swap_horiz Thorstein Veblen 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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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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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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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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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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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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Leon Walras

Léon Walras (1834–1910) was a French mathematical economist who served as a professor at the University of Lausanne in S...

French 19TH Century General Equilibrium Marginal Utility

8.8 Great

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Carl Menger

Carl Menger (1840–1921) was an Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economic thought. In his 187...

Austrian 19TH Century Austrian School Marginal Utility

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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Irving Fisher

Irving Fisher (1867–1947) was an American economist, statistician, and inventor who spent his academic career at Yale Un...

American 19TH Century Quantity Theory Monetary Economics

8.7 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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Mancur Olson

Mancur Olson was an American economist and social scientist who lived from 1932 to 1998. He is most famous for his 1965...

American 20TH Century Collective Action Institutional Economics

8.2 Great

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Robert Vishny

Robert Vishny is an American economist and a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is wide...

American Contemporary Behavioral Finance Institutional Economics

7.8 Good

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Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is an American economist who serves as a professor of economics at George Mason University and directs the M...

American Contemporary Institutional Economics Cultural Economics

7.4 Good