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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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Wallace Wattles
1860 – 1911The Science of Getting Rich turned New Thought toward prosperity and later inspired The Secret.
John Maynard Keynes
1883 – 1946Argued governments should spend in a slump — and every modern state now does.
Joseph Schumpeter
1883 – 1950Creative destruction — the standard account of how innovation reshapes industries.
Napoleon Hill
1883 – 1970Think and Grow Rich carried New Thought into business self-help; his sourcing remains disputed.
B. R. Ambedkar
1891 – 1956Principal architect of India's constitution and Dalit emancipation.
Gunnar Myrdal
1898 – 1987Cumulative causation and the economics of racial inequality in America.
Friedrich Hayek
1899 – 1992Prices as information; the intellectual engine of late-century market liberalism.