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John Maynard Keynes
1883 – 1946Argued governments should spend in a slump — and every modern state now does.
United Kingdom·Economics · PoliticsFull profile
Joseph Schumpeter
1883 – 1950Creative destruction — the standard account of how innovation reshapes industries.
Austria·Economics · Business
Gunnar Myrdal
1898 – 1987Cumulative causation and the economics of racial inequality in America.
Sweden·Economics · Political EconomyNobel
Friedrich Hayek
1899 – 1992Prices as information; the intellectual engine of late-century market liberalism.
Austria·Economics · Political EconomyNobel