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William Nordhaus

Also known as William D. Nordhaus (OpenAlex)

American economist (1941-)born 1941

Wikidata names Robert Solow as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 10 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 3 people: 3 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

Coauthors in OpenAlex216

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Paul Anthony Samuelson

    31 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Robert O. Mendelsohn

    9 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Dale W. Jorgenson

    8 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Xi Chen

    7 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Kenneth T Gillingham

    7 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Robert J. Gordon

    6 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    J. Steven Landefeld

    6 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Robert E. Litan

    6 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    James G. Tobin

    5 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Geoffrey Heal

    5 shared works

OpenAlex lists 206 more people who share a work with them.