Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of History and Philosophy of Economics, as of August 2026

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For History and Philosophy of Economics, these are 661 institutions and 743 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1.05	5	0.70
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.33	6	0.47
3	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.49	21	0.41
4	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	4.57	2	0.13
5	Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	6.13	5	0.39
6	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	6.61	16	2.00
7	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	6.76	7	0.91
8	Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	7.51	13	1.79
9	Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics, Orange, California (United States)	9.60	10	1.64
10	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	10.09	7	1.06
11	SKEMA Business School, Lille, France	10.22	1	0.17
-	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	11.26	7	1.04
-	Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States)	11.49	9	1.30
12	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	12.01	4	0.21
13	Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	13.17	3	0.16
-	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) → Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France	13.82	1	0.08
14	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	14.50	3	0.30
15	University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	15.44	2	0.84
16	University of East Anglia → School of Economics, Norwich, United Kingdom	16.05	1	0.54
17	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	17.02	2	0.18
18	Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)	17.71	3	0.89
19	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	18.04	6	0.69
20	Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Center for the Study of Rationality, Jerusalem, Israel	18.23	3	0.94
-	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	20.13	28	0.31
20	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	20.13	28	0.31
22	Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland	21.50	3	0.23
23	University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	21.91	6	0.67
24	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	23.17	1	0.42
-	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Management Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	24.23	1	0.42
-	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	25.33	4	0.30
25	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	26.29	3	0.36
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	26.44	4	0.18
26	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	26.83	1	0.09
27	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	27.23	2	0.20
28	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	27.51	2	0.18
-	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Center for Global Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	28.24	2	0.20
29	Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)	30.31	2	0.27
30	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway	30.79	3	0.83
-	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	31.83	3	0.83
31	University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States)	32.44	1	0.36
32	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France	33.30	10	1.34
33	Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel	33.86	2	0.32
34	University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	35.20	1	0.08
35	University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	37.07	1	0.12
36	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	38.14	3	0.46
37	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany	38.98	2	0.15
38	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	39.61	3	0.21
39	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	39.83	5	0.53
40	Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	40.39	1	0.03
41	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	41.43	1	0.03
-	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)	41.43	1	0.03
42	Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	43.32	3	0.16
43	HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France	43.59	2	0.53
44	George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	43.63	2	0.58
45	Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden	44.18	3	0.33
46	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany	44.51	3	0.35
47	Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	44.78	2	0.25
-	Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden	45.18	3	0.33
48	Università degli Studi di Torino → Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Torino, Italy	45.98	7	5.07
-	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	47.70	3	0.80
48	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom	47.70	3	0.80
50	Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → Experimental Economics Center, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	47.95	4	0.69
51	University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)	49.90	1	0.14
52	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands	50.00	5	0.66
53	Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	50.16	2	0.23
54	Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	50.56	1	0.04
55	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Canberra, Australia	50.77	1	0.05
56	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	52.32	3	0.97
57	Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)	53.50	4	0.42
58	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	55.15	13	0.11
-	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Paris, France	57.90	9	1.18
-	Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)	57.95	3	0.39
-	Université Côte d'Azur → École Universitaire de Recherche d'Économie et de Management (ELMI) → Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion (GREDEG), Nice, France	60.75	15	8.02
58	Université Côte d'Azur → École Universitaire de Recherche d'Économie et de Management (ELMI), Nice, France	60.75	15	8.02
60	Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia	62.62	2	0.43
61	Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	63.24	1	0.11
-	Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia	63.63	2	0.43
-	Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom	63.83	1	0.10
62	Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) → Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris, France	64.08	12	2.98
63	Universität Basel → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Basel, Switzerland	64.23	2	0.13
-	Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business → Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	64.27	1	0.11
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	64.99	5	0.16
64	Princeton University → School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	65.19	1	0.04
-	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	65.28	3	0.33
64	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	65.28	3	0.33
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom	65.58	1	0.07
66	Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX), Paris, France	65.59	3	1.19

