The Great Economic Thinkers Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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