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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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Hannah Arendt
1906 – 1975The Origins of Totalitarianism remains the reference work on how republics fail.
Germany·Politics · Philosophy · Human Rights
Kwame Nkrumah
1909 – 1972Led Ghana to independence and theorised neo-colonial economic dependence.
Ghana·Politics · Political Economy
Milton Friedman
1912 – 2006Monetarism, floating exchange rates and a generation of deregulation.
United States·Economics · PoliticsNobel
Lee Kuan Yew
1923 – 2015Turned a port city into a high-income state — the developmental-state exemplar and its critics.
Singapore·Politics · Economics