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Theodore Levitt

1925 - 2006

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Theodore Levitt (March 1, 1925 – June 28, 2006) was a German-born American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He was editor of the Harvard Business Review, noted for increasing the Review's circulation and popularizing the term globalization. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodore Levitt has received more than 272,296 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Theodore Levitt is the 248th most popular economist (down from 244th in 2019), the 3,733rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,433rd in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Economist.

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  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Theodore Levitt ranks 248 out of 414. Before him are Hernando de Soto Polar, Abhijit Banerjee, David Card, Leszek Balcerowicz, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, and Georg Friedrich Knapp. After him are Esther Duflo, Robert Barro, Edward Chamberlin, Alexander Gerschenkron, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, and Fakhruddin Ahmed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Theodore Levitt ranks 240. Before him are Jacques Fatton, Kirill Lavrov, Luis Herrera Campins, Konrad Wolf, Nina Lobkovskaya, and Seymour Cray. After him are Lennart Bergelin, Philippe Jaccottet, Ernst Jandl, Shehu Shagari, John Neville, and Yuli Daniel. Among people deceased in 2006, Theodore Levitt ranks 192. Before him are Kent Andersson, Dennis Weaver, Kathleen Antonelli, Yitzhak Kaduri, Gert Fredriksson, and Kazimierz Górski. After him are Paul Halmos, Anita O'Day, Arif Mardin, Pío Leyva, Sven Axbom, and Max Merkel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theodore Levitt ranks 3,733 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Hofer (1878), Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1892), Robert Jungk (1913), Karl Arnold (1901), Peter Brötzmann (1941), and Adolf Martens (1850). After him are Felix Draeseke (1835), Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708), Holger Meins (1941), Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (1810), Christine Kirch (1697), and Theo Adam (1926).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Theodore Levitt ranks 29. Before him are Adam Müller (1779), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), and Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842). After him are Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Andreas Kaplan (1977), Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Ludwig Lachmann (1906), Karl Knies (1821), and Alice Salomon (1872).

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