# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anthony-downs
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:51:58.042Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anthony-downs"
name: "Anthony Downs"
slug: "anthony-downs"
description: "James Anthony Downs was an American economist specializing in public policy and public administration. His research focuses included political choice theory, rent control, affordable housing, and transportation economics. He wrote a number of books including, An Economic Theory of Democracy (1957) and Inside Bureaucracy (1967), which have been major influences on the public choice school of political economy. In Downs's Law of Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (1962), he predicted that expanding expressways could not reduce traffic congestion, since demand would increase as well, and that reducing speeds increases capacity."
tagline: "American economist (1930–2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1930-11-21"
deathDate: "2021-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump