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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 78,932 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Walter Eucken is the 179th most popular economist, the 2,255th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,313th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Walter Eucken ranks 179 out of 315. Before him are Ben Bernanke, Lionel Robbins, Nikolay Danilevsky, Harriet Martineau, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, and Hyman Minsky. After him are Henry Sidgwick, Myron Scholes, Raymond Barre, Daniel Ellsberg, Israel Kirzner, and Eli Heckscher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Walter Eucken ranks 86. Before him are Evgeny Pashukanis, Werner Lorenz, Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, Alfred Meyer, Franz Alexander, and Julius Raab. After him are Hans Albers, Hermann Scherchen, Yrjö Väisälä, Maksim Bahdanovič, Ronald Colman, and Boris Iofan. Among people deceased in 1950, Walter Eucken ranks 68. Before him are Yvan Goll, Kim Kyu-sik, Olaf Stapledon, Traian Vuia, Edwin Sutherland, and Hantaro Nagaoka. After him are Walton Walker, Abraham Wald, Kazys Grinius, Ulrich Graf, Lev Berg, and Gustaf John Ramstedt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Eucken ranks 2,255 out of 6,142. Before him are Alfred Meyer (1891), Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia (1103), Richard Hauptmann (1899), Wolfgang of Regensburg (924), Gustave Whitehead (1874), and Max Morlock (1925). After him are Albert II, Duke of Saxony (1250), Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729), Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst (1563), Princess Anna of Saxony (1836), Prince Ernst August of Hanover (1954), and Hans von Obstfelder (1886).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Walter Eucken ranks 20. Before him are Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Ernest Mandel (1923), Ernst Engel (1821), Gustav von Schmoller (1838), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), and Wilhelm Röpke (1899). After him are Lujo Brentano (1844), Adam Müller (1779), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), E. F. Schumacher (1911), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), and Étienne Laspeyres (1834).

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