swap_horiz Jan Tinbergen Alternatives

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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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Guido Imbens

Guido Imbens is a Dutch-American economist and professor at Stanford University whose research focuses on econometrics a...

Contemporary Causal Inference Nobel Laureate Dutch American

8.7 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

8.6 Great

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James Tobin

James Tobin was an American economist associated with Keynesian macroeconomics and the study of financial markets. He re...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Portfolio Theory

8.6 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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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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Lawrence Klein

Lawrence Klein was an American economist who developed large-scale econometric models for studying national economies. H...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Econometrics

8.2 Great