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The 100 most popular Economists in United States

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest economists in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 106 economists tracked in United States, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Robert Reich, Thomas Sowell and Jeffrey Sachs lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 3.2M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 86k, and the largest, Robert Reich, reaches around 1.5M people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each economist, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are updated quarterly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated quarterly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United States, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Robert Reich 1.5M 47.7 48.5% Economist
2 Thomas Sowell 1M 48.1 23.8% Economist
3 Jeffrey Sachs 687k 22.5 37.3% Economist
4 Nicolaus Copernicus 500k 42.9 45.4% Economist
5 Manmohan Singh 404k 44.1 59.5% Economist
6 Alan Greenspan 384k 48.7 44.8% Economist
7 Paul Krugman 300k 39.4 45.4% Economist
8 David Hume 239k 41.5 51.9% Economist
9 John Stuart Mill 224k 43.5 65.3% Economist
10 Janet Yellen 197k 54.8 42.5% Economist
11 Yanis Varoufakis 190k 46.2 10.5% Economist
12 John Maynard Keynes 189k 46.2 37.9% Economist
13 Nassim Nicholas Taleb 181k 41.0 36.4% Economist
14 Charles Babbage 179k 37.1 12.6% Economist
15 Niall Ferguson 160k 41.3 54.7% Economist
16 Tyler Cowen 157k — — Economist
17 Christine Lagarde 128k 49.2 73.8% Economist
18 Winona LaDuke 128k 48.8 51.8% Economist
19 Boyce Watkins 117k 42.8 41.5% Economist
20 Daniel Ellsberg 115k — — Economist
21 Kofi Annan 103k 29.6 43.6% Economist
22 Benjamin Graham 94k 39.8 43.1% Economist
23 Peter Drucker 92k 37.4 38.0% Economist
24 Carlos Salinas de Gortari 83k 28.8 28.7% Economist
25 Friedrich Hayek 82k 46.8 39.2% Economist
26 Pedro Pablo Kuczynski 73k 40.5 41.2% Economist
27 Amartya Sen 73k 44.4 43.5% Economist
28 Thomas Piketty 63k 40.7 30.6% Economist
29 Ibn Khaldun 61k 32.4 5.9% Economist
30 Murray Rothbard 56k 41.1 14.8% Economist
31 Alejandro Toledo 56k 40.9 36.8% Economist
32 Rafael Correa 52k 40.4 39.9% Economist
33 David D. Friedman 51k — — Economist
34 Jens Stoltenberg 48k 41.0 57.2% Economist
35 leopoldo lopez 48k 44.2 64.0% Economist
36 Yulia Tymoshenko 45k 54.7 32.4% Economist
37 John Kenneth Galbraith 45k — — Economist
38 Dominique Strauss-Kahn 42k — — Economist
39 Nouriel Roubini 39k — — Economist
40 Joseph Schumpeter 38k — — Economist
41 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo 35k 38.6 25.1% Economist
42 Hans-Hermann Hoppe 35k — — Economist
43 B. R. Ambedkar 29k 43.0 40.1% Economist
44 Subramanian Swamy 28k 35.7 16.7% Economist
45 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala 20k 45.5 18.7% Economist
46 Vilfredo Pareto 15k — — Economist
47 Peter Senge 15k 44.9 38.6% Economist
48 Axel Kicillof 12k 33.3 45.3% Economist
49 Hakainde Hichilema 12k — — Economist
50 Frédéric Bastiat 12k 38.8 30.3% Economist
51 John Kotter 12k — — Economist
52 Mwai Kibaki 11k — — Economist
53 Philip Kotler 11k 28.8 47.9% Economist
54 Carl Menger 11k — — Economist
55 Ronald Coase 10k 32.8 70.4% Economist
56 Tim Harford 9.9k — — Economist
57 Anders Fogh Rasmussen 9.2k 42.4 81.6% Economist
58 Mar Roxas 8.9k 28.8 49.2% Economist
59 Arseniy Yatsenyuk 7.8k 50.7 46.8% Economist
60 Salam Fayyad 7.1k 28.2 32.1% Economist
61 Xavier Sala-i-Martin 6.2k 52.8 29.7% Economist
62 Lajos Kossuth 6.1k 42.1 67.9% Economist
63 Josefina Vázquez Mota 5.8k 34.9 52.6% Economist
64 Aécio Neves 4.2k 30.0 50.0% Economist
65 Romano Prodi 4.2k 42.2 51.8% Economist
66 Alex Salmond 4.1k 42.9 33.7% Economist
67 Bernd Lucke 4k 45.7 5.3% Economist
68 Andrew Leigh 4k 51.8 29.8% Economist
69 Oleksandr Turchynov 3.4k — — Economist
70 Cellou Dalein Diallo 3.3k 25.5 8.0% Economist
71 Eduardo Campos 3k 36.9 64.7% Economist
72 Rodrigo Constantino 2.4k 33.4 33.9% Economist
73 Eduard Punset 2.1k 41.4 69.6% Economist
74 Don Tapscott 2k — — Economist
75 Sri Mulyani Indrawati 1.9k 36.1 31.5% Economist
76 Rawi Abdelal 1.9k — — Economist
77 Danilo Medina 1.8k 46.3 79.0% Economist
78 Carsten Linnemann 1.5k 36.7 54.4% Economist
79 Miguel Ángel Revilla 1.4k 47.5 47.1% Economist
80 Bruno Covas 1.2k 42.2 41.2% Economist
81 Abhisit Vejjajiva 1.2k 36.7 48.3% Economist
82 Maja Göpel 1.1k 37.9 55.8% Economist
83 Gilberto Kassab 1.1k 39.9 42.8% Economist
84 Hans-Werner Sinn 1.1k 42.7 46.8% Economist
85 Henrique Meirelles 889 41.8 37.5% Economist
86 Aníbal Fernández 808 44.8 49.3% Economist
87 Talaat Harb 727 41.4 5.3% Economist
88 Alfonso Prat-Gay 503 — — Economist
89 Zeti Akhtar Aziz 465 45.9 12.3% Economist
90 Rizal Ramli 385 32.6 23.6% Economist
91 Christian Rieck 292 33.9 49.3% Economist
92 Miroslav Kalousek 257 41.2 27.8% Economist
93 Sven Giegold 245 51.9 31.1% Economist
94 Renato Brunetta 235 47.2 23.8% Economist
95 Eddie Fenech Adami 222 — — Economist
96 Aníbal Cavaco Silva 169 40.2 52.9% Economist
97 Guido Carli 148 35.6 53.3% Economist
98 Pedro Passos Coelho 148 40.2 52.9% Economist
99 Lawrence Gonzi 145 — — Economist
100 Mustapa Mohamed 140 38.0 29.1% Economist

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular economists compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United States and ranks each economist by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is updated quarterly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest economist in United States?

Robert Reich currently leads with an estimated audience of 1.5M people in United States.

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