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Peter Diamond

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Peter Arthur Diamond (born April 29, 1940) is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Diamond has received more than 260,331 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Diamond is the 153rd most popular economist (up from 165th in 2019), the 2,180th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,462nd in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Peter Diamond ranks 153 out of 414. Before him are Bengt Holmström, Jeffrey Sachs, William Beveridge, Robert F. Engle, Benedetto Cotrugli, and Walt Whitman Rostow. After him are Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Michał Kalecki, Kenneth E. Boulding, Ernst Engel, John Bates Clark, and Oskar R. Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Peter Diamond ranks 131. Before him are Shozo Tsugitani, Richard Pryor, Ricky Nelson, Roger Ailes, Elke Sommer, and Roger Pingeon. After him are Denny Doherty, Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, Taihō Kōki, Jimmy Greaves, and Isdal Woman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Diamond ranks 2,180 out of 20,380. Before him are Cissy Houston (1933), George Phillips Bond (1825), Fess Parker (1924), Tobe Hooper (1943), William Carlos Williams (1883), and Ron Johnson (1955). After him are Joan Didion (1934), Buddy Rich (1917), W. I. Thomas (1863), Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921), Cindy Crawford (1966), and John Barrymore (1882).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Peter Diamond ranks 50. Before him are Robert Fogel (1926), James Heckman (1944), Vernon L. Smith (1927), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Robert F. Engle (1942), and Walt Whitman Rostow (1916). After him are John Bates Clark (1847), William F. Sharpe (1934), Daniel McFadden (1937), Roger Myerson (1951), Henry George (1839), and George Shultz (1920).

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