ECONOMIST

Ragnar Nurkse

1907 - 1959

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Ragnar Wilhelm Nurkse (5 October 1907, Käru, Estonia – 6 May 1959, Le Mont-Pèlerin, Switzerland) was an Estonian-American economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ragnar Nurkse has received more than 97,994 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ragnar Nurkse is the 288th most popular economist (down from 240th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 82nd in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Economist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ragnar Nurkse ranks 288 out of 414. Before him are William Phillips, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Gordon Tullock, Herman Daly, Max O. Lorenz, and Anthony Downs. After him are Diego Abad de Santillán, Seth Godin, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Zbigniew Messner, Ludwig Lachmann, and Yulia Navalnaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ragnar Nurkse ranks 247. Before him are Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, Sofia Yablonska, Sanya Dharmasakti, Chico Landi, Shivakumara Swami, and Nikolai Gastello. After him are László Szollás, Kinue Hitomi, Sven Andersson, Antonín Vodička, Vasja Pirc, and Fritz Wotruba. Among people deceased in 1959, Ragnar Nurkse ranks 138. Before him are Jean Grémillon, Irving Cummings, Nazik al-Abid, Max O. Lorenz, Hans Henny Jahnn, and Felix Jacoby. After him are Boughera El Ouafi, Lou Costello, Francis de Miomandre, Alexander Rueb, Molla Mallory, and Carl Switzer.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Ragnar Nurkse ranks 129 out of 351. Before him are Friedebert Tuglas (1886), Pavel Schilling (1786), Andres Tarand (1940), Konrad Mägi (1878), Rudolf Tobias (1873), and Alfred Schmidt (1898). After him are Heino Kruus (1926), Aleksey Shakhmatov (1864), Jüri Tamm (1957), Arnold Meri (1919), Ivo Linna (1949), and Aavo Pikkuus (1954).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Estonia

Among economists born in Estonia, Ragnar Nurkse ranks 1. 

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