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Alexander Gerschenkron

1904 - 1978

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Alexander Gerschenkron (Russian: Александр Гершенкрон; 1 October 1904 – 26 October 1978) was an American economic historian and professor at Harvard University, trained in the German Historical School of economics. Born into a Jewish family in Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine, Gerschenkron fled the country during the Russian Civil War in 1920 to Austria, where he attended the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1928. After the Anschluss in 1938, he emigrated to the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Gerschenkron is the 273rd most popular economist (down from 252nd in 2019), the 625th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 565th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 273 out of 414. Before him are Wilhelm Lexis, Alexander Chayanov, Diego Abad de Santillán, Maurice Dobb, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, and Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui. After him are Deirdre McCloskey, Philip H. Dybvig, G. D. H. Cole, Arthur Laffer, James Wolfensohn, and Shoshana Zuboff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 216. Before him are Ladislav Ženíšek, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Sven Thofelt, Gavriil Popov, Richard Addinsell, and Alfredo Brilhante da Costa. After him are Fernando Lopez, Cecil Day-Lewis, Bozorg Alavi, Alger Hiss, Valentín González, and Bill Brandt. Among people deceased in 1978, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 165. Before him are Luo Ruiqing, Claude Dauphin, Alexander Wetmore, Alfred Müller-Armack, Theodor Tolsdorff, and Adolf van der Voort van Zijp. After him are Jorge Cafrune, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Duncan Grant, Jack Oakie, Gotthard Handrick, and Gordon Matta-Clark.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 625 out of 1,365. Before him are Alexander Potebnja (1835), Heinrich Schenker (1868), Volodymyr Bezsonov (1958), Jerzy Różycki (1909), Ida Fink (1921), and Ross Martin (1920). After him are Sofia Yablonska (1907), Mikhail Rodzianko (1859), Alexander Bezborodko (1747), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Yevgeniya Rudneva (1921), and František Kriegel (1908).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Ukraine

Among economists born in Ukraine, Alexander Gerschenkron ranks 4. Before him are Ludwig von Mises (1881), Abba P. Lerner (1903), and Grigory Yavlinsky (1952). After him are Zbigniew Messner (1929), Paul A. Baran (1909), and Rose Friedman (1910).

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