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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 122,546 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Arthur Melvin Okun is the 208th most popular economist (up from 220th in 2019), the 3,540th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,170th in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Arthur Melvin Okun ranks 208 out of 315. Before him are Harold Laski, Mancur Olson, Jeffrey Sachs, Michel Camdessus, Peter Senge, and Albert O. Hirschman. After him are Abba P. Lerner, Clément Juglar, William Baumol, Gustav Cassel, Stanley Fischer, and Eugen Slutsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Arthur Melvin Okun ranks 218. Before him are Hans Herrmann, Fredrik Barth, Saw Maung, Henri Debehogne, Yevgeny Svetlanov, and Mohammad Beheshti. After him are Jörg Demus, Franciszek Pieczka, Eugenio Monti, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Ethel Kennedy, and Hubert Selby Jr.. Among people deceased in 1980, Arthur Melvin Okun ranks 119. Before him are José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Roza Eskenazi, Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, George Raft, Cecil Beaton, and Alfred Andersch. After him are Pietro Nenni, Ernst Ocwirk, Manlio Brosio, Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Oskar Kummetz, and Andrei Amalrik.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Arthur Melvin Okun ranks 3,540 out of 18,182. Before him are Kit Carson (1809), The Big Bopper (1930), Lloyd Bacon (1889), Beatrice Wood (1893), Paul Kantner (1941), and Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898). After him are Sylvia Sidney (1910), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Samuel Wilson (1766), J. Christopher Stevens (1960), and John C. Breckinridge (1821).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Arthur Melvin Okun ranks 71. Before him are Alvin Hansen (1887), Dennis Meadows (1942), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Mancur Olson (1932), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), and Peter Senge (1947). After him are William Baumol (1922), Thomas Sowell (1930), David D. Friedman (1945), Benjamin Tucker (1854), Henry Hazlitt (1894), and George Shultz (1920).

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