- Subjects
- Published
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 288 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781399408646
- Foreword
- 1. Aristotle - The Philosopher
- 2. Thomas Aquinas - The Angelic Doctor
- 3. Adam Smith - The Founder
- 4. Robert Malthus and David Ricardo - The Realist and the Theorist
- 5. John Stuart Mill - The Classical Liberal
- 6. Karl Marx - The Communist Visionary
- 7. William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger and Léon Walras - Three Quiet Revolutionaries
- 8. Alfred Marshall - The Frail Master Craftsman
- 9. Joseph Schumpeter - Creator and Destroyer
- 10. John Maynard Keynes - The Last Amateur
- 11. Friedrich Hayek - A Very Different Type of Liberal
- 12. John von Neumann - The Most Brilliant Mathematician
- 13. Ronald Coase - The Placid Observer
- 14. Milton Friedman - The Monetarist
- 15. Paul Samuelson - The American Keynes?
- 16. Herbert Simon - The Social Scientific Realist
- 17. Thomas Schelling - The Storyteller
- 18. Robert Solow - Craftsman and Builder
- 19. Gary Becker - The Unwavering Imperialist
- 20. Elinor Ostrom - The Political Scientist
- 21. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky - Two Psychologists
- 22. Robert Lucas - The Idealist
- 23. George Akerlof - The Borrower
- 24. Esther Duflo - The Experimenter
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- Index