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W. Michael Blumenthal

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Werner Michael Blumenthal (born January 3, 1926) is a German-American business leader, economist and political adviser who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979. At age thirteen, Blumenthal barely escaped Nazi Germany with his Jewish family in 1939. He was forced to spend World War II living in the ghetto of Japanese-occupied Shanghai, China, until 1947. He then made his way to San Francisco and began doing odd jobs to work his way through school. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. W. Michael Blumenthal is the 362nd most popular economist (down from 337th in 2019), the 5,463rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,021st in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 362 out of 414. Before him are James Wilson, Fatih Birol, Frank Fetter, Mariana Mazzucato, Erik Lindahl, and Arkady Dvorkovich. After him are Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Rose Friedman, Ariel Rubinstein, Masaaki Shirakawa, Martin Feldstein, and John B. Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 474. Before him are Göta Pettersson, Moira Shearer, Noor Jehan, Rawya Ateya, Larissa Volpert, and Don Gordon. After him are Peter Zadek, Paolo Magnani, Dorothy E. Smith, George Ariyoshi, Bryan Forbes, and Randy Weston.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 5,466 out of 7,253. Before him are Jürgen Sundermann (1940), Harald Konopka (1952), Hans Lutz (1949), Dustin Brown (1984), Wolfgang de Beer (1964), and Heiner Lauterbach (1953). After him are Peter Zadek (1926), Ralf König (1960), Anaid Iplicjian (1935), Karl Del'Haye (1955), Rolf Rüssmann (1950), and Georg Volkert (1945).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 37. Before him are Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Theodore Levitt (1925), Karl Knies (1821), Alice Salomon (1872), and Ludwig Lachmann (1906). After him are Robin Hanson (1959).

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