New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ECONOMIST

Alexander Gerschenkron

1904 - 1978

Photo of Alexander Gerschenkron

Icon of person Alexander Gerschenkron

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 144,133 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Gerschenkron is the 233rd most popular economist, the 455th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Economist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alexander Gerschenkrons by language


Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 233 out of 315. Before him are Fritz Machlup, Colin Clark, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Étienne Laspeyres, Mahbub ul Haq, and Harold Innis. After him are Eric Maskin, Hernando de Soto Polar, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Eugen Varga, Jules Dupuit, and Greg Mankiw.

Most Popular Economists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 160. Before him are Cecil Day-Lewis, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, André Leducq, Lin Huiyin, Ellen Church, and Georges Sadoul. After him are József Takács, Terence Fisher, Lippo Hertzka, Bill Brandt, Vlado Perlemuter, and Attilio Ferraris. Among people deceased in 1978, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 115. Before him are Julio Jaramillo, Bernhard Karlgren, Ángel Bossio, Zivia Lubetkin, Nancy Spungen, and Lon L. Fuller. After him are Raymond Braine, Leo Genn, Franz Bäke, John D. Rockefeller III, Carlos Riolfo, and Gordon Matta-Clark.

Others Born in 1904

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1978

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 455 out of 1,083. Before him are Ber Borochov (1881), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), Vitold Fokin (1932), Oleksii Reznikov (1966), Ingeborg of Kiev (1100), and Yury Vlasov (1935). After him are Yuri Lisyansky (1773), Ilya Kabakov (1933), Vladimir Kuts (1927), Leonid Bykov (1928), Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky (1914), and Viktor Vekselberg (1957).

Others born in Ukraine

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ECONOMISTS In Ukraine

Among economists born in Ukraine, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 2. Before him are Ludwig von Mises (1881). After him are Grigory Yavlinsky (1952), Zbigniew Messner (1929), Paul A. Baran (1909), and Rose Friedman (1910).

Ukrainian born Economists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL