The Most Famous
ECONOMISTS from Estonia
This page contains a list of the greatest Estonian Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 315 Economists, 1 of which were born in Estonia. This makes Estonia the birth place of the 45th most number of Economists behind Moldova and Peru.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Estonian Economists of all time. This list of famous Estonian Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ragnar Nurkse (1907 - 1959)
With an HPI of 50.35, Ragnar Nurkse is the most famous Estonian Economist. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Ragnar Wilhelm Nurkse (5 October 1907, Käru, Estonia – 6 May 1959, Le Mont-Pèlerin, Switzerland) was an Estonian-American economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development. He is considered the pioneer of Balanced Growth Theory.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as economists born between 1907 and 1907. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased economists include Ragnar Nurkse.
