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Thomas Robert Malthus - The Population Growth Trap, 1798 - britishheritage.org
Thomas Robert Malthus - The Population Growth Trap, 1798 - britishheritage.org
Thomas Robert Malthus - The Population Growth Trap, 1798 - britishheritage.org
Thomas Robert Malthus - The Population Growth Trap, 1798 - britishheritage.org

Thomas Robert Malthus (14 February 1766 – 23 December 1834) was an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population, he argued that food production growth leads to population growth, which...

David Ricardo - Advocate for Central Banking 1824 - britishheritage.org
David Ricardo - Advocate for Central Banking 1824 - britishheritage.org
David Ricardo - Advocate for Central Banking 1824 - britishheritage.org

David Ricardo (18 April 1772 – 11 September 1823) was a British political economist, one