Adam Smith

Adam Smith

male, deceased (1790)
Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. - July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering political economist....
David Ricardo

David Ricardo

male, deceased (1823)
David Ricardo (18th April, 1772-11th September, 1823), a political economist, is often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the...
John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

male, deceased (1873)
John Stuart Mill, (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) British philosopher, political economist and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker...
Thomas Malthus

Thomas Malthus

male, deceased (1834) (Captain Cook, Hawaii, United States)
Robert Thomas Malthus, FRS (13th February, 1766 - 29th December, 1834), usually known as Robert Malthus, although he preferred to be known as...
Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean-Baptiste Say

male, deceased (1832)
Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 - November 15, 1832) was a French economist and businessman. He had classically liberal views and argued in...
William Petty

William Petty

male, deceased (1687)
Sir William Petty was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in...

Robert Torrens

male, deceased (1864)
Colonel Robert Torrens (1780 - 1864) was a British army officer and owner of the influential "Globe" newspaper. Robert Torrens was an independent...
Johann Heinrich von Thünen

Johann Heinrich von Thünen

male, deceased (1850)
Johann Heinrich von Thünen "ranks alongside Marx as the greatest economist of the nineteenth century" (Fernand Braudel). Von Thünen was a Me...
Anders Chydenius

Anders Chydenius

male, deceased (1803)
Anders Chydenius was the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. Born in Sotkamo (modern day Finland) and having studied under Pehr Kalm at...
John Elliott Cairnes

John Elliott Cairnes

male, deceased (1875)
John Elliott Cairnes (December 26, 1823 - July 8, 1875) was an Irish economist. He is often described as the "last of the classical economists"....