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Theodore Schultz

1902 - 1998

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Theodore William Schultz ( SHUULTS; 30 April 1902 – 26 February 1998) was an American agricultural economist and chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Economics. Schultz rose to national prominence after winning the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Theodore Schultz is the 58th most popular economist (up from 60th in 2019), the 983rd most popular biography from United States (down from 866th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Economist.

Theodore Schultz is most famous for his work on human capital theory. He argued that the production of goods and services in an economy is dependent on two factors: labor and capital.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Theodore Schultz ranks 58 out of 414. Before him are Gary Becker, Trygve Haavelmo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Karl Polanyi, Jeffrey Sachs, and Werner Sombart. After him are Frédéric Bastiat, Reinhard Selten, Douglass North, William Vickrey, Lionel Robbins, and Wang Anshi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Theodore Schultz ranks 35. Before him are Meyer Lansky, Mikhail Suslov, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Ray Kroc, Arne Jacobsen, and Juscelino Kubitschek. After him are Reinhard Gehlen, Alexandre Kojève, Émile Benveniste, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and Günther Anders. Among people deceased in 1998, Theodore Schultz ranks 24. Before him are Niklas Luhmann, Conrad Schumann, Frederick Reines, Alan Shepard, Konstantinos Karamanlis, and Tameo Ide. After him are George H. Hitchings, Raymond Cattell, Falco, Shoichi Nishimura, Kenichi Fukui, and Nizar Qabbani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Theodore Schultz ranks 983 out of 20,380. Before him are Lee Marvin (1924), Kevin Bacon (1958), Vanessa Williams (1963), Louise Fletcher (1934), Glenn Miller (1904), and DMX (1970). After him are Ruth Handler (1916), Sinclair Lewis (1885), Chet Baker (1929), Renée Zellweger (1969), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), and Russell Alan Hulse (1950).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Theodore Schultz ranks 15. Before him are Charles Cooley (1864), Michael Porter (1947), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Edmund Phelps (1933), Gary Becker (1930), and Jeffrey Sachs (1954). After him are Douglass North (1920), Lawrence Klein (1920), Kenneth Arrow (1921), Thorstein Veblen (1857), James Tobin (1918), and Robert Solow (1924).

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