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Anthony Downs

1930 - 2021

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James Anthony Downs (November 21, 1930 – October 2, 2021) was an American economist specializing in public policy and public administration. His research focuses included political choice theory, rent control, affordable housing, and transportation economics. He wrote a number of books including, An Economic Theory of Democracy (1957) and Inside Bureaucracy (1967), which have been major influences on the public choice school of political economy. In Downs's Law of Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (1962), he predicted that expanding expressways could not reduce traffic congestion, since demand would increase as well, and that reducing speeds increases capacity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anthony Downs is the 305th most popular economist (down from 287th in 2019), the 7,298th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,044th in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Anthony Downs ranks 305 out of 414. Before him are Kenichi Ohmae, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Philippe Van Parijs, Haruhiko Kuroda, and Armen Alchian. After him are Santiago Peña, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Abdi Farah Shirdon, Charles P. Kindleberger, Richard D. Wolff, and Alan Krueger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Anthony Downs ranks 416. Before him are Allan Bloom, Tony Trabert, Aleksandar Petaković, Horst Bienek, Smail Hamdani, and Vladimir Kesarev. After him are Ellen Schwiers, Herbie Mann, Georg Stollenwerk, Pavel Kolchin, Eugen Meier, and Zdeněk Mlynář. Among people deceased in 2021, Anthony Downs ranks 405. Before him are Ernie Lively, Arturo Armando Molina, Ryszard Szurkowski, Théoneste Bagosora, Joël Robert, and Shlomo Hillel. After him are Norberto Boggio, Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Martín Pando, Mario Camus, Leslie Marr, and Boško Abramović.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anthony Downs ranks 7,300 out of 20,380. Before him are Bill Joy (1954), Richard Portnow (1947), Shirley Horn (1934), George Nader (1921), Caleb Deschanel (1944), and Thomas Ian Griffith (1962). After him are Beatrice Mintz (1921), Dana Reeve (1961), Taylor Hawkins (1972), Stephen Hopkins (1707), Jennifer Taylor (1972), and Manny Ayulo (1921).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Anthony Downs ranks 97. Before him are Herman Daly (1938), Robert Barro (1944), Max O. Lorenz (1876), Paul Sweezy (1910), Gordon Tullock (1922), and Armen Alchian (1914). After him are Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Richard D. Wolff (1942), Alan Krueger (1960), Seth Godin (1960), Lawrence Summers (1954), and Michael Kremer (1964).

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