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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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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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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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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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Eugene Fama

Eugene Fama is an American economist associated with the University of Chicago and known for research in financial econo...

Finance American Contemporary Nobel Laureate

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George Akerlof

George Akerlof is an American economist known for analyzing how markets behave when participants possess unequal informa...

American Contemporary Behavioral Nobel Laureate

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Claudia Goldin

Claudia Goldin is an American economist and economic historian at Harvard University whose research focuses on women, wo...

American Contemporary Nobel Laureate Gender

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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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Joshua Angrist

Joshua Angrist is an American-Israeli economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose work ce...

Contemporary Nobel Laureate American Israeli Labor Economics

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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Angus Deaton

Angus Deaton is a British-American economist born in 1945 who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Scie...

Contemporary Poverty Nobel Laureate Scottish American

8.8 Great

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Lars Peter Hansen

Lars Peter Hansen is an American economist at the University of Chicago who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for developing t...

American Contemporary Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

8.6 Great

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Thomas Sargent

Thomas Sargent is an American economist who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for his empirical research on cause and effect i...

American Contemporary Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

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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

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Edmund Phelps

Edmund Phelps is an American economist known for research on unemployment, inflation, expectations, and economic growth....

American Contemporary Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

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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

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Thomas Cooley

Thomas Cooley is an American economist and academic who served as a professor at New York University's Stern School of B...

American Contemporary Calibration Macroeconomics

7.2 Good