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Colin Clark

1905 - 1989

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Colin Grant Clark (2 November 1905 – 4 September 1989) was a British and Australian economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia. He pioneered the use of gross national product (GNP) as the basis for studying national economies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Colin Clark is the 235th most popular economist (up from 263rd in 2019), the 2,653rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,846th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Colin Clark ranks 235 out of 414Before him are Peter Senge, Hyman Minsky, Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury, Thomas Sowell, Paul Volcker, and Douglas Diamond. After him are Olivier Blanchard, Chester Barnard, Arthur Melvin Okun, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Grigory Yavlinsky, and Guy Standing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Colin Clark ranks 176Before him are Theodor Oberländer, Erich Neumann, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Ferenc Farkas, Osvaldo Pugliese, and Aldo Fabrizi. After him are Giuseppe Cavanna, Alexandre Villaplane, Miliza Korjus, Rodolfo Orlandini, Paul Grimault, and D. R. Kaprekar. Among people deceased in 1989, Colin Clark ranks 137Before him are Robert Penn Warren, Pavel Kurochkin, Martti Talvela, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Joe Spinell, and Edoardo Amaldi. After him are Chen Boda, Leyla Mammadbeyova, Nils Axelsson, Armand Salacrou, Juan Hilario Marrero, and Abbie Hoffman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Colin Clark ranks 2,654 out of 8,785Before him are Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), Chris Lowe (1959), Mark Rylance (1960), Phil Jones (1992), Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583), and Frank Bridge (1879). After him are Sarah Siddons (1755), Kelly Reilly (1977), Thomas Hill (1829), Alasdair Gray (1934), David Gemmell (1948), and John Taylor (1960).

Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Colin Clark ranks 34Before him are Kenneth E. Boulding (1910), Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), Joan Robinson (1903), Israel Kirzner (1930), James Steuart (1712), and Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury (1948). After him are Harold Laski (1893), Roy Harrod (1900), Maurice Dobb (1900), G. D. H. Cole (1889), Nassau William Senior (1790), and Thomas Hodgskin (1787).