swap_horiz John Hicks 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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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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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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John Harsanyi

John Harsanyi was a Hungarian-born American economist whose work provided a systematic method for analyzing games in whi...

20TH Century Bayesian Game Theory Nobel Laureate

8.6 Great

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William Sharpe

William F. Sharpe is an American economist whose research helped establish modern financial economics. He shared the 199...

Finance American 20TH Century 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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George Stigler

George Stigler (1911–1991) was an American economist and a prominent leader of the Chicago School of Economics. He was a...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Regulation

8.6 Great

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Arthur Cecil Pigou

Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959) was a British economist who succeeded Alfred Marshall as the Professor of Political Econo...

20TH Century British Welfare Economics Externalities

8.5 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