Fifty Major Economists
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Building upon the huge success of the previous edition, this updated text provides a clear, comprehensive guide to the most influential individuals in the field of economics.Covering a wide range of thinkers across several centuries, features of this second edition include:a significantly revised and expanded introduction discussing the importance of the history of economics, and highlighting the main schools of thoughtupdated bibliographies and referencing that take account of the wealth of secondary literature availablenew entries on today’s pioneering economists, such as Joseph Stiglitzrevised entries on contemporary economists in order to include recent developments and research.Containing brief biographical information on each featured economist, as well as references to their major works, guides to further reading and a glossary of terms, Fifty Major Economists is undoubtedly an important and accessible resource for students of economics at all levels.
Alphabetical list of contents ixPreface xiIntroduction xiiiThomas Mun (1571-1641) 3William Petty (1623-87) 7John Locke (1632-1704) 12Richard Cantillon (1687?-1734?) 17Francois Quesnay (1694-1774) 21David Hume (1711-76) 28Adam Smith (1723-90) 32Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) 41Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) 46David Ricardo (1772-1823) 51Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801-77) 59John Stuart Mill (1806-73) 64Karl Marx (1818-83) 70Leon Walras (1834-1910) 78William Stanley Jevons (1835-82) 84Carl Menger (1840-1921) 89Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) 95Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926) 102John Bates Clark (1847-1938) 109Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) 115Eugen Von Bohm-Bawerk (1851-1914) 121Knut Wicksell (1851-1926) 126Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) 131Irving Fisher (1867-1947) 137Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959) 143John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) 149Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) 158Piero Sraffa (1898-1983) 163Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) 168Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) 174Simon Kuznets (1901-85) 181John von Neumann (1903-57) 187Joan Robinson (1903-83) 194Jan Tinbergen (1903-94) 201John Hicks (1904-89) 208Wassily Leontief (1906-99) 217Nicholas Kaldor (1908-86) 223John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) 229Milton Friedman (1912-) 235Paul Samuelson (1915-) 243Franco Modigliani (1918-2003) 250James M. Buchanan (1919-) 256Douglass Cecil North (1920-) 261Kenneth J. Arrow (1921-) 267Barbara R. Bergmann (1927-) 273Gary Becker (1930-) 280Amartya Sen (1933-) 286Daniel Kahneman (1934-) 292Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (1937-) 300Joseph Stiglitz (1943-) 306Glossary 314
