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Michael Spence

1943 - Today

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Andrew Michael Spence (born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.Spence is the William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the Philip H. Knight Professor of Management, Emeritus, and Dean, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.Together with George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Spence has received more than 311,388 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Michael Spence is the 129th most popular economist (up from 145th in 2019), the 1,711th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,167th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Michael Spence ranks 129 out of 315Before him are W. Arthur Lewis, James Meade, Robert Fogel, Zhou Youguang, Adolph Wagner, and Edward C. Prescott. After him are Jim Rogers, Franz Oppenheimer, Robert Reich, Ernest Mandel, Clive Granger, and Walt Whitman Rostow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Michael Spence ranks 112Before him are Finn E. Kydland, J. Michael Kosterlitz, Luis Carlos Galán, Paul Van Himst, Martin Campbell, and Reinaldo Arenas. After him are Ri Chun-hee, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Tobe Hooper, Otoya Yamaguchi, and Richard Smalley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Spence ranks 1,711 out of 18,182Before him are Thomas Haden Church (1960), Wilbur Scoville (1865), Jessye Norman (1945), Richard Jenkins (1947), Adrien Brody (1973), and Jerry Stiller (1927). After him are Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), Floyd Patterson (1935), Jim Rogers (1942), Edwin S. Porter (1870), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), and Edward Albee (1928).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Michael Spence ranks 41Before him are Robert B. Wilson (1937), Thomas J. Sargent (1943), Thomas Schelling (1921), George Stigler (1911), Robert Fogel (1926), and Edward C. Prescott (1940). After him are Jim Rogers (1942), Robert Reich (1946), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Robert C. Merton (1944), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), and William F. Sharpe (1934).

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