ECONOMIST

Cornelius Castoriadis

1922 - 1997

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Cornelius Castoriadis (Greek: Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης; 11 March 1922 – 26 December 1997) was a Greek-French philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group. His writings on autonomy and social institutions have been influential in both academic and activist circles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cornelius Castoriadis has received more than 467,457 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Cornelius Castoriadis is the 65th most popular economist (up from 85th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 363rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Economist.

Cornelius Castoriadis is most famous for his book The Imaginary Institution of Society, which was published in 1987. In this book, he argues that the social world is made up of imaginary institutions.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Cornelius Castoriadis ranks 65 out of 414. Before him are Wang Anshi, Theodore Schultz, Oliver E. Williamson, Irving Fisher, Franco Modigliani, and Robert Mundell. After him are Trygve Haavelmo, Ben Bernanke, Kenneth Arrow, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Nikolai Kondratiev, and Harry Markowitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Cornelius Castoriadis ranks 47. Before him are Jacques Piccard, Agostinho Neto, Nils Liedholm, Julius Nyerere, Arthur Ashkin, and Jason Robards. After him are Ademir de Menezes, Leon M. Lederman, Michel Galabru, Betty White, Har Gobind Khorana, and Robert W. Holley. Among people deceased in 1997, Cornelius Castoriadis ranks 39. Before him are Edward Mills Purcell, Dora Maar, Zoltán Czibor, Chien-Shiung Wu, Willem de Kooning, and Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland. After him are John Eccles, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, John Kendrew, Otto Ernst Remer, Diosdado Macapagal, and Anton LaVey.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Cornelius Castoriadis ranks 285 out of 1,347. Before him are Gevherhan Sultan (1605), Dio Chrysostom (40), Ptolemy Philadelphus (-36), Michael IV the Paphlagonian (1010), Thomas the Slav (800), and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (1948). After him are Midhat Pasha (1822), Haran (null), Ahmad Khani (1650), Ibn Hawqal (943), Strato of Lampsacus (-335), and Bülent Ecevit (1925).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Türkiye

Among economists born in Türkiye, Cornelius Castoriadis ranks 3. Before him are Henri Fayol (1841), and Tansu Çiller (1946). After him are Dani Rodrik (1957), Daron Acemoglu (1967), Nouriel Roubini (1958), and Fatih Birol (1958).

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