Trailblazers in EconomicsIn our increasingly interconnected world, economics has become an ever more powerful, integrated, and dynamic force. In other words, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay there anymore. In fact, decisions made by economists in London or Shanghai may well determine the fate of savings accounts for people in Montreal, Manhattan, and Mogadishu. As economics is an admittedly complicated social science, this book uses biography as a teaching tool—profiling the most important economists—because often the best way to begin understanding a complicated and important field is by reading about the people behind the ideas. |
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John Locke 16 ECONOMICS AND | 20 |
François Quesnay 26 Adam Smith | 28 |
David Ricardo 34 John Stuart Mill | 36 |
Piero Sraffa | 42 |
Leon Walrus 48 Carl Menger | 50 |
Irving Fisher 56 John Hicks | 58 |
Friedrich Hayek 64 Robert Mundell | 66 |
John Maynard Keynes 70 Don Patinkin | 72 |
UNCERTAINTY AND INFORMATION | 78 |
Georg Friedrich Knapp | 98 |
ECONOMIC | 120 |
Glossary | 126 |
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