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Max O. Lorenz

1876 - 1959

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Max Otto Lorenz (; September 19, 1876 – July 1, 1959) was an American economist who developed the Lorenz curve in an undergraduate essay. He published a paper on this when he was a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His doctoral thesis (1906) was on 'The Economic Theory of Railroad Rates' and made no reference to perhaps his most famous paper. The term "Lorenz curve" for the measure Lorenz invented was coined by Willford I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max O. Lorenz has received more than 69,380 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Max O. Lorenz is the 275th most popular economist (down from 238th in 2019), the 5,662nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,706th in 2019) and the 89th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Max O. Lorenz ranks 275 out of 315. Before him are Arthur Laffer, Haruhiko Kuroda, Mark Blaug, James Wolfensohn, Gordon Tullock, and Deirdre McCloskey. After him are Esther Duflo, Nouriel Roubini, Robert Barro, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Fakhruddin Ahmed, and Karl Knies.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Max O. Lorenz ranks 130. Before him are Erhard Schmidt, Aino Ackté, Alfred Stock, William Wain Prior, Walter Tewksbury, and Robert Yerkes. After him are Stylianos Gonatas, Pantelis Karasevdas, Paul Rivet, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Nikolay Burdenko, and Olav Duun. Among people deceased in 1959, Max O. Lorenz ranks 126. Before him are Alexander Rueb, Max Gerson, Boris Eikhenbaum, Albert Namatjira, Edith Clarke, and Heleno de Freitas. After him are Roald Larsen, Nicholas Charnetsky, Paul Rivet, Friedrich Waismann, Jacob Epstein, and Guillermo Riveros.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Max O. Lorenz ranks 5,662 out of 18,182. Before him are David Geffen (1943), Michael Cudlitz (1964), Chloë Grace Moretz (1997), Stuart Gordon (1947), Henry M. Leland (1843), and Deirdre McCloskey (1942). After him are Ben Adams (1890), John J. McCloy (1895), Janice Dickinson (1955), Norman Spinrad (1940), Jon Huntsman Jr. (1960), and Nicholas Pileggi (1933).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Max O. Lorenz ranks 89. Before him are Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874), Paul Sweezy (1910), Arthur Laffer (1940), Gordon Tullock (1922), and Deirdre McCloskey (1942). After him are Robert Barro (1944), Michael Kremer (1964), Seth Godin (1960), Lawrence Summers (1954), Anna Schwartz (1915), and Robert Rubin (1938).

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