List of renowned economists, including their biggest achievements and whether they have won a Nobel Prize

List generated from Copilot:

Economist	Biggest Achievement	Nationality	Nobel Prize Winner
Adam Smith	“The Wealth of Nations” – Father of Modern Economics	Scottish	No
John Maynard Keynes	Keynesian Economics	British	No
Karl Marx	“Das Kapital” – Marxism	German	No
Milton Friedman	Monetarism and Free-Market Economics	American	Yes
Joseph Stiglitz	Contributions to Information Asymmetry	American	Yes
Paul Samuelson	“Economics” – Influential Economics Textbook	American	Yes
Friedrich Hayek	Austrian School of Economics	Austrian	Yes
David Ricardo	Theory of Comparative Advantage	British	No
John Stuart Mill	Principles of Political Economy	British	No
Thomas Malthus	Malthusian Theory of Population	British	No
Amartya Sen	Welfare Economics and Development Economics	Indian	Yes
Paul Krugman	New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography	American	Yes
Robert Lucas	Rational Expectations Theory	American	Yes
Joseph Schumpeter	Theory of Economic Development	Austrian-American	No
Gunnar Myrdal	Research on Economic Theory and Social Policy	Swedish	Yes
Joan Robinson	Contributions to Keynesian Economics	British	No
Kenneth Arrow	Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem	American	Yes
Thomas Sowell	Contributions to Economic Theory and Social Policy	American	No
Edmund Phelps	Research on Macroeconomic Policy	American	Yes
George Akerlof	Information Asymmetry in Markets	American	Yes
James Tobin	Contributions to Macroeconomics	American	No
William Nordhaus	Climate Change Economics	American	Yes
Elinor Ostrom	Governing the Commons	American	Yes
Robert Solow	Growth Theory	American	Yes
Gary Becker	Human Capital Theory	American	Yes
Franco Modigliani	Life-Cycle Hypothesis	Italian-American	Yes
Richard Thaler	Behavioral Economics	American	Yes
Oliver Williamson	Transaction Cost Economics	American	Yes
Joseph E. Stiglitz	Information Asymmetry in Markets	American	Yes
Paul Romer	Endogenous Growth Theory	American	Yes
Christopher Sims	Vector Autoregressions	American	Yes
Michael Spence	Job Market Signaling	American	Yes
Robert Shiller	Behavioral Finance	American	Yes
Jean Tirole	Industrial Organization	French	Yes
Peter Diamond	Search Models in Macroeconomics	American	Yes
Thomas Piketty	Research on Wealth Inequality	French	No
Esther Duflo	Experimental Approach to Development Economics	French-American	Yes
Abhijit Banerjee	Experimental Approach to Development Economics	Indian-American	Yes
Angus Deaton	Consumption, Poverty, and Welfare	British-American	Yes
Carmen Reinhart	Research on Financial Crises	American	No
Kenneth Rogoff	Research on Financial Crises	American	No
Richard Posner	Law and Economics	American	No
Paul Romer	Endogenous Growth Theory	American	Yes
Christopher Sims	Vector Autoregressions	American	Yes
Michael Spence	Job Market Signaling	American	Yes
Robert Shiller	Behavioral Finance	American	Yes
Jean Tirole	Industrial Organization	French	Yes
Peter Diamond	Search Models in Macroeconomics	American	Yes
Thomas Piketty	Research on Wealth Inequality	French	No
Esther Duflo	Experimental Approach to Development Economics	French-American	Yes
Abhijit Banerjee	Experimental Approach to Development Economics	Indian-American	Yes
Angus Deaton	Consumption, Poverty, and Welfare	British-American	Yes
Carmen Reinhart	Research on Financial Crises	American	No
Kenneth Rogoff	Research on Financial Crises	American	No
Richard Posner	Law and Economics	American	No

List from Deepseek AI:

Here’s a list of 100 world-renowned economists sorted by popularity (descending order), along with one of their biggest achievements and their nationality:

