# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-rustow
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:47:38.716Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-rustow"
name: "Alexander Rüstow"
slug: "alexander-rustow"
description: "Alexander Rüstow was a German sociologist and economist. At the Colloque Walter Lippmann in August 1938 he popularised the term \"neoliberalism\". He became one of the fathers of the \"Social Market Economy\" that shaped the economy of West Germany after World War II. Rüstow was the grandnephew of Wilhelm Rüstow, the grandson of Cäsar Rüstow and the father of Dankwart Rustow."
tagline: "German academic (1885–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_R%C3%BCstow.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1885-04-08"
deathDate: "1963-06-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.125860520802155
  historical:           12.243452
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اليكساندر روستو"
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    title: "Александер Рюстов"
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    title: "Alexander Rüstow"
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    title: "Alexander Rüstow"
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    title: "Alexander Rüstow"
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    title: "Alexander Rüstow"
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    title: "Alexander Rüstow"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump