The Most Famous
ECONOMISTS from Serbia
This page contains a list of the greatest Serbian Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 414 Economists, 1 of which were born in Serbia. This makes Serbia the birth place of the 51st most number of Economists behind Lithuania, and Mexico.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Serbian Economists of all time. This list of famous Serbian Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Branko Milanović (b. 1953)
With an HPI of 46.52, Branko Milanović is the most famous Serbian Economist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Branko Milanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко Милановић, IPA: [brǎːŋko mǐlanoʋitɕ; milǎːn-]) is a Serbian-American economist. He is most known for his work on income distribution and inequality. Since January 2014, he has been a research professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and an affiliated senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). He also teaches at the London School of Economics and the Barcelona Institute for International Studies. In 2019, he has been appointed the honorary Maddison Chair at the University of Groningen. Milanović formerly was a lead economist in the World Bank's research department, visiting professor at University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University. Between 2003 and 2005 he was senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. He remained an adjunct scholar with the Endowment until early 2010. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Belgrade in 1987 on economic inequality in Yugoslavia, using for the first time micro data from Yugoslav household surveys. He published it as a book in 1990. He has been a visiting scholar at All Souls College in Oxford.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Serbian economists born between 1953 and 1953. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Serbian economists include Branko Milanović.