ECONOMIST

Hernando de Soto Polar

1941 - Today

Hernando de Soto Polar

Hernando 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. He is the current president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), a think tank devoted to promoting economic development in developing countries located in Lima, Peru.In Peru, de Soto's advisory has been recognized as inspiring the economic guidelines—including the loosening of economic regulation, the introduction of austerity measures and the utilization of neoliberal policies—that were ultimately adopted by the government of Alberto Fujimori and established in the 1993 Constitution of Peru. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hernando de Soto Polar has received more than 279,515 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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280k
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51.56
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
22
Languages Editions (L)
3.14
Effective Languages (L*)
2.83
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Page views of Hernando de Soto Polars by language

Over the past year Hernando de Soto Polar has had the most page views in the Spanish wikipedia edition with 51,670 views, followed by English (4,982), and Russian (4,495). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (653.70%), Swedish (46.99%), and Quechua (22.07%)

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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