# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-leeson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:01:27.585Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-leeson"
name: "Peter Leeson"
slug: "peter-leeson"
description: "Peter T. Leeson is an American economist and the Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University. In 2012 Big Think listed him among \"Eight of the World's Top Young Economists\". He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts."
tagline: "American economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_T._Leeson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1979-07-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.416416
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Пітер Лісон"
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    title: "Peter Leeson"
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    title: "Peter Leeson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump