1902 - 1998
Theodore William Schultz (; 30 April 1902 – 26 February 1998) was an American agricultural economist and chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Economics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodore Schultz has received more than 198,027 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Theodore Schultz is the 61st most popular economist (up from 65th in 2019), the 804th most popular biography from United States (up from 843rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Economist.
Theodore Schultz is most famous for his work on human capital theory. He argued that the production of goods and services in an economy is dependent on two factors: labor and capital.
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Among economists, Theodore Schultz ranks 61 out of 315. Before him are W. Edwards Deming, Irving Fisher, John Kenneth Galbraith, Franco Modigliani, Bertil Ohlin, and Robert Solow. After him are William Stanley Jevons, Oliver E. Williamson, Henry Mintzberg, Robert Lucas Jr., Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, and Jacques Delors.
1900 - 1993
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 55
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 56
1908 - 2006
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 57
1918 - 2003
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 58
1899 - 1979
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 59
1924 - 2023
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 60
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 61
1835 - 1882
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 62
1932 - 2020
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 63
1939 - Present
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 64
1937 - 2023
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 65
1851 - 1914
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 66
1925 - 2023
HPI: 62.93
Rank: 67
Among people born in 1902, Theodore Schultz ranks 34. Before him are Marcel Breuer, Mikhail Suslov, Alva Myrdal, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Reinhard Gehlen, and Alexander Luria. After him are Émile Benveniste, Juscelino Kubitschek, André Michel Lwoff, Mitsuo Fuchida, Felix Wankel, and Fritz Strassmann. Among people deceased in 1998, Theodore Schultz ranks 17. Before him are Octavio Paz, Alan Shepard, Niklas Luhmann, Vladimir Prelog, Raymond Cattell, and Konstantinos Karamanlis. After him are Frederick Reines, Otto Kretschmer, Vasily Arkhipov, Alfred Schnittke, Allan MacLeod Cormack, and Falco.
1902 - 1981
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 28
1902 - 1982
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 29
1902 - 1986
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 30
1902 - 1947
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 31
1902 - 1979
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 32
1902 - 1977
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 33
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 34
1902 - 1976
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 35
1902 - 1976
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 36
1902 - 1994
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 37
1902 - 1976
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 38
1902 - 1988
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 39
1902 - 1980
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 40
1914 - 1998
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 11
1923 - 1998
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 12
1927 - 1998
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 13
1906 - 1998
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 14
1905 - 1998
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 15
1907 - 1998
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 16
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 17
1918 - 1998
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 18
1912 - 1998
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 19
1926 - 1998
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 20
1934 - 1998
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 21
1924 - 1998
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 22
1957 - 1998
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 23
Among people born in United States, Theodore Schultz ranks 804 out of 18,182. Before him are Lee Marvin (1924), Charles H. Townes (1915), Joseph Campbell (1904), Robert Solow (1924), Danny Glover (1946), and John Belushi (1949). After him are Hilary Putnam (1926), Stanford Moore (1913), Ice-T (1958), Jon Bon Jovi (1962), Louise Hay (1926), and Christopher Lambert (1957).
1924 - 1987
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 798
1915 - 2015
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 799
1904 - 1987
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 800
1924 - 2023
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 801
1946 - Present
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 802
1949 - 1982
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 803
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 804
1926 - 2016
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 805
1913 - 1982
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 806
1958 - Present
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 807
1962 - Present
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 808
1926 - 2017
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 809
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 810
Among economists born in United States, Theodore Schultz ranks 14. Before him are Gary Becker (1930), Douglass North (1920), Kenneth Arrow (1921), W. Edwards Deming (1900), Irving Fisher (1867), and Robert Solow (1924). After him are Oliver E. Williamson (1932), Robert Lucas Jr. (1937), James Tobin (1918), James M. Buchanan (1919), Murray Rothbard (1926), and Charles Cooley (1864).
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 8
1920 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 9
1921 - 2017
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 10
1900 - 1993
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 11
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 12
1924 - 2023
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 13
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 14
1932 - 2020
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 15
1937 - 2023
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 16
1918 - 2002
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 17
1919 - 2013
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 18
1926 - 1995
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 19
1864 - 1929
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 20