# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-peltzman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:23:47.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-peltzman"
name: "Sam Peltzman"
slug: "sam-peltzman"
description: "Sam Peltzman is professor emeritus at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. He is an editor of The Journal of Law and Economics and was editor of the Journal of Political Economy from 1974 till 1989. Peltzman's research has focused on issues related to the interface between the public sector and the private economy. His published work includes numerous articles in academic journals."
tagline: "Professor emeritus at University of Chicago"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-01-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.13
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.675522666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Peltzman"
    title: "Sam Peltzman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سام پيلتزمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Peltzman"
    title: "Samuel Peltzman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%90%A8%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E4%BD%A9%E5%B0%94%E5%85%B9%E6%9B%BC"
    title: "萨姆·佩尔兹曼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Peltzman"
    title: "Sam Peltzman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%86%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC%D1%8E%D1%8D%D0%BB"
    title: "Пельцман, Сэмюэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2218727"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump