Financial economist/ academic prestige ranking

S-Tier: Eugene Fama, Bill SharpeHarry Markowitz, Paul Samuelson

A-Tier: John Cochrane, Franco Modigliani, Merton Miller, Robert Merton, Myron Scholes, Fischer Black, Ken French, Robert Shiller, Richard Thaler, Aswath Damodaran, Michael Porter, Jack Treynor, Sanford Grossman, John Burr Williams, Frank Fabozzi, Ben Graham

B-Tier: John Lintner, Daniel Kahneman (only cuz he's not strictly an economist), Andrew Lo, John Campbell, Bruce Greenwald, Michael Jensen, Jan Mossin, Burton Malkiel, Andrei Shleifer, Roger Ibbotson

C-Tier: Antti Ilmanen, Mark Carhart, Jonathan Berk, Jules van Binsbergen

F-Tier: Jeremy Siegel, Charley Ellis

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