ECONOMIST

Benjamin Tucker

1854 - 1939

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Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (; April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) was an American individualist anarchist. Tucker was the editor and publisher of the American individualist anarchist periodical Liberty (1881–1908). Tucker described his form of anarchism as "consistent Manchesterism" and stated that "the Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats." Tucker looked upon anarchism as a part of the broader socialist movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Tucker has received more than 422,820 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Benjamin Tucker is the 191st most popular economist (up from 219th in 2019), the 2,959th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,837th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Economist.

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  • 54.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Benjamin Tucker has had the most page views in the with 46,012 views, followed by Russian (5,292), and Spanish (5,087). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (131.44%), Simple English (53.75%), and Icelandic (40.36%)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Benjamin Tucker ranks 191 out of 414. Before him are Lujo Brentano, Robert B. Wilson, Oliver Hart, Harold Laski, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, and Israel Kirzner. After him are Thomas Piketty, Paul Romer, Eric Maskin, Clément Juglar, János Kornai, and Abba P. Lerner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Benjamin Tucker ranks 48. Before him are Jacek Malczewski, Lady Randolph Churchill, John Philip Sousa, Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, Stefan Stambolov, and Konstantin Jireček. After him are Patrick Geddes, Sergei Korsakoff, Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, Victor Babeș, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, and Anna Bilińska. Among people deceased in 1939, Benjamin Tucker ranks 64. Before him are Havelock Ellis, S. S. Van Dine, Isaak Brodsky, Ivan Mosjoukine, Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, and Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Archibald Leitch, Louis Trousselier, Konstantin Somov, Masabumi Hosono, Johann Strauss III, and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Tucker ranks 2,959 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Stroud (1890), Elbridge Gerry (1744), Stephen Foster (1826), Jennifer Jason Leigh (1962), Charles Tilly (1929), and James Curtis Hepburn (1815). After him are Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Anne Meara (1929), Susan Flannery (1939), Robert Culp (1930), Ezzard Charles (1921), and Frank McCourt (1930).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Benjamin Tucker ranks 63. Before him are Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Daniel Ellsberg (1931), Jim Rogers (1942), Michael Spence (1943), Frank Knight (1885), and Robert B. Wilson (1937). After him are Paul Romer (1955), Eric Maskin (1950), Douglas Diamond (1953), Alvin Hansen (1887), Paul Volcker (1927), and Hyman Minsky (1919).

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