Louis Rukeyser

In his monumental work, Das Kapital, Karl Marx (18181883), tried to show that capitalism ...

Joseph Schumpeter (18831950) viewed capitalism as a dynamic engine of progress. In his vi...

Frank Knight (18851972) disliked the idea of a school of thought associated with his work...

Monetarism emerged in the 1960s under the leadership of Milton Friedman, who received the...

Benjamin Graham, the father of fundamental investing, showed the way from speculation (ba...

To accumulate wealth, you must do more than invest well. You also must protect yourself (...

Alfred Marshall (18421924) a British economics professor at Oxford University, developed ...

Carl Menger (18401921), and Eugen von BohmBawerk (18511914), working in Vienna in the lat...

After John Maynard Keynes revolutionized economic thought in 1936, there began a keen str...

The classical economists pioneered a new way of thinking about the uniquely human tendenc...

In the middle and late 1800s, a group of German university professors developed the study...

Institutionalism is an economic point of view that emphasizes the role of social organiza...

Ludwig von Mises (18811973) and Friedrich Hayek (born 1899) were perhaps the foremost def...

John Maynard Keynes (18831946) was without question the most influential economist of the...

For two centuries, Wall Street has symbolized American capitalism; since the early 20th c...

Investment philosophers have long debated the role of money in a life well lived. Among t...

Contrarians and bargain hunters seek investment opportunities by departing from conventio...

Leon Walras (18341910) transformed economics from a literary discipline into a mathematic...

Gold is one of the world's oldest and most stable repositories of wealth. For centuries, ...

The story of great real estate investors is a tale of superb salesmanship, public relatio...

While financial markets sometimes mark time, more often than not they are advancing or co...

Most investors do not get involved in speculation or commodities, but speculators play a ...

Swiss bankers are often called gnomes, after the trolls of Swiss mythology. They are said...

An early form of stock fraud was watering, where more shares were issued and sold that we...

Money managers have served pharaohs, kings, emperors, popes, and merchant traders and no...

Takeovers, mergers, and other kinds of business deals became popular in the late 1800s, w...