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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 2.7M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 80k, and the largest, Robert Reich, reaches around 1.1M 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 1.1M 47.7 48.5% Economist
2 Thomas Sowell 960k 48.1 23.8% Economist
3 Jeffrey Sachs 696k 22.5 37.3% Economist
4 Nicolaus Copernicus 483k 42.9 45.4% Economist
5 Manmohan Singh 399k 44.1 59.5% Economist
6 Alan Greenspan 385k 48.7 44.8% Economist
7 Paul Krugman 288k 39.4 45.4% Economist
8 David Hume 229k 41.5 51.9% Economist
9 John Stuart Mill 215k 43.5 65.3% Economist
10 Janet Yellen 189k 54.8 42.5% Economist
11 Charles Babbage 182k 37.1 12.6% Economist
12 John Maynard Keynes 181k 46.2 37.9% Economist
13 Yanis Varoufakis 179k 46.2 10.5% Economist
14 Nassim Nicholas Taleb 173k 41.0 36.4% Economist
15 Tyler Cowen 158k — — Economist
16 Niall Ferguson 153k 41.3 54.7% Economist
17 Christine Lagarde 133k 49.2 73.8% Economist
18 Kofi Annan 122k 29.6 43.6% Economist
19 Daniel Ellsberg 118k — — Economist
20 Boyce Watkins 116k 42.8 41.5% Economist
21 Peter Drucker 106k 37.4 38.0% Economist
22 Benjamin Graham 91k 39.8 43.1% Economist
23 Winona LaDuke 90k 48.8 51.8% Economist
24 Carlos Salinas de Gortari 79k 28.8 28.7% Economist
25 Friedrich Hayek 79k 46.8 39.2% Economist
26 Amartya Sen 74k 44.4 43.5% Economist
27 Pedro Pablo Kuczynski 73k 40.5 41.2% Economist
28 Ibn Khaldun 62k 32.4 5.9% Economist
29 Jens Stoltenberg 59k 41.0 57.2% Economist
30 leopoldo lopez 57k 44.2 64.0% Economist
31 Alejandro Toledo 56k 40.9 36.8% Economist
32 Murray Rothbard 54k 41.1 14.8% Economist
33 David D. Friedman 52k — — Economist
34 Thomas Piketty 51k 40.7 30.6% Economist
35 Rafael Correa 50k 40.4 39.9% Economist
36 John Kenneth Galbraith 45k — — Economist
37 Yulia Tymoshenko 44k 54.7 32.4% Economist
38 Dominique Strauss-Kahn 43k — — Economist
39 Nouriel Roubini 40k — — Economist
40 Joseph Schumpeter 39k — — Economist
41 Hans-Hermann Hoppe 35k — — Economist
42 Subramanian Swamy 33k 35.7 16.7% Economist
43 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo 28k 38.6 25.1% Economist
44 B. R. Ambedkar 28k 43.0 40.1% 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 John Kotter 12k — — Economist
50 Frédéric Bastiat 12k 38.8 30.3% Economist
51 Mwai Kibaki 11k — — Economist
52 Carl Menger 11k — — Economist
53 Philip Kotler 10k 28.8 47.9% Economist
54 Ronald Coase 10k 32.8 70.4% Economist
55 Tim Harford 10k — — Economist
56 Anders Fogh Rasmussen 9.1k 42.4 81.6% Economist
57 Hakainde Hichilema 8.1k — — Economist
58 Salam Fayyad 7.2k 28.2 32.1% Economist
59 Alex Salmond 6.9k 42.9 33.7% Economist
60 Arseniy Yatsenyuk 6.4k 50.7 46.8% Economist
61 Xavier Sala-i-Martin 6.3k 52.8 29.7% Economist
62 Lajos Kossuth 6.2k 42.1 67.9% Economist
63 Mar Roxas 5.8k 28.8 49.2% Economist
64 Josefina Vázquez Mota 5.7k 34.9 52.6% Economist
65 Aécio Neves 5.3k 30.0 50.0% Economist
66 Romano Prodi 4.2k 42.2 51.8% Economist
67 Andrew Leigh 4.1k 51.8 29.8% Economist
68 Bernd Lucke 4k 45.7 5.3% 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 Carsten Linnemann 2.3k 36.7 54.4% Economist
73 Eduard Punset 2.1k 41.4 69.6% Economist
74 Don Tapscott 2k — — Economist
75 Rawi Abdelal 1.9k — — Economist
76 Rodrigo Constantino 1.9k 33.4 33.9% Economist
77 Gilberto Kassab 1.6k 39.9 42.8% Economist
78 Miguel Ángel Revilla 1.4k 47.5 47.1% Economist
79 Sri Mulyani Indrawati 1.2k 36.1 31.5% Economist
80 Danilo Medina 1.2k 46.3 79.0% Economist
81 Abhisit Vejjajiva 1.2k 36.7 48.3% Economist
82 Maja Göpel 1.1k 37.9 55.8% Economist
83 Henrique Meirelles 1.1k 41.8 37.5% Economist
84 Hans-Werner Sinn 1k 42.7 46.8% Economist
85 Bruno Covas 1k 42.2 41.2% Economist
86 Aníbal Fernández 808 44.8 49.3% Economist
87 Talaat Harb 729 41.4 5.3% Economist
88 Alfonso Prat-Gay 509 — — Economist
89 Zeti Akhtar Aziz 470 45.9 12.3% Economist
90 Renato Brunetta 319 47.2 23.8% Economist
91 Rizal Ramli 295 32.6 23.6% Economist
92 Christian Rieck 279 33.9 49.3% Economist
93 Miroslav Kalousek 261 41.2 27.8% Economist
94 Sven Giegold 244 51.9 31.1% Economist
95 Eddie Fenech Adami 226 — — Economist
96 Aníbal Cavaco Silva 169 40.2 52.9% Economist
97 Lawrence Gonzi 148 — — Economist
98 Pedro Passos Coelho 148 40.2 52.9% Economist
99 Guido Carli 145 35.6 53.3% Economist
100 Mustapa Mohamed 141 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 1.1M people in United States.

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