ECONOMIST

Paul Romer

1955 - Today

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Paul Michael Romer (born November 6, 1955) is an American economist and policy entrepreneur who is a University Professor in Economics at Boston College. Romer is best known as the former Chief Economist of the World Bank and for co-receiving the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with William Nordhaus) for his work in endogenous growth theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Romer has received more than 835,918 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Paul Romer is the 193rd most popular economist (down from 187th in 2019), the 3,044th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,958th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Economist.

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Paul Romer ranks 193 out of 414. Before him are Oliver Hart, Harold Laski, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Israel Kirzner, Benjamin Tucker, and Thomas Piketty. After him are Eric Maskin, Clément Juglar, János Kornai, Abba P. Lerner, John A. Hobson, and Stanley Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Paul Romer ranks 131. Before him are Kevin Peter Hall, Jane Kaczmarek, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mark Hollis, Daniel Bertoni, and Kim Hae-sook. After him are Fernando Meirelles, Asif Ali Zardari, Edwin Moses, Matti Vanhanen, Jean-Hugues Anglade, and James Gosling.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Romer ranks 3,044 out of 20,380. Before him are Melvil Dewey (1851), Curtis Mayfield (1942), Dan Castellaneta (1957), Louis Gossett Jr. (1936), Edward Zwick (1952), and Russell Means (1939). After him are George Ord (1781), Robert Conrad (1935), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), Robert Sean Leonard (1969), Arielle Dombasle (1953), and Captain Beefheart (1941).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Paul Romer ranks 64. Before him are Daniel Ellsberg (1931), Jim Rogers (1942), Michael Spence (1943), Frank Knight (1885), Robert B. Wilson (1937), and Benjamin Tucker (1854). After him are Eric Maskin (1950), Douglas Diamond (1953), Alvin Hansen (1887), Paul Volcker (1927), Hyman Minsky (1919), and Henry Hazlitt (1894).

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