# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manfred-max-neef
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:30:20.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manfred-max-neef"
name: "Manfred Max-Neef"
slug: "manfred-max-neef"
description: "Artur Manfred Max Neef was a Chilean economist of German descent. Max-Neef was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He started his career as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1960s. He was known for his taxonomy of fundamental human needs and human scale development. In 1983, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for \"revitalising small and medium-sized communities through 'Barefoot Economics'.\""
tagline: "Professor of economics; environmentalist; Chilean presidential candidate (1932-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Manfred_Max_Neef_(362355950).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-10-26"
deathDate: "2019-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.max-neef.cl/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump