These three American economists are also among some of the top contenders (from Left to Right):
Paul Michael Romer (born 1955) is an economist and professor at Stanford University. He is considered as an expert on economic growth.
Romer earned a B.S. in physics in 1977 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1983, both from the University of Chicago. Romer was named one of America's 25 most influential people by Time magazine in 1997, and in 2000 started the online educational company Aplia.
He has been awarded the Horst Claus Recktenwald Prize in Economics in Nuremberg, Germany.
Romer is the son of former Colorado Governor Roy Romer.
Gene Michael Grossman (born December 11, 1955 in New York) is currently the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
He became assistant professor at Princeton University in 1980 and full professor of economics in 1988.
His research focuses on international trade, in particular on the relationship between economic growth and trade and the political economy of trade policy. He is also known for his work on the Environmental Kuznets Curve. He frequently collaborated with Elhanan Helpman.
Eugene F 'Gene' Fama (born February 14, 1939) is an American economist, known for his work on portfolio theory and asset pricing, both theoretical and empirical.
Image: Paul Romer, Gene Grossman, Eugene Fama
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