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Walter Block

1941 - Today

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Walter Edward Block (born August 21, 1941) is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He was the Harold E. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Block has received more than 341,676 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Walter Block is the 300th most popular economist (down from 257th in 2019), the 7,007th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,202nd in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Economist.

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  • 340k

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  • 45.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Walter Block ranks 300 out of 315Before him are Paul A. Baran, Charles P. Kindleberger, James Steuart, Abhijit Banerjee, Michel Chossudovsky, and Leonid Abalkin. After him are Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, José Ángel Gurría, Henry Charles Carey, Branko Milanović, Ha-Joon Chang, and Ilham Tohti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Walter Block ranks 400Before him are Gilbert Kaplan, Inger Aufles, Jean Vallée, Paola Pitagora, Trish Van Devere, and Boris Gaganelov. After him are Aminata Sow Fall, James Joseph Dresnok, John Nicholson, Paddy Ashdown, Kaija Mustonen, and François Weyergans.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Block ranks 7,007 out of 18,182Before him are Leonard Slatkin (1944), William Bonin (1947), Tom Robbins (1932), Richard Portnow (1947), Joseph Bologna (1934), and Jason Kidd (1973). After him are Robert T. Bakker (1945), Ken Olsen (1926), Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923), William T. Anderson (1839), Joseph Engelberger (1925), and Maury Chaykin (1949).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Walter Block ranks 97Before him are Michael Kremer (1964), Seth Godin (1960), Lawrence Summers (1954), Anna Schwartz (1915), Robert Rubin (1938), and Charles P. Kindleberger (1910). After him are Henry Charles Carey (1793), Fischer Black (1938), Armen Alchian (1914), John Lipsky (1947), Anthony Downs (1930), and Anne Osborn Krueger (1934).