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....
Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik

female, 52 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Dani Rodrik , who chairs the Advisory Committee of the Center for Global Development, is Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy...
Karl Heinrich Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx

male, deceased (1883) (london)
There are few economists who have become both so reviled, and admired as Marx. Indeed some would even question whether Marx deserves to be called...
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...
Max Weber

Max Weber

male, deceased (1920)
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (April 21, 1864 - June 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders...
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...
Carl Menger

Carl Menger

male, deceased (1921)
Carl Menger was the founder of the Austrian School of economics, famous for contributing to the development of the theory of marginal utility that...
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...
Douglass North

Douglass North

male, 89 years old
Douglass Cecil North (born November 5, 1920) is co-recipient (with Robert William Fogel of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics. In the words of the...