Martin Ravallion †14.72
12Zvi Griliches †15.74
13Stanley Fischer †16.79
14Halbert White †17.02
15Martin L. Weitzman †18.78
16Jean-Jacques Laffont †19.04
17Edward Lazear †19.92
18Emmanuel Farhi †19.98
19Paul A. Samuelson †20.70
20Jacob Mincer †21.27
21Anthony Barnes Atkinson †23.00
22Sherwin Rosen †25.41
23Julio Rotemberg †25.96
24William Baumol †26.72
25Gary Charness †27.30
26Stephen A. Ross †27.38
27Dale Jorgenson †27.91
28Kenneth J. Arrow †28.83
29Rüdiger Dornbusch (Rudiger Dornbusch) †29.06
30Jonathan Eaton †29.16
31Robert M. Solow †29.59
32Mike Wright †29.59
33Michael McAleer †29.96
34Bennett T. McCallum †30.22
35Milton Friedman †33.03
36Richard R. Nelson †35.53
37Martin Shubik †41.61
38Allan H. Meltzer †43.48
39George J. Stigler †44.05
40Takatoshi Ito †44.85
41Dale T. Mortensen †46.32
42Bruce D. Smith †50.13
43Oliver E. Williamson †50.30
44David Schmeidler †50.57
45J. Peter Neary †50.76
46John Roberts †52.65
47James Tobin †53.40
48Edward E. Leamer †57.02
49Edmund S. Phelps †60.18
50Gary Chamberlain †60.85
51Alex Cukierman †61.02
52Assar Lindbeck †69.40
53Stephen Knack †70.68
54John M. Quigley †70.91
55Mike Tsionas †72.22
56Charles I. Plosser †76.38
57Philippe Martin †76.97
58S. Rao Aiyagari †77.64
59James P. Smith †78.95
60David Dollar †78.96
61James A. Mirrlees †81.05

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
Richard Arnott, David Backus, Nicholas Crafts, Guesnerie Roger, Jack Hirshleifer, Edward J. Kane, John Leahy, Ngo Van Long, C. A. Knox Lovell, Douglass C. North, Wallace E. Oates, Elisabeth Sadoulet,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
Thomas Cooley, Ronald H. Coase, Paul A. David, Harold Demsetz, John Enrico DiNardo, Richard A. Easterlin, Steven Klepper, Robert John LaLonde, Harry M. Markowitz, John McMillan, Gert G. Wagner, Finis Welch,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank, James M. Buchanan, Peter F. Christoffersen, John Kagel, Stephan Klasen, Loet Leydesdorff, Robert E. Lipsey, Roberto S. Mariano, Merton H. Miller, Elinor Ostrom, Herbert Simon, T. N. Srinivasan,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Patrick L. Bajari, Ansgar Belke, Jacques H. Dreze, Marvin Goodfriend, Herschel I. Grossman, Philippe Jorion, Ronald I. McKinnon, John Morgan, Franco Modigliani, Michael Louis Mussa, Piet Rietveld, Agnar Sandmo,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Victor R. Fuchs, Victor A. Ginsburgh, 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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