swap_horiz William Stanley Jevons Alternatives

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Alfred Marshall

Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) was a British economist whose work helped establish neoclassical economics and shape modern...

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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Leon Walras

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French 19TH Century General Equilibrium Marginal Utility

8.8 Great

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Carl Menger

Carl Menger (1840–1921) was an Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economic thought. In his 187...

Austrian 19TH Century Austrian School Marginal Utility

8.8 Great

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John Hicks

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Neoclassical 20TH Century British Nobel Laureate

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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Vilfredo Pareto

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Italian 19TH Century Welfare Economics General Equilibrium

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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Clive Granger

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Time Series 20TH Century British Nobel Laureate

8.4 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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Frank Ramsey

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20TH Century British Growth Theory Optimal Taxation

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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Joan Robinson

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20TH Century British Post Keynesian Imperfect Competition

8.1 Great

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Stephen Redding

Stephen Redding is a British economist and a professor at Princeton University. His research specializes in quantitative...

Contemporary British International Trade Economic Geography

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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Marcus Fleming

John Marcus Fleming was a British economist who served as the Deputy Director of Research at the International Monetary...

20TH Century British International Economics Mundell Fleming

7.7 Good

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Roy Harrod

Roy Harrod was a prominent British economist who spent the majority of his academic career at Oxford University. He is m...

20TH Century British Growth Theory Keynesian

7.6 Good

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Nassau Senior

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19TH Century British Classical Economics Wages

6.9 Fair