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Walter Eucken

1891 - 1950

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Walter Eucken (German: [ˈɔʏkn̩]; 17 January 1891 – 20 March 1950) was a German economist of the Freiburg school and father of ordoliberalism. Ordoliberalism was based on the concept of social market economy balancing free markets with regulatory oversight. The Walter Eucken Institut was founded four years after his death and his ideas influenced West Germany’s economic policy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Eucken is the 187th most popular economist (down from 173rd in 2019), the 2,437th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,239th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Walter Eucken ranks 187 out of 414. Before him are Wilhelm Röpke, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Myron Scholes, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, and Michel Camdessus. After him are Peter Navarro, Gustav Cassel, Kenneth E. Boulding, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Daniel Ellsberg, and Thomas Piketty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Walter Eucken ranks 89. Before him are Seth Barnes Nicholson, Tin Ujević, Yvan Goll, Ivan Vinogradov, Franz Alexander, and Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern. After him are Damaskinos of Athens, Antoine Pinay, Scott Bradley, Charles Munch, Julius Raab, and Diana Budisavljević. Among people deceased in 1950, Walter Eucken ranks 75. Before him are William Lyon Mackenzie King, Kazys Grinius, Yvan Goll, Peter Fraser, Nikolai Voznesensky, and Hantaro Nagaoka. After him are Alma Karlin, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Lev Berg, Shigenori Tōgō, Sami al-Hinnawi, and Kurt Schmitt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Eucken ranks 2,438 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Chladni (1756), August Batsch (1761), Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), Sebastian Haffner (1907), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757), and William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1598). After him are William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629), Herbert Hainer (1954), Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737), Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1855), Gisela of Burgundy (950), and Peter Högl (1897).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Walter Eucken ranks 21. Before him are Adolph Wagner (1835), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), Gustav von Schmoller (1838), Ernest Mandel (1923), Ernst Engel (1821), and Wilhelm Röpke (1899). After him are Lujo Brentano (1844), E. F. Schumacher (1911), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Adam Müller (1779), and Andreas Kaplan (1977).

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