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Edith Abbott

1876 - 1957

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Edith Abbott (September 26, 1876 – July 28, 1957) was an American economist, statistician, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Abbott was a pioneer in the profession of social work with an educational background in economics. She was a leading activist in social reform with the ideals that humanitarianism needed to be embedded in education. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edith Abbott is the 349th most popular economist (up from 350th in 2019), the 9,601st most popular biography from United States (down from 8,810th in 2019) and the 114th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Edith Abbott ranks 349 out of 414. Before her are Michel Chossudovsky, Euclid Tsakalotos, Gottfried Haberler, Tatyana Golikova, Gunter Pauli, and Fischer Black. After her are Justin Yifu Lin, Thomas Hodgskin, John Neville Keynes, Henry Charles Carey, Robert Torrens, and Jagdish Bhagwati.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Edith Abbott ranks 189. Before her are Robert Yerkes, Gaston Peltier, Cécile Tormay, Marcel Lambert, Marvin Hart, and James Scullin. After her are Zitkala-Sa, Gregory Mathews, Susan Glaspell, Edgar Evans, Lionel Tertis, and Ralph Barton Perry. Among people deceased in 1957, Edith Abbott ranks 207. Before her are Julio Lozano Díaz, Mikhail Gnessin, Jimmy Dorsey, Ezio Pinza, Colin Carruthers, and Roger Vercel. After her are Bernard Knubel, Jorge Sarmiento, Leopold Löwenheim, Helene Costello, Ralph Barton Perry, and Clarence Walker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edith Abbott ranks 9,603 out of 20,380. Before her are John Cassin (1813), Rahm Emanuel (1959), Babyface (1958), Molly Shannon (1964), Judy Greer (1975), and Joe Arpaio (1932). After her are Les Aspin (1938), Thomas A. Shannon Jr. (1958), Haskell Wexler (1922), Harry Hebner (1891), Bess Meredyth (1890), and Ella Baker (1903).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Edith Abbott ranks 114. Before her are Robert Rubin (1938), Anna Schwartz (1915), John Lipsky (1947), John R. Commons (1862), Don Patinkin (1922), and Fischer Black (1938). After her are Henry Charles Carey (1793), Frank Fetter (1863), Martin Feldstein (1939), John B. Taylor (1946), Paul Craig Roberts (1939), and Richard Florida (1957).

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