ECONOMIST

Paul Volcker

1927 - 2019

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Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. (September 5, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, with measures known as the Volcker shock. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Volcker has received more than 2,310,535 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Paul Volcker is the 207th most popular economist (down from 192nd in 2019), the 3,357th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,044th in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Paul Volcker ranks 207 out of 414. Before him are Douglas Diamond, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Raúl Prebisch, Alvin Hansen, Gustav Cassel, and Jon Elster. After him are Hyman Minsky, Henry Hazlitt, Alvin E. Roth, Robert Torrens, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, and Ferdinando Galiani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Paul Volcker ranks 154. Before him are Colin Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Tom Bosley, Neil Simon, Vittorio Gregotti, and Patti Page. After him are Albert Zafy, Romano Scarpa, Jack Cassidy, Oleg Yefremov, Henning Carlsen, and Marianne Fredriksson. Among people deceased in 2019, Paul Volcker ranks 155. Before him are Egil Danielsen, Girish Karnad, George Hilton, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Ken Kercheval, and Stefano Delle Chiaie. After him are Dick Dale, Edith González, Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Ric Ocasek, Krishna Sobti, and Jean-Pierre Marielle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Volcker ranks 3,357 out of 20,380. Before him are Steve Harvey (1957), Richard Bandler (1950), Mamie Van Doren (1931), William A. Wheeler (1819), Kenny G (1956), and Angélica María (1943). After him are Cynthia Nixon (1966), Pink (1979), Dick Dale (1937), Benjamin West (1738), Jennifer Lee (1971), and Kristen Stewart (1990).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Paul Volcker ranks 68. Before him are Robert B. Wilson (1937), Benjamin Tucker (1854), Paul Romer (1955), Eric Maskin (1950), Douglas Diamond (1953), and Alvin Hansen (1887). After him are Hyman Minsky (1919), Henry Hazlitt (1894), Alvin E. Roth (1951), Peter Senge (1947), Mancur Olson (1932), and William Baumol (1922).

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