ECONOMIST

Myron Scholes

1941 - Today

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Myron Samuel Scholes ( SHOHLZ; born July 1, 1941) is a Canadian–American financial economist. Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-originator of the Black–Scholes options pricing model. Scholes is currently the chairman of the Board of Economic Advisers of Stamos Capital Partners. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Myron Scholes has received more than 569,261 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Myron Scholes is the 164th most popular economist (up from 179th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Canada (up from 133rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Myron Scholes ranks 164 out of 414. Before him are John Bates Clark, Oskar R. Lange, William F. Sharpe, Daniel McFadden, Roger Myerson, and Piero Sraffa. After him are Raymond Barre, Henry George, Henry Sidgwick, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Lionel Robbins, and Wilhelm Röpke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Myron Scholes ranks 150. Before him are Alexander Gauland, Fabio Testi, George Lakoff, Sergei Dovlatov, Andrei Mironov, and David Hemmings. After him are Nora Ephron, Fionnula Flanagan, Salvatore Accardo, Élisabeth Depardieu, Paavo Lipponen, and Bruce Nauman.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Myron Scholes ranks 113 out of 1,622. Before him are James Randi (1928), Jean Chrétien (1934), Margot Kidder (1948), Hubert Reeves (1932), Deanna Durbin (1921), and Walter Huston (1883). After him are Reginald Fessenden (1866), Paul Martin (1938), Rick Moranis (1953), Linda Evangelista (1965), Bruce Greenwood (1956), and Graham Greene (1952).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Canada

Among economists born in Canada, Myron Scholes ranks 5. Before him are Robert Mundell (1932), Henry Mintzberg (1939), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), and William Vickrey (1914). After him are Harold Innis (1894), David Card (1956), Michel Chossudovsky (1946), and Jacob Viner (1892).

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