swap_horiz Merton Miller 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oliver Williamson

Oliver E. Williamson was an American economist whose work explained how firms, contracts, and markets organize economic...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Transaction Cost

8.5 Great

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Robert Fogel

Robert Fogel was an American economist and economic historian who helped establish cliometrics, the systematic use of ec...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Cliometrics

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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Dale Mortensen

Dale Mortensen was an American economist whose research focused on labor markets, unemployment, and the process by which...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Labor Economics

8.3 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

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Theodore Schultz

Theodore Schultz was an American economist whose research addressed agricultural development, education, and investment...

American 20TH Century Human Capital Nobel Laureate

8.2 Great