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Franco Modigliani

1918 - 2003

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Franco Modigliani (US: ; Italian: [modiʎˈʎaːni]; 18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003) was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franco Modigliani is the 66th most popular economist (down from 63rd in 2019), the 977th most popular biography from Italy (down from 949th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Economist.

Franco Modigliani is most famous for his work on the life cycle hypothesis. He argued that the trade-off between consumption and investment is not a trade-off between two goods. Rather, it is a trade-off between present and future consumption.

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Among economists, Franco Modigliani ranks 66 out of 414. Before him are Reinhard Selten, Douglass North, William Vickrey, Lionel Robbins, Wang Anshi, and Bernard Mandeville. After him are Lawrence Klein, Kenneth Arrow, Robert Mundell, Benjamin Graham, Friedrich List, and Thorstein Veblen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Franco Modigliani ranks 39. Before him are Frederick Reines, Muriel Spark, Chaim Herzog, Rosalia Lombardo, Arthur Kornberg, and Choi Hong Hi. After him are Julian Schwinger, Mike Wallace, João Goulart, James Tobin, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., and Kenichi Fukui. Among people deceased in 2003, Franco Modigliani ranks 35. Before him are Soong Mei-ling, Maurice Blanchot, Otto Günsche, Mario Beccaria, Lee Yoo-hyung, and Gertrude Ederle. After him are Richard Crenna, Compay Segundo, Isser Harel, Bernard Katz, Helmut Rahn, and Alberto Sordi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Franco Modigliani ranks 977 out of 5,161. Before him are Edda Mussolini (1910), Occhiali (1519), Valerius Maximus (-100), Guarino Guarini (1624), Gian Maria Volonté (1933), and Antipope John XVI (1000). After him are Faustina the Elder (105), Gnaeus Naevius (-275), Giovanni Angelo Becciu (1948), Maurice Garin (1871), Antipope Paschal III (1110), and Robert I, Duke of Parma (1848).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Italy

Among economists born in Italy, Franco Modigliani ranks 2. Before him are Mario Draghi (1947). After him are Carlo M. Cipolla (1922), Piero Sraffa (1898), Giovanni Arrighi (1937), Ferdinando Galiani (1728), Gian Domenico Romagnosi (1761), Pietro Verri (1728), Mariana Mazzucato (1968), Pier Carlo Padoan (1950), Daniele Archibugi (1958), and Alberto Alesina (1957).

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