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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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John von Neumann
1903 – 1957Computer architecture, game theory, quantum foundations.
Joan Robinson
1903 – 1983Imperfect competition and a lifelong challenge to orthodox capital theory.
Hannah Arendt
1906 – 1975The Origins of Totalitarianism remains the reference work on how republics fail.
Peter Drucker
1909 – 2005Invented management as a discipline and named the knowledge worker.
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.
Esther Duflo
b. 1972Randomised trials made development aid an experimental science.