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Alexander Gerschenkron

1904 - 1978

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Alexander Gerschenkron (Russian: Александр Гершенкрон; 1 October 1904 – 26 October 1978) was an American economic historian and professor at Harvard University, trained in the German Historical School of economics. Born into a Jewish family in Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine, Gerschenkron fled the country during the Russian Civil War in 1920 to Austria, where he attended the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1928. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Gerschenkron has received more than 151,670 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Gerschenkron is the 252nd most popular economist (down from 231st in 2019), the 565th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 452nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 252 out of 414. Before him are Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, Georg Friedrich Knapp, Theodore Levitt, Esther Duflo, Robert Barro, and Edward Chamberlin. After him are Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Greg Mankiw, Tony Atkinson, Daron Acemoglu, and Eugen Varga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 180. Before him are Bogdan Kobulov, Robert Montgomery, Fats Waller, John Farrow, Vladimir Kokkinaki, and Nancy Mitford. After him are Mykola Bazhan, Andrew Marton, Terence Fisher, Lauri Virtanen, Esmat Dowlatshahi, and Erwin Komenda. Among people deceased in 1978, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 135. Before him are Robert Menzies, Liane Augustin, Charles Best, Claude Dauphin, Gene Tunney, and Jean Nicolas. After him are Lon L. Fuller, Georges Speicher, Roman Karmen, Mario Varglien, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, and Costante Girardengo.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 565 out of 1,365. Before him are Kateryna Bilokur (1900), Maksym Rylsky (1895), Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874), Nataliya Kobrynska (1855), Aleksandr Bogomolets (1881), and Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa (1705). After him are Dmytro Kuleba (1981), Chana Orloff (1888), Mykola Bazhan (1904), Vitaly Zholobov (1937), Grunya Sukhareva (1891), and Ivan Martos (1754).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Ukraine

Among economists born in Ukraine, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 4. Before him are Ludwig von Mises (1881), Abba P. Lerner (1903), and Grigory Yavlinsky (1952). After him are Zbigniew Messner (1929), Paul A. Baran (1909), and Rose Friedman (1910).

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