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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

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Alan Krueger is the 312th most popular economist (up from 403rd in 2024), the 7,577th most popular biography from United States (up from 15,803rd in 2019) and the 100th most popular American Economist.

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Among economists, Alan Krueger ranks 312 out of 414. Before him are Anthony Downs, Santiago Peña, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Abdi Farah Shirdon, Charles P. Kindleberger, and Richard D. Wolff. After him are Nouriel Roubini, Pedro Solbes, Simon Johnson, Branko Milanović, Seth Godin, and José Luis Sampedro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Alan Krueger ranks 289. Before him are Pruitt Taylor Vince, Will Wright, Loïc Wacquant, Kyle Gass, Abu Qatada, and Michèle Laroque. After him are Abel Resino, Alexandre Czerniatynski, Leonid Toptunov, Leland Orser, Maho Shimizu, and Katsuyoshi Shinto. Among people deceased in 2019, Alan Krueger ranks 360. Before him are Goo Hara, Asunción Balaguer, Nikolai Gorbachev, Raymond Bellot, Jeremy Kemp, and Egisto Pandolfini. After him are Jessica Jaymes, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Larry Cohen, Mirjam Pressler, Pedro Morales, and Zvonimir Vujin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Krueger ranks 7,579 out of 20,380. Before him are Bobby Vee (1943), Kyle Gass (1960), Mae Murray (1885), Michael Stuhlbarg (1968), Jimi Jamison (1951), and Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875). After him are Bob Barker (1923), Diamanda Galás (1955), Harriet Bland (1915), Jessica Jaymes (1979), Robert B. Parker (1932), and William Dean Howells (1837).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Alan Krueger ranks 100. Before him are Paul Sweezy (1910), Gordon Tullock (1922), Armen Alchian (1914), Anthony Downs (1930), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), and Richard D. Wolff (1942). After him are Seth Godin (1960), Lawrence Summers (1954), Michael Kremer (1964), Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874), Walter Block (1941), and Anne Osborn Krueger (1934).

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