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 339,906 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mancur Olson is the 216th most popular economist (down from 201st in 2019), the 3,715th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,408th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Mancur Olson ranks 216 out of 414. Before him are Alvin E. Roth, Robert Torrens, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Ferdinando Galiani, Grigory Yavlinsky, and Peter Senge. After him are William Baumol, E. F. Schumacher, Giovanni Arrighi, Chester Barnard, Adam Müller, and Martín de Azpilcueta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Mancur Olson ranks 201. Before him are Hassan Al-Turabi, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Andrea Mead Lawrence, Majel Barrett, Alfred Worden, and Jean-Paul Rappeneau. After him are Karekin I, Erró, Javier Ambrois, Saul Friedländer, Lia Manoliu, and Vasco de Almeida e Costa. Among people deceased in 1998, Mancur Olson ranks 115. Before him are Joan Hickson, Birger Ruud, Hide, Clara Rockmore, Anatoly Rybakov, and Genrich Altshuller. After him are Jean Leray, Bahi Ladgham, Hans von Ohain, Theodor Oberländer, Jerome Robbins, and Louis Dumont.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mancur Olson ranks 3,715 out of 20,380. Before him are William Thurston (1946), Richard E. Bellman (1920), Carlos Lopes (1947), Vince Gilligan (1967), Jon Krakauer (1954), and Harris Yulin (1937). After him are Sandra Faber (1944), Eddie Albert (1906), Crispin Glover (1964), Paul Gallico (1897), Kourtney Kardashian (1979), and Tiffany Trump (1993).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Mancur Olson ranks 73. Before him are Alvin Hansen (1887), Paul Volcker (1927), Hyman Minsky (1919), Henry Hazlitt (1894), Alvin E. Roth (1951), and Peter Senge (1947). After him are William Baumol (1922), Chester Barnard (1886), David D. Friedman (1945), Paul Milgrom (1948), Thomas Sowell (1930), and Philip H. Dybvig (1955).

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