Most Influential Businessmen Methodology Every working day during the month of July, we will be counting down the 20 most influential businessmen of all time. To rank the businessmen, and yes, they are all men, we had Joel Mokyr, a professor of economics and history at Northwestern University and the editor in chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, come up with a list of candidates. The only prerequisite was that the nominees no longer be leading active business lives. In the end, all the candidates were, in fact, dead. Then, last spring, we polled Forbes.com readers for their choice. Nearly 10,000 people responded. We then polled ten senior editors at Forbes.com and asked them to rank their top 20. The readers' and editors' votes were then averaged for the final ranking. Come back every business day at noon to see our latest pick. 　　
　　评选最有影响力的商人的方法
　　在（2005年）7月的每一个工作日，我们将倒着推出20位有史以来最有影响力的商人。（注：本文发布于2005年7月1日的福布斯网站，之后，排名20位的于当天推出，排名第1位的于7月29日推出。故为“倒着推出”。）
　　为了列出这些商人，是的，他们全是男人，我们让西北大学经济学和史学教授和牛津经济历史百科全书主编乔尔•莫凯尔（Joel Mokyr）提出了一个候选人名单。惟一的前提是被提名者不再生活在现行的商业世界。最后，所有的候选人其实都已经去世了。然后，去年春天，我们在福布斯网站组织读者进行投票选择。近10000人响应。之后，我们投票选出10位福布斯网站高级编辑让他们列出前20位的名单。平衡读者和编辑的投票，便得到了最后的排列名单。 　
　　每个营业日中午12点，回到我们的网站就可以看到我们最新的选择。