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Hyman Minsky

1919 - 1996

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Hyman Philip Minsky (September 23, 1919 – October 24, 1996) was an American economist and economy professor at Washington University in St. Louis. A distinguished scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, his research was intent on providing explanations to the characteristics of financial crises, which he attributed to swings in a potentially fragile financial system. Minsky is often described as a post-Keynesian economist because, in the Keynesian tradition, he supported some government intervention in financial markets, opposed some of the financial deregulation of the 1980s, stressed the importance of the Federal Reserve as a lender of last resort and argued against the over-accumulation of private debt in the financial markets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hyman Minsky is the 230th most popular economist (down from 208th in 2019), the 4,565th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,410th in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Hyman Minsky ranks 230 out of 414. Before him are E. F. Schumacher, Ferdinando Galiani, Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Jon Elster, Paul Romer, and Peter Senge. After him are Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury, Thomas Sowell, Paul Volcker, Douglas Diamond, Colin Clark, and Olivier Blanchard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Hyman Minsky ranks 156. Before him are Mariano Martín, Werner Goldberg, Igor Gouzenko, Pál Losonczi, Vera Aceva, and Julia Robinson. After him are Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, Ota Šik, Clyde Cowan, Joan Brossa, Kathleen Freeman, and Henri Vidal. Among people deceased in 1996, Hyman Minsky ranks 133. Before him are Jack Churchill, Annabella, Dan Flavin, Henri Nouwen, José Manuel Fuente, and Stanko Todorov. After him are Brunó Ferenc Straub, Ljuba Welitsch, Juan Hohberg, Danilo Alvim, Christopher Robin Milne, and Chas Chandler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hyman Minsky ranks 4,565 out of 20,380. Before him are George Crumb (1929), Clarence Clemons (1942), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Edward Gorey (1925), Josephine Hull (1877), and Elihu Yale (1649). After him are Erin Brockovich (1960), AJ McLean (1978), Allen Woodring (1898), Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (1905), Robert Bilott (1965), and Adrian Belew (1949).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Hyman Minsky ranks 77. Before him are David D. Friedman (1945), Mancur Olson (1932), Henry Hazlitt (1894), William Baumol (1922), Paul Romer (1955), and Peter Senge (1947). After him are Thomas Sowell (1930), Paul Volcker (1927), Douglas Diamond (1953), Chester Barnard (1886), Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), and Ellen Swallow Richards (1842).

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