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Robert Barro

1944 - Today

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Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, along with Robert Lucas Jr. and Thomas J. Sargent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Barro has received more than 313,620 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Robert Barro is the 278th most popular economist (down from 241st in 2019), the 5,925th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,830th in 2019) and the 90th most popular American Economist.

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  • 21

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  • 3.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Robert Barro ranks 278 out of 315. Before him are James Wolfensohn, Gordon Tullock, Deirdre McCloskey, Max O. Lorenz, Esther Duflo, and Nouriel Roubini. After him are Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Karl Knies, Michael Kremer, Seth Godin, and Lawrence Summers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Robert Barro ranks 390. Before him are Sandra Bem, Carlos Pachamé, William Christie, Seán Patrick O'Malley, Al Kooper, and Doreen Massey. After him are José Dolhem, Massimiliano Fuksas, Bodil Joensen, Annette Lu, Roger Lloyd-Pack, and Sulochana Gadgil.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Barro ranks 5,925 out of 18,182. Before him are R. G. Armstrong (1917), Carol Morris (1936), Frank Elmore Ross (1874), Miriam Stevenson (1933), Jon Brion (1963), and Robert Anderson (1805). After him are J. D. Tippit (1924), John Norman (1931), Gregg Toland (1904), Brent Scowcroft (1925), Honus Wagner (1874), and Randal Kleiser (1946).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Robert Barro ranks 90. Before him are Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874), Paul Sweezy (1910), Arthur Laffer (1940), Gordon Tullock (1922), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), and Max O. Lorenz (1876). After him are Michael Kremer (1964), Seth Godin (1960), Lawrence Summers (1954), Anna Schwartz (1915), Robert Rubin (1938), and Charles P. Kindleberger (1910).

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