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The Most Famous

ECONOMISTS from Israel

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This page contains a list of the greatest Israeli Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 315 Economists, 1 of which were born in Israel. This makes Israel the birth place of the 58th most number of Economists behind Cuba and Portugal.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Economists of all time. This list of famous Israeli Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Yochai Benkler (1964 - )

With an HPI of 34.00, Yochai Benkler is the most famous Israeli Economist.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Yochai Benkler (; born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. In academia he is best known for coining the term commons-based peer production and his widely cited 2006 book The Wealth of Networks.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as economists born between 1964 and 1964. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living economists include Yochai Benkler.

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