The Most Famous

ECONOMISTS from Czechia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Czech Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 414 Economists, 2 of which were born in Czechia. This makes Czechia the birth place of the 22nd most number of Economists behind Denmark, and Japan.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Czech Economists of all time. This list of famous Czech Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Joseph Schumpeter (1883 - 1950)

With an HPI of 72.75, Joseph Schumpeter is the most famous Czech Economist.  His biography has been translated into 56 different languages on wikipedia.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter (German: [ˈʃʊmpeːtɐ]; February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950) was an Austrian political economist. He served briefly as Finance Minister of Austria in 1919. In 1932, he emigrated to the United States to become a professor at Harvard University, where he remained until the end of his career, and in 1939 obtained American citizenship. Schumpeter was one of the most influential economists of the early 20th century, and popularized the term "creative destruction", coined by Werner Sombart. His magnum opus is considered Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.

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2. Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851 - 1914)

With an HPI of 65.06, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk is the 2nd most famous Czech Economist.  His biography has been translated into 40 different languages.

Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk (German: [bøːm ˈbaːvɛʁk]; born Eugen Böhm, 12 February 1851 – 27 August 1914) was an economist from Austria-Hungary who made important contributions to the development of macroeconomics and to the Austrian School of Economics. He served intermittently as the Austrian Minister of Finance between 1895 and 1904. He is also noted for writing extensive criticisms of Marxism.

People

Pantheon has 2 people classified as Czech economists born between 1851 and 1883. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Czech economists include Joseph Schumpeter, and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk.

Deceased Czech Economists

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