# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-patten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:46:38.279Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-patten"
name: "Simon Patten"
slug: "simon-patten"
description: "Simon Nelson Patten was an American economist and the chair of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Patten was one of the first economists to posit a shift from an 'economics of scarcity' to an 'economics of abundance'; that is, he believed that soon there would be enough wealth to satisfy people's basic needs and that the economy would shift from an emphasis on production to consumption."
tagline: "American economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon_Nelson_Patten_(restaur%C3%A9e).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1852-05-01"
deathDate: "1922-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump