- Karl Heinrich Marx
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 an economist; others would prefer terms like 'bungling and failed revolutionary'. However, there are certainly few economists who read so widely and wrote so much as Marx. Whether you love or loathe Marx, we cannot deny his writings had profound influence on the twentieth century. What Did Marx Believe? - Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (March 6 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher, best known for creating a philosophy she named "Objectivism" and for writing the novels "We the Living," "The Fountainhead," "Atlas Shrugged" and the novella "Anthem." Her influential and controversial ideas have attracted both enthusiastic admiration and scathing denunciation. <br - Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, Friedman made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, … - Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (August 22, 1904 - February 19, 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician and reformist, and the late leader of the Communist Party of China (CCP). Deng never held office as the head of state or the head of government, but served as the "de facto" leader of the People's Republic of China from the 1978 to the early 1990s. He pioneered "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and Chinese economic reform, also known as the "socialist market economy", … - Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (February 1 1931 - April 23 2007) was the first president of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Yeltsin came to power on a wave of high expectations. On 12 June 1991 he was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic with 57% of the vote, becoming the first popularly elected president in Russian history. - Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci (January 22, 1891 - April 27, 1937) was an Italian writer, politician and political theorist. A founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy, he was imprisoned by Mussolini's Fascist regime. His writings are heavily concerned with the analysis of culture and political leadership and he is notable as a highly original thinker within the Marxist tradition. - Judith Miller
Judith Miller (born 1941) is a French philosopher, and the daughter of Jacques Lacan - radical psychoanalyst, and wife to prominent Lacanian Jacques-Alain Miller. As a Maoist philosophy lecturer at Vincennes in Paris, her radicalism caused the official disaffiliation of the philosophy department. This occurred after she handed out course credit to someone she met on a bus, … - Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanis is CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc., a network of close to 100 widely read blogs including Engadget, Joystiq, Luxist, Gadling and Blogging Baby. Weblogs, Inc. was founded in January of 2004 and spurred the growth of blogs. The company a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Calacanis, who was appointed a senior vice president of the AOL, maintains editorial supervision of Weblogs. - Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is best known for his work on the concept of the public sphere, which he has based in his theory of communicative action. His work has focused on the foundations of social theory and epistemology, the analysis of advanced capitalistic societies and democracy, the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, … - Michael Milken
Michael Robert Milken, born July 4, 1946, in Encino, California, is an American financier best known as the "Junk Bond King" of 1980s era Wall Street. He was highly influential in developing the market for junk bonds (a.k.a. "high-yield debt") during the 1970s and 1980s, which in turn fueled the 1980s boom in corporate raids and hostile corporate takeovers. He has been called both a financial innovator and the epitome of 1980s Wall Street greed. - Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values. His style is at times droll, satirical, and yet sympathetic. - Tom Perkins
Thomas James Perkins (born 1932) is an American businessman, capitalist, and was one of the founders of leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. - Sam Marcy
Sam Marcy was an American Marxist of the post-World War II era. In 1959, a group he led founded the Workers World Party. After the first issue of the Workers World newspaper was published, Marcy started applying his view of Marxism to contemporary issues. Selections of his works have been translated into many languages, including Persian, Spanish, Turkish, Korean, French and German. Marcy was born in Russia of Jewish parents. - Bobby Fischer
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer is a United States-born chess Grandmaster who in 1972 became the only US-born chessplayer to become the official World Chess Champion. In 1974 he officially resigned the title when FIDE, the international chess federation, refused to accept his conditions for a title defense. He is a regular candidate in considerations of the greatest chess player of all time. - Franz Mehring
Franz Erdmann Mehring, was a German publicist, politician and historian. He worked for various daily and weekly newspapers and over many years wrote lead articles for the weekly magazine "Neue Zeit". In 1868 he moved to Berlin to study, and worked in the editorial office of the "Die Zukunft" newspaper. From 1871–1874, Mehring worked for the Correspondence Office in Oldenburg, writing reports on sessions of the "Reichstag" and the local parliament. - John Doerr
L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a successful venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley. Doerr obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976. Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor. - Sam Webb
Sam Webb is an American politician, and the current leader of Communist Party USA. Webb, who now resides in New York City, was born in Maine, quarterbacked his high school football team and graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia where he was a starting forward on the basketball team He received a Masters in Economics from the University of Connecticut. - Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla (born January 28, 1955 in Poona) is an Indian-American venture capitalist. He is an influential personality in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986. - Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill (born September 3, 1938) is an English writer of stage plays known for her use of non-realistic techniques and feminist themes. She is acknowledged as a major playwright in the English language and a leading woman writer. She is classed as a Post-modern playwright due to her themes and techniques such as use of multi-role and fragmented narrative. - Hugo Stinnes
Hugo Stinnes was a German industrialist and politician born in Mülheim, in the Ruhr Valley, North German Confederation. In 1890 he inherited his father's coal mining and other financial enterprises. At the age of 23 Stinnes invested heavily in the steel industry, and as a result of World War I and a strategy of vertical integration his companies flourished. Stinnes, a prominent capitalist, and conservative became a founding member of the DVP. - Jacques Camatte
Jacques Camatte is a French writer who once was a marxist theoretician and member of the Internationalist Communist Party, a primarily Italian left communist organisation under the influence of Amadeo Bordiga, which denounced the USSR as capitalist and aimed to rebuild a "true" Leninism; following the theses of the early Italian Communist Party (under Bordiga's leadership), … - Jean-Pierre van Rossem
