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Ragnar Nurkse

1907 - 1959

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Ragnar Wilhelm Nurkse (5 October 1907, Käru, Estonia – 6 May 1959, Le Mont-Pèlerin, Switzerland) was an Estonian-American economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development. He is considered the pioneer of Balanced Growth Theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ragnar Nurkse is the 249th most popular economist (up from 288th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 129th in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ragnar Nurkse ranks 249 out of 414. Before him are Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Ellen Swallow Richards, Harold Laski, Adam Müller, Andreas Kaplan, and Dennis Meadows. After him are Étienne Laspeyres, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, Edward Chamberlin, Evsei Liberman, Leo Huberman, and Eugen Slutsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ragnar Nurkse ranks 203. Before him are Amedeo Nazzari, Benny Carter, James A. Michener, Sándor Veress, Giuseppe Occhialini, and Georges Speicher. After him are Germaine Tillion, Ilia Vekua, Willy Busch, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Camargo Guarnieri, and Mascha Kaléko. Among people deceased in 1959, Ragnar Nurkse ranks 118. Before him are Kazimierz Bein, Lipót Fejér, Wayne Morris, Reuven Shiloah, Boughera El Ouafi, and Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside. After him are Molla Mallory, Boris Eikhenbaum, Heleno de Freitas, Edmund Goulding, Charles Starkweather, and Felix Jacoby.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Ragnar Nurkse ranks 106 out of 351. Before him are Eduard von Toll (1858), Andres Tarand (1940), Ester Mägi (1922), Ants Antson (1938), Johann Köler (1826), and Jüri Järvet (1919). After him are Juhan Aavik (1884), Paavo Järvi (1962), Amandus Adamson (1855), Ants Laikmaa (1866), Miina Härma (1864), and Alfred Schmidt (1898).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Estonia

Among economists born in Estonia, Ragnar Nurkse ranks 1. 

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