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Joseph Schumpeter

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Innovation Entrepreneurship 20TH Century Austrian American

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Robert Solow

Robert Solow (1924-2023) was an American economist known for foundational research on economic growth. The Solow growth...

American 20TH Century Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

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Friedrich von Hayek

Friedrich August von Hayek was an Austrian-British economist and political thinker associated with the Austrian school o...

20TH Century Austrian School Nobel Laureate Austrian British

9.1 Excellent

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Gary Becker

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American 20TH Century Human Capital Nobel Laureate

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Robert Lucas

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American 20TH Century Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

9.0 Excellent

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Ronald Coase

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20TH Century Nobel Laureate British American Transaction Costs

9.0 Excellent

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Simon Kuznets

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20TH Century Nobel Laureate Ukrainian American National Income

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Lloyd Shapley

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American 20TH Century Game Theory Nobel Laureate

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Harry Markowitz

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Finance American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate

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John Hicks

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Neoclassical 20TH Century British Nobel Laureate

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Leonid Hurwicz

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20TH Century Game Theory Nobel Laureate Polish American

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Douglass North

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American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Institutional Economics

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Franco Modigliani

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20TH Century Italian American Nobel Laureate Corporate Finance

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Vilfredo Pareto

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Italian 19TH Century Welfare Economics General Equilibrium

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Wassily Leontief

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20TH Century Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate Russian American

8.6 Great

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Ragnar Frisch

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Norwegian 20TH Century Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

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Hyman Minsky

Hyman Minsky was an American economist, born in 1919 and deceased in 1996, whose work examined credit, banking, and fina...

American 20TH Century Financial Instability Post Keynesian

8.2 Great

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Nicholas Kaldor

Nicholas Kaldor (1908–1986) was a Hungarian-British economist and a figure in post-Keynesian economics. He is best known...

20TH Century Growth Post Keynesian Hungarian British

8.1 Great

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Joan Robinson

Joan Robinson was a prominent British economist who lived from 1903 to 1983 and was closely associated with the Universi...

20TH Century British Post Keynesian Imperfect Competition

8.1 Great

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Michal Kalecki

Michał Kalecki was a Polish Marxist economist who lived from 1899 to 1970 and made profound, independent contributions t...

Polish 20TH Century Macroeconomics Post Keynesian

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