Thursday 08 January 2015 5:10 am | Updated: Monday 21 October 2019 3:28 pm

The 100 City people you need to follow on Twitter this year, day four: Economists

The financial crisis may have been a tough time for most of the City, but one group did pretty well out of it. There’s no doubt about it: economics has got sexy, as the popularity of everything from Thomas Piketty’s missive on inequality to “economics made easy” books such as The Undercover Economist, shows.

Whether they’re applying complex theories to everyday life, or finding a way to make numbers beautiful, suddenly everyone wants to hear what economists think. But be warned – egg-heads, this lot are not…

1.	Danny Blanchflower	@D_Blanchflower	Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research	Done with my broken ankle. Economist, Dartmouth professor, ex MPC. University of Stirling, Peterson Institute, The Independent and Bloomberg
2.	Andrew Sentance	@asentance	Senior economic adviser, PwC	Business economist, now with PwC, formerly member of Bank of England MPC. Part-time rock musician.
3.	Jonathan Portes	@jdportes	Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research	Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Economics, especially fiscal policy, labour markets and immigration.
4.	Ros Altman	@rosaltmann	Chair, Lord Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Board	Independent pensions & investment expert. UK Business Champion for Older Workers. Cares about ordinary people & social justice. Finance for the many not the few.
5.	John Philpott	@JobsEconomist	Former chief economic adviser, CIPD	Economist and labour market analyst, former director of Employment Policy Institute and former Chief Economic Adviser at the CIPD.
6.	Diane Coyle	@diane1859	Professor of economics, University of Manchester	The Enlightened Economist. Professor of Economics, University of Manchester. Founder of Enlightenment Economics.
7.	Sam Bowman	@s8mb	Deputy director, Adam Smith Institute	Irish preference utilitarian market monetarist libertarian poptimist. Deputy Director of @ASI.
8.	Andrew Lilico	@AndrewLilico	Executive director and principle, Europe Economics	No bio
9.	Noreena Hertz	@noreenahertz	Professor of decision science, University College London	Bestselling Author and Thinker.
10.	Tim Harford	@TimHarford	Senior columnist, Financial Times	Author of Adapt; Undercover Economist at the FT; presenter of More or Less, Radio 4. (Email v/ website is best for important messages.) Views my own, of course.
11.	Umair Haque	@umairh	Author	Leader of the awesomeness liberation front.
12.	Stephen King	@KingEconomist	Chief economist, HSBC	Chief Economist at HSBC, author of When the Money Runs Out (http://tinyurl.com/apj5doj ) & Losing Control (http://amzn.to/TVt4Yr ). Part-time pianist.
13.	Ian Shepherdson	@IanShepherdson	Chief economist, Pantheon Macroeconomics	Chief Economist, Pantheon Macroeconomics. I flit between the US and the UK.
14.	Lucrezia Reichlin	@LucreziaReichli	Professor of economics, London Business School	Professor of Economics at London Business School, co-founder of Now-Casting Economics, non-executive director of UniCredit Banking and AGEAS Insurance
15.	Bridget Rosewell	@brosewell	Senior partner, Volterra Partners	Economist, painter and stirrer.
16.	Stephanie Flanders	@MyStephanomics	Chief market strategist, UK and Europe, JP Morgan Asset Management	I used to be BBC Economics Editor. Now I am Chief Market Strategist for UK and Europe at J P Morgan Asset Management.
17.	Simon Kirby	@SimonNIESR	Economist, NIESR	Economist at National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).
18.	Vicky Pryce	@iamvickypryce	Adviser to BIS and CEBR	Economist, Author, Columnist, Fighting injustice against women wherever it raises its ugly head!
19.	Kate Barker	@Barker4Kate	Non-executive member of the Office for Budget Responsibility	Economist and stoke city fan.
20.	Andrew Smith	@AndrewSmithEcon	Chief economist, KPMG	Economist