ECONOMIST

Jacob Viner

1892 - 1970

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Jacob Viner (3 May 1892 – 12 September 1970) was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons to be one of the "inspiring" mentors of the early Chicago school of economics in the 1930s: he was one of the leading figures of the Chicago faculty. Paul Samuelson named Viner (along with Harry Gunnison Brown, Allyn Abbott Young, Henry Ludwell Moore, Frank Knight, Wesley Clair Mitchell, and Henry Schultz) as one of the several "American saints in economics" born after 1860. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Viner has received more than 178,772 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jacob Viner is the 338th most popular economist (down from 322nd in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Canada (up from 482nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Canadian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Jacob Viner ranks 338 out of 414. Before him are Thomas Hodgskin, Henry Charles Carey, Gunter Pauli, Robert Rubin, Armen Alchian, and W. Michael Blumenthal. After him are James Wilson, Henryk Grossman, Abel Aganbegyan, José Ángel Gurría, Sri Mulyani, and Don Patinkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Jacob Viner ranks 251. Before him are Adolf van der Voort van Zijp, Peggy Wood, Ferde Grofé, Seiichiro Kashio, Ōten Shimokawa, and Slim Summerville. After him are Zośka Vieras, Liesl Karlstadt, Vincenzo Cuccia, Marston Morse, Erik Adlerz, and Ruth Chatterton. Among people deceased in 1970, Jacob Viner ranks 223. Before him are Lev Kassil, Anita Louise, Sean Flynn, Otis Spann, John Beazley, and Matthias Heidemann. After him are Georgi Naydenov, Stefan Andres, William Feller, Käthe Krauss, Paul Sturzenegger, and Georg de Laval.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Jacob Viner ranks 459 out of 1,622. Before him are Alexis Smith (1921), Barbara Kent (1907), Corey Haim (1971), Anke Engelke (1965), Daniel Gillies (1976), and Thomas Christopher Collins (1947). After him are Alissa White-Gluz (1985), Alex Wilson (1905), Robert Pickton (1949), Paul Grégoire (1911), David James Elliott (1960), and François Legault (1957).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Canada

Among economists born in Canada, Jacob Viner ranks 9. Before him are John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), William Vickrey (1914), Myron Scholes (1941), Harold Innis (1894), David Card (1956), and Michel Chossudovsky (1946).

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