ECONOMIST

Beatrice Webb

1858 - 1943

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Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, (née Potter; 22 January 1858 – 30 April 1943) was an English sociologist, economist, feminist and social reformer. She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and played a crucial role in forming the Fabian Society. Additionally, she authored several popular books, with her most notable being The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain and Industrial Democracy, co-authored by her husband Sidney Webb, where she coined the term "collective bargaining" as a way to discuss the negotiation process between an employer and a labor union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Beatrice Webb has received more than 606,660 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Beatrice Webb is the 320th most popular economist (down from 265th in 2019), the 3,792nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,963rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Economist.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Beatrice Webb ranks 320 out of 414. Before her are Walter Block, José Luis Sampedro, James Steuart, Mariana Mazzucato, John Neville Keynes, and Bernard Lietaer. After her are Leonid Abalkin, Lawrence Summers, Abdi Farah Shirdon, Michel Chossudovsky, Ilham Tohti, and Guido Imbens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Beatrice Webb ranks 119. Before her are Juan Luis Sanfuentes, Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, John Russell, Sara Adler, and Joseph Thomson. After her are Furqat, Dimitar Petkov, Mary Adela Blagg, Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, and Victorino Márquez Bustillos. Among people deceased in 1943, Beatrice Webb ranks 183. Before her are Akilles Järvinen, Dudley Pound, Frank Schlesinger, Otto Rühle, Rupert Julian, and Willoughby Hamilton. After her are Betty Nansen, George Underwood, Helene Stöcker, Hector Goetinck, Elinor Glyn, and Lojze Grozde.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Beatrice Webb ranks 3,792 out of 8,785. Before her are Barney Greenway (1969), Niall Ferguson (1964), Ernest Payne (1884), Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132), and Jonathan Stroud (1970). After her are Ray Wilson (1934), Ann Todd (1907), Jane Marcet (1769), John Polkinghorne (1930), Chris Irwin (1942), and Elizabeth Spriggs (1929).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Beatrice Webb ranks 39. Before her are Roy Harrod (1900), Tony Atkinson (1944), Maurice Dobb (1900), Colin Clark (1905), James Steuart (1712), and John Neville Keynes (1852). After her are Thomas Hodgskin (1787), James Wilson (1805), Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), Martin Wolf (1946), G. D. H. Cole (1889), and Sajid Javid (1969).

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