1840 - 1921
Carl Menger von Wolfensgrün (; German: [ˈmɛŋɐ]; 28 February 1840 – 26 February 1921) was an Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economics. Menger contributed to the development of the theories of marginalism and marginal utility, which rejected cost-of-production theory of value, such as developed by the classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Menger has received more than 381,271 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Menger is the 32nd most popular economist (up from 33rd in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Poland (up from 88th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Economist.
Carl Menger is most famous for his theory of marginal utility. He argued that the value of a good or service is not determined by the total quantity of it, but rather by the last unit consumed.
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Among economists, Carl Menger ranks 32 out of 315. Before him are William Petty, Simon Kuznets, Ronald Coase, Friedrich List, Wassily Leontief, and Gunnar Myrdal. After him are Michael Porter, Karl Polanyi, Léon Walras, Jan Tinbergen, Elinor Ostrom, and Werner Sombart.
1623 - 1687
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 26
1901 - 1985
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 27
1910 - 2013
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 28
1789 - 1846
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 29
1906 - 1999
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 30
1898 - 1987
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 31
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 32
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 33
1886 - 1964
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 34
1834 - 1910
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 35
1903 - 1994
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 36
1933 - 2012
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 37
1863 - 1941
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 38
Among people born in 1840, Carl Menger ranks 14. Before him are Odilon Redon, Ernst Abbe, Carlota of Mexico, Crazy Horse, Edward Drinker Cope, and John Boyd Dunlop. After him are Father Damien, Thomas Hardy, August Bebel, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Hiram Maxim, and Alfred Thayer Mahan. Among people deceased in 1921, Carl Menger ranks 9. Before him are Peter Kropotkin, Peter I of Serbia, Talaat Pasha, Gabriel Lippmann, Ludwig III of Bavaria, and John Boyd Dunlop. After him are Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Alfred Hermann Fried, Antoni Grabowski, Nicholas I of Montenegro, and Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg.
1840 - 1916
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 8
1840 - 1905
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 9
1840 - 1927
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 10
1840 - 1877
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 11
1840 - 1897
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 12
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 13
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 14
1840 - 1889
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 15
1840 - 1928
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 16
1840 - 1913
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 17
1840 - 1902
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 18
1840 - 1916
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 19
1840 - 1914
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 20
1842 - 1921
HPI: 79.26
Rank: 3
1844 - 1921
HPI: 77.11
Rank: 4
1874 - 1921
HPI: 75.71
Rank: 5
1845 - 1921
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 6
1845 - 1921
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 7
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 8
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 9
1886 - 1921
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 10
1858 - 1921
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 11
1864 - 1921
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 12
1857 - 1921
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 13
1841 - 1921
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 14
1856 - 1921
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 15
Among people born in Poland, Carl Menger ranks 86 out of 1,231. Before him are Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), Anton Denikin (1872), Emil von Behring (1854), Pola Negri (1897), Hanna Reitsch (1912), and Anna Anderson (1896). After him are Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Marie Walewska (1786), Johannes Hevelius (1611), and Horst Köhler (1943).
1928 - 2017
HPI: 74.82
Rank: 80
1872 - 1947
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 81
1854 - 1917
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 82
1897 - 1987
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 83
1912 - 1979
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 84
1896 - 1984
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 85
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 86
1046 - 1095
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 87
1895 - 1964
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 88
1512 - 1609
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 89
1786 - 1817
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 90
1611 - 1687
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 91
1943 - Present
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 92
Among economists born in Poland, Carl Menger ranks 1. After him are Reinhard Selten (1930), Michał Kalecki (1899), Oskar R. Lange (1904), Leopold von Wiese (1876), Leszek Balcerowicz (1947), Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (1951), and Sławomir Skrzypek (1963).
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 1
1930 - 2016
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 2
1899 - 1970
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 3
1904 - 1965
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 4
1876 - 1969
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 5
1947 - Present
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 6
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 7
1963 - 2010
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 8