Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of February 2025

The rankings

The top 5% are ranked, the next 5% are listed alphabetically in 1% buckets.

1057 deceased authors have so far been identified, about 1.4% of all authors.

Rank	Author	Score
1	Alberto Francesco Alesina †	3.13
2	Gary S. Becker †	3.17
3	Robert E. Lucas Jr.†	4.36
4	Alan B. Krueger †	4.76
5	Martin S. Feldstein †	5.17
6	Michael C. Jensen †	7.1
7	Edward C. Prescott †	9.54
8	Clive W. J. Granger †	11.02
9	Martin Ravallion †	11.49
10	Zvi Griliches †	11.97
11	Daniel Kahneman †	12.23
12	Halbert White †	15.53
13	Michael McAleer †	15.94
14	Jacob A. Mincer †	16.39
15	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	16.56
16	Paul A. Samuelson †	16.71
17	Martin L. Weitzman †	17.47
18	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	17.95
19	Edward Lazear †	18.53
20	Robert M. Solow †	18.67
21	Kenneth J. Arrow †	20.72
22	Emmanuel Farhi †	21.54
23	Mike Wright †	22.22
24	Gary Charness †	22.77
25	Sherwin Rosen †	22.87
26	Rudiger Dornbusch †	23.04
27	William J. Baumol †	23.83
28	Julio J. Rotemberg †	24.34
29	Stephen A. Ross †	24.96
30	Milton Friedman †	25.66
31	Jonathan Eaton †	25.85
32	Dale W. Jorgenson †	25.86
33	Richard R. Nelson †	27.25
34	Bennett T. McCallum †	27.43
35	Gert G. Wagner †	31.4
36	Mike Tsionas †	32.95
37	Martin Shubik †	33.47
38	Dale T. Mortensen †	40
39	James Tobin †	40.01
40	Allan H. Meltzer †	42.43
41	George J. Stigler †	42.47
42	J. Peter Neary †	42.86
43	Douglass C. North †	45.27
44	David Schmeidler †	45.69
45	Oliver E. Williamson †	46.16
46	Edward E. Leamer †	47.1
47	Clement Allan Tisdell †	47.59
48	Stephan Klasen †	50.78
49	Alex Cukierman †	50.97
50	Bruce D. Smith †	51.26
51	Ngo Van Long †	54.17
52	Philippe Martin †	57.04

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
Richard J. Arnott †, David Backus †, Ansgar Belke †, Gary Chamberlain †, David Dollar †, Stephen Knack †, Assar Lindbeck †, Merton H. Miller †, Wallace E. Oates †, John M. Quigley †, James P. Smith †,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari †, Nicholas Crafts †, Paul A. David †, Richard A. Easterlin †, Jack Hirshleifer †, John McMillan †, James A. Mirrlees †, Franco Modigliani †, Elinor Ostrom †, Piet Rietveld †,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank †, James M. Buchanan †, Thomas F. Cooley †, Harold Demsetz †, John Enrico DiNardo †, Marvin Goodfriend †, Steven Klepper †, Robert E. Lipsey †, Herbert A. Simon †, T. N. Srinivasan †, Finis R. Welch †,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Peter F. Christoffersen †, Ronald H. Coase †, Jacques H. Dreze †, Herschel I. Grossman †, Robert John LaLonde †, Loet Leydesdorff †, Harry M. Markowitz †, Ronald I. McKinnon †, John Morgan †, Agnar Sandmo †, Shlomo Yitzhaki †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Robert E. Baldwin †, Jean-Paul Fitoussi †, Andrew J Hughes Hallett †, Ronald W. Jones †, Michael Louis Mussa †, Roy Radner †, Alan C. Stockman †, Hans R. Stoll †, Adam Wagstaff †,

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Credits:

• Citations from CitEc project by José Manuel Barrueco Cruz, University of Valencia, Spain. Hardware provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE), Valencia, Spain.
• Abstract views and downloads statistics from LogEc project by Sune Karlsson, Örebro University, Sweden.
• Author registration, institution database, and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann.
• RePEc has been initiated by Thomas Krichel.