10 economists
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The Great
Economists
Ten Economists Whose
Thinking Changed the Way
We Live
Phil Thornton
PEARSON
Marlow, England London New York Boston * San Francisco Toronto Sydney Auckland Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Seoul Taipei * New Delhi Cape Town So Paulo Mexico City Madrid Amsterdam Munich Paris Milan
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Contents
Acknowledgements vi
About the author vii
Introduction viii
Chapter 1 Adam Smith - the 'founding father' of economics 1
Chapter 2 David Ricardo - from immigrant to gentleman 27
Chapter 3 Karl Marx - the fallen hero? 49
Chapter 4 Alfred Marshall - microeconomics arrives 71
Chapter 5 John Maynard Keynes - the rise, fall, rise ... and fall 91
Chapter 6 Friedrich Hayek - the archetypal libertarian 119
Chapter 7 Milton Friedman - father of monetarism 145
Chapter 8 Paul Samuelson - the neoclassical synthesist 167
Chapter 9 Gary Becker - economics in the real world 193
Chapter 10 Daniel Kahneman - economic psychologist 217
Index 238
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