Jeffrey Sachs is the economics profession’s leading advocate of mega-reform. Whether it is stabilization of hyperinflation in Bolivia, shock therapy to leap from Communism to capitalism in Poland and Russia, or a “Big Push” to end world poverty, Sachs’ recommendation throughout his career has been to do it fast, do it big, do it comprehensively, and do it with lots of Western money.

William Easterly: A Review of Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.

So, Sachs would be the equivalent to Daft Punk in Economics.