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	N. Gregory Mankiw Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2.51
2	Joseph Stiglitz	3.22
3	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	4.94
4	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.98
5	Jack Hirshleifer †	6.87
6	David Laidler University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	8.14
7	David Schmeidler †	10.51
8	Robert Sugden University of East Anglia → School of Economics, Norwich, United Kingdom	10.75
9	Daron Acemoglu Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	11.04
10	Jean Tirole Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) → Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France	12.30
11	Richard R. Nelson †	12.70
12	Vernon L. Smith Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States)	13.65
13	Angus Deaton University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	13.67
14	Drew Fudenberg Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	13.84
15	Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes SKEMA Business School, Lille, France	14.10
16	Bruno S. Frey Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland	16.18
17	Agnar Sandmo †	17.92
18	David Colander †	19.23
19	Dani Rodrik Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	19.44
20	Ernst Fehr Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	20.41
21	Andrew J. Oswald University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	21.78
22	Rafael La Porta National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	21.86
23	John List University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	21.97
24	Itzhak Gilboa Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France	22.14
25	Robert J. Aumann Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Center for the Study of Rationality, Jerusalem, Israel	25.45
26	Peter Howitt Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	27.66
27	Sidney Graham Winter Jr. University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Management Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	28.14
28	Olivier Blanchard Paris School of Economics, Paris, France Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	29.67
29	Roland Benabou	30.66
30	John Bryan Davis Marquette University → College of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States)	33.21
31	Claudia Goldin Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	33.50
32	Luigi Zingales University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	33.97
33	Charles I. Jones Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	34.24
34	David Levine	35.03
35	B. Douglas Bernheim Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	36.80
36	Kevin D. Hoover University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States) Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	37.05
37	Ted Bergstrom University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States)	38.49
38	James Alan Robinson University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	39.93
39	Robert J. Shiller	40.79
40	Sebastian Edwards University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Center for Global Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	42.65
41	Maurice Obstfeld University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	49.20
42	Marc Fleurbaey Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	49.81
43	Alain Marciano Università degli Studi di Torino → Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Torino, Italy	50.27
44	Roger E Backhouse University of Birmingham → Department of Economics, Birmingham, United Kingdom Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE), Rotterdam, Netherlands	51.20
45	James Andreoni University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	51.34
46	Martin Shubik †	52.09
47	Michael David Bordo Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)	52.19
48	Robert W. Dimand Brock University → Department of Economics, St. Catherines, Canada	52.37
49	David E. Card	52.58
50	Guido Tabellini Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	53.50
51	Herve Moulin University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	53.78
52	Anna Jacobson Schwartz †	53.79
53	Steven N. Durlauf University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	55.11
54	Daniel Hamermesh University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)	55.58
55	Guido Imbens Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	55.60
56	John Roemer Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	55.92
57	G.c. Harcourt †	57.90
58	Edward Ludwig Glaeser	59.29
59	Timothy Besley London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	59.51
60	Stephen Williamson University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada	59.57
61	James Konow Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Kiel, Germany Loyola Marymount University → Economics Department, Los Angeles, California (United States)	60.46
62	Thomas I. Palley Hans Böckler Stiftung → Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung (IMK) → Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies, Düsseldorf, Germany	63.24
63	Stephen Morris Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	63.65
64	Yew-Kwang Ng (Y-k. Ng) Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia	64.23
65	Andrew Postlewaite University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	64.91
66	Armin Falk Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany	67.38
67	Joshua D Angrist Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	68.19
68	Sheila Christine Dow University of Stirling → Business School → Economics Division, Stirling, United Kingdom	68.29
69	Heinz D. Kurz	68.42
70	Miles Spencer Kimball University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)	68.67
71	Glenn W. Harrison Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business → Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	71.70
72	Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	73.66
73	Edward Nelson Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	74.02
74	Jorn-Steffen Pischke	77.66

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