The 10 Greatest Economists of all time in no order

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Amartya Sen
John Maynard Keynes
Robert Solow
Paul Samuelson
Milton Friedman
Gary Becker
Hyman Minsky
Kenneth Arrow
Thomas Piketty
Elinor Ostrom

I think Samuelson has had the greatest impact on the vocational practice of economics.

I didn't include any 19th century economists because economics wasn't really a discipline (it was "political economy") in the same sense that it's a discipline today. Contributing to the foundation of economics does not make you an economist.

I'd also like to add that the economists of our time are terrible public intellectuals. Piketty and Krugman are mere spergs compared to Friedman and Galbraith. All of the mathematical training must dulling the wit and charm of economists...

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Say what you will about Hayek but at least he wrote an influential book that could be described as political theory. Ludwig Von Mises on the other hand...