Table of Contents

Foreword
1. Aristotle – The Philosopher
2. Thomas Aquinas – The Angelic Doctor
3. Adam Smith – The Founder
4. Robert Malthus and David Ricardo – The Realist and the Theorist
5. John Stuart Mill – The Classical Liberal
6. Karl Marx – The Communist Visionary
7. William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger and Léon Walras – Three Quiet Revolutionaries
8. Alfred Marshall – The Frail Master Craftsman
9. Joseph Schumpeter – Creator and Destroyer
10. John Maynard Keynes – The Last Amateur
11. Friedrich Hayek – A Very Different Type of Liberal
12. John von Neumann – The Most Brilliant Mathematician
13. Ronald Coase – The Placid Observer
14. Milton Friedman – The Monetarist
15. Paul Samuelson – The American Keynes?
16. Herbert Simon – The Social Scientific Realist
17. Thomas Schelling – The Storyteller
18. Robert Solow – Craftsman and Builder
19. Gary Becker – The Unwavering Imperialist
20. Elinor Ostrom – The Political Scientist
21. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky – Two Psychologists
22. Robert Lucas – The Idealist
23. George Akerlof – The Borrower
24. Esther Duflo – The Experimenter
Afterword
Index

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Capturing the essence of history’s most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today.

About the Author

Dr Robbie Mochrie is an economics teacher with over 30 years of experience. Adept at equipping undergraduates with new skills, but comfortable working with business and political leaders, he has written a regular economics commentary for The National, while working closely with churches and credit unions.