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Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950) was an Austrian-American economist who coined 'creative destruction' to describe how innov...

Innovation Entrepreneurship 20TH Century Austrian American

9.2 Excellent

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Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman is an American economist who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics for developing New Trade Theory, which e...

American Contemporary Trade Theory Nobel Laureate

9.1 Excellent

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Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish-American economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose research...

Contemporary Development Nobel Laureate Institutions

9.1 Excellent

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Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz is an American economist whose research examines how unequal access to information affects markets and p...

American Contemporary Nobel Laureate Inequality

9.0 Excellent

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Jean Tirole

Jean Tirole is a French economist who won the 2014 Nobel Prize for his analysis of market power and regulation, providin...

French Contemporary Nobel Laureate Regulation

9.0 Excellent

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David Card

David Card is a Canadian-American labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He received h...

Contemporary Nobel Laureate Canadian American Labor Economics

9.0 Excellent

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Ben Bernanke

Ben Bernanke is an American economist who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize for his research on banks and financial crises, an...

American Contemporary Nobel Laureate Monetary Policy

8.9 Great

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Paul Milgrom

Paul Milgrom is an American economist and Stanford University professor who was awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in...

American Contemporary Market Design Nobel Laureate

8.9 Great

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Paul Romer

Paul Romer is an American economist known for developing central parts of endogenous growth theory. He shared the 2018 N...

American Innovation Contemporary Nobel Laureate

8.8 Great

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Alvin Roth

Alvin Roth is an American economist at Stanford who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize for the theory and practice of market de...

American Contemporary Market Design Game Theory

8.7 Great

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Peter Diamond

Peter Diamond is an American economist whose work spans public finance, social insurance, pensions, and labor-market sea...

American Contemporary Nobel Laureate Public Economics

8.7 Great

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Raj Chetty

Raj Chetty is an Indian-born American economist at Harvard University whose research focuses on public economics, inequa...

Contemporary Opportunity Indian American Inequality

8.7 Great

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Philippe Aghion

Philippe Aghion is a French economist known for research on economic growth, innovation, competition, and industrial org...

French Innovation Contemporary Endogenous Growth

8.5 Great

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Myron Scholes

Myron Scholes is a Canadian-American economist whose research has focused on financial markets, taxation, and the valuat...

Finance Contemporary Nobel Laureate Canadian American

8.3 Great

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Emmanuel Saez

Emmanuel Saez is a French-American economist at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in public economics...

Contemporary Inequality French American Public Economics

8.3 Great

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Peter Howitt

Peter Howitt is a Canadian economist known for research on economic growth, innovation, and monetary economics. With Phi...

Innovation Contemporary Canadian Endogenous Growth

8.1 Great

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Stefanie Stantcheva

Stefanie Stantcheva is an economist at Harvard University whose research spans public economics, taxation, innovation, s...

Contemporary Taxation Public Economics Bulgarian American

8.1 Great

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Gabriel Zucman

Gabriel Zucman is a French economist at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in public economics, taxati...

Contemporary French American Public Economics Tax Havens

8.0 Great

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Samuel Kortum

Samuel Kortum is an American economist and a professor at Yale University. He is recognized for his collaborative resear...

American Innovation Contemporary International Trade

8.0 Great

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Jonathan Gruber

Jonathan Gruber is an American economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, widely recognized f...

American Contemporary Health Insurance Aca

7.6 Good