ECONOMIST

Piero Sraffa

1898 - 1983

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Piero Sraffa FBA (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piero Sraffa has received more than 324,289 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Piero Sraffa is the 163rd most popular economist (down from 161st in 2019), the 1,939th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,873rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Economist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 320k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Piero Sraffas by language

Over the past year Piero Sraffa has had the most page views in the with 36,856 views, followed by Italian (12,816), and Spanish (7,051). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Turkish (106.84%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (89.24%), and Esperanto (45.12%)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Piero Sraffa ranks 163 out of 414. Before him are Ernst Engel, John Bates Clark, Oskar R. Lange, William F. Sharpe, Daniel McFadden, and Roger Myerson. After him are Myron Scholes, Raymond Barre, Henry George, Henry Sidgwick, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, and Lionel Robbins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Piero Sraffa ranks 84. Before him are Leo McCarey, Hastings Banda, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Desanka Maksimović, Luigi Fagioli, and Helmuth von Pannwitz. After him are Berenice Abbott, Michel de Ghelderode, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Hans Globke, Grace Moore, and Randolph Scott. Among people deceased in 1983, Piero Sraffa ranks 62. Before him are Dennis Wilson, Walter Stennes, Igor Markevitch, Arno Babajanian, Jean Rey, and Tino Rossi. After him are Sharof Rashidov, Erich Juskowiak, Shizo Kanakuri, László Budai, William Walton, and Arturo Umberto Illia.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Piero Sraffa ranks 1,939 out of 5,161. Before him are Edoardo Agnelli (1892), Stefano Pioli (1965), Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743), Mario Roatta (1887), Gianluca Pagliuca (1966), and Alberto Grimaldi (1925). After him are Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma (1847), Marco Antonio Bragadin (1523), Margaret of Durazzo (1347), Paolo Veneziano (1300), Angelo Moriondo (1851), and John of Montecorvino (1246).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Italy

Among economists born in Italy, Piero Sraffa ranks 4. Before him are Mario Draghi (1947), Franco Modigliani (1918), and Carlo M. Cipolla (1922). After him are Ferdinando Galiani (1728), Giovanni Arrighi (1937), Gian Domenico Romagnosi (1761), Pietro Verri (1728), Mariana Mazzucato (1968), Daniele Archibugi (1958), Pier Carlo Padoan (1950), and Alberto Alesina (1957).

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