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Alan Krueger

1960 - 2019

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Alan Bennett Krueger (September 17, 1960 – March 16, 2019) was an American economist who was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, nominated by President Barack Obama, from May 2009 to October 2010, when he returned to Princeton. He was nominated in 2011 by Obama as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and served in that office from November 2011 to August 2013.He was among the 50 highest ranked economists in the world according to Research Papers in Economics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Krueger has received more than 723,010 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Alan Krueger is the 364th most popular economist (down from 310th in 2019), the 13,790th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,196th in 2019) and the 115th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Alan Krueger ranks 364 out of 315Before him are Kate Raworth, Sławomir Skrzypek, Ardo Hansson, Raghuram Rajan, Carlos Moedas, and Olga Golodets. After him are Gita Gopinath, Yochai Benkler, Eric Lander, Winona LaDuke, Steven Levitt, and Christina Romer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Alan Krueger ranks 636Before him are Marty Jannetty, Wim Koevermans, Brillante Mendoza, Mikel Herzog, Shinji Kobayashi, and Francis Gillot. After him are Kate Brown, Julianne Phillips, Anne Ramsay, Jayne Brook, Marina Kosheveya, and Wanda Vázquez Garced. Among people deceased in 2019, Alan Krueger ranks 540Before him are Windsor Davies, Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, Oliver Mtukudzi, John Dingell, Stevie Chalmers, and Jonathan Miller. After him are Nipsey Hussle, Josef Šural, David Bellamy, Yulia Nachalova, Josip Zovko, and Sandie Jones.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Krueger ranks 13,790 out of 18,182Before him are Lil Dicky (1988), Zabryna Guevara (1972), Jason Terry (1977), Derrick Coleman (1967), Doris Kearns Goodwin (1943), and Rob Minkoff (1962). After him are Jessica Sutta (1982), Jaime Ray Newman (1978), Mckenna Grace (2006), Chris Hedges (1956), Tanya Tucker (1958), and Jackie Speier (1950).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Alan Krueger ranks 115Before him are Kenneth Rogoff (1953), Frank Fetter (1863), Michael Albert (1947), Peter Navarro (1949), Claudia Goldin (1946), and Ardo Hansson (1958). After him are Eric Lander (1957), Winona LaDuke (1959), Steven Levitt (1967), Christina Romer (1958), Tyler Cowen (1962), and Cecilia Rouse (1963).

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