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Lee Kuan Yew
1923 – 2015Turned a port city into a high-income state — the developmental-state exemplar and its critics.
Singapore·Politics · Economics
Amartya Sen
b. 1933Recast famine as a failure of entitlement, not food supply.
India·Economics · PhilosophyNobel
Daniel Kahneman
1934 – 2024Prospect theory founded behavioural economics and modern policy 'nudging'.
Israel·Economics · PsychologyNobel
Muhammad Yunus
b. 1940Lent $27 of his own money and started a global industry for the poor.
Bangladesh·Economics · Business · PeaceNobelFull profile
Ha-Joon Chang
b. 1963Kicking Away the Ladder documented how rich states industrialised behind protection.
South Korea·Political Economy · Economics