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Harriet Martineau

1802 - 1876

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Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harriet Martineau has received more than 820,565 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Harriet Martineau is the 123rd most popular economist (up from 174th in 2019), the 1,016th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,652nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Economist.

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  • 59.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Harriet Martineau ranks 123 out of 414. Before her are Richard Cantillon, Edward C. Prescott, Joan Robinson, Jeremy Rifkin, Jean Tirole, and Lucas Papademos. After her are Knut Wicksell, Robert J. Shiller, Tjalling Koopmans, Alan Greenspan, George Stigler, and John Harsanyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Harriet Martineau ranks 17. Before her are Charles Wheatstone, Germain Henri Hess, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Pavel Nakhimov, Husein Gradaščević, and Antoine Jérôme Balard. After her are Alcide d'Orbigny, Nikolaus Lenau, Hermann Goldschmidt, Ignacy Domeyko, Charlotte Bonaparte, and Carl Ritter von Ghega. Among people deceased in 1876, Harriet Martineau ranks 20. Before her are Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Francesco Maria Piave, Hristo Botev, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Ferenc Deák, and František Palacký. After her are Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Wild Bill Hickok, Juan Pablo Duarte, Philipp Mainländer, Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg, and Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harriet Martineau ranks 1,016 out of 8,785. Before her are James Mason (1909), William Whewell (1794), Phil Neville (1977), Henry (1100), Allan Pinkerton (1819), and Michael Smith (1932). After her are John Mayall (1933), David Warner (1941), Saint David (512), Princess Hélène of Orléans (1871), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806), and Samuel Crompton (1753).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Harriet Martineau ranks 18. Before her are Benjamin Graham (1894), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), James Mill (1773), Thomas Mun (1571), Richard Stone (1913), and Joan Robinson (1903). After her are James Meade (1907), Angus Deaton (1945), Clive Granger (1934), James Mirrlees (1936), Kenneth E. Boulding (1910), and Henry Sidgwick (1838).

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