1957 - Today
Richard L. Florida (born November 26, 1957, in Newark, New Jersey) is an American urban studies theorist focusing on social and economic theory. He is a professor and head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a Distinguished Fellow at NYU's School of Professional Studies.Florida received a PhD from Columbia University in 1986. Prior to joining George Mason University's School of Public Policy, where he spent two years, he taught at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College in Pittsburgh from 1987 to 2005. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Florida has received more than 257,123 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Florida is the 284th most popular economist (down from 271st in 2019), the 8,062nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,965th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Economist.
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Among economists, Richard Florida ranks 284 out of 315. Before him are Euclid Tsakalotos, James Wilson, Ha-Joon Chang, Abdi Farah Shirdon, Ludwig Lachmann, and W. Michael Blumenthal. After him are Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Jagdish Bhagwati, Ilham Tohti, Lew Rockwell, John Lipsky, and Kenneth Rogoff.
1960 - Present
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 278
1805 - 1860
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 279
1963 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 280
1958 - Present
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 281
1906 - 1990
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 282
1926 - Present
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 283
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 284
1946 - Present
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 285
1934 - Present
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 286
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 287
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 288
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 289
1953 - Present
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 290
Among people born in 1957, Richard Florida ranks 325. Before him are Sheila E., Bruce Payne, Michael Caton-Jones, François Asselineau, Frank Schätzing, and Martin Luther King III. After him are Arkadi Ghukasyan, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Raul Boesel, Fumio Kishida, Aliko Dangote, and Lília Cabral.
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 319
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 320
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 321
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 322
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 323
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 324
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 325
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 326
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 327
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 328
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 329
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 330
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 331
Among people born in United States, Richard Florida ranks 8,062 out of 15,968. Before him are Edie Falco (1963), Laura San Giacomo (1962), Barry Mazur (1937), S. Epatha Merkerson (1952), Whittaker Chambers (1901), and Martin Luther King III (1957). After him are Kathy Hilton (1959), Carroll O'Connor (1924), Barbara Bates (1925), Robert Coover (1932), Brian Donlevy (1901), and Vern Mikkelsen (1928).
1963 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 8,056
1962 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 8,057
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 8,058
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 8,059
1901 - 1961
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 8,060
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 8,061
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 8,062
1959 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 8,063
1924 - 2001
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 8,064
1925 - 1969
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 8,065
1932 - Present
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 8,066
1901 - 1972
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 8,067
1928 - 2013
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 8,068
Among economists born in United States, Richard Florida ranks 96. Before him are Robert Rubin (1938), Arthur Laffer (1940), Lawrence Summers (1954), Anna Schwartz (1915), Martin Feldstein (1939), and Edith Abbott (1876). After him are Lew Rockwell (1944), John Lipsky (1947), Kenneth Rogoff (1953), Armen Alchian (1914), Michael Albert (1947), and Ardo Hansson (1958).
1938 - Present
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 90
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 91
1954 - Present
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 92
1915 - 2012
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 93
1939 - 2019
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 94
1876 - 1957
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 95
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 96
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 97
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 98
1953 - Present
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 99
1914 - 2013
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 100
1947 - Present
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 101
1958 - Present
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 102