Rank	Name	Biggest Achievement	Nationality
1	Adam Smith	Father of modern economics; authored The Wealth of Nations	Scottish
2	John Maynard Keynes	Founder of Keynesian economics; revolutionized macroeconomics	British
3	Karl Marx	Developed Marxist economics; authored Das Kapital	German
4	Milton Friedman	Leader of the Chicago School of Economics; monetarism advocate	American
5	Friedrich Hayek	Nobel Prize winner; contributed to the theory of money and economic fluctuations	Austrian-British
6	Paul Samuelson	First American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics; authored foundational textbooks	American
7	David Ricardo	Developed the theory of comparative advantage	British
8	Alfred Marshall	Pioneered neoclassical economics; authored Principles of Economics	British
9	Joseph Schumpeter	Introduced the concept of “creative destruction”	Austrian
10	Thomas Malthus	Developed the Malthusian theory of population growth	British
11	John Stuart Mill	Advanced classical economics; authored Principles of Political Economy	British
12	Amartya Sen	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to welfare economics and development economics	Indian
13	Gary Becker	Nobel Prize winner; applied economics to social issues like discrimination and family	American
14	Robert Solow	Nobel Prize winner; developed the Solow-Swan growth model	American
15	Arthur Pigou	Founded welfare economics; introduced the concept of externalities	British
16	Irving Fisher	Developed the quantity theory of money and Fisher equation	American
17	Kenneth Arrow	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to general equilibrium theory and social choice theory	American
18	Paul Krugman	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to international trade and economic geography	American
19	Simon Kuznets	Nobel Prize winner; developed the concept of GDP	American
20	Leon Walras	Founder of general equilibrium theory	French
21	Vilfredo Pareto	Introduced the Pareto efficiency concept	Italian
22	Jean-Baptiste Say	Formulated Say’s Law of markets	French
23	Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk	Developed the Austrian theory of capital and interest	Austrian
24	Ludwig von Mises	Leader of the Austrian School of Economics	Austrian-American
25	Wassily Leontief	Nobel Prize winner; developed input-output analysis	Russian-American
26	Ronald Coase	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to transaction cost economics	British-American
27	George Akerlof	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to asymmetric information theory	American
28	Joseph Stiglitz	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to information asymmetry and development economics	American
29	Robert Lucas	Nobel Prize winner; developed the Lucas critique	American
30	Elinor Ostrom	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to governance of common resources	American
31	Daniel Kahneman	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to behavioral economics	Israeli-American
32	Richard Thaler	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to behavioral economics	American
33	Angus Deaton	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to consumption, poverty, and welfare	British-American
34	Thomas Piketty	Authored Capital in the Twenty-First Century; inequality research	French
35	John Nash	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to game theory	American
36	Robert Mundell	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to optimum currency areas	Canadian
37	James Tobin	Nobel Prize winner; developed the Tobin tax	American
38	Douglass North	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to economic history and institutional economics	American
39	Oliver Williamson	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to transaction cost economics	American
40	Herbert Simon	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to bounded rationality	American
41	Gunnar Myrdal	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to development economics	Swedish
42	Friedrich List	Advocated for national systems of political economy	German
43	Joan Robinson	Contributions to imperfect competition and Keynesian economics	British
44	Piero Sraffa	Contributions to the theory of value and distribution	Italian
45	Thorstein Veblen	Introduced the concept of “conspicuous consumption”	American
46	John Hicks	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to general equilibrium theory	British
47	Ragnar Frisch	Nobel Prize winner; co-founded econometrics	Norwegian
48	Jan Tinbergen	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to econometrics	Dutch
49	Franco Modigliani	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to savings and financial markets	Italian-American
50	Maurice Allais	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to market efficiency	French
51	Tjalling Koopmans	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to linear programming	Dutch-American
52	Gérard Debreu	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to general equilibrium theory	French-American
53	Harry Markowitz	Nobel Prize winner; developed modern portfolio theory	American
54	Merton Miller	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to corporate finance	American
55	William Sharpe	Nobel Prize winner; developed the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)	American
56	Myron Scholes	Nobel Prize winner; co-developed the Black-Scholes model	Canadian-American
57	Robert Fogel	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to economic history	American
58	George Stigler	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to industrial organization	American
59	James Buchanan	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to public choice theory	American
60	Vernon Smith	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to experimental economics	American
61	Edward Prescott	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to dynamic macroeconomics	American
62	Finn Kydland	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to time consistency in economic policy	Norwegian
63	Edmund Phelps	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to macroeconomic theory	American
64	Eric Maskin	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to mechanism design theory	American
65	Roger Myerson	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to mechanism design theory	American
66	Leonid Hurwicz	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to mechanism design theory	Polish-American
67	Alvin Roth	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to market design	American
68	Christopher Sims	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to empirical macroeconomics	American
69	Thomas Schelling	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to game theory and conflict resolution	American
70	Robert Shiller	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to behavioral finance	American
71	Eugene Fama	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to efficient market hypothesis	American
72	Lars Peter Hansen	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to econometrics	American
73	Jean Tirole	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to industrial organization	French
74	Esther Duflo	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to development economics	French-American
75	Abhijit Banerjee	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to development economics	Indian-American
76	Michael Kremer	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to development economics	American
77	Richard Stone	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to national accounting	British
78	Trygve Haavelmo	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to econometrics	Norwegian
79	James Mirrlees	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to optimal taxation	British
80	William Vickrey	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to auction theory	Canadian-American
81	Robert Aumann	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to game theory	Israeli-American
82	Lloyd Shapley	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to game theory	American
83	Peter Diamond	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to market theory	American
84	Dale Mortensen	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to labor economics	American
85	Christopher Pissarides	Nobel Prize winner; contributions to labor economics	Cypriot-British
86	Alvin Hansen	Developed the IS-LM model	American
87	Hyman Minsky	Developed the Financial Instability Hypothesis	American
88	Arthur Laffer	Developed the Laffer Curve	American
89	Anne Krueger	Contributions to trade policy and rent-seeking	American
90	Jagdish Bhagwati	Contributions to international trade theory	Indian-American
91	Dani Rodrik	Contributions to globalization and development economics	Turkish-American
92	Ha-Joon Chang	Contributions to development economics	South Korean
93	Hernando de Soto	Contributions to property rights and informal economies	Peruvian
94	Jeffrey Sachs	Contributions to development economics and poverty reduction	American
95	Daron Acemoglu	Contributions to political economy and economic growth	Turkish-American
96	Andrei Shleifer	Contributions to behavioral finance and institutional economics	Russian-American
97	Robert Barro	Contributions to macroeconomics and economic growth	American
98	Nouriel Roubini	Predicted the 2008 financial crisis	American
99	Carmen Reinhart	Contributions to financial crises and debt research	American
100	Kenneth Rogoff	Contributions to financial crises and debt research	American

This list includes economists from various schools of thought, time periods, and regions, highlighting their contributions to the field of economics.