swap_horiz Vilfredo Pareto Alternatives

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Alfred Marshall

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19TH Century Neoclassical British Microeconomics

9.2 Excellent

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Joseph Schumpeter

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Innovation Entrepreneurship 20TH Century Austrian American

9.2 Excellent

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Robert Solow

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American 20TH Century Macroeconomics Nobel Laureate

9.2 Excellent

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Leon Walras

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French 19TH Century General Equilibrium Marginal Utility

8.8 Great

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Carl Menger

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Austrian 19TH Century Austrian School Marginal Utility

8.8 Great

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Irving Fisher

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American 19TH Century Quantity Theory Monetary Economics

8.7 Great

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Thomas Robert Malthus

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Classical 19TH Century British Demographics

8.6 Great

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Arthur Cecil Pigou

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20TH Century British Welfare Economics Externalities

8.5 Great

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Knut Wicksell

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19TH Century Swedish Monetary Theory Natural Rate

8.4 Great

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William Stanley Jevons

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19TH Century British Classical Economics Marginal Utility

8.4 Great

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Andreu Mas-Colell

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Contemporary Spanish Microeconomics General Equilibrium

8.4 Great

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Thorstein Veblen

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American 19TH Century Institutional Economics Conspicuous Consumption

8.3 Great

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Francis Edgeworth

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19TH Century Neoclassical Irish British Utility Theory

8.2 Great

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Piero Sraffa

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Italian 20TH Century Post Keynesian Classical Revival

7.9 Good

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Frédéric Bastiat

Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist, writer, and legislator who became a prominent advocate for classical liberalism...

French 19TH Century Free Trade Classical Liberal

7.7 Good

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Guido Tabellini

Guido Tabellini is an Italian economist and a professor of economics at Bocconi University in Milan, where he also serve...

Italian Contemporary Political Economy Fiscal Policy

7.7 Good

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Francesco Giavazzi

Francesco Giavazzi (born 1949) is an Italian macroeconomist and professor at Bocconi University in Milan. He is known fo...

Italian Contemporary Macroeconomics Fiscal Policy

7.4 Good

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Pierpaolo Benigno

Pierpaolo Benigno is an Italian macroeconomist and a professor of economics at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. He...

Italian Contemporary Monetary Policy New Keynesian

7.2 Good

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Gianluca Benigno

Gianluca Benigno is an Italian macroeconomist recognized for his extensive research in open-economy macroeconomics, mone...

Italian Contemporary Monetary Policy New Keynesian

7.0 Good

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Nassau Senior

Nassau William Senior (1790–1864) was a prominent British classical economist and lawyer. He became the first Drummond P...

19TH Century British Classical Economics Wages

6.9 Fair