Economics
Economics is the discipline governments act on fastest. Classical trade theory, Keynesian demand management, development economics and behavioural findings all appear here, with their record in practice.
28 indexed lives · 10 Nobel laureates · 15 countries
Where to start
Muhammad Yunus
b. 1940Lent $27 of his own money and started a global industry for the poor.
Gunnar Myrdal
1898 – 1987Cumulative causation and the economics of racial inequality in America.
Friedrich Hayek
1899 – 1992Prices as information; the intellectual engine of late-century market liberalism.
Nobel recognition in Economics
- Gunnar Myrdal
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1974
- Friedrich Hayek
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1974
- Milton Friedman
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1976
- Paul Samuelson
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1970
- Amartya Sen
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1998
- Elinor Ostrom
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2009
- Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2002
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Nobel Peace Prize, 2011
- Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize, 2006
- Esther Duflo
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2019
Economics across the centuries
6th–14th century · 1
19th century · 7
20th century · 17
- Raúl Prebisch1901 – 1986
- John von Neumann1903 – 1957
- Joan Robinson1903 – 1983
- Milton Friedman1912 – 2006
- Anna J. Schwartz1915 – 2012
- Paul Samuelson1915 – 2009
- Lee Kuan Yew1923 – 2015
- Catherine Ponderb. 1927
- Amartya Senb. 1933
- Elinor Ostrom1933 – 2012
- Daniel Kahneman1934 – 2024
- Ellen Johnson Sirleafb. 1938
- Muhammad Yunusb. 1940
- Ha-Joon Changb. 1963
- Mariana Mazzucatob. 1968
- Thomas Pikettyb. 1971
- Esther Duflob. 1972