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....
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...

Jerry Kirkpatrick

male
Jerry Kirkpatrick is professor of international business and marketing at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is author of the 1994...
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...
George Reisman

George Reisman

male, 73 years old
George Gerald Reisman (born January 13 1937) is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and author of the massive 1,050-page...
Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

male, deceased (2007)
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (February 1 1931 - April 23 2007) was the first president of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Yeltsin...
Friedrich A. Hayek

Friedrich A. Hayek

male, deceased (1992)
At the London School of Economics, Hayek was instrumental in furthering its then-novel "continental" bent and he was highly influential on his...
Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

male, 75 years old
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is a literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for the analysis of contemporary...
Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan

male, 39 years old
Bryan Caplan (b. 1971) is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He received his B.S. in economics...
Michael Novak

Michael Novak

male, 76 years old
Michael Novak (born September 9 1933) is an American Roman Catholic philosopher and diplomat. The author of some 25 books on the philosophy and...