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Joseph Schumpeter

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Innovation Entrepreneurship 20TH Century Austrian American

9.2 Excellent

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Robert Solow

Robert Solow (1924-2023) was an American economist known for foundational research on economic growth. The Solow growth...

American 20TH Century Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

9.2 Excellent

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Friedrich von Hayek

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20TH Century Austrian School Nobel Laureate Austrian British

9.1 Excellent

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Gary Becker

Gary Becker (1930–2014) was an American economist who won the 1992 Nobel Prize for extending economic analysis to human...

American 20TH Century Human Capital Nobel Laureate

9.0 Excellent

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Robert Lucas

Robert Lucas (1937–2023) was an American economist who won the 1995 Nobel Prize for developing rational expectations the...

American 20TH Century Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

9.0 Excellent

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Ronald Coase

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20TH Century Nobel Laureate British American Transaction Costs

9.0 Excellent

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Simon Kuznets

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20TH Century Nobel Laureate Ukrainian American National Income

8.9 Great

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Esther Duflo

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Contemporary Nobel Laureate French American Development Economics

8.8 Great

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Lloyd Shapley

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American 20TH Century Game Theory Nobel Laureate

8.8 Great

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Harry Markowitz

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Finance American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate

8.8 Great

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John Hicks

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Neoclassical 20TH Century British Nobel Laureate

8.8 Great

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Angus Deaton

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Contemporary Poverty Nobel Laureate Scottish American

8.8 Great

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Leonid Hurwicz

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20TH Century Game Theory Nobel Laureate Polish American

8.7 Great

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Arthur Lewis

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20TH Century Nobel Laureate Development Economics Dual Sector Model

8.5 Great

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Rudiger Dornbusch

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20TH Century German American Exchange Rates Open Economy Macro

8.1 Great

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Raúl Prebisch

Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986) was an Argentine economist whose work became foundational to Latin American structuralist econ...

20TH Century Argentinian Development Economics Dependency Theory

8.0 Great

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Celso Furtado

Celso Furtado (1920–2004) was a Brazilian economist regarded as one of the founders of Latin American structuralism and...

20TH Century Dependency Brazilian Structuralism

7.5 Good

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Ragnar Nurkse

Ragnar Nurkse (1907–1959) was an Estonian-American economist who taught at Columbia University and is regarded as a sign...

20TH Century Estonian Development Economics Balanced Growth

7.4 Good

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Hans Singer

Hans Singer (1910–2006) was a German-British development economist who spent much of his career with the United Nations....

20TH Century German British Development Economics Prebisch Singer

7.4 Good

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Walt Rostow

Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003) was an American economist, political theorist, and government official who served as Nat...

American 20TH Century Modernization Development Economics

6.9 Fair