ECONOMIST

James Mirrlees

1936 - 2018

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Sir James Alexander Mirrlees (5 July 1936 – 29 August 2018) was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Mirrlees has received more than 186,248 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). James Mirrlees is the 138th most popular economist (up from 141st in 2019), the 1,204th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,172nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Economist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of James Mirrlees by language

Over the past year James Mirrlees has had the most page views in the with 17,181 views, followed by Chinese (3,939), and German (2,236). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Scots (61.39%), Latin (60.12%), and Yoruba (46.73%)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, James Mirrlees ranks 138 out of 414. Before him are Ernest Mandel, Christopher A. Sims, Robert C. Merton, Angus Deaton, W. Arthur Lewis, and Clive Granger. After him are Robert Fogel, Dani Rodrik, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, James Heckman, and Vernon L. Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, James Mirrlees ranks 112. Before him are Henry Lee Lucas, Glenda Jackson, Aleida March, Didier Ratsiraka, Frank Stella, and Christiane Martel. After him are Jim Henson, Jacques Mesrine, Frances Shand Kydd, Raimonds Pauls, Julio María Sanguinetti, and Solomon Burke. Among people deceased in 2018, James Mirrlees ranks 78. Before him are Thorvald Stoltenberg, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, Efraín Ríos Montt, Henri Michel, Samir Amin, and Whitey Bulger. After him are Odvar Nordli, Richard Pipes, Robert Faurisson, Uri Avnery, Hayden White, and Aharon Appelfeld.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Mirrlees ranks 1,204 out of 8,785. Before him are Dave Murray (1956), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), Ally McCoist (1962), Hugh Lofting (1886), John Boorman (1933), and Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287). After him are Spencer Perceval (1762), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), R. D. Laing (1927), Ray Stevenson (1964), Sister Nivedita (1867), and John Toshack (1949).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, James Mirrlees ranks 22. Before him are Richard Stone (1913), Joan Robinson (1903), Harriet Martineau (1802), James Meade (1907), Angus Deaton (1945), and Clive Granger (1934). After him are Kenneth E. Boulding (1910), Henry Sidgwick (1838), Lionel Robbins (1898), Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), Oliver Hart (1948), and Harold Laski (1893).

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