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John Hicks

1904 - 1989

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Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS–LM model (1937), which summarised a Keynesian view of macroeconomics. His book Value and Capital (1939) significantly extended general-equilibrium and value theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Hicks is the 44th most popular economist (up from 50th in 2019), the 567th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 521st in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Economist.

John Hicks is most famous for his work in the field of economics. In particular, he is known for his work on the theory of demand and supply.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, John Hicks ranks 44 out of 414. Before him are Carl Menger, Michael Porter, Barack Obama Sr., Léon Walras, Wassily Leontief, and Leonid Hurwicz. After him are Jacques Delors, Walt Whitman Rostow, William Petty, Bertil Ohlin, Tansu Çiller, and Edmund Phelps.

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Among people born in 1904, John Hicks ranks 25. Before him are Graham Greene, Alexei Kosygin, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Karl Brandt, Odilo Globočnik, and René Lacoste. After him are Joan Crawford, Ernst Mayr, Hans Albert Einstein, Werner Forssmann, Alejo Carpentier, and Gerhard Herzberg. Among people deceased in 1989, John Hicks ranks 32. Before him are Vladimir Horowitz, Hu Yaobang, Sándor Márai, Thomas Bernhard, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and Michel Aflaq. After him are Daphne du Maurier, Hermann Oberth, William Shockley, John Cassavetes, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Giuseppe Siri.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Hicks ranks 567 out of 8,785. Before him are Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), Adrian Smith (1957), George Everest (1790), Sid Vicious (1957), Bobby Moore (1941), and John Cleese (1939). After him are Eadweard Muybridge (1830), John Bowlby (1907), Jim Clark (1936), Stanley Matthews (1915), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), and James Hutton (1726).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, John Hicks ranks 8. Before him are John Maynard Keynes (1883), David Ricardo (1772), Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), John Stuart Mill (1806), Alfred Marshall (1842), and John Law (1671). After him are William Petty (1623), Ronald Coase (1910), Lionel Robbins (1898), Benjamin Graham (1894), Beatrice Webb (1858), and William Stanley Jevons (1835).

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