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Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play

1806 - 1882

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Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ɡijom fʁedeʁik lə plɛ]; April 11, 1806 – April 5, 1882) was a French engineer, sociologist and economist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play has received more than 138,594 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play is the 142nd most popular economist (down from 138th in 2019), the 1,872nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,643rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Economist.

Pierre Guillaume Frederic Le Play was a French sociologist and economist who is most famous for his study of the family.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play ranks 142 out of 414. Before him are W. Arthur Lewis, Clive Granger, James Mirrlees, Robert Fogel, Dani Rodrik, and Hans-Hermann Hoppe. After him are James Heckman, Vernon L. Smith, Gustav von Schmoller, Christopher A. Pissarides, Bengt Holmström, and Jeffrey Sachs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play ranks 19. Before him are Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, Charles Gleyre, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, and Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse. After him are Duchenne de Boulogne, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Antoine Wiertz, John A. Roebling, William, Duke of Brunswick, and Karl Friedrich Mohr. Among people deceased in 1882, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play ranks 26. Before him are Sergey Nechayev, Henri Giffard, Mikhail Skobelev, Henry Draper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Joachim Raff, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Alfred Escher, Anthony Trollope, and Estanislao Figueras.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play ranks 1,872 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Blondel (1861), Jean-Marie Balestre (1921), Auguste Bravais (1811), Jean-Paul Laurens (1838), Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207), and Jean Borotra (1898). After him are Marie de Gournay (1565), Florestan I, Prince of Monaco (1785), Jean Chalgrin (1739), Michelle of Valois (1395), Maurice André (1933), and Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (1572).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play ranks 14. Before him are Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Maurice Allais (1911), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Gérard Debreu (1921), and Jean Tirole (1953). After him are Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Pierre Leroux (1797), Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), Thomas Piketty (1971), Clément Juglar (1819), and Michel Camdessus (1933).

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