# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-lavoie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:24:24.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-lavoie"
name: "Don Lavoie"
slug: "don-lavoie"
description: "Donald Charles Lavoie was an American economist of the Austrian School. He was influenced by Friedrich Hayek, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Michael Polanyi and Ludwig Lachmann. He wrote two books on the problem of economic calculation. His first book on this subject was Rivalry and Central Planning. This book stressed the importance of the process of competitive rivalry in markets. His second book was National Economic Planning: What Is Left?. This book dealt with the problem of non-comprehensive planning."
tagline: "American economist (1951–2001)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-04-04"
deathDate: "2001-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.66
  momentum:             8.598901098901099
  historical:           5.477574666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lavoie"
    title: "Don Lavoie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "دون لاڤوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дон Лавоа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lavoie"
    title: "Don Lavoie"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lavoie"
    title: "Don Lavoie"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "دان لاووی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump