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Theodore Schultz

1902 - 1998

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Theodore William Schultz ( SHUULTS; 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 211,673 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Theodore Schultz is the 60th most popular economist, the 866th most popular biography from United States (down from 804th in 2019) and the 13th 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

Among economists, Theodore Schultz ranks 60 out of 414. Before him are Bertil Ohlin, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Douglass North, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Benjamin Graham, and Wang Anshi. After him are Oliver E. Williamson, Irving Fisher, Franco Modigliani, Robert Mundell, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Trygve Haavelmo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Theodore Schultz ranks 37. Before him are Alva Myrdal, Juscelino Kubitschek, Marcel Breuer, Harold Lasswell, Émile Benveniste, and Alexander Luria. After him are Reinhard Gehlen, Günther Anders, Prince George, Duke of Kent, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Alexandre Kojève, and Felix Wankel. Among people deceased in 1998, Theodore Schultz ranks 17. Before him are Niklas Luhmann, Yang Shangkun, Vladimir Prelog, Raymond Cattell, Alan Shepard, and Konstantinos Karamanlis. After him are Falco, Frederick Reines, Tameo Ide, Nizar Qabbani, Julien Green, and Vasily Arkhipov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Theodore Schultz ranks 866 out of 20,380. Before him are Aaron T. Beck (1921), Anne Sullivan (1866), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868), Thomas Harris (1940), and Neal Cassady (1926). After him are Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), John Sherman (1823), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), Sinclair Lewis (1885), Vivian Maier (1926), and Matthew McConaughey (1969).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Theodore Schultz ranks 13. Before him are Robert Solow (1924), Paul Krugman (1953), Gary Becker (1930), Murray Rothbard (1926), Thorstein Veblen (1857), and Douglass North (1920). After him are Oliver E. Williamson (1932), Irving Fisher (1867), Ben Bernanke (1953), Kenneth Arrow (1921), Harry Markowitz (1927), and James Tobin (1918).

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