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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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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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Wassily Leontief

Wassily Leontief was a Russian-born American economist who developed input-output analysis, a quantitative method for re...

20TH Century Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate Russian American

8.6 Great

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Ragnar Frisch

Ragnar Frisch was a Norwegian economist who helped establish econometrics as a distinct field combining economic theory,...

Norwegian 20TH Century Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

8.6 Great

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Jan Tinbergen

Jan Tinbergen was a Dutch economist who pioneered the construction and statistical estimation of large-scale economic mo...

20TH Century Dutch Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

8.5 Great

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Edward Prescott

Edward C. Prescott was an American economist known for research in macroeconomics and dynamic economic modeling. He shar...

American 20TH Century Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

8.4 Great

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Gunnar Myrdal

Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist and social scientist whose work addressed monetary theory, economic development, i...

Development 20TH Century Swedish Nobel Laureate

8.4 Great

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Bertil Ohlin

Bertil Ohlin was a Swedish economist and political figure whose work helped establish modern international trade theory....

20TH Century Swedish Nobel Laureate International Trade

8.3 Great

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Michal Kalecki

Michał Kalecki was a Polish Marxist economist who lived from 1899 to 1970 and made profound, independent contributions t...

Polish 20TH Century Macroeconomics Post Keynesian

8.1 Great

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Nils Gottfries

Nils Gottfries is a Swedish economist and professor at Uppsala University, widely recognized for his academic contributi...

Contemporary Swedish Macroeconomics Labor Markets

6.8 Fair