Jean Pierre Van Rossem (born in Bruges, Belgium) on 29 may, 1945) is a well-known Flemish politician, entrepreneur and writer. He studied economics at the University of Gent in 1963-1967. With his final term paper he won the International Scholarship of Flanders-prize and was able to study two years of econometrics at Lawrence Klein. He became famous with 'Moneytron', a stockmarket investment company that could offer apparently endless returns. - Joseph Dietzgen
Joseph Dietzgen (December 1828 - 1888) was a socialist philosopher and anarchist sympathizer. He was born in Blankenberg near Siegburg, Germany. He was, like his father, a tanner by profession. Entirely self-educated, he developed the notion of dialectical materialism independently from Marx and Engels. Ludwig Feuerbach's works had a great influence on his early theories. He spent some time in the U.S. from 1849 to 1851 and again from 1859 to 1861. - Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - Joi Ito
Joi Ito , an activist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has received much recognition for his role as an entrepreneur of Internet and technology companies. He has founded companies such as PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and is the founder and currently the CEO of the venture capital firm, Neoteny Co., Ltd. - Nikolai Kondratiev
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kondratiev, Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев (1892-1938) was a Russian economist, who was a proponent of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in the Soviet Union. He was executed at the height of Stalin's Great Purge and "rehabilitated" fifty years later. He proposed a theory that Western capitalist economies have long term (50 to 60 years) cycles of boom followed by depression. - Alfred Sauvy
Alfred Sauvy was a demographer, anthropologist and historian of the French economy. Sauvy coined the term Third World ("Tiers Monde") in reference to the underdeveloped countries in an article published in the French magazine "L'Observateur" on August 14, 1952. At the end of the article Sauvy said: :"...car enfin, ce Tiers Monde ignoré, exploité, méprisé comme le Tiers Etat, veut lui aussi, être quelque chose" :"...because at the end this ignored, exploited, … - Charles Pratt
Charles Pratt was a United States capitalist, businessman and philanthropist. Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York. Pratt's product later gave rise to the slogan, "The holy lamps of Tibet are primed with Astral Oil"." He recruited Henry H. Rogers into his business, forming Charles Pratt and Company in 1867, which became part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil in 1874. - Henry H. Rogers
Henry Huttleston Rogers (January 29 1840 - May 19 1909) was a United States capitalist, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist. During the Gilded Age, in the spirit of Horatio Alger, "Hen" Rogers, a child of working-class parents, worked his way to the top and became one of the key men in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. He also made many investments of his own in natural gas, copper, steel, coal, and railroad industries, … - Thomas J. Hagerty
The Reverend Fr. Thomas J. Hagerty was an American Roman Catholic priest from New Mexico, and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Hagerty had been a Marxist before his ordination in 1892 and was later influenced by anarcho-syndicalism. His formal association with the church ended when he was suspended by his archbishop for urging miners in Colorado to revolt during his tour of mining camps in 1903, … - Oakes Ames
Oakes Ames (January 10, 1804 - May 8, 1873) was an American manufacturer, capitalist, and member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. As a congressman, he is credited by many historians as being the single most important influence in the building of the Union Pacific portion of the transcontinental railroad. He is also noted for the subsequent scandal that alleged the improper sale of stock of the railroad's construction company. - Martin Wiener
Martin Joel Wiener is an American academic and author. His main claim to fame lies with his 1981 book "English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit: 1850-1980", which was a concerted attack on the British elite for its indifference to and wariness of industrialism and commercialism. Although the commercial and industrial revolutions originated in England, Wiener blamed a persistent strain in British culture, … - Don Valentine
Donald T. "Don" Valentine is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. He has been called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital". The Computer History Museum credited him as playing "a key role in the formation of a number of industries such as semiconductors, personal computers, personal computer software, digital entertainment and networking." - Burton W. Folsom Jr.
Folsom received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Pittsburgh and since 1988 has served as editor of Continuity: A Journal of History . - Maia Bittner
maia bittner is a young lady who worked at spock - William N. Page
William Nelson Page (January 6, 1854-March 7, 1932), was a United States civil engineer, entrepreneur, capitalist, businessman, and industrialist. Born into an old Virginia family near present-day Lynchburg, Virginia about seven years before the American Civil War, William Page became one of the leading developers of West Virginia's rich bituminous coal fields in the late 19th and early 20th century, … - Neil MacLean
Neil Maclean (1875 - September 12, 1953) was a Scottish socialist and a Member of Parliament. Maclean was the first Secretary of the Socialist Labour Party, but was expelled in 1908 for supporting what the party considered a reformist measure, the advocacy of the right to work, even under a capitalist system. A member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), … - Luigi Taparelli
Luigi Taparelli D’Azeglio was an Italian Catholic scholar of the Society of Jesus who coined the term social justice. He cofounded the journal "Civiltà Cattolica" in 1850 and wrote for it for twelve years. He was particularly concerned with the problems arising from the industrial revolution. He was a proponent of reviving the philosophical school of Thomism, and his social teachings influenced Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical, … - Wirt Bowman
Wirt Bowman was a self-described capitalist. He was also a turn of the century entrepreneur, speculator, casino owner, and one of the founders of the Agua Caliente Casino and Hotel in Tijuana, Mexico. Born on March 28, 1874, he was the son of a Virginian Confederate cavalry veteran and expert telegraph operator who settled in West Point, Mississippi following the war. In 1887, the family moved to Childress, Texas, … - Henry Scott Holland
Henry Scott Holland (27 January 1847-17 March 1918) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He was born at Ledbury and educated at Eton where he was a pupil of the influential Master William Johnson Cory, and University of Oxford where he took a first class degree in Greats. He had the Oxford degrees of DD, MA, and Honorary DLitt. After graduation, he was elected as a Student (fellow) of Christ Church, …
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