The Most Famous
ECONOMISTS from Argentina
This page contains a list of the greatest Argentinean Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 315 Economists, 1 of which were born in Argentina. This makes Argentina the birth place of the 42nd most number of Economists behind Finland and Réunion.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Argentinean Economists of all time. This list of famous Argentinean Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Raúl Prebisch (1901 - 1986)
With an HPI of 53.66, Raúl Prebisch is the most famous Argentinean Economist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Raúl Prebisch (April 17, 1901 – April 29, 1986) was an Argentine economist known for his contributions to structuralist economics such as the Prebisch–Singer hypothesis, which formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He became the executive director of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA or CEPAL) in 1950. In 1950, he also released the very influential study The Economic Development of Latin America and its Principal Problems.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as economists born between 1901 and 1901. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased economists include Raúl Prebisch. As of April 2022, 1 new economists have been added to Pantheon including Raúl Prebisch.
