ECONOMIST

Michel Camdessus

1933 - Today

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Michel Camdessus (born 1 May 1933) is a French economist who served as the seventh managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1987 to 2000, the longest serving in that position. He previously served as the Governor of the Banque de France from 1984 to 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Camdessus has received more than 95,898 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Michel Camdessus is the 200th most popular economist (up from 203rd in 2019), the 2,780th most popular biography from France (up from 2,822nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Economist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 96k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Michel Camdessuses by language

Over the past year Michel Camdessus has had the most page views in the with 13,511 views, followed by English (8,886), and French (8,112). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (66.86%), Esperanto (49.19%), and Ukrainian (47.45%)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Michel Camdessus ranks 200 out of 414. Before him are Eric Maskin, Clément Juglar, János Kornai, Abba P. Lerner, John A. Hobson, and Stanley Fischer. After him are Douglas Diamond, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Raúl Prebisch, Alvin Hansen, Gustav Cassel, and Jon Elster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Michel Camdessus ranks 171. Before him are Françoise Fabian, Guido Crepax, Donald E. Westlake, Will Sampson, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, and Egil Danielsen. After him are Aleksandr Privalov, Frits Bolkestein, Joachim Meisner, Alan Stacey, Christian Ferras, and Sabah Fakhri.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Camdessus ranks 2,780 out of 6,770. Before him are Bathilde d'Orléans (1750), Alexis Bouvard (1767), Georges Catroux (1877), Pierre Brasseur (1905), Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans (1607), and Vladimir Posner (1934). After him are Paul Tortelier (1914), Olivier Martinez (1966), Bob Sinclar (1969), Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), and Ernest Duchesne (1874).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Michel Camdessus ranks 20. Before him are Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Pierre Leroux (1797), Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), Thomas Piketty (1971), and Clément Juglar (1819). After him are Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), Olivier Blanchard (1948), Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646), Esther Duflo (1972), Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui (1798), and Muriel Casals i Couturier (1945).

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