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Armen Alchian

1914 - 2013

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Armen Albert Alchian (; April 12, 1914 – February 19, 2013) was an American economist who made major contributions to microeconomic theory and the theory of the firm. He spent almost his entire career at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and is credited with turning its economics department into one of the country's best. He is also known as one of the founders of new institutional economics, and widely acknowledged for his work on property rights. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Armen Alchian is the 304th most popular economist (up from 336th in 2019), the 7,271st most popular biography from United States (up from 8,235th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Armen Alchian ranks 304 out of 414. Before him are Inger Andersen, Kenichi Ohmae, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Philippe Van Parijs, and Haruhiko Kuroda. After him are Anthony Downs, Santiago Peña, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Abdi Farah Shirdon, Charles P. Kindleberger, and Richard D. Wolff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Armen Alchian ranks 283. Before him are Oscar Heisserer, Alan Bullock, Julio Caro Baroja, William Grut, Carlos Menditeguy, and Irmã Dulce. After him are Aharon Katzir, Sven Jacobsson, Manlio Di Rosa, William Gibson, Victor Sen Yung, and Severino Rigoni. Among people deceased in 2013, Armen Alchian ranks 315. Before him are Princess Margarita of Baden, Henri Alleg, George Jones, Nino Bibbia, Ba Mamadou Mbaré, and Trevor Bolder. After him are Ladislav Pavlovič, Rossella Falk, Moses Blah, Lidiya Ponomarenko, Jean Marcel Honoré, and Manna Dey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Armen Alchian ranks 7,273 out of 20,380. Before him are C. L. Moore (1911), Chi McBride (1961), Sandra Bem (1944), Sidney Howard (1891), Steve Aoki (1977), and Earl Holliman (1928). After him are Beverly Sills (1929), Brian Greene (1963), Roscoe Lockwood (1875), Robert Preston (1918), David Spade (1964), and Albert William Herre (1868).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Armen Alchian ranks 96. Before him are Arthur Laffer (1940), Herman Daly (1938), Robert Barro (1944), Max O. Lorenz (1876), Paul Sweezy (1910), and Gordon Tullock (1922). After him are Anthony Downs (1930), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Richard D. Wolff (1942), Alan Krueger (1960), Seth Godin (1960), and Lawrence Summers (1954).

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