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Albert O. Hirschman

1915 - 2012

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Albert Otto Hirschman (born Otto-Albert Hirschmann; April 7, 1915 – December 10, 2012) was a German economist and the author of several books on political economy and political ideology. His first major contribution was in the area of development economics. Here he emphasized the need for unbalanced growth. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert O. Hirschman has received more than 627,477 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Albert O. Hirschman is the 229th most popular economist (down from 205th in 2019), the 3,432nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,799th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 229 out of 414. Before him are Nassau William Senior, Olivier Blanchard, David D. Friedman, Jules Dupuit, Paul Milgrom, and Thomas Sowell. After him are Leopold von Wiese, Harold Innis, Fritz Machlup, Philip H. Dybvig, Ellen Swallow Richards, and Eugen Slutsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 125. Before him are Henry Kuttner, David Stirling, Hoàng Văn Thái, Nikos Beloyannis, Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, and Eddie Bracken. After him are Vítězslava Kaprálová, M. F. Husain, John Tukey, Hans Christian Blech, Wilhelm Gliese, and Zulfiya. Among people deceased in 2012, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 181. Before him are Carlo Rambaldi, Jack Klugman, Christian Marin, Harry Carey Jr., Albert George Wilson, and Jean Laplanche. After him are Ervin Zádor, Celeste Holm, Pierre Mondy, José María Zárraga, Claude Pinoteau, and Leonardo Favio.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 3,432 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg (1804), Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), Dominikus Zimmermann (1685), Walter Hohmann (1880), Kurt von der Chevallerie (1891), and Lewis A. Coser (1913). After him are Prince William of Baden (1829), Joseph Gaertner (1732), Thomas Doll (1966), Carl Ludwig Koch (1778), Karl von Einem (1853), and Herman Rarebell (1949).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 24. Before him are Ernst Engel (1821), Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Walter Eucken (1891), Lujo Brentano (1844), E. F. Schumacher (1911), and Adam Müller (1779). After him are Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Theodore Levitt (1925), and Wilhelm Lexis (1837).

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