Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

male, deceased (1945)
World War II political leader, franklin delano roosevelt, American, war president, President of the United States, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation…economy of the United States, economy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the thirty-second President of the United...
Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

male, deceased (1976)
Chinese communist, Cold War leader, Cultural Revolution, communist, chinese, great leap forward…economy, Economy of the People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong (also "Mao Tse-tung" in Wade-Giles;) was a Chinese Marxist military and political leader and philosopher, who led the Communist Party of...
Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet

male, deceased (2006)
anti-communist, General, President of Chile, Heads of state, From Valparaiso, Captain General…economy
"' The junta members originally planned for the presidency to rotate among the commanders-in-chief of the four military branches. However, Pinochet...
John Perkins

John Perkins

male, 64 years old
Einar Greve, exploitation, economy, United States Government, neocolonialism, economies
John Perkins (b. 28 January 1945 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is an activist and author. His best known book is "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man",...
Li Peng

Li Peng

male, 81 years old
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Chinese economic reform, Tiananmen crisis of 1989, Premier of the State Council, Economic system, gross domestic product…economy
Li Peng (b. October, 1928) was the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) of the People's Republic of China...
Lester Thurow

Lester Thurow

male, 71 years old
MIT Sloan School of Management, Board of Director, Economic Policy Institute, University of Oxford, Rhodes Scholarship, E*TRADE…command economy, economy, Political economy
Lester Carl Thurow (1938) is a former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of numerous bestsellers on mainstream economics. Thurow...
Rodrigo Rato

Rodrigo Rato

male, 60 years old
Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo, spanish, economics, international monetary fund, minister, Asturian…economy
Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo was Spain's Economy Minister and Vice President serving with the People's Party (PP) between 1996 and 2004. He was...
David Laibson

David Laibson

male, 43 years old
Time inconsistency, Harvard University, summa, QJE, time-inconsistent, intertemporal choice…economy
David Laibson is a professor of economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1994. His research focuses on macroeconomics,...
Keith Windschuttle

Keith Windschuttle

male, 67 years old
mass media, writer, The White Australia Policy, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, From Sydney, violence…economy
Keith Windschuttle (born 1942) is an Australian writer who is the author of several books, including "Unemployment" (1979) which analyses the...

Kenneth Pomeranz

male
Yale University, economy, Sinologist, Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, historian
Kenneth Pomeranz is a professor in the history department at the University of California, Irvine in the US. He received his Ph.D. from Yale...