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Charles Cooley

1864 - 1929

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Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist. He was the son of Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan. He was a founding member of the American Sociological Association in 1905 and became its eighth president in 1918. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Cooley is the 34th most popular economist (up from 88th in 2019), the 572nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,139th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Economist.

Cooley was most famous for his theory of the looking-glass self. He believed that people develop their sense of self by observing others and reflecting on their own thoughts and feelings.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Charles Cooley ranks 34 out of 414. Before him are Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Gunnar Myrdal, Henri Fayol, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, and Elinor Ostrom. After him are Maurice Allais, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Simon Kuznets, Carl Menger, Michael Porter, and Barack Obama Sr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Charles Cooley ranks 17. Before him are Hermann Minkowski, Alfred Hermann Fried, Eleftherios Venizelos, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Miguel de Unamuno, and Frances Cleveland. After him are Yun Chi-ho, Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, Alexej von Jawlensky, Heinrich Wölfflin, Vilhelm Hammershøi, and Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. Among people deceased in 1929, Charles Cooley ranks 8. Before him are Georges Clemenceau, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Ferdinand Foch, Gustav Stresemann, Wilhelm Maybach, and Herman Hollerith. After him are Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Bernhard von Bülow, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Sergei Diaghilev, Emile Berliner, and Émile Loubet.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Cooley ranks 572 out of 20,380. Before him are Vesto Slipher (1875), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Robert Peary (1856), Jeff Bridges (1949), Lauren Bacall (1924), and Rock Hudson (1925). After him are Jon Brower Minnoch (1941), Prince (1958), Paul Alexander (1946), Irving Langmuir (1881), Dusty Rhodes (1945), and Viggo Mortensen (1958).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Charles Cooley ranks 9. Before him are George Shultz (1920), William F. Sharpe (1934), Robert Lucas Jr. (1937), Paul Samuelson (1915), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), and Elinor Ostrom (1933). After him are Michael Porter (1947), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Edmund Phelps (1933), Gary Becker (1930), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), and Theodore Schultz (1902).

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