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Edward C. Prescott

1940 - 2022

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Edward Christian Prescott (December 26, 1940 – November 6, 2022) was an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". This research was primarily conducted while both Kydland and Prescott were affiliated with the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward C. Prescott has received more than 235,761 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Edward C. Prescott is the 118th most popular economist (up from 126th in 2019), the 1,546th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,688th in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Economist.

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  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Edward C. Prescott ranks 118 out of 414. Before him are Thomas J. Sargent, William Nordhaus, Carlo M. Cipolla, Merton Miller, Finn E. Kydland, and Richard Cantillon. After him are Joan Robinson, Jeremy Rifkin, Jean Tirole, Lucas Papademos, Harriet Martineau, and Knut Wicksell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Edward C. Prescott ranks 97. Before him are Vittorio Storaro, Gojko Mitić, Rudi Dutschke, James Brolin, Mamnoon Hussain, and Nobuyoshi Araki. After him are Thomas A. Steitz, Joseph L. Goldstein, Sepp Piontek, Mate Boban, Frida Boccara, and Arieh Warshel. Among people deceased in 2022, Edward C. Prescott ranks 74. Before him are Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Klaus Schulze, Boris Pahor, Cüneyt Arkın, Javier Marías, and Sidney Altman. After him are Ruggero Deodato, Frank Drake, David Warner, Wim Jansen, Eric Walter Elst, and Leonel Sánchez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward C. Prescott ranks 1,546 out of 20,380. Before him are Gus Van Sant (1952), Sam Elliott (1944), Chris Cornell (1964), Richard Jenkins (1947), Jan-Michael Vincent (1944), and Edwin S. Porter (1870). After him are Juliet Anderson (1938), Charles Ives (1874), Chesley Sullenberger (1951), Ed White (1930), Helen Hunt (1963), and Art Blakey (1919).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Edward C. Prescott ranks 36. Before him are Dale T. Mortensen (1939), Douglas McGregor (1906), Thomas Schelling (1921), Thomas J. Sargent (1943), William Nordhaus (1941), and Merton Miller (1923). After him are Jeremy Rifkin (1945), Robert J. Shiller (1946), Alan Greenspan (1926), George Stigler (1911), Eugene Fama (1939), and Christopher A. Sims (1942).

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