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Rockstar economists – Top 15
Google Hits
- Paul Krugman 1,490,000
- Amartya Sen 1,340,000
- Esther Duflo 832,000
- Abhijit Banerjee 693,000
- Michael Kremer 667,000
- Daniel Kahneman 588,000
- Joseph Stiglitz 520,000
- Alan Greenspan 514,000
- Ben Bernanke 510,000
- Jeffrey Sachs 489,000
- Yanis Varoufakis 461,000
- Thomas Piketty 453,000
- Dani Rodrik 432,000
- Tyler Cowen 428,000
- Ha-Joon Chang 368,000
– Bold indicates that they have published papers in the Real-World Economics Review
– The search format used was: “first name second name” economics
– The Google searches were made on 5 March 2020.
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Gerson Lima / Maria Alejandra Madi
Edward Fullbrook and Jamie Morgan
————— Michael Hudson ————–
Maria Alejandra Madi / Jack Reardon
————- Edward Fullbrook ————-
—————— Steve Keen —————–
————— Richard Smith —————
————– Gustavo Marques————
– Victor Beker and Beniamino Moro –
————– Lars Pålsson Syll ————-
—————– Stuart Birks —————-
Edward Fullbrook and Jamie Morgan
———— Armando Ochangco ———-
Shimshon Bichler / Jonathan Nitzan
————— Mauro Gallegati ————–
————— Herman Daly —————-
————— Asad Zaman —————
—————– C. T. Kurien —————
————— Robert Locke —————-
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I didn´t see Elvis Presley on that list! It indeed surprice me! He should be there. :)
And Peter Sellers! Happy International Women’s Day to all colleagues; perhaps we can include issues of equal pay for equal work, unequal domestic labour, and intimidation and safety and all factors that continue to affect women unfairly globally in the agenda. Hopefully, by March 2070 some of the issues might be addressed.
It is unclear whether such a list is intended to include both live economists and dead ones. It is also unclear whether one can be a brain dead rock star.
Top seven are occupied by Nobel Prize winners (Rank 3 to 5 are recipients of the latest 2019 Nobel Prize). The eighth and ninth are former Chairmen of FRB. This only means how people are influenced by the current topics and politics. Armatya Sen is our remaining hope. The tenth Jeffrey Sacks is notorious of his failed and wrong advice to East European countries (including Russia) for the ugly and unfair return to capitalism.
This posting doesn’t fit the quality of this website. “Rockstars”? Really? Are we still in high school? And using Google hits to evaluate anyone, regardless of the quality of the work smacks of Money Magazine’s lists of “Top Places to Work”, or whatever. I’ll say nothing negative about those in the list, but here are my top 15 economists (and why, in no order of importance):
• Michael Hudson (everything about debt, the now-dominant FIRE sector, and constantly undermining market fundamentalism)
• Steve Keen (my favorite warrior attacking the market fundamentalist orthodoxy)
• Nouriel Roubini (because, like few others, he called 2008 in detail)
• Randall Wray (the spirit of Hyman Minsky, articulate and worthy in his own right)
• James K. Galbraith (artful dissembler of the orthodoxy and of the predatory state, and filling his dad’s shoes quite well)
• Nomi Prinz (articulate with the credibility of a former Wall Street insider)
• Richard Wolff (like my teacher, Abba Lerner, Wolff won’t get deserved awards because of … wait for it … socialism)
• Julie Nelson (pioneering work on women)
• Kate Raworth (her doughnut metaphor is outstanding, as are her YouTube presentations)
• Herman Daly (pioneer of ecological economics)
• Jonathan Nitzan & Shimshon Bichler (their focus on power is rare in the profession)
• David Korten (his work on corporations and founder of the outstanding Yes! Magazine)
plus some good people who post on here and who, in diverse ways, constantly attack the orthodoxy:
• Dean Baker
• Asad Zaman
• Lars Syll
• David Ruccio
Oh, wait, that’s 17; I guess I should not post here because I can no longer count without using my fingers!
The writings of all in my list are refreshingly free from that turgid academic prose which, in part, drove me from the academy, and with which it is still infected.