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Top 100 Economists in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest economists in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 104 economists tracked in Italy, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Romano Prodi, Nicolaus Copernicus and Christine Lagarde lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1.4M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 23k, and the largest, Romano Prodi, reaches around 529k people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each economist, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

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

Audience size

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

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Italy. 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 Italy, 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 Italy. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Jens Stoltenberg 13k 40.4 38.7% Economist
27 Nassim Nicholas Taleb 12k 42.4 40.3% Economist
28 Ibn Khaldun 9.7k 32.2 6.4% Economist
29 Benjamin Graham 9.1k 30.7 50.2% Economist
30 Rafael Correa 8.7k 41.0 51.8% Economist
31 Robert Reich 8k 36.8 43.8% Economist
32 Janet Yellen 7.4k 53.0 53.7% Economist
33 Nouriel Roubini 4.9k Economist
34 Murray Rothbard 4.3k 41.0 17.4% Economist
35 Joseph Schumpeter 4.3k Economist
36 John Kenneth Galbraith 4.2k Economist
37 Hans-Hermann Hoppe 4.2k Economist
38 Bernd Lucke 3.7k 45.2 8.3% Economist
39 Axel Kicillof 3.6k 28.8 24.4% Economist
40 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala 3.5k 45.0 23.1% Economist
41 Carsten Linnemann 3.4k 39.9 48.2% Economist
42 Friedrich Hayek 3.3k 27.3 64.3% Economist
43 Ronald Coase 3.3k 32.7 72.1% Economist
44 Daniel Ellsberg 3.2k Economist
45 leopoldo lopez 3k 39.0 72.9% Economist
46 Pedro Passos Coelho 2.6k 40.0 50.5% Economist
47 Peter Senge 2.5k 44.1 42.8% Economist
48 Lajos Kossuth 2.4k 43.1 72.0% Economist
49 Carl Menger 2.2k Economist
50 Hans-Werner Sinn 2.1k 46.0 49.8% Economist

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy 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 refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest economist in Italy?

Romano Prodi currently leads with an estimated audience of 529k people in Italy.

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