Gregory Mankiw is pretty mainstream and anyone who's taken an economics class in college is not unlikely to have come in contact with him. Per OpenSyllabus, he

Gregory Mankiw is pretty mainstream and anyone who's taken an economics class in college is not unlikely to have come in contact with him. Per OpenSyllabus, he is the most frequently cited author in college economics classes: https://opensyllabus.org/results-list/authors?size=50&fields=Economics https://opensyllabus.org/results-list/authors?size=50&fields...