Chicago's Top 150 Stars: Do Rex Grossman and Vince Vaughn Really Outshine Gary Becker?

I had thought that the recent efforts by economists such as Krugman, Sachs, Glaeser and Levitt had raised the economics profession's overall profile. The New York Times has also been devoting more coverage to describing who is "hot" in academic economics. But, these "treatments" appear not to have changed the overall pecking order. This Chicago based website's ranking would suggest that as usual that I am wrong.

Click here to see how Gary Becker and other well known economists compare to other Chicago notables ranging from Vince Vaughn, to Jesse Jackson to Rex Grossman. I was born in Chicago and lived there a total of 7 years of my life and somehow this ranking doesn't look like my ranking. Look for Jim Heckman to rise up this ranking and overtake Rex in the next couple of years.