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Principles of Political Economy and On Liberty joined markets to individual freedom.

Das Kapital made class, capital and crisis the permanent grammar of economic argument.

The Condition of the Working Class in England founded empirical labour economics.

Built modern steel and then invented large-scale philanthropy.

Founded Indian heavy industry and the philanthropic corporate model behind it.

Scientific management — the origin of every productivity metric and its discontents.

The Science of Getting Rich turned New Thought toward prosperity and later inspired The Secret.

The moving assembly line and the five-dollar day created mass consumer industry.

Linked bureaucracy, religion and capitalism; founded the sociology of organisations.

Three Principles of the People underwrote the republican transformation of China.

Built a national cosmetics company and became America's first self-made Black woman millionaire.

Argued governments should spend in a slump — and every modern state now does.

Creative destruction — the standard account of how innovation reshapes industries.

Think and Grow Rich carried New Thought into business self-help; his sourcing remains disputed.

The Great Transformation showed markets are made by states, not found in nature.

Principal architect of India's constitution and Dalit emancipation.

Cumulative causation and the economics of racial inequality in America.

Prices as information; the intellectual engine of late-century market liberalism.

Statistical quality control rebuilt Japanese manufacturing and then global industry.