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Wilhelm Röpke

1899 - 1966

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Wilhelm Röpke (10 October 1899 – 12 February 1966) was a German economist and social critic, best known as one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A Professor of Economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism, a more conservative variant of German liberalism.With Alfred Müller-Armack and Alexander Rüstow (sociological neoliberalism) and Walter Eucken and Franz Böhm (ordoliberalism) he elucidated the ideas, which then were introduced formally by Germany's post-World War II Minister for Economics Ludwig Erhard, operating under Konrad Adenauer's Chancellorship. Röpke and his colleagues' economic influence therefore is considered largely responsible for enabling Germany's post-World War II "economic miracle". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Röpke has received more than 162,791 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Wilhelm Röpke is the 170th most popular economist (down from 166th in 2019), the 2,185th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,080th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Economist.

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Over the past year Wilhelm Röpke has had the most page views in the with 25,538 views, followed by German (8,712), and Spanish (4,321). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (290.48%), Ukrainian (102.94%), and Lombard (78.55%)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 170 out of 414. Before him are Myron Scholes, Raymond Barre, Henry George, Henry Sidgwick, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, and Lionel Robbins. After him are Pierre Leroux, George Shultz, Walter Eucken, Lars Peter Hansen, Gustave de Molinari, and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 100. Before him are Andrija Artuković, Maria Yudina, Hans Jeschonnek, Wolf Messing, Nicolas Frantz, and Princess Antonia of Luxembourg. After him are Mart Stam, Pavel Haas, Jimmie Angel, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Marcel Dalio, and Konstantinos Tsatsos. Among people deceased in 1966, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 74. Before him are Elena Stasova, Vera Weizmann, Bud Powell, Vladimir Minorsky, Victor Brauner, and Caterina Albert. After him are Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Hermann Scherchen, Venceslau Brás, Väinö Tanner, Wieland Wagner, and Camilo Torres Restrepo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 2,185 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Wöhler (1894), Princess Antonia of Luxembourg (1899), William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1876), Prince Ernst August of Hanover (1954), Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914), and Arnold Ruge (1802). After him are Otto Henry, Elector Palatine (1502), Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria (1368), Konrad von Thüringen (1206), Magdalene of Brandenburg (1582), Alexander Lippisch (1894), and Rahel Varnhagen (1771).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Wilhelm Röpke ranks 19. Before him are Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Adolph Wagner (1835), Ernest Mandel (1923), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), Gustav von Schmoller (1838), and Ernst Engel (1821). After him are Walter Eucken (1891), Lujo Brentano (1844), E. F. Schumacher (1911), Adam Müller (1779), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), and Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805).

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