Other economists who are no less inspiring:

• Robert Barro (Harvard) and his writings
• Greg Mankiw (Harvard) and his popular blog
• Ed. Phelps (Columbia)
• Steve Levitt (Chicago) and his Freakonomics
• Kevin Murphy (Chicago)
• Robert J. Shiller (Yale)
• Brad DeLong (Berkeley) and his popular econ blog
• Yingyi Qian (Tsinghua)