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Nicholas Kaldor
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Key facts
- Born
- Káldor Miklós , ( 1908-05-12 ) 12 May 1908, Budapest , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 30 September 1986 (1986-09-30) (aged 78), Papworth Everard , Cambridgeshire, England
- Doctoral advisors
- Allyn Abbott Young , Lionel Robbins
- Influences
- John Maynard Keynes , Gunnar Myrdal
- Discipline
- Political economy
- School or tradition
- Post-Keynesian economics
- Doctoral students
- Frank Hahn
- Notable ideas
- Kaldor–Hicks efficiency , Kaldor's growth laws , Circular cumulative causation
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nicholas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Child
- Mary Kaldor
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Doctoral advisor
- Allyn Abbott Young
- Field of work
- economy
- Image
- Nicholas Kaldor.jpg
- Work location
- London
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- date of birth
- 1908-05-12
- date of death
- 1986-09-30
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- Econometric Society
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- name in native language
- Káldor Miklós
- name
- Nicholas Kaldor
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Encyclopedic overview
Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (12 May 1908 – 30 September 1986), born Káldor Miklós, was a Hungarian-born British economist. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939), derived the cobweb model, and argued for certain regularities observable in economic growth, which are called Kaldor's growth laws. Kaldor worked alongside Gunnar Myrdal to develop the key concept Circular Cumulative Causation, a multicausal approach where the core variables and their linkages are delineated.
Biography
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