# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kelvin-lancaster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:46:11.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kelvin-lancaster"
name: "Kelvin Lancaster"
slug: "kelvin-lancaster"
description: "Kelvin John Lancaster was an Australian mathematical economist and John Bates Clark professor of economics at Columbia University. He is best known for the development of the Theory of the Second Best with Richard Lipsey. Lancaster was also active in developing the calculus of qualitative economics, formulating the household production function, and applying the hedonic model to the estimation of housing prices."
tagline: "Australian-American economist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-12-10"
deathDate: "1999-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Kelvin Lancaster"
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    title: "كلفن لانكستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كلفن لانكستر"
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    title: "Ланкастер, Келвин"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_Lancaster"
    title: "Kelvin Lancaster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_Lancaster"
    title: "Kelvin Lancaster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump