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James Ziliak

American business economist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ27947635 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Ziliak is an American business economist, currently the Gatton Endowed chair in Microeconomics and the Founding Director of the Center for Poverty Research at the Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky. He is also a published author.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “James Ziliak” as american business economist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 41-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where James, Ziliak and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american business economist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27947635. VIAF identifies the subject as 23213891. The Library of Congress control number is no93020048. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “James Ziliak” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.