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Adolph Wagner

1835 - 1917

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Adolph Wagner (25 March 1835 – 8 November 1917) was a German economist and politician, a leading Kathedersozialist (academic socialist) and public finance scholar and advocate of agrarianism. Wagner's law of increasing state activity is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolph Wagner is the 141st most popular economist (down from 107th in 2019), the 1,469th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,235th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Economist.

Adolph Wagner was a German economist who is most famous for his work in the field of social insurance.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Adolph Wagner ranks 141 out of 414. Before him are Eugene Fama, Rudolf Hilferding, Jeremy Rifkin, William Nordhaus, James Heckman, and Alan Greenspan. After him are Kristalina Georgieva, Carlo M. Cipolla, Robert J. Shiller, Paul Krugman, Ben Bernanke, and Peter Diamond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Adolph Wagner ranks 26. Before him are Nikolai Rubinstein, Alexander Agassiz, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Hijikata Toshizō, John La Farge, and Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova. After him are Elisha Gray, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Alexandrine Tinné, and Shoqan Walikhanov. Among people deceased in 1917, Adolph Wagner ranks 28. Before him are Radomir Putnik, Frances Xavier Cabrini, Jean Gaston Darboux, Ranavalona III, Léon Bloy, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius. After him are Hugo Simberg, Lucien Petit-Breton, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Maximilian von Prittwitz, Manuel de Arriaga, and Dadabhai Naoroji.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolph Wagner ranks 1,469 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner Best (1903), Princess Sophie of Saxony (1845), Franz Ritter von Epp (1868), Josef Bühler (1904), Beno Gutenberg (1889), and Hans Knappertsbusch (1888). After him are Uli Stielike (1954), Johann Eck (1486), Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1845), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Adolph Wagner ranks 15. Before him are Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Alfred Weber (1868), Lorenz von Stein (1815), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Oskar Morgenstern (1902), and Gottfried Feder (1883). After him are Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), Gustav von Schmoller (1838), Ernest Mandel (1923), Ernst Engel (1821), Wilhelm Röpke (1899), and Walter Eucken (1891).

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