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Historical Economic and Legal Thought

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Charles Angelucci
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2
Alexandra de Pleijt
Utrecht University
3
Pierre Januard
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
4
Fernando Martín Piantanida
National University of Luján
5
Dariusz Grzybek
Jagiellonian University
6
Anthony Perron
University of Oslo
7
Holly Brewer
University of Maryland, College Park
8
Bryan Cutsinger
Florida Atlantic University
9
Luigi Oddo
University of Genoa
10
Serena Vantin
University of Bologna

Rising Stars Papers

1
Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News
American Economic Review|2024
33 cit.
2
Media Competition and News Diets
American Economic Journal Microeconomics|2024
19 cit.
3
Classical Economists in the Face of the Old English Poor Law: Prejudice in Scholarly Clothes
Krakow Review of Economics and Management/Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie|2024
16 cit.
4
Chose, activité, agents
Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques|2024
3 cit.
5
Whose Fundamental Constitutions?
Locke Studies|2024
2 cit.
6
Is God Giving or Trading? Thomas Aquinas's First Use of “Just Price”
History of Political Economy|2024
2 cit.
7
Production et échange chez Thomas d’Aquin : L’homme participe-t-il à l’œuvre de création ?
Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques|2024
2 cit.
8
Symposium introduction: Reviewing the Federal Reserve's framework
Southern Economic Journal|2025
1 cit.
9
L’uomo è antiquato? Responsabilità, tecnica e norma nella riflessione di Günther Anders
Diacronìa|2024
0 cit.
10
The Dynamics of Multi-Project Collaborations
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Hanhui Guan
Peking University
2
David Daokui Li
Tsinghua University
3
Mariana Armond Dias Paes
American University of Paris
4
Santiago Piquero Zarauz
University of the Basque Country
5
Marina Gurskaya
Kuban State University
6
Roberta Frigeni
Unknown
7
David Lemmings
University of Newcastle Australia
8
Ripsime Bagdasaryan
Kuban State University
9
Emma Tieffenbach
University of Geneva
10
Paolo Santori
Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–1368
The Economic History Review|2024
19 cit.
2
Is the warm glow actually warm? An experimental investigation into the nature and determinants of warm glow feelings
International Journal of Wellbeing|2023
7 cit.
3
IDLENESS AND THE VERY SPARING HAND OF GOD: THE INVISIBLE TIE BETWEEN HUME’S<i>DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION</i>AND SMITH’S<i>WEALTH OF NATIONS</i>
Journal of the History of Economic Thought|2022
4 cit.
4
The Market in the Kingdom of Ends
Philosophy of Management|2024
4 cit.
5
The other invisible hand. The social and economic effects of theodicy in Vico and Genovesi
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought|2022
3 cit.
6
The theological stems of modern economic ideas: John Duns Scotus
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought|2023
2 cit.
7
Augustinian Roots of Rawls's Second Principle of Justice: Grace and Fair Equality of Opportunity
Modern Theology|2023
2 cit.
8
China’s economic and financial risks and the prospect of reforms: An interview with David Daokui Li
Risk sciences.|2025
2 cit.
9
Careocracy or isocracy? A feminist alternative to the neoliberal meritocratic discourse
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications|2023
1 cit.
10
Is Critical Naturalism Necessary?
Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy|2023
1 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Barry R. Weingast
Stanford University
2
Harold J. Berman
Emory and Henry College
3
Andrei Shleifer
National Bureau of Economic Research
4
Scott L. Feld
Purdue University West Lafayette
5
Jan Luiten van Zanden
Utrecht University
6
Jacob Weisdorf
Sapienza University of Rome
7
Noam Yuchtman
University of California, Berkeley
8
Mark Koyama
George Mason University
9
Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
10
Bruno S. Frey
University of Zurich

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
A Survey of Corporate Governance
The Journal of Finance|1997
16.2k cit.
2
Corporate Ownership Around the World
The Journal of Finance|1999
10.7k cit.
3
Large Shareholders and Corporate Control
Journal of Political Economy|1986
8.6k cit.
4
Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England
The Journal of Economic History|1989
5.3k cit.
5
Growth in Cities
Journal of Political Economy|1992
4.6k cit.
6
Corruption
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|1993
3.7k cit.
7
The law and economics of self-dealing
Journal of Financial Economics|2008
3.6k cit.
8
Politicians and Firms
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|1994
3.4k cit.
9
The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
Journal of Economic Literature|2008
3.2k cit.
10
Motivation Crowding Theory
Journal of Economic Surveys|2001
3k cit.

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