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Ragnar Frisch

1895 - 1973

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Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973) was an influential Norwegian economist known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th century. He coined the term econometrics in 1926 for utilising statistical methods to describe economic systems, as well as the terms microeconomics and macroeconomics in 1933, for describing individual and aggregate economic systems, respectively. He was the first to develop a statistically informed model of business cycles in 1933. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ragnar Frisch has received more than 322,199 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Ragnar Frisch is the 39th most popular economist (up from 54th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Norway (up from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Norwegian Economist.

Ragnar Frisch is most famous for his work in the field of econometrics, specifically his development of the econometric technique known as "multiple time series analysis."

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ragnar Frisch ranks 39 out of 315. Before him are Gunnar Myrdal, Léon Walras, Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Graham, Elinor Ostrom, and Wassily Leontief. After him are Thorstein Veblen, Friedrich List, Gary Becker, Jacques Attali, Jan Tinbergen, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Ragnar Frisch ranks 36. Before him are Folke Bernadotte, Oskar Dirlewanger, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Cemal Gürsel, Levi Eshkol, and Vladimir Propp. After him are Igor Tamm, Ludvík Svoboda, Machine Gun Kelly, László Moholy-Nagy, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, and Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1973, Ragnar Frisch ranks 29. Before him are Pablo Casals, Gabriel Marcel, Ferdinand Schörner, Semyon Budyonny, Víctor Jara, and J. Hans D. Jensen. After him are Jacques Maritain, Selman Waksman, Hans Albert Einstein, Karl Ziegler, Charles Greeley Abbot, and Luis Carrero Blanco.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Ragnar Frisch ranks 27 out of 927. Before him are Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Jo Nesbø (1960), Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939), Ingólfr Arnarson (850), Harald Hardrada (1015), and Jostein Gaarder (1952). After him are Magnus the Good (1024), Ludvig Holberg (1684), Odd Hassel (1897), Olaf II of Denmark (1370), Ivar Aasen (1813), and Magnus IV of Sweden (1316).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Norway

Among economists born in Norway, Ragnar Frisch ranks 1. After him are Trygve Haavelmo (1911), Finn E. Kydland (1943), and Jon Elster (1940).

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