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Thomas Hodgskin

1787 - 1869

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Thomas Hodgskin (12 December 1787 – 21 August 1869) was an English socialist writer on political economy, critic of capitalism and defender of free trade and early trade unions. His views differ from some of the views later assigned to the word ‘socialism’. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Hodgskin has received more than 134,887 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Thomas Hodgskin is the 332nd most popular economist (down from 325th in 2019), the 4,075th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,418th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Thomas Hodgskin ranks 332 out of 414. Before him are Guido Imbens, Ha-Joon Chang, Branko Milanović, John Lipsky, Daniele Archibugi, and Fischer Black. After him are Henry Charles Carey, Gunter Pauli, Robert Rubin, Armen Alchian, W. Michael Blumenthal, and Jacob Viner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Thomas Hodgskin ranks 51. Before him are Josephine Kablick, John Richardson, Pedro Vélez, Edward Blore, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, and José Tomás Ovalle. After him are Thomas Say, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Emma Willard, John J. Crittenden, and Mary Russell Mitford. Among people deceased in 1869, Thomas Hodgskin ranks 55. Before him are George Peabody, Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, Andreas Kalvos, Bertalan Szemere, Alexander Dreyschock, and Henry Jarvis Raymond. After him are José Hilario López, Peter Mark Roget, Diomidis Kyriakos, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Robert J. Walker, and Charles Sturt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Hodgskin ranks 4,075 out of 8,785. Before him are John Goodall (1863), Andrew Wakefield (1957), Greg Wise (1966), Stafford Beer (1926), Aneirin (525), and Richard Rodney Bennett (1936). After him are Jayne Atkinson (1959), Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), Richard Lynn (1930), Frank Morley (1860), Vivian Campbell (1962), and Tina Charles (1954).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Hodgskin ranks 40. Before him are Tony Atkinson (1944), Maurice Dobb (1900), Colin Clark (1905), James Steuart (1712), John Neville Keynes (1852), and Beatrice Webb (1858). After him are James Wilson (1805), Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), Martin Wolf (1946), G. D. H. Cole (1889), Sajid Javid (1969), and Thomas Chalmers (1780).

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