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Max O. Lorenz
American economist (1876-1959) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 82
Max Otto Lorenz was an American economist who developed the Lorenz curve in an undergraduate essay. He published a paper on this when he was a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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His doctoral thesis (1906) was on 'The Economic Theory of Railroad Rates' and made no reference to perhaps his most famous paper. The term "Lorenz curve" for the measure Lorenz invented was coined by Willford I. King in 1912.
Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1876 to 1959 · aged 82
