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Hernando de Soto Polar

1941 - Today

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Hernando de Soto Polar (commonly known Hernando de Soto ; born June 2, 1941) is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights. His work on the developing world has earned him praise worldwide by numerous heads of state, particularly for his publication The Mystery of Capital and The Other Path. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hernando de Soto Polar has received more than 283,228 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Hernando de Soto Polar is the 242nd most popular economist (down from 233rd in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Peru (down from 55th in 2019) and the most popular Peruvian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Hernando de Soto Polar ranks 242 out of 414. Before him are Johann Karl Rodbertus, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Roy Harrod, Mahbub ul Haq, Étienne Laspeyres, and Arthur Melvin Okun. After him are Abhijit Banerjee, David Card, Leszek Balcerowicz, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, Georg Friedrich Knapp, and Theodore Levitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Hernando de Soto Polar ranks 278. Before him are Signe Toly Anderson, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Manny Charlton, Daniel Schmid, Kálmán Mészöly, and Jagjit Singh. After him are Paul Kantner, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Pedro Carmona, Anatoly Levchenko, Airto Moreira, and Félix Rodríguez.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Hernando de Soto Polar ranks 63 out of 287. Before him are Ollanta Humala (1962), Manuel Prado Ugarteche (1889), Pedro Castillo (1969), Augusto B. Leguía (1863), Teodoro Fernández (1913), and Óscar R. Benavides (1876). After him are Manuel A. Odría (1896), Vladimiro Montesinos (1945), Daniel Alomía Robles (1871), Micaela Bastidas (1744), Henry Ian Cusick (1967), and José Bustamante y Rivero (1894).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Peru

Among economists born in Peru, Hernando de Soto Polar ranks 1. 

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