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The Most Famous

ECONOMISTS from Ukraine

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This page contains a list of the greatest Ukrainian Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 315 Economists, 6 of which were born in Ukraine. This makes Ukraine the birth place of the 14th most number of Economists behind Sweden and Netherlands.

Top 6

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

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1. Ludwig von Mises (1881 - 1973)

With an HPI of 70.49, Ludwig von Mises is the most famous Ukrainian Economist.  His biography has been translated into 58 different languages on wikipedia.

Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (German: [ˈluːtvɪç fɔn ˈmiːzəs]; 29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian–American Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the societal contributions of classical liberalism and the power of consumers. He is best known for his work on praxeology studies comparing communism and capitalism. Mises emigrated from Austria to the United States in 1940. Since the mid-20th century, libertarian movements have been strongly influenced by Mises's writings. Mises' student Friedrich Hayek viewed Mises as one of the major figures in the revival of classical liberalism in the post-war era. Hayek's work "The Transmission of the Ideals of Freedom" (1951) pays high tribute to the influence of Mises in the 20th-century libertarian movement.Mises's Private Seminar was a leading group of economists. Many of its alumni, including Friedrich Hayek and Oskar Morgenstern, emigrated from Austria to the United States and Great Britain. Mises has been described as having approximately seventy close students in Austria.

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2. Alexander Gerschenkron (1904 - 1978)

With an HPI of 51.10, Alexander Gerschenkron is the 2nd most famous Ukrainian Economist.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Alexander Gerschenkron (Russian: Александр Гершенкрон; 1 October 1904 – 26 October 1978) was an American economic historian and professor at Harvard University, trained in the German Historical School of economics. Born into a Jewish family in Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine, Gerschenkron fled the country during the Russian Civil War in 1920 to Austria, where he attended the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1928. After the Anschluss in 1938, he emigrated to the United States.

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3. Grigory Yavlinsky (1952 - )

With an HPI of 49.55, Grigory Yavlinsky is the 3rd most famous Ukrainian Economist.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Grigory Alekseyevich Yavlinsky (Russian: Григо́рий Алексе́евич Явли́нский, romanized: Grigóriy Aleksyéyevich Yavlínskiy; born 10 April 1952) is a Russian economist and politician. He has held numerous positions in the Soviet and Russian governments across different levels, including in the State Duma. Yavlinsky was one of authors of the 500 Days Program, a plan for the transition of the Soviet regime to a free-market economy, and is the former leader of the opposition Yabloko party. He has run three times for Russia's presidency. In 1996 he ran against Boris Yeltsin, finishing fourth with 7.3% of the vote. In 2000 Yavlinsky ran against Vladimir Putin, finishing third with 5.8%. In the 2012 presidential election he was prevented from running for president by Russian authorities, despite collecting the necessary 2 million signatures of Russian citizens for his candidacy. Yavlinsky was Yabloko's candidate for Russian President in the 2018 presidential election, when he ran against Putin and got 1.05% of the vote, according to the results. Many of the election results were not recognised by his party due to corroborated allegations of irregularities. Yavlinsky holds a PhD in economics from the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; his doctoral dissertation was entitled "The socio-economic system of Russia and the problem of its modernisation". He is a professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

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4. Zbigniew Messner (1929 - 2014)

With an HPI of 46.82, Zbigniew Messner is the 4th most famous Ukrainian Economist.  His biography has been translated into 21 different languages.

Zbigniew Stefan Messner (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈmɛsnɛr] ; 13 March 1929 – 10 January 2014) was a Communist economist and politician in Poland. His ancestors were of German Polish descent who had assimilated into Polish society. In 1972, he became Professor of Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in Katowice. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party from 1981 to 1988, Deputy Prime Minister from 1983 to 1985, and 53rd Prime Minister from 1985 to 1988. In 1988, Messner's cabinet received a motion of no confidence in the Sejm (Parliament) and had to transfer power to Mieczysław Rakowski. This was an unprecedented event in the Communist world, one of the strongest signs of democratic change brought by Mikhail Gorbachev. Alternatively, this change in cabinet could easily be viewed as one of many similar steps of internal reorganization conducted periodically by regimes in all Communist-dominated countries. He died in Warsaw on 10 January 2014.

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5. Paul A. Baran (1909 - 1964)

With an HPI of 46.33, Paul A. Baran is the 5th most famous Ukrainian Economist.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Paul Alexander Baran (; 25 August 1909 – 26 March 1964) was an American Marxist economist. In 1951 Baran was promoted to full professor at Stanford University and Baran was the only tenured Marxian economist in the United States until his death in 1964. Baran wrote The Political Economy of Growth in 1957 and co-authored Monopoly Capital with Paul Sweezy.

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6. Rose Friedman (1910 - 2009)

With an HPI of 45.16, Rose Friedman is the 6th most famous Ukrainian Economist.  Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Rose Director Friedman ; born Rose Director (30 December 1910 – 18 August 2009) was a free-market economist and co-founder of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation.

Pantheon has 6 people classified as economists born between 1881 and 1952. Of these 6, 1 (16.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living economists include Grigory Yavlinsky. The most famous deceased economists include Ludwig von Mises, Alexander Gerschenkron, and Zbigniew Messner. As of April 2022, 3 new economists have been added to Pantheon including Alexander Gerschenkron, Paul A. Baran, and Rose Friedman.

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