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