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Disciplines in Economics, Business & Politics
Economists, political economists, entrepreneurs and statesmen whose theories, firms and constitutions organise money and power.
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Adam Smith
1723 – 1790The Wealth of Nations founded economics as a discipline.
Alexander Hamilton
1755 – 1804Designed American public credit, the national bank and industrial policy.
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 – 1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman founded feminist political theory.
Thomas Robert Malthus
1766 – 1834Population pressure as an economic law; the argument every food and climate debate revisits.
David Ricardo
1772 – 1823Comparative advantage and rent theory — still the core argument for trade.
Simón Bolívar
1783 – 1830Led six nations to independence and drafted their founding constitutions.