The History of
Economic Thought

This research facility provides an overall review of the famous names in history and their economic theories. In addition, you will find specific economic topics as a reference.

Introduction

By Topic

Bourgeoisie
Capitalism
Modern Capitalism
Collectivism
Communism

Georgism
Marxism
Merchantilism
Physiocrats
Socialism
Taxation

Principles of Economy

Asset Inflation
Reluctant Recipient
Two-Tier Monetary Systems
Law of Value

By Author

Adelman, Irma – Born 1938
Allen, Sir Roy George Douglas – Born 1906 
Aquinas, Saint Thomas – 1225-1274
Arrow, Kenneth Joseph – Born 1921
Bagehot, Walter – 1826-1877
Bator,Francis – Born 1925
Bentham, leremy – 1748-1832
Beveridge, William Henry, Lord – 1876-1963
Bohm-Bawerk, Eugen von – 1851-1914
Boulding, Kenneth E – Born 1910
Bowley, Sir Arthur Lyon – 1869-1957
Buchanan, James – Born 1919
Burns, Arthur – Born 1904
Cantillon, Richard – 1680-1734
Cassels, Gustav – 1866-1945
Chamberlin, Edward – 1867-1967
Clark, Colin Grant – 1905-1989
Clark, John Bates – 1847-1938
Clark, John Maurice – 1884-1963
Coase, Donald – Born 1918
Cournot, Antoine Augustin – 1801-1877
Dobb, Maurice H. – Born 1900
Douglas, Paul – 1802-1876
Duesenberry, James – Born 1920
Dupuit, Arsene Jules Etienne Juvenal – 1801-1866
Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro – 1815-1926
Fisher, Irving – 1867- 1967
Friedman, Milton – Born 1912
Frisch, Ragner A K – 1895-1973
Galbraith, John Kenneth – 1908
George, Henry – 1830- 1907
Gresham, Sir Thomas – 1519-1579
Hansen, Alvin Harvey – Born 1887
Harrod, Sir Roy Forbes – 1900-1978
Hayek, Friedrich August von – Born 1899

George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Hicks, Sir John Richard – Born 1904
Hotelling, Harold – Born 1895
Hume, David – 1711-1776
Jevons, William Stanley – 1835-1882
Johnson, Harry Gordon – 1923-1977
Kantorovich, Leonid  – Born 1912
Keynes, John Maynard – 1883-1946
Kondratieff, ND – Born 1892
Koopmans, TiaIling C – Born 1910
Kuznets, Simon S – Born 1901
Lange, Oscar – 1904- 1965

Law, John (1671-1729)
Lenin, Nikolai or Viadirnir Illich Ulyanov – 1870-1924
Leontief, Wassily – Born 1906
Lerner, Abba P – Born 1903
List Friedrich – 1789-1846
Malthus, Thomas Robert – 1766-1834
Mandeville, Bernard de – 1870-1933
Marshall, Alfred – 1842-1924
Marx, Karl – 1818-1883
McNamara, Robert S – Born 1916
Meade, James Edward – Born 1907
Menger, Carl – 1840- 1921
Mill, John Stuart – 1806-1873
Mises, Ludwig von – 1881-1973
Mitchell, Wesley Clair – 1874-1948
Morgenstern, Oskar – Born 1902
Mun, Thomas – 1571-1641
Musgrave, Richard Abel – Born 1910
Myrdal, Karl Gunnar – 1898
Ohlin, Bertil – 1889
Okun, Arthur – 1928
Pareto, Vilfredo F D – 1848-1923
Pigou, Arthur Cecil – 1877-1959
Phillips, Alban W H – 1914-1975

Potter, William (c. 1650)
Prebisch, Paul U – Born 1901
Quesnay, Franqois – 1694-1774
Ricardo, David – 1772-1823
Rostow, Walt Whitman – Born 1916
Samuelson, Paul Anthony – Born 1915
Say, Jean Baptiste – 1767-1832
Schumpeter, Joseph – 1883-1950
Scitovsky, Tibor – 1910-1969
Smith, Adam – 1723-90
Senior, Nassau William – 1790-1864
Staffa, Piero – Born 1898
Taussig, Frank William – 1839-1940
Thuenen, Johann Heinrich von – 1783-1850
Tinbergen, Jan – Born 1903
Tobin, James – Born 1918
Torrens, Robert – 1780- 1864
Turgot, Aune Robert Jacques – 1727-81
Veblen, Tharstein – 1857-1929
Walras, Marie Esprit Le’on – 1834-1910
Warren, George 1874-1938
Weber Alfred – 1868-1958
Wicksell, Knut – 1851-1926

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