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Max O. Lorenz

1876 - 1959

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Max Otto Lorenz ( LORR-ənts; September 19, 1876 – July 1, 1959) was an American economist who developed the Lorenz curve in an undergraduate essay. He published a paper on this when he was a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His doctoral thesis (1906) was on 'The Economic Theory of Railroad Rates' and made no reference to perhaps his most famous paper. The term "Lorenz curve" for the measure Lorenz invented was coined by Willford I. King in 1912. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max O. Lorenz is the 291st most popular economist (down from 286th in 2019), the 6,884th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,913th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Max O. Lorenz ranks 291 out of 414. Before him are Boediono, Harold Innis, Theodore Levitt, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Mark Blaug, and Nassau William Senior. After him are Bruno de Finetti, Petr Aven, Paul Sweezy, Zbigniew Messner, Abhijit Banerjee, and Gordon Tullock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Max O. Lorenz ranks 162. Before him are Albert Bruce Jackson, Ameen Rihani, Alexandros Papanastasiou, Henri Hérouin, Paul Rivet, and H. B. Warner. After him are Nikolay Burdenko, Havergal Brian, John Marshall, Pingali Venkayya, Clara Blandick, and Mary Ritter Beard. Among people deceased in 1959, Max O. Lorenz ranks 157. Before him are Preston Sturges, Francis de Miomandre, Ruben Lagus, Paul Rivet, Balthasar van der Pol, and Andrés Martínez Trueba. After him are Jacob Epstein, Maxwell Anderson, Jan Černý, Vitaly Bianki, Oskar Vogt, and Hans Henny Jahnn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Max O. Lorenz ranks 6,886 out of 20,380. Before him are Jonah Hill (1983), Jessica Harper (1949), Frank Schlesinger (1871), James Hansen (1941), Jared Isaacman (1983), and John Slattery (1962). After him are Bainbridge Colby (1869), Robert Richardson (1955), Sandra Brown (1948), Albina Osipowich (1911), George Woods (1943), and Paul Arizin (1928).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Max O. Lorenz ranks 93. Before him are Joshua Angrist (1960), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), Philip H. Dybvig (1955), Arthur Laffer (1940), Herman Daly (1938), and Robert Barro (1944). After him are Paul Sweezy (1910), Gordon Tullock (1922), Armen Alchian (1914), Anthony Downs (1930), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), and Richard D. Wolff (1942).

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