ECONOMIST

Walter Eucken

1891 - 1950

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Walter Eucken (German: [ˈɔʏkŋ̍]; 17 January 1891 – 20 March 1950) was a German economist of the Freiburg school and father of ordoliberalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Eucken has received more than 83,708 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Walter Eucken is the 173rd most popular economist (up from 177th in 2019), the 2,239th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,253rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Walter Eucken ranks 173 out of 414. Before him are Henry Sidgwick, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Lionel Robbins, Wilhelm Röpke, Pierre Leroux, and George Shultz. After him are Lars Peter Hansen, Gustave de Molinari, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Nicholas Kaldor, and Daniel Ellsberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Walter Eucken ranks 79. Before him are Shizo Kanakuri, Henry Tandey, Diana Budisavljević, Evgeny Pashukanis, Yrjö Väisälä, and Tin Ujević. After him are Yvan Goll, Kálmán Kalocsay, Charles Munch, Kim Seong-su, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, and Seth Barnes Nicholson. Among people deceased in 1950, Walter Eucken ranks 65. Before him are Henry H. Arnold, Walter Huston, Abraham Wald, Olaf Stapledon, Hantaro Nagaoka, and John C. Woods. After him are Yvan Goll, Traian Vuia, Nikolai Voznesensky, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Shigenori Tōgō, and Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Eucken ranks 2,239 out of 7,253. Before him are Andreas Cellarius (1596), Rudolf Schmidt (1886), Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779), Floris III, Count of Holland (1141), Ralf Schumacher (1975), and Louis of Nassau (1538). After him are Rudolf Peierls (1907), Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796), Fritz Hofmann (1871), Karl Mauss (1898), and Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Walter Eucken ranks 20. Before him are Adolph Wagner (1835), Ernest Mandel (1923), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), Gustav von Schmoller (1838), Ernst Engel (1821), and Wilhelm Röpke (1899). After him are Lujo Brentano (1844), E. F. Schumacher (1911), Adam Müller (1779), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), and Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817).

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