The Economists




GERRIT GORTER
The present study of economics did not, of course, come out of thin air. Although thinkers in classical Greece already reflected on what we now call economics, it was largely in the eighteenth century that systematic thought on the subject began.

Two conceptual tools—the economic cycle and the idea of the invisible hand—date from that century and are still in use today, both in academic research and in education. This site contains twenty-five portraits of important economists. Each offers a biographical sketch together with an indication of his (and, in one case, her) significance for the development of economic thought. They claim no more than to provide a first introduction to the lives and works of these pioneers.

These articles originally appeared in Dutch  in the Tijdschrift voor het Economisch Onderwijs and were later published on the website of Gerrit Gorter. The English translations are by Folkert Gorter.
   Index
   François Quesnay
   Adam Smith
   Thomas Robert Malthus
   Jean-Baptiste Say
   David Ricardo
   Antoine Augustin Cournot
   John Stuart Mill
   Karl Marx
   Walras
   Carl Menger
   Alfred Marshall
   Vilfredo Pareto   Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
   Knut Wicksell
   Max Weber
   Irving Fisher
   Sam de Wolff
   John Maynard Keynes
   Joseph Alois Schumpeter
   Joan Robinson
   Jan Tinbergen
   John Hicks
   John Kenneth Galbraith
   Milton Friedman
   Paul Samuelson

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