Most Influential Economists
Most Influential Economists is a structured people dataset with 18 entries. Its fields include Name, Nationality, Born. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 18 rows
- Fields
- 6 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: Name, Nationality, Born, Died, School, and 1 more.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Born range
- 1,723 to 1,971
- Across 18 preview rows
- Died range
- 0 to 2,014
- Across 18 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Name, Nationality, and Born across people entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 18 downloadable records
Name↕ | Nationality↕ | Born↕ | Died↕ | School↕ | Key Idea↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adam Smith | Scottish | 1,723 | 1,790 | Classical | The Wealth of Nations (1776), invisible hand, division of labor |
Karl Marx | German | 1,818 | 1,883 | Marxist | Das Kapital, labor theory of value, critique of capitalism |
John Maynard Keynes | British | 1,883 | 1,946 | Keynesian | General Theory (1936), government spending in recessions |
Friedrich Hayek | Austrian-British | 1,899 | 1,992 | Austrian | The Road to Serfdom, price signals, Nobel 1974 |
Milton Friedman | American | 1,912 | 2,006 | Chicago / Monetarist | Monetarism, free markets, Capitalism and Freedom, Nobel 1976 |
David Ricardo | British | 1,772 | 1,823 | Classical | Comparative advantage, theory of rent |
Thomas Malthus | British | 1,766 | 1,834 | Classical | Population grows geometrically while food grows arithmetically |
Alfred Marshall | British | 1,842 | 1,924 | Neoclassical | Principles of Economics (1890), supply and demand scissors |
Joseph Schumpeter | Austrian-American | 1,883 | 1,950 | Austrian / Evolutionary | Creative destruction, entrepreneurship as engine of growth |
Paul Samuelson | American | 1,915 | 2,009 | Neo-Keynesian | First American Nobel in economics (1970), dominant textbook for decades |
John Kenneth Galbraith | Canadian-American | 1,908 | 2,006 | Institutionalist | The Affluent Society, countervailing power |
Amartya Sen | Indian | 1,933 | 0 | Welfare economics | Development as Freedom, capability approach, Nobel 1998 |
Gary Becker | American | 1,930 | 2,014 | Chicago | Human capital, economics of discrimination, Nobel 1992 |
Paul Krugman | American | 1,953 | 0 | Neo-Keynesian | New trade theory, economic geography, Nobel 2008, NYT columnist |
Thomas Piketty | French | 1,971 | 0 | Inequality | Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), r > g |
Joseph Stiglitz | American | 1,943 | 0 | Neo-Keynesian | Information asymmetry, Nobel 2001, globalization critic |
Irving Fisher | American | 1,867 | 1,947 | Neoclassical / Monetary | Quantity theory of money, debt deflation theory |
Elinor Ostrom | American | 1,933 | 2,012 | Institutional | Governing the Commons, first woman Nobel economics 2009 |
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Frequently asked questions
How is Most Influential Economists organized?
The table starts in the source data's default order. You can sort and filter the loaded rows by the displayed fields.
How much data is available on this page?
This dataset contains 18 entries, and every row is available in the table and in the downloadable files.
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Yes. CSV, JSON, and Excel downloads contain all 18 rows. Before republishing the data, review the source and any usage terms listed on this page; dtbse does not replace the original source's licensing terms.
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