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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

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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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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

8.9 Great

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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

8.9 Great

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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

8.9 Great

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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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Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo is a French-American economist at MIT who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize for her experimental approach to pove...

Contemporary Nobel Laureate French American Development Economics

8.8 Great

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Paul Romer

Paul Romer is an American economist known for developing central parts of endogenous growth theory. He shared the 2018 N...

American Innovation Contemporary Nobel Laureate

8.8 Great

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Robert Shiller

Robert Shiller is an American economist at Yale who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for his empirical work on asset price vo...

American Contemporary Behavioral Finance Nobel Laureate

8.8 Great

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Roger Myerson

Roger Myerson is an American economist whose research has made foundational contributions to game theory, mechanism desi...

American Contemporary Game Theory Nobel Laureate

8.8 Great

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Philippe Aghion

Philippe Aghion is a French economist known for research on economic growth, innovation, competition, and industrial org...

French Innovation Contemporary Endogenous Growth

8.5 Great

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Nathan Nunn

Nathan Nunn is a Canadian economist whose research combines economic history, development economics, and cultural econom...

Contemporary Canadian Development Persistence

8.0 Great

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Samuel Kortum

Samuel Kortum is an American economist and a professor at Yale University. He is recognized for his collaborative resear...

American Innovation Contemporary International Trade

8.0 Great

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Alex Tabarrok

Alexander Tabarrok is a Canadian-American economist and a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Bartl...

Innovation Contemporary Market Design Canadian American

7.2 Good