swap_horiz Carl Menger Alternatives

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

Leon Walras

Léon Walras (1834–1910) was a French mathematical economist who served as a professor at the University of Lausanne in S...

French 19TH Century General Equilibrium Marginal Utility

8.8 Great

11

Irving Fisher

Irving Fisher (1867–1947) was an American economist, statistician, and inventor who spent his academic career at Yale Un...

American 19TH Century Quantity Theory Monetary Economics

8.7 Great

12

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

13

Thomas Robert Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus was an English clergyman, scholar, and political economist who lived from 1766 to 1834. In the fir...

Classical 19TH Century British Demographics

8.6 Great

14

Knut Wicksell

Knut Wicksell (1851–1926) was a Swedish economist whose work heavily influenced both the Austrian School and the Stockho...

19TH Century Swedish Monetary Theory Natural Rate

8.4 Great

15

William Stanley Jevons

William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) was a British economist and logician who taught at Owens College and later University...

19TH Century British Classical Economics Marginal Utility

8.4 Great

16

Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) was an American economist and sociologist who served as a primary founder of institutional...

American 19TH Century Institutional Economics Conspicuous Consumption

8.3 Great

17

Francis Edgeworth

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was an Irish-British economist and statistician who lived from 1845 to 1926. He is best remembe...

19TH Century Neoclassical Irish British Utility Theory

8.2 Great

18

Ernst Fehr

Ernst Fehr is an Austrian economist currently serving as a Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economics at the...

Austrian Contemporary Behavioral Economics Social Preferences

8.1 Great

19

Frédéric Bastiat

Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist, writer, and legislator who became a prominent advocate for classical liberalism...

French 19TH Century Free Trade Classical Liberal

7.7 Good

20

Nassau Senior

Nassau William Senior (1790–1864) was a prominent British classical economist and lawyer. He became the first Drummond P...

19TH Century British Classical Economics Wages

6.9 Fair