# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-easterlin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:33:09.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-easterlin"
name: "Richard Easterlin"
slug: "richard-easterlin"
description: "Richard Ainley Easterlin was an American economist. A professor of economics at the University of Southern California, he is best known for the economic theory named after him, the Easterlin paradox. Another of his contributions is the Easterlin hypothesis about long waves of baby booms and busts."
tagline: "American economist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-01-12"
deathDate: "2024-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~easterl"
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    title: "Richard Easterlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump