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Population pressure as an economic law; the argument every food and climate debate revisits.

Comparative advantage and rent theory — still the core argument for trade.

Principles of Political Economy and On Liberty joined markets to individual freedom.

Das Kapital made class, capital and crisis the permanent grammar of economic argument.

The Condition of the Working Class in England founded empirical labour economics.

Linked bureaucracy, religion and capitalism; founded the sociology of organisations.

The Great Transformation showed markets are made by states, not found in nature.

Cumulative causation and the economics of racial inequality in America.

Prices as information; the intellectual engine of late-century market liberalism.

Centre-periphery theory drove Latin American development strategy for decades.

Imperfect competition and a lifelong challenge to orthodox capital theory.

Led Ghana to independence and theorised neo-colonial economic dependence.

Kicking Away the Ladder documented how rich states industrialised behind protection.

The Entrepreneurial State reframed public investment as the source of major innovation.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century put wealth inequality data at the centre of policy.