ECONOMIST

Richard Florida

1957 - Today

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Richard L. Florida (born 1957) is an American urban studies theorist focusing on social and economic theory. He is a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a Distinguished Fellow at NYU's School of Professional Studies. Florida taught at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College in Pittsburgh from 1987 to 2005, before moving to George Mason University's School of Public Policy, where he taught for two years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Florida has received more than 396,274 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Florida is the 365th most popular economist (down from 335th in 2019), the 10,265th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,149th in 2019) and the 115th most popular American Economist.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Richard Florida ranks 365 out of 414Before him are Muriel Casals i Couturier, Paul Craig Roberts, Pier Carlo Padoan, Käthe Leichter, Jagdish Bhagwati, and Masaaki Shirakawa. After him are Arkady Dvorkovich, G. D. H. Cole, Ariel Rubinstein, Tatyana Golikova, Martin Feldstein, and Lee Ju-ho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Richard Florida ranks 460Before him are Mark Mancina, Katie Couric, Murat Zyazikov, Rui Rio, Martin Luther King III, and Jo Jorgensen. After him are Richard Barbieri, Ulrike Lunacek, Bernd Krauss, Christer Björkman, Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar, and Jacek Kaczmarski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Florida ranks 10,265 out of 20,380Before him are Josh Homme (1973), John O. Brennan (1955), Gideon Welles (1802), Patricia Barber (1955), Erna Schneider Hoover (1926), and Don Muraco (1949). After him are Samuel Huntington (1731), Richard Fortus (1966), Marilyn White (1944), Bonita Granville (1923), Antonio Tarver (1968), and Horace Grant (1965).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Richard Florida ranks 115Before him are Armen Alchian (1914), Don Patinkin (1922), Edith Abbott (1876), John B. Taylor (1946), Frank Fetter (1863), and Paul Craig Roberts (1939). After him are Martin Feldstein (1939), Richard D. Wolff (1942), Kenneth Rogoff (1953), Michael Albert (1947), Paul Douglas (1892), and Eric Lander (1957).