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Alexander Hamilton
1755 – 1804Designed American public credit, the national bank and industrial policy.
Wallace Wattles
1860 – 1911The Science of Getting Rich turned New Thought toward prosperity and later inspired The Secret.
Napoleon Hill
1883 – 1970Think and Grow Rich carried New Thought into business self-help; his sourcing remains disputed.
Raúl Prebisch
1901 – 1986Centre-periphery theory drove Latin American development strategy for decades.
Milton Friedman
1912 – 2006Monetarism, floating exchange rates and a generation of deregulation.
Anna J. Schwartz
1915 – 2012Co-authored the monetary history that reshaped central banking doctrine.
Paul Samuelson
1915 – 2009Mathematised economics and wrote the textbook that taught the postwar world.
Catherine Ponder
b. 1927Unity minister whose prosperity books shaped late-century abundance teaching.
Elinor Ostrom
1933 – 2012Showed communities can govern shared resources without markets or states.