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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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Raúl Prebisch
1901 – 1986Centre-periphery theory drove Latin American development strategy for decades.
Joan Robinson
1903 – 1983Imperfect competition and a lifelong challenge to orthodox capital theory.
Kwame Nkrumah
1909 – 1972Led Ghana to independence and theorised neo-colonial economic dependence.
Ha-Joon Chang
b. 1963Kicking Away the Ladder documented how rich states industrialised behind protection.
Mariana Mazzucato
b. 1968The Entrepreneurial State reframed public investment as the source of major innovation.
Thomas Piketty
b. 1971Capital in the Twenty-First Century put wealth inequality data at the centre of policy.