Politics
Politics is where every other discipline is finally decided. Constitution drafters, independence leaders, reforming legislators and theorists of sovereignty and liberty appear here, judged by the institutions they left behind and how those institutions have aged.
15 indexed lives · 1 Nobel laureates · 9 countries
Where to start
Milton Friedman
1912 – 2006Monetarism, floating exchange rates and a generation of deregulation.
United States·Economics · PoliticsNobel
John Maynard Keynes
1883 – 1946Argued governments should spend in a slump — and every modern state now does.
United Kingdom·Economics · PoliticsFull profile
Cicero
106 BCE – 43 BCERepublican theory and oratory that still frame constitutional argument.
Italy·Politics · Philosophy · Law
Nobel recognition in Politics
- Milton Friedman
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1976