Economics, Business & Politics

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

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Lent $27 of his own money and started a global industry for the poor.

Cumulative causation and the economics of racial inequality in America.

Prices as information; the intellectual engine of late-century market liberalism.

Monetarism, floating exchange rates and a generation of deregulation.

Mathematised economics and wrote the textbook that taught the postwar world.

Recast famine as a failure of entitlement, not food supply.

Economists whose theories set fiscal policy, development strategy and the design of markets.

Thinkers who studied wealth and power together — markets, classes, states and empires as one system.

Founders, industrialists and management thinkers who built the firms and methods the economy runs on.

Statesmen, constitution-makers and political theorists who designed how power is won and limited.