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Lawrence Summers

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Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He also served as president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, where he is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. In November 2023, Summers joined the board of directors of artificial general intelligence company OpenAI. Summers became a professor of economics at Harvard University in 1983. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Summers has received more than 3,347,024 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Lawrence Summers is the 322nd most popular economist (down from 281st in 2019), the 7,449th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,252nd in 2019) and the 104th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Lawrence Summers ranks 322 out of 414. Before him are James Steuart, Mariana Mazzucato, John Neville Keynes, Bernard Lietaer, Beatrice Webb, and Leonid Abalkin. After him are Abdi Farah Shirdon, Michel Chossudovsky, Ilham Tohti, Guido Imbens, Ha-Joon Chang, and Branko Milanović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Lawrence Summers ranks 364. Before him are Jeffrey Combs, Ziad Fazah, Hary Gunarto, Harvey Fierstein, Ariane Ascaride, and Dietrich Thurau. After him are Nancy Wilson, Uli Stein, Dennis Johnson, Vasilis Hatzipanagis, Marie-Theres Nadig, and Leonard Mlodinow.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lawrence Summers ranks 7,449 out of 20,380. Before him are Ronnie Bucknum (1936), Bruce Kirby (1925), John Ostrom (1928), Marshmello (1992), Robert Harron (1893), and Bart D. Ehrman (1955). After him are Richard Armitage (1945), John Marin (1870), Leona Woods (1919), Wayne Newton (1942), Nancy Wilson (1954), and Dylan Walsh (1963).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Lawrence Summers ranks 104. Before him are Deirdre McCloskey (1942), David Landes (1924), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Anna Schwartz (1915), Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), and Walter Block (1941). After him are John Lipsky (1947), Fischer Black (1938), Henry Charles Carey (1793), Robert Rubin (1938), Armen Alchian (1914), and Don Patinkin (1922).

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