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Leszek Balcerowicz

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Leszek Henryk Balcerowicz (pronounced [ˈlɛʂɛk balt͡sɛˈrɔvit͡ʂ] ; born 19 January 1947) is a Polish economist, statesman, and Professor at Warsaw School of Economics. He served as Chairman of the National Bank of Poland (2001–2007) and twice as Deputy Prime Minister of Poland (1989–1991, 1997–2001). In 1989, he became Minister of Finance in Tadeusz Mazowiecki's first non-communist government and led the free-market economic reforms, proponents of which say they have transformed Poland into one of Europe's fastest growing economies, but which critics say were followed by a large increase in unemployment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leszek Balcerowicz has received more than 193,281 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Leszek Balcerowicz is the 245th most popular economist (up from 250th in 2019), the 763rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 730th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Leszek Balcerowicz ranks 245 out of 414. Before him are Mahbub ul Haq, Étienne Laspeyres, Arthur Melvin Okun, Hernando de Soto Polar, Abhijit Banerjee, and David Card. After him are Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, Georg Friedrich Knapp, Theodore Levitt, Esther Duflo, Robert Barro, and Edward Chamberlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Leszek Balcerowicz ranks 342. Before him are Rikky von Opel, Gérard Collomb, Pete Maravich, Ian Scheckter, René Harris, and Alan Lee. After him are John Bruton, Egberto Gismonti, Omar Larrosa, George Lam, Sammy Hagar, and Alain Bashung.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Leszek Balcerowicz ranks 763 out of 1,694. Before him are Henner Henkel (1915), Rutka Laskier (1929), Ludwik Rajchman (1881), Max Weber (1881), Carl Schuricht (1880), and Kazimierz Sabbat (1913). After him are Kazimierz Bein (1872), Mordechai Gebirtig (1877), Zacharias Ursinus (1534), Anna Wierzbicka (1938), Holger Czukay (1938), and Katja Ebstein (1945).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Poland

Among economists born in Poland, Leszek Balcerowicz ranks 6. Before him are Carl Menger (1840), Reinhard Selten (1930), Michał Kalecki (1899), Oskar R. Lange (1904), and Leopold von Wiese (1876). After him are Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (1951), Henryk Grossman (1881), Zyta Gilowska (1949), and Sławomir Skrzypek (1963).

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