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Anna Schwartz

1915 - 2012

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Anna Jacobson Schwartz (pronounced SHWORTS; November 11, 1915 – June 21, 2012) was an American economist who worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and a writer for The New York Times. Paul Krugman has said that Schwartz is "one of the world's greatest monetary scholars." Schwartz collaborated with Nobel laureate Milton Friedman on A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960, which was published in 1963. This book placed the blame for the Great Depression at the door of the Federal Reserve System. Robert J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Schwartz has received more than 244,561 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Anna Schwartz is the 305th most popular economist (down from 283rd in 2019), the 6,667th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,314th in 2019) and the 101st most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Anna Schwartz ranks 305 out of 414. Before her are Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Deirdre McCloskey, Mark Blaug, Karl Knies, David Landes, and Charles P. Kindleberger. After her are Pietro Verri, Paul A. Baran, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Alice Salomon, and Jörg Meuthen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Anna Schwartz ranks 197. Before her are O. W. Fischer, Dario Mangiarotti, Brenda Marshall, Mario Echandi Jiménez, Elio Toaff, and Harry Saltzman. After her are Signe Hasso, Memphis Slim, Danuta Szaflarska, Stu Hart, Raquel Rastenni, and Harriet Bland. Among people deceased in 2012, Anna Schwartz ranks 290. Before her are Mike Kelley, James Mellaart, Alketas Panagoulias, Tibor Csernai, Cordelia Edvardson, and Zig Ziglar. After her are István Rózsavölgyi, Dilhan Eryurt, Zalman King, Phyllis Diller, Chikage Awashima, and Nelson Prudêncio.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anna Schwartz ranks 6,667 out of 20,380. Before her are Brock Peters (1927), Darryl Jones (1961), Kirk Alyn (1910), Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (1867), Abraham Polonsky (1910), and Mary Alice (1941). After her are Michael Harner (1929), Kim Gordon (1953), Courtney Thorne-Smith (1967), Jason Lee (1970), Gary L. Francione (1954), and Bill Condon (1955).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Anna Schwartz ranks 101. Before her are Anthony Downs (1930), Seth Godin (1960), Michael Kremer (1964), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), David Landes (1924), and Charles P. Kindleberger (1910). After her are Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), Walter Block (1941), Lawrence Summers (1954), John Lipsky (1947), Fischer Black (1938), and Henry Charles Carey (1793).

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