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Arthur Melvin Okun

1928 - 1980

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Arthur Melvin "Art" Okun (November 28, 1928 – March 23, 1980) was an American economist. He served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers between 1968 and 1969. Before serving on the C.E.A., he was a professor at Yale University and, afterwards, was a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. In 1968 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Okun is known in particular for promulgating Okun's law, an observed relationship that states that for every 1% increase in the unemployment rate, a country's GDP will be roughly an additional 2.5% lower than its potential GDP. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Melvin Okun has received more than 130,893 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Arthur Melvin Okun is the 241st most popular economist (down from 206th in 2019), the 4,465th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,530th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Arthur Melvin Okun ranks 241 out of 414. Before him are Eugen Slutsky, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Roy Harrod, Mahbub ul Haq, and Étienne Laspeyres. After him are Hernando de Soto Polar, Abhijit Banerjee, David Card, Leszek Balcerowicz, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, and Georg Friedrich Knapp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Arthur Melvin Okun ranks 284. Before him are Chaim Kanievsky, Marion Ross, Eric Porter, Tahir Salahov, Mitchell Ryan, and Ian Bannen. After him are Elio Sgreccia, Bill Mollison, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Dick Miller, Pedro Casaldáliga, and Frank Frazetta. Among people deceased in 1980, Arthur Melvin Okun ranks 158. Before him are Ángel Sanz Briz, Philip Guston, Gerhard von Schwerin, Alberto Demicheli, Egon Pearson, and André Parrot. After him are Farrokhroo Parsa, Jean Robic, Yakov Malik, Mantovani, C. P. Snow, and Nihat Erim.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Arthur Melvin Okun ranks 4,465 out of 20,380. Before him are Mitchell Ryan (1928), Seth MacFarlane (1973), Edmund Muskie (1914), Gary Snyder (1930), Robert Urich (1946), and Ruggiero Ricci (1918). After him are James Michael Tyler (1962), Leo Penn (1921), Richard Kind (1956), Jonathan Littell (1967), Charles F. Brush (1849), and Jeff Lindsay (1952).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Arthur Melvin Okun ranks 81. Before him are Chester Barnard (1886), David D. Friedman (1945), Paul Milgrom (1948), Thomas Sowell (1930), Philip H. Dybvig (1955), and Ellen Swallow Richards (1842). After him are Robert Barro (1944), Edward Chamberlin (1899), Greg Mankiw (1958), Dennis Meadows (1942), Joshua Angrist (1960), and John R. Commons (1862).

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