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Cornelius Castoriadis

1922 - 1997

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Cornelius Castoriadis (Greek: Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης; 11 March 1922 – 26 December 1997) was a Greek-French philosopher, sociologist, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group. His writings on autonomy and social institutions have been influential in both academic and activist circles. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cornelius Castoriadis is the 83rd most popular economist (down from 65th in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 330th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Turkish Economist.

Cornelius Castoriadis is most famous for his book The Imaginary Institution of Society, which was published in 1987. In this book, he argues that the social world is made up of imaginary institutions.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Cornelius Castoriadis ranks 83 out of 414. Before him are Finn E. Kydland, Beatrice Webb, Tjalling Koopmans, Oliver E. Williamson, Albert O. Hirschman, and James M. Buchanan. After him are Eugen Dühring, William Stanley Jevons, Irving Fisher, Nikolai Kondratiev, Dani Rodrik, and Johann Heinrich von Thünen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Cornelius Castoriadis ranks 54. Before him are Leon M. Lederman, Ademir de Menezes, Seymour Martin Lipset, Roger Etchegaray, Renata Tebaldi, and Yang Chen-Ning. After him are Betty White, Michel Galabru, Arthur Penn, Alberto Granado, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Ugo Tognazzi. Among people deceased in 1997, Cornelius Castoriadis ranks 47. Before him are Dodi Fayed, Zoltán Czibor, Otto Ernst Remer, Colonel Tom Parker, Willem de Kooning, and Teiichi Matsumaru. After him are Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Carl Gustav Hempel, Burgess Meredith, Stéphane Grappelli, Amha Selassie, and John Denver.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Cornelius Castoriadis ranks 377 out of 1,347. Before him are Thrasymachus (-459), Mammes of Caesarea (259), Nicephorus Gregoras (1295), Mursili III (-1400), Seleucus III Ceraunus (-243), and Maria of Alania (1053). After him are Artemidorus (200), Aristophanes of Byzantium (-257), Telipinu (-1600), Midhat Pasha (1822), Walter Sydney Adams (1876), and Laskarina Bouboulina (1771).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Türkiye

Among economists born in Türkiye, Cornelius Castoriadis ranks 3. Before him are Henri Fayol (1841), and Tansu Çiller (1946). After him are Dani Rodrik (1957), Daron Acemoglu (1967), Nouriel Roubini (1958), and Fatih Birol (1958).

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