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W. Michael Blumenthal

1926 - Today

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Werner Michael Blumenthal (born January 3, 1926) is a German-American business leader, economist and political adviser who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979. At age thirteen, Blumenthal barely escaped Nazi Germany with his Jewish family in 1939. He was forced to spend World War II living in the ghetto of Japanese-occupied Shanghai, China, until 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. Michael Blumenthal has received more than 252,176 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). W. Michael Blumenthal is the 337th most popular economist (down from 310th in 2019), the 5,020th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,353rd in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Economist.

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  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 337 out of 414. Before him are Fischer Black, Thomas Hodgskin, Henry Charles Carey, Gunter Pauli, Robert Rubin, and Armen Alchian. After him are Jacob Viner, James Wilson, Henryk Grossman, Abel Aganbegyan, José Ángel Gurría, and Sri Mulyani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 411. Before him are Joan Shawlee, David Malet Armstrong, Danny Blanchflower, Raymond Gosling, Diana Lynn, and Bob Richards. After him are Géza Kádas, Rosa Taikon, A. N. R. Robinson, John Gardner, John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, and Alison Lurie.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 5,020 out of 7,253. Before him are Christa Luding-Rothenburger (1959), Eugen Baumann (1846), Kuno Klötzer (1922), Hermann Martens (1877), Friedrich Kluge (1856), and Matthias Heidemann (1912). After him are Paul Zielinski (1911), Bernd Storck (1963), Frank Ordenewitz (1965), Ferdinand von Schirach (1964), Helge Schneider (1955), and Georg Hilmar (1876).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 37. Before him are Andreas Kaplan (1977), Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Ludwig Lachmann (1906), Karl Knies (1821), Alice Salomon (1872), and Jörg Meuthen (1961). After him are Robin Hanson (1959).

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