# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-louis-horowitz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:24:33.715Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-louis-horowitz"
name: "Irving Louis Horowitz"
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description: "Irving Louis Horowitz was an American sociologist, author, and academic. He proposed a quantitative index for measuring a country's quality of life, and helped to popularize \"Third World\" as a term for the poorer nations of the Non-Aligned Movement."
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deathDate: "2012-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump