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Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

1859 - 1947

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Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, (13 July 1859 – 13 October 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, who co-founded the London School of Economics. He was an early member of the Fabian Society in 1884, joining, like George Bernard Shaw, three months after its inception. Along with his wife Beatrice Webb and with Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Edward R. Pease, Hubert Bland and Sydney Olivier, Shaw and Webb turned the Fabian Society into the pre-eminent politico-intellectual society in Edwardian England. He wrote the original, pro-nationalisation Clause IV for the British Labour Party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield is the 199th most popular economist (down from 177th in 2019), the 2,061st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,629th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield ranks 199 out of 414. Before him are Thomas Piketty, Nikolay Danilevsky, Benjamin Tucker, Clément Juglar, John Bates Clark, and Pierre Leroux. After him are Lujo Brentano, Joan Robinson, Alvin Hansen, Lars Peter Hansen, Gustave de Molinari, and Israel Kirzner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield ranks 59. Before him are Walther von Lüttwitz, Constantine VI of Constantinople, Charles Diehl, Alfred Hettner, Kenneth Grahame, and Ernesto Cesàro. After him are Fanny Bullock Workman, Karl von Stürgkh, Adolf Bertram, Sergei Lyapunov, John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, and Nahum Sokolow. Among people deceased in 1947, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield ranks 95. Before him are Osami Nagano, William C. Durant, Bronisław Huberman, Constantin Sănătescu, Attilio Ferraris, and Victor Goldschmidt. After him are August Eigruber, Sándor Garbai, Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, August Schmidhuber, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, and Francesc Cambó.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield ranks 2,061 out of 8,785. Before him are Frances de la Tour (1944), John Dollond (1706), Richard Dannatt (1950), Tricky (1968), Barbara Hepworth (1903), and William Cullen (1710). After him are James Boswell (1740), Willibald (700), Phil Lynott (1949), Thomas Rowlandson (1756), Irvine Welsh (1957), and Ray Winstone (1957).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield ranks 29. Before him are Tony Atkinson (1944), Angus Deaton (1945), Harriet Martineau (1802), Henry Sidgwick (1838), Oliver Hart (1948), and Kenneth E. Boulding (1910). After him are Joan Robinson (1903), Israel Kirzner (1930), James Steuart (1712), Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury (1948), Colin Clark (1905), and Harold Laski (1893).

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