swap_horiz Arthur Cecil Pigou Alternatives

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Alfred Marshall

Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) was a British economist whose work helped establish neoclassical economics and shape modern...

19TH Century Neoclassical British Microeconomics

9.2 Excellent

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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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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

Friedrich August von Hayek was an Austrian-British economist and political thinker associated with the Austrian school o...

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

Ronald Coase (1910–2013) was a British-born economist who spent much of his academic career in the United States and was...

20TH Century Nobel Laureate British American Transaction Costs

9.0 Excellent

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Simon Kuznets

Simon Kuznets was an American economist and economic statistician born in the Russian Empire, in territory that is now U...

20TH Century Nobel Laureate Ukrainian American National Income

8.9 Great

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Lloyd Shapley

Lloyd Shapley (1923–2016) was an American mathematician and economist who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize for developing coo...

American 20TH Century Game Theory Nobel Laureate

8.8 Great

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Harry Markowitz

Harry Markowitz was an American economist whose work established modern portfolio theory as a formal approach to investm...

Finance American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate

8.8 Great

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John Hicks

John Hicks (1904–1989) was a British economist who received the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside...

Neoclassical 20TH Century British Nobel Laureate

8.8 Great

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Leonid Hurwicz

Leonid Hurwicz was a Polish-born American economist and a founder of mechanism design theory, which studies how institut...

20TH Century Game Theory Nobel Laureate Polish American

8.7 Great

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Douglass North

Douglass North was an American economist and economic historian whose work examined how institutions shape economic perf...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Institutional Economics

8.7 Great

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Franco Modigliani

Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist whose research influenced household finance, macroeconomics, and cor...

20TH Century Italian American Nobel Laureate Corporate Finance

8.7 Great

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Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923) was an Italian engineer, sociologist, and political economist who succeeded Léon Walras at t...

Italian 19TH Century Welfare Economics General Equilibrium

8.7 Great

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Clive Granger

Clive Granger was a Welsh economist whose work transformed the analysis of economic time series. He shared the 2003 Nobe...

Time Series 20TH Century British Nobel Laureate

8.4 Great

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Frank Ramsey

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930) was a British mathematician, philosopher, and economist at the University of Cambridge...

20TH Century British Growth Theory Optimal Taxation

8.4 Great

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Joan Robinson

Joan Robinson was a prominent British economist who lived from 1903 to 1983 and was closely associated with the Universi...

20TH Century British Post Keynesian Imperfect Competition

8.1 Great

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Marcus Fleming

John Marcus Fleming was a British economist who served as the Deputy Director of Research at the International Monetary...

20TH Century British International Economics Mundell Fleming

7.7 Good

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Roy Harrod

Roy Harrod was a prominent British economist who spent the majority of his academic career at Oxford University. He is m...

20TH Century British Growth Theory Keynesian

7.6 Good