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Results of the post-autistic economics reviews Greatest
Twentieth-Century Economists Poll Subscribers to this journal were asked: Who were the greatest economists of the
20th-Century? Greatest here means not
who most influenced the economics profession or ideology, but rather who most
added to our understanding of economic phenomena. Vote
for your top five. The economist who is your first choice will be
credited with five votes, your second choice with four, your third
with three, your fourth with two and your fifth with one. You may
vote for fewer than five if you wish.
Only subscribers to the post-autistic
economics review are eligible to vote. The votes of subscribers
who submit more than one set of votes will not be counted. 1,249 subscribers voted. The
results are as follows. 1. John Maynard Keynes 3,253 2. Joseph Alois
Schumpeter 1,080 3. John Kenneth Galbraith 904 4. Amartya Sen 708 5. Joan Robinson 607 6. Thorstein Veblen 591 7. Michal
Kalecki 481 8. Friedrich
Hayek 469 9. Karl Polanyi 456 10. Piero
Sraffa 383 11. Joseph Stiglitz 333 12. Kenneth
Arrow 320 13. Milton
Friedman 319 13. Paul Samuelson 319 15. Paul Sweezy 268 16. Herman Daly 267 17. Herbert
Simon 250 18. Ronald Coase 246 19. Gunnar Myrdal 216 20. Alfred
Marshall 211 21. Albert Hirschmann 208 22. Nicholoas
Georgescu-Roegen
205 23. Kenneth
Boulding
174 24. Wassily Leontief
153 25. Nicholas Kaldor 141 26. Douglas
North 138 27. Raul Prebisch 102 28. John Hicks 97 29. Ernest Mandel
87 30. Ludwig von Mises 78 31. John R.Commons 76 32. Richard R.Nelson 72 33. George Akerlof 71 34. E. F. Schumacher 67 35. Paul Krugman 64 36. Daniel Kahneman 60 37. Gary Becker 58 38. Robert Heilbroner 57 39. Hyman Minsky 54 40. Thomas Schelling 53 41. Arthur Lewis 52 42. John Nash 51 43. Samir Amin 49 43. James Buchanan 49 45. Celso Furtado 48 45. John von Neuman 48 47. Irving Fisher 43 48. Jan Tinbergen 42 49. Maurice Dobb 41 49.
Simon Kuznets
41 51.
Robert Solow
40 52.
Michel Aglietta
38 52.
Nancy Folbre
38 54. Silvio Gesell 37 54.
Rosa Luxemburg 37 56.
Vladimir Lenin 36 57. Vernon
Smith 35 58.
Mason Gaffney 34 59. Robert
Lucas 32 59.
Oliver Williamson 32 61.
Paul Baran
31 62.
Franois Perroux
28 63.
George Shackle 27 63. Rudolf
Steiner 27 63.
James Tobin 27 66. Luigi Passinetti 26 67.
Brian Arthur 24 67. Deirdre McCloskey
24 67.
Tony Lawson 24 70.
Clarence Ayres 23 70. Knut Wicksell 23 72. Mancur Olson 22 72.
Maurice Allais
22 72.
Ha-Joon Chang
22 72.
Christopher Freeman 22 72.
Max Weber 22 78.
Hernando de Soto 21 78.
Samuel Bowles 20 78.
George Stigler 20 78. Anwar Shaikh 20 78.
Amos Tversky
20 82.
Geoffrey Hodgson 19 82.
Frank Knight 19 82. Vilfredo Pareto
19 82.
Lance Taylor 19 86.
Andre Gunder Frank
18 86.
Immanuel Wallerstein 18 88.
Louis O. Kelso 17 88. Janos Kornai 17 90. Robert Boyer
16 90.
Paul Davidson 16 90.
William Kapp
16 90.
Abba Lerner 16 94.
William Baumol
15 94.
Diane Elson 15 94. Pierangelo Garegnani 15 94.
Roy Harrod
15 94.
Franco Modigliani 15 94.
Richard Thaler
15 94.
William Vickrey
15 For people receiving less than 15 votes go to www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue36/furtherresults.htm Editors Note The exact geographical distribution of the voters in this poll is unknowable. However it is reasonable to assume that it resembles the distribution of visitors to www.paecon.net during the voting period. The site statistics for the month of January 2006, showing the distribution of visitors between the top 30 of a total of 127 countries, are available at www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue36/VisitorStatistics36.htm Thanks to all of you
who voted. EF |