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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 596,658 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Albert O. Hirschman is the 207th most popular economist (down from 202nd in 2019), the 2,802nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,769th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Economist.

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  • 4.21

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  • 2.87

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 207 out of 315. Before him are Lars Peter Hansen, Harold Laski, Mancur Olson, Jeffrey Sachs, Michel Camdessus, and Peter Senge. After him are Arthur Melvin Okun, Abba P. Lerner, Clément Juglar, William Baumol, Gustav Cassel, and Stanley Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 109. Before him are Robert Monroe, Mariano Rumor, John Profumo, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Ken Aston, and James Tiptree Jr.. After him are Henry Kuttner, Caterina Boratto, Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Takeshi Kamo, and Paul Castellano. Among people deceased in 2012, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 145. Before him are Lakshmi Sahgal, Russell Means, Marie Colvin, Eiko Ishioka, Shulamith Firestone, and Iajuddin Ahmed. After him are Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, J. Christopher Stevens, Lars Hörmander, Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Jean Laplanche, and Pavel Grachev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 2,802 out of 6,142. Before him are Peter Lely (1618), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), Christoph Bernhard von Galen (1606), Alfred Andersch (1914), and Malwida von Meysenbug (1816). After him are Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758), Eugen Langen (1833), August Schmidhuber (1901), Paul Schmidt (1899), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739), and John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1513).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Albert O. Hirschman ranks 23. Before him are Gustav von Schmoller (1838), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Walter Eucken (1891), Lujo Brentano (1844), and Adam Müller (1779). After him are E. F. Schumacher (1911), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), and Theodore Levitt (1925).

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