1948 - Today
Olivier Jean Blanchard (French: [blɑ̃ʃaʁ]; born December 27, 1948) is a French economist and professor who currently serves as the Robert M. Solow Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and as the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund from September 1, 2008, to September 8, 2015. Blanchard was appointed to the position under the tenure of Dominique Strauss-Kahn; he was succeeded by Maurice Obstfeld. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olivier Blanchard has received more than 350,031 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Olivier Blanchard is the 247th most popular economist (down from 230th in 2019), the 3,452nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,154th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Economist.
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Among economists, Olivier Blanchard ranks 247 out of 315. Before him are Leopold von Wiese, Ragnar Nurkse, William Phillips, Edward Chamberlin, Georg Friedrich Knapp, and Theodore Levitt. After him are Tony Atkinson, Leo Huberman, Kenichi Ohmae, David Card, Leszek Balcerowicz, and Ellen Swallow Richards.
1876 - 1969
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 241
1907 - 1959
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 242
1914 - 1975
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 243
1899 - 1967
HPI: 50.30
Rank: 244
1842 - 1926
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 245
1925 - 2006
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 246
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 247
1944 - 2017
HPI: 49.96
Rank: 248
1903 - 1968
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 249
1943 - Present
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 250
1956 - Present
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 251
1947 - Present
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 252
1842 - 1911
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 253
Among people born in 1948, Olivier Blanchard ranks 284. Before him are Tony Ramos, Perry King, Shigesato Itoi, Sergei Bodrov, Kyung Wha Chung, and Eddy Grant. After him are Magdaléna Vášáryová, Gioconda Belli, Robert Hübner, Carol Potter, Philip Jackson, and Heinz Flohe.
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 278
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 279
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 280
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 281
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 282
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 283
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 284
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 285
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.96
Rank: 286
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 287
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 288
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 289
1948 - 2013
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 290
Among people born in France, Olivier Blanchard ranks 3,452 out of 6,011. Before him are Laurent Terzieff (1935), René Huyghe (1906), Gisèle Casadesus (1914), Tony Robert-Fleury (1837), Adolphe Niel (1802), and Harry Schell (1921). After him are Jules Simon (1814), Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895), Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851), Suzanne Flon (1918), Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807), and Louis de Buade de Frontenac (1622).
1935 - 2010
HPI: 50.00
Rank: 3,446
1906 - 1997
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 3,447
1914 - 2017
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 3,448
1837 - 1912
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 3,449
1802 - 1869
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 3,450
1921 - 1960
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 3,451
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 3,452
1814 - 1896
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 3,453
1895 - 1990
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 3,454
1851 - 1944
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 3,455
1918 - 2005
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 3,456
1807 - 1869
HPI: 49.96
Rank: 3,457
1622 - 1698
HPI: 49.96
Rank: 3,458
Among economists born in France, Olivier Blanchard ranks 23. Before him are Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), Thomas Piketty (1971), Pierre Leroux (1797), Michel Camdessus (1933), Clément Juglar (1819), and Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646). After him are Esther Duflo (1972) and Muriel Casals i Couturier (1945).
1903 - 1987
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 17
1971 - Present
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 18
1797 - 1871
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 19
1933 - Present
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 20
1819 - 1905
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 21
1646 - 1714
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 22
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 23
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 24
1945 - 2016
HPI: 42.65
Rank: 25