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Edward C. Prescott

1940 - 2022

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Edward Christian Prescott (December 26, 1940 – November 6, 2022) was an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". This research was primarily conducted while both Kydland and Prescott were affiliated with the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the IDEAS/RePEc rankings, he was the 19th most widely cited economist in the world in 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward C. Prescott is the 105th most popular economist (up from 118th in 2019), the 1,620th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,546th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Economist.

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Among economists, Edward C. Prescott ranks 105 out of 414. Before him are Claudia Goldin, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Dale T. Mortensen, Thomas Mun, Bengt Holmström, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi. After him are Robert Fogel, W. Edwards Deming, George Akerlof, John Harsanyi, Richard Thaler, and Bingu wa Mutharika.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Edward C. Prescott ranks 95. Before him are Marlène Jobert, Milena Dravić, John Gotti, Al Jarreau, Gary Gilmore, and Masahiro Hamazaki. After him are Jair da Costa, George Akerlof, Lothar de Maizière, Alan Kay, Dionne Warwick, and Joseph L. Goldstein. Among people deceased in 2022, Edward C. Prescott ranks 73. Before him are Ayaz Mutallibov, Arata Isozaki, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Ichirou Mizuki, Tony Brooks, and Frank Drake. After him are Ivan Reitman, Jean-Jacques Sempé, James Lovelock, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Siniša Mihajlović, and Ricardo Bofill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward C. Prescott ranks 1,620 out of 20,380. Before him are George Clinton (1739), Frank Drake (1930), Lil Wayne (1982), William Miller (1782), Paul Greengard (1925), and Angela Bassett (1958). After him are Chris Cornell (1964), John Dickson Carr (1906), Frances Willard (1839), George Armitage Miller (1920), Martin Rodbell (1925), and Tony Martin (1913).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Edward C. Prescott ranks 31. Before him are Irving Fisher (1867), Robert Reich (1946), Harry Markowitz (1927), George Stigler (1911), Claudia Goldin (1946), and Dale T. Mortensen (1939). After him are Robert Fogel (1926), W. Edwards Deming (1900), George Akerlof (1940), Richard Thaler (1945), Merton Miller (1923), and Thomas Schelling (1921).

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