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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.
Milton Friedman
1912 – 2006Monetarism, floating exchange rates and a generation of deregulation.
Anna J. Schwartz
1915 – 2012Co-authored the monetary history that reshaped central banking doctrine.
Paul Samuelson
1915 – 2009Mathematised economics and wrote the textbook that taught the postwar world.
Catherine Ponder
b. 1927Unity minister whose prosperity books shaped late-century abundance teaching.
Elinor Ostrom
1933 – 2012Showed communities can govern shared resources without markets or states.