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ECONOMIST

Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play

1806 - 1882

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Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (French: [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 129,994 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play is the 140th most popular economist (down from 102nd in 2019), the 1,649th most popular biography from France (down from 1,359th 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 140 out of 315. Before him are Clive Granger, Walt Whitman Rostow, Joan Robinson, Bingu wa Mutharika, Robert C. Merton, and Angus Deaton. After him are Jeremy Rifkin, Ernst Engel, James Mirrlees, William F. Sharpe, Benedetto Cotrugli, and Christopher A. Sims.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play ranks 17. Before him are Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, and Duchenne de Boulogne. After him are Charles Gleyre, Antoine Wiertz, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, William, Duke of Brunswick, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, and Karl Friedrich Mohr. Among people deceased in 1882, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play ranks 24. Before him are Ewelina Hańska, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henri Giffard, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald. After him are Mikhail Skobelev, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hill Green, Henry Draper, and Joachim Raff.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play ranks 1,649 out of 6,011. Before him are Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830), Carausius (300), Maurice Papon (1910), John I, Duke of Alençon (1385), and Christian Boltanski (1944). After him are René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929), Louis, Prince of Condé (1668), Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932), and Jean Rouch (1917).

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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), Jacques Delors (1925), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Gérard Debreu (1921), and Jean Tirole (1953). After him are Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), Thomas Piketty (1971), Pierre Leroux (1797), and Michel Camdessus (1933).

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