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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 311,419 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Robert Barro is the 250th most popular economist (up from 275th in 2019), the 4,760th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,913th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Economist.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 51.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Robert Barros by language

Over the past year Robert Barro has had the most page views in the with 27,124 views, followed by Spanish (4,320), and French (3,488). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (92.38%), Turkish (54.35%), and Swedish (16.61%)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Robert Barro ranks 250 out of 414. Before him are David Card, Leszek Balcerowicz, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, Georg Friedrich Knapp, Theodore Levitt, and Esther Duflo. After him are Edward Chamberlin, Alexander Gerschenkron, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Greg Mankiw, and Tony Atkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Robert Barro ranks 369. Before him are Jean-Pierre Ricard, Ignatius Joseph III Yonan, Enrique Barón Crespo, Manuela Carmena, Marvin Hamlisch, and Kay Ivey. After him are Swoosie Kurtz, Ene Ergma, William Sanderson, John Tavener, Alain Souchon, and Polycarp Pengo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Barro ranks 4,760 out of 20,380. Before him are Margaret Sullavan (1909), Jim Courier (1970), Loretta Lynn (1932), Kay Ivey (1944), Janet Asimov (1926), and Betsy Blair (1923). After him are Cheryl Ladd (1951), Stanley Cavell (1926), Alice Coachman (1923), Edward Chamberlin (1899), Elvin Hayes (1945), and Christopher Atkins (1961).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Robert Barro ranks 82. Before him are David D. Friedman (1945), Paul Milgrom (1948), Thomas Sowell (1930), Philip H. Dybvig (1955), Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), and Arthur Melvin Okun (1928). After him are Edward Chamberlin (1899), Greg Mankiw (1958), Dennis Meadows (1942), Joshua Angrist (1960), John R. Commons (1862), and Leo Huberman (1903).

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