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Rudolf Hilferding

1877 - 1941

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Rudolf Hilferding (10 August 1877 – 11 February 1941) was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, socialist theorist, politician and the chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic, being almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of the twentieth century. He was also a physician. He was born in Vienna, where he received a doctorate having studied medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Hilferding has received more than 234,028 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Rudolf Hilferding is the 109th most popular economist (up from 115th in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from Austria (up from 322nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Austrian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Rudolf Hilferding ranks 109 out of 414. Before him are Bingu wa Mutharika, Douglas McGregor, Thomas Schelling, Silvio Gesell, Adolph Wagner, and Friedrich von Wieser. After him are Zhou Youguang, Richard Stone, Thomas J. Sargent, William Nordhaus, Carlo M. Cipolla, and Merton Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Rudolf Hilferding ranks 32. Before him are Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Alfred Kubin, André Maginot, Plutarco Elías Calles, Ernst von Dohnányi, and Aga Khan III. After him are Henry Norris Russell, James Jeans, Alben W. Barkley, Princess Auguste of Bavaria, Emil Abderhalden, and Endre Ady. Among people deceased in 1941, Rudolf Hilferding ranks 46. Before him are Émile Bernard, Gottfried Feder, Frederick Griffith, Annie Jump Cannon, Dmitry Pavlov, and Tullio Levi-Civita. After him are Paul-Jacques Curie, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Franz Gürtner, Ernst Lindemann, Maria Spiridonova, and Edwin S. Porter.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Rudolf Hilferding ranks 300 out of 1,424. Before him are Bertha Pappenheim (1859), Joseph Lanner (1801), Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614), Clemence of Austria (1262), Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759), and Friedrich von Wieser (1851). After him are Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705), Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria (1878), Franz Böhme (1885), István Széchenyi (1791), Senta Berger (1941), and Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria (1801).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Austria

Among economists born in Austria, Rudolf Hilferding ranks 4. Before him are Friedrich Hayek (1899), Karl Polanyi (1886), and Friedrich von Wieser (1851). After him are Fritz Machlup (1902), Bruno de Finetti (1906), Gottfried Haberler (1900), and Käthe Leichter (1895).

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