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Robert Barro

1944 - Today

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Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, along with Robert Lucas Jr. and Thomas J. Sargent. He is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-editor of the influential Quarterly Journal of Economics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Barro is the 282nd most popular economist (down from 250th in 2019), the 6,566th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,760th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Robert Barro ranks 282 out of 414. Before him are G. D. H. Cole, Arthur Laffer, James Wolfensohn, Shoshana Zuboff, Hernando de Soto Polar, and Herman Daly. After him are Leonid Abalkin, Pietro Verri, Boediono, Harold Innis, Theodore Levitt, and Fakhruddin Ahmed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Robert Barro ranks 448. Before him are Patrick Devedjian, Susana Baca, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Bodil Joensen, Jan Olsson, and Yusuf Estes. After him are Roger Rees, Ivan Ćurković, Joe Eszterhas, Vladimir Spivakov, Peter Dietrich, and Fausta Morganti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Barro ranks 6,567 out of 20,380. Before him are George C. Homans (1910), Shonda Rhimes (1970), Colm Feore (1958), Otis Davis (1932), Pat Smear (1959), and Schelte J. Bus (1956). After him are Peter Riegert (1947), Robert Ridgway (1850), Arthur Shaw (1886), Diane Ackerman (1948), Braxton Bragg (1817), and Randy Crawford (1952).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Robert Barro ranks 92. Before him are Leo Huberman (1903), Joshua Angrist (1960), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), Philip H. Dybvig (1955), Arthur Laffer (1940), and Herman Daly (1938). After him are Max O. Lorenz (1876), Paul Sweezy (1910), Gordon Tullock (1922), Armen Alchian (1914), Anthony Downs (1930), and Charles P. Kindleberger (1910).

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