ECONOMIST

Alan Greenspan

1926 - Today

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Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. First nominated to the Federal Reserve by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, Greenspan was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006, after the second-longest tenure in the position, behind only William McChesney Martin. President George W. Bush appointed Ben Bernanke as his successor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Greenspan has received more than 5,341,994 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Alan Greenspan is the 127th most popular economist (down from 100th in 2019), the 1,735th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,394th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Economist.

Alan Greenspan is most famous for being the chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. During his tenure, he oversaw an era of economic prosperity in the United States and was instrumental in the development of the "Greenspan Put," which refers to the Federal Reserve's willingness to intervene in the economy to protect against stock market declines.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Alan Greenspan ranks 127 out of 414. Before him are Jean Tirole, Lucas Papademos, Harriet Martineau, Knut Wicksell, Robert J. Shiller, and Tjalling Koopmans. After him are George Stigler, John Harsanyi, James Meade, Eugene Fama, Ernest Mandel, and Christopher A. Sims.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Alan Greenspan ranks 96. Before him are James Stirling, Karl Richter, Hugo Banzer, Patricia Neal, David H. Hubel, and Siegfried Lenz. After him are László Papp, Youssef Chahine, Efraín Ríos Montt, Verner Panton, Shigeo Sugimoto, and Paul Baran.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Greenspan ranks 1,735 out of 20,380. Before him are Mark Felt (1913), Dean Stockwell (1936), John Densmore (1944), Roger Ebert (1942), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), and Saul Kripke (1940). After him are Mitch McConnell (1942), Hiram Bingham III (1875), Joe Satriani (1956), Sammy Davis Jr. (1925), Ving Rhames (1959), and Sol LeWitt (1928).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Alan Greenspan ranks 39. Before him are Thomas J. Sargent (1943), William Nordhaus (1941), Merton Miller (1923), Edward C. Prescott (1940), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), and Robert J. Shiller (1946). After him are George Stigler (1911), Eugene Fama (1939), Christopher A. Sims (1942), Robert C. Merton (1944), Robert Fogel (1926), and James Heckman (1944).

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