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All categories Literature & Letters202 Natural Sciences96 Mathematics & Computing36 Medicine & Healing Traditions99 Engineering & Technology24 Society, Peace & Law42 Economics, Business & Politics52 Music & Visual Arts0

Disciplines in Economics, Business & Politics

All disciplines Economics28 Political Economy15 Business10 Politics15

Economists, political economists, entrepreneurs and statesmen whose theories, firms and constitutions organise money and power.

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All countries Argentina4 Barbados2 Brazil6 Canada6 Chile2 Colombia2 Costa Rica1 Cuba2 Guatemala2 Mexico3 Peru1 Saint Lucia1 Trinidad and Tobago1 United States76 Uruguay1 Venezuela1

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Alexander Hamilton

1755 – 1804

Designed American public credit, the national bank and industrial policy.

United States·Politics · Economics

Simón Bolívar

1783 – 1830

Led six nations to independence and drafted their founding constitutions.

Venezuela·Politics

Milton Friedman

1912 – 2006

Monetarism, floating exchange rates and a generation of deregulation.

United States·Economics · PoliticsNobel