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Roger Myerson

1951 - Today

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Roger Bruce Myerson (born March 29, 1951) is an American economist and professor at the University of Chicago. He holds the title of the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts in the Harris School of Public Policy, the Griffin Department of Economics, and the College of the University of Chicago. Previously, he held the title The Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics. In 2007, he was the winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Myerson has received more than 188,444 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Roger Myerson is the 162nd most popular economist (up from 191st in 2019), the 2,370th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,026th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Economist.

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  • 62.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Roger Myerson ranks 162 out of 414. Before him are Kenneth E. Boulding, Ernst Engel, John Bates Clark, Oskar R. Lange, William F. Sharpe, and Daniel McFadden. After him are Piero Sraffa, Myron Scholes, Raymond Barre, Henry George, Henry Sidgwick, and Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Roger Myerson ranks 104. Before him are Börje Salming, Treat Williams, Pierre Lemaitre, Duncan Haldane, Dražen Dalipagić, and Ernesto Zedillo. After him are Dee Dee Ramone, Alexander Sokurov, Chen Chien-jen, Jakaya Kikwete, Jean-Jacques Goldman, and Beverly D'Angelo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roger Myerson ranks 2,370 out of 20,380. Before him are Stacey Abrams (1973), James Ellroy (1948), Christine Chubbuck (1944), Sugar Ray Leonard (1956), Rob Reiner (1947), and Pauley Perrette (1969). After him are Michael Rosbash (1944), Johnston McCulley (1883), Royal Rife (1888), Joanna Cassidy (1945), Carol W. Greider (1961), and Betty Robinson (1911).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Roger Myerson ranks 54. Before him are Robert F. Engle (1942), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Peter Diamond (1940), John Bates Clark (1847), William F. Sharpe (1934), and Daniel McFadden (1937). After him are Henry George (1839), George Shultz (1920), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Daniel Ellsberg (1931), Jim Rogers (1942), and Michael Spence (1943).

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