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Robert Mundell

1932 - 2021

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Robert Alexander Mundell (October 24, 1932 – April 4, 2021) was a Canadian economist. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 for his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas. Mundell is known as the "father" of the euro, as he laid the groundwork for its introduction through this work and helped to start the movement known as supply-side economics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Mundell is the 69th most popular economist (down from 64th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Canada (down from 34th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Economist.

Robert Mundell is most famous for his theory of an optimum currency area, which he developed in 1961.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Robert Mundell ranks 69 out of 414. Before him are Lionel Robbins, Wang Anshi, Bernard Mandeville, Franco Modigliani, Lawrence Klein, and Kenneth Arrow. After him are Benjamin Graham, Friedrich List, Thorstein Veblen, Gérard Debreu, James Tobin, and Robert Solow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Robert Mundell ranks 58. Before him are Little Richard, Vladimir Ivashko, Vytautas Landsbergis, John Searle, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and Ryszard Kapuściński. After him are Hiroaki Sato, Ted Kennedy, Stephen Covey, Robert Benton, Stéphane Audran, and Oliver E. Williamson. Among people deceased in 2021, Robert Mundell ranks 45. Before him are Nawal El Saadawi, Colin Bell, Jorge Sampaio, Antony Hewish, Robert H. Grubbs, and Hissène Habré. After him are Toshihide Maskawa, Carlos Reutemann, Sonny Chiba, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Colin Powell, and Richard Rogers.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Robert Mundell ranks 46 out of 1,622. Before him are William Vickrey (1914), James Naismith (1861), Jim Peebles (1935), Henry Clinton (1730), John Sparrow David Thompson (1845), and Arthur B. McDonald (1943). After him are Maye Musk (1948), Pamela Anderson (1967), Charles Tupper (1821), Drake (1986), Marc Ouellet (1944), and Wayne Gretzky (1961).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Canada

Among economists born in Canada, Robert Mundell ranks 2. Before him are William Vickrey (1914). After him are Henry Mintzberg (1939), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Myron Scholes (1941), David Card (1956), Harold Innis (1894), Jacob Viner (1892), and Michel Chossudovsky (1946).

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