ECONOMIST

Jeffrey Sachs

1954 - Today

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Jeffrey David Sachs ( SAKS; born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, where he was former director of The Earth Institute. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeffrey Sachs has received more than 2,729,904 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Jeffrey Sachs is the 148th most popular economist (up from 202nd in 2019), the 2,041st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,427th in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Economist.

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  • 40

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  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Jeffrey Sachs ranks 148 out of 414. Before him are Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, James Heckman, Vernon L. Smith, Gustav von Schmoller, Christopher A. Pissarides, and Bengt Holmström. After him are William Beveridge, Robert F. Engle, Benedetto Cotrugli, Walt Whitman Rostow, Peter Diamond, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Jeffrey Sachs ranks 76. Before him are Rashad al-Alimi, Chris Evert, Katsuhiro Otomo, Roberto Dinamite, Oscar, and Filip Vujanović. After him are Mango, Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior, Jermaine Jackson, Ellen Barkin, Jane Campion, and Juande Ramos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeffrey Sachs ranks 2,041 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael W. Young (1949), Brittany Murphy (1977), Pete Sampras (1971), Paul Bremer (1941), Bill Conti (1942), and Tommie Smith (1944). After him are Walter Chrysler (1875), Venus Williams (1980), Larry Silverstein (1931), Eleanor Parker (1922), Irving Thalberg (1899), and Ward Cunningham (1949).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Jeffrey Sachs ranks 47. Before him are Eugene Fama (1939), Christopher A. Sims (1942), Robert C. Merton (1944), Robert Fogel (1926), James Heckman (1944), and Vernon L. Smith (1927). After him are Robert F. Engle (1942), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Peter Diamond (1940), John Bates Clark (1847), William F. Sharpe (1934), and Daniel McFadden (1937).

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