Antoine Augustin Cournot 1801-1877 Antoine Augustin Cournot was a French mathematician and economist. Probably the first economist to be com etent in both sciences. Professor of Mathematics at the University of Lyons before becoming Rector of Dijon Academy. His mast important writings are Recherches sur les principes math ematiques de la theorie des richesses (1838) […]

Donald Coase Born 1918 Donald Coase was a British economist. Intellectual founder of the ‘new institutional economics.’ In 1934, he published an analysis of the British postal system in Economica. In 1937, a paper on the Nature of the Company was published. He went to the US in 1951 and taught at the Universities of […]

John Maurice Clark 1884-1963 John Maurice Clark was an American economist, son of J B Clark. Educated at Amherst and Columbia where he gained his Ph.D. Lectured at Colorado College, Amherst, the University of Chicago, and Columbia where he was given the J.B. Clark chair created in his father’s honor. Clark’s work is characterized by […]

John Bates Clark 1847-1938 John Bates Clark was a American economist, educated at Brown University and Amherst College; later, he became a famous Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He passionately believed in the importance of economics, but was dissatisfied with the economic theory at his time. His answer to the problem was to reformulate […]

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk 1851-1914 Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk was an Austrian economist and Professor of Economics at Vienna. His most important contribution to economic theory was his analysis of capital and interest in which he argued that people were prepared to pay interest in order to borrow, because they expected to be better off in the future and put […]

Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993) Kenneth E. Boulding was born in Liverpool, England, but educated partly in the US, of which he became a citizen in 1948. He has taught at Edinburgh. Colgate. Fisk, Iowa State, Ames. and the University of Michigan. He is now Professor of Economics and Director of the Program on General, Social […]

Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley 1869-1957 Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley was a British statistician and mathematical economist. Among the distinguished posts he held were those of Professor of Mathematics, Economics and Statistics at the Universities of Reading and London, and Director of the University of Oxford Institute of Statistics. His major works were Three Studies on […]

James M. Buchanan (1919-2013) James Buchanan was a American economist. Having served on the faculties of Florida State University, the University of Virginia, and UCLA, James F Buchanan is now Director of the Center for the Study of Public Choice, which concentrates on exploring common ground between economics and political science. In 1962 he wrote […]

Gustav Cassels 1866- 1945 Gustav Cassels was a Swedish economist. Professor of Political Economy at the University of Stockholm. His most important contribution to economics was an analysis of interest rates and trade cycles, dealt with in Grundrisselner Elementaren Preislehre (1900) and The Nature and Necessity of Interest (1903). His main work Theory of Social […]

Edward Chamberlin 1867-1967 Edward Chamberlin was an American economist who in his book set forth the Theory of Monopolistic Competition. This was an attempt to make economic theory more relevant as he attempted to devise a model in which elements of both competition and monoply were present.