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Ben Bernanke

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Ben Shalom Bernanke ( bər-NANG-kee; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the 2007–2008 financial crisis, for which he was named the 2009 Time Person of the Year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ben Bernanke has received more than 3,731,145 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Ben Bernanke is the 67th most popular economist (up from 171st in 2019), the 931st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,665th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Economist.

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  • 4.27

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ben Bernanke ranks 67 out of 414. Before him are Oliver E. Williamson, Irving Fisher, Franco Modigliani, Robert Mundell, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Trygve Haavelmo. After him are Kenneth Arrow, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Nikolai Kondratiev, Harry Markowitz, Leonid Hurwicz, and James Tobin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Ben Bernanke ranks 36. Before him are Malcolm Young, Ségolène Royal, Peter Stormare, Manuel Pellegrini, Hulk Hogan, and Nigel Mansell. After him are Thomas Bach, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, James Horner, Felix Magath, Paul Allen, and Andrew Wiles.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ben Bernanke ranks 931 out of 20,380. Before him are Neale Donald Walsch (1943), Stanley Milgram (1933), Rod Steiger (1925), Christian B. Anfinsen (1916), Steve Martin (1945), and Barbara Bush (1925). After him are Anne Baxter (1923), Keith Jarrett (1945), Edward Norton (1969), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Jody Williams (1950), and Harry Dean Stanton (1926).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Ben Bernanke ranks 16. Before him are Murray Rothbard (1926), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Douglass North (1920), Theodore Schultz (1902), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), and Irving Fisher (1867). After him are Kenneth Arrow (1921), Harry Markowitz (1927), James Tobin (1918), W. Edwards Deming (1900), Richard Thaler (1945), and Edmund Phelps (1933).

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