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Nicholas Kaldor

1908 - 1986

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Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (12 May 1908 – 30 September 1986), born Káldor Miklós, was a Hungarian-born British economist. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939), derived the cobweb model, and argued for certain regularities observable in economic growth, which are called Kaldor's growth laws. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicholas Kaldor has received more than 254,340 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Nicholas Kaldor is the 178th most popular economist (down from 164th in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 209th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Nicholas Kaldor ranks 178 out of 414. Before him are George Shultz, Walter Eucken, Lars Peter Hansen, Gustave de Molinari, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, and Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield. After him are Daniel Ellsberg, Jim Rogers, Michael Spence, Eli Heckscher, Frank Knight, and Nikolay Danilevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Nicholas Kaldor ranks 113. Before him are Sergei Sobolev, Arturo Frondizi, Vazgen I, Harold Holt, Sarit Thanarat, and Jean Delannoy. After him are Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Alejandro Scopelli, Yevgeny Vuchetich, Christa Schroeder, Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, and Fritz Witt. Among people deceased in 1986, Nicholas Kaldor ranks 92. Before him are Henri Toivonen, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Mart Stam, Phil Lynott, Jacques Henri Lartigue, and Arthur Grumiaux. After him are Princess Yolanda of Savoy, Elisabeth Bergner, Pierre Fournier, Léopold Szondi, Ding Ling, and Liu Bocheng.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Nicholas Kaldor ranks 242 out of 1,077. Before him are József Zakariás (1924), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Sándor Garbai (1879), Ferenc Gyulay (1799), Ibolya Csák (1915), and Ladislao Vajda (1906). After him are Ödön Lechner (1845), Marta Eggerth (1912), Miklós Kállay (1887), József Antall (1932), Rosika Schwimmer (1877), and Arpad Elo (1903).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Hungary

Among economists born in Hungary, Nicholas Kaldor ranks 2. Before him are John Harsanyi (1920). After him are János Kornai (1928), Eugen Varga (1879), and László Andor (1966).

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