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ECONOMIST

Mancur Olson

1932 - 1998

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Mancur Lloyd Olson Jr. (; January 22, 1932 – February 19, 1998) was an American economist and political scientist who taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mancur Olson has received more than 323,014 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mancur Olson is the 203rd most popular economist (down from 185th in 2019), the 3,417th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,225th in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Mancur Olson ranks 203 out of 315. Before him are Adam Müller, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Alvin Hansen, Dennis Meadows, Lars Peter Hansen, and Harold Laski. After him are Jeffrey Sachs, Michel Camdessus, Peter Senge, Albert O. Hirschman, Arthur Melvin Okun, and Abba P. Lerner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Mancur Olson ranks 173. Before him are Mustafa Tlass, Bronisław Geremek, Predrag Matvejević, Miloslav Vlk, Karen Demirchyan, and Boris Shakhlin. After him are Ervin László, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Tony Brooks, Mamo Wolde, Carlos Borges, and Joel Grey. Among people deceased in 1998, Mancur Olson ranks 108. Before him are Nino Ferrer, Aymoré Moreira, Barry Goldwater, Antonio Quarracino, John Chadwick, and Juan José Nogués. After him are Kamala Sohonie, Genrich Altshuller, Beatrice Wood, Anatoly Rybakov, Joan Brossa, and Olivier Gendebien.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mancur Olson ranks 3,417 out of 18,182. Before him are John Gilbert (1895), Marie Colvin (1956), Helen Kane (1904), Leon Panetta (1938), Mack Swain (1876), and Evel Knievel (1938). After him are William Petersen (1953), Sean Combs (1969), Jay-Z (1969), Robert Penn Warren (1905), Amy Beach (1867), and William Devane (1939).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Mancur Olson ranks 68. Before him are Roger Myerson (1951), Paul Volcker (1927), Alvin E. Roth (1951), Alvin Hansen (1887), Dennis Meadows (1942), and Lars Peter Hansen (1952). After him are Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Peter Senge (1947), Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), William Baumol (1922), Thomas Sowell (1930), and David D. Friedman (1945).

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