Top 50 Economists in Germany

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest economists in Germany, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 110 economists tracked in Germany, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Carsten Linnemann, Maja Göpel and Hans-Werner Sinn lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 2,637,711 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 97,322, and the largest, Carsten Linnemann, reaches around 1,424,883 people in Germany. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Germany who actively engage with each economist, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Germany and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Carsten Linnemann	1,424,883	94.7%	Economist	Politics & Society
2	Maja Göpel	762,490	90.7%	Economist	Literature
3	Hans-Werner Sinn	450,338	88.4%	Economist	Politics & Society
4	Christine Lagarde	418,261	23.0%	Economist	Politics & Society
5	Bernd Lucke	274,625	85.3%	Economist	Politics & Society
6	Jeffrey Sachs	144,417	14.9%	Economist	Business & Career
7	Nicolaus Copernicus	96,617	6.7%	Economist	Politics & Society
8	Jens Stoltenberg	82,976	6.7%	Economist	Politics & Society
9	Yulia Tymoshenko	79,088	23.0%	Economist	Politics & Society
10	Thomas Sowell	73,937	4.5%	Economist	Business & Career
11	Yanis Varoufakis	73,204	13.3%	Economist	Politics & Society
12	David Hume	72,732	10.1%	Economist	Literature
13	Christian Rieck	70,208	81.2%	Economist	Business & Career
14	Sven Giegold	66,898	89.2%	Economist	Politics & Society
15	John Stuart Mill	64,230	6.7%	Economist	Politics & Society
16	John Maynard Keynes	63,515	12.2%	Economist	Business & Career
17	Anders Fogh Rasmussen	45,947	19.6%	Economist	Politics & Society
18	Kofi Annan	44,921	7.5%	Economist	Politics & Society
19	Thomas Piketty	42,203	11.2%	Economist	Business & Career
20	Niall Ferguson	38,765	6.9%	Economist	Literature
21	Romano Prodi	34,579	4.1%	Economist	Politics & Society
22	Robert Reich	33,321	1.6%	Economist	Politics & Society
23	Amartya Sen	32,951	11.9%	Economist	Business & Career
24	Peter Drucker	32,564	5.3%	Economist	Business & Career
25	Charles Babbage	32,159	7.8%	Economist	Business & Career
26	Alan Greenspan	29,269	6.8%	Economist	Business & Career
27	Dominique Strauss-Kahn	28,270	32.1%	Economist	Politics & Society
28	Janet Yellen	25,191	5.3%	Economist	Business & Career
29	Hans-Hermann Hoppe	23,100	37.4%	Economist	Business & Career
30	Manmohan Singh	22,840	0.6%	Economist	Politics & Society
31	Paul Krugman	21,198	3.2%	Economist	Business & Career
32	Benjamin Graham	17,764	5.2%	Economist	Literature
33	Nassim Nicholas Taleb	15,880	3.8%	Economist	Literature
34	Ibn Khaldun	14,520	7.6%	Economist	Politics & Society
35	Murray Rothbard	14,107	15.2%	Economist	Business & Career
36	Joseph Schumpeter	10,175	19.4%	Economist	Politics & Society
37	Vilfredo Pareto	8,162	17.6%	Economist	Business & Career
38	Pedro Pablo Kuczynski	7,891	5.3%	Economist	Politics & Society
39	Rafael Correa	7,834	3.9%	Economist	Politics & Society
40	Friedrich Hayek	6,618	2.5%	Economist	Business & Career
41	Peter Senge	6,579	16.8%	Economist	Business & Career
42	Daniel Ellsberg	6,501	5.2%	Economist	Business & Career
43	Philip Kotler	6,348	1.9%	Economist	Business & Career
44	Tyler Cowen	6,028	3.7%	Economist	Business & Career
45	Mario Monti	6,018	1.5%	Economist	Games
46	Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala	5,960	12.1%	Economist	Business & Career
47	Aníbal Cavaco Silva	5,724	1.9%	Economist	Business & Career
48	Alejandro Toledo	4,953	3.9%	Economist	Politics & Society
49	Subramanian Swamy	4,715	0.5%	Economist	Politics & Society
50	Pedro Passos Coelho	4,641	1.8%	Economist	Politics & Society