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Raúl Prebisch

1901 - 1986

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Raúl Prebisch (April 17, 1901 – April 29, 1986) was an Argentine economist known for his contributions to structuralist economics such as the Prebisch–Singer hypothesis, which formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He became the executive director of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA or CEPAL) in 1950. In 1950, he also released the very influential study The Economic Development of Latin America and its Principal Problems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raúl Prebisch has received more than 218,282 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Raúl Prebisch is the 203rd most popular economist (down from 193rd in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 139th in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Raúl Prebisch ranks 203 out of 414. Before him are Abba P. Lerner, John A. Hobson, Stanley Fischer, Michel Camdessus, Douglas Diamond, and Bertrand de Jouvenel. After him are Alvin Hansen, Gustav Cassel, Jon Elster, Paul Volcker, Hyman Minsky, and Henry Hazlitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Raúl Prebisch ranks 120. Before him are Robert J. Van de Graaff, Manuel Urrutia Lleó, Hermann Priess, Karl-August Fagerholm, Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt, and Pavel Rotmistrov. After him are György Orth, Vladimir Sofronitsky, August Schmidhuber, Claude Autant-Lara, Ho Feng-Shan, and Mikhail Romm. Among people deceased in 1986, Raúl Prebisch ranks 105. Before him are Michael, Prince of Montenegro, Christa McAuliffe, Albert Scherrer, Michael J. Smith, Valentin Kataev, and Artur London. After him are Princess Anne of Orléans, Judith Resnik, Scatman Crothers, Megumu Tamura, Vitaly Abalakov, and Dick Scobee.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Raúl Prebisch ranks 175 out of 1,154. Before him are Juan Hohberg (1926), Emilio Eduardo Massera (1925), Alejandro Agustín Lanusse (1918), Juan Ramón Verón (1944), Eduardo Lonardi (1896), and Fernando Muslera (1986). After him are Francisco Moreno (1852), Mario Evaristo (1908), Fernando Solanas (1936), Alejandro de Tomaso (1928), Esteban Cambiasso (1980), and Pablo Aimar (1979).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Argentina

Among economists born in Argentina, Raúl Prebisch ranks 1. After him are Axel Kicillof (1971).

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