ECONOMIST

Merton Miller

1923 - 2000

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Merton Howard Miller (May 16, 1923 – June 3, 2000) was an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani–Miller theorem (1958), which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William F. Sharpe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Merton Miller has received more than 210,561 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Merton Miller is the 115th most popular economist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 1,499th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,233rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Economist.

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  • 210k

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  • 59.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Merton Miller has had the most page views in the with 19,816 views, followed by Spanish (3,633), and Russian (2,918). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (89.42%), Simple English (66.95%), and Latin (64.36%)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Merton Miller ranks 115 out of 414. Before him are Rudolf Hilferding, Zhou Youguang, Richard Stone, Thomas J. Sargent, William Nordhaus, and Carlo M. Cipolla. After him are Finn E. Kydland, Richard Cantillon, Edward C. Prescott, Joan Robinson, Jeremy Rifkin, and Jean Tirole.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Merton Miller ranks 60. Before him are Horst Tappert, Dev Anand, Freeman Dyson, Victoria de los Ángeles, Chaleo Yoovidhya, and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. After him are Robert Maxwell, Vladimir Gelfand, Rasul Gamzatov, Antony Flew, Cliff Robertson, and Frederick Herzberg. Among people deceased in 2000, Merton Miller ranks 41. Before him are Richard Farnsworth, Lila Kedrova, Arkan, Takashi Kano, Willard Van Orman Quine, and Carlo M. Cipolla. After him are Akira Nozawa, Leonid Rogozov, A. E. van Vogt, Frederick Herzberg, Michael Smith, and Saburō Sakai.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Merton Miller ranks 1,499 out of 20,380. Before him are Stonewall Jackson (1824), William Nordhaus (1941), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Herbert Blomstedt (1927), David Graf (1950), and Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821). After him are Kalākaua (1836), Macaulay Culkin (1980), Patrick McGoohan (1928), Paul Greengard (1925), Matt LeBlanc (1967), and Robert Sheckley (1928).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Merton Miller ranks 35. Before him are George Akerlof (1940), Dale T. Mortensen (1939), Douglas McGregor (1906), Thomas Schelling (1921), Thomas J. Sargent (1943), and William Nordhaus (1941). After him are Edward C. Prescott (1940), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), Robert J. Shiller (1946), Alan Greenspan (1926), George Stigler (1911), and Eugene Fama (1939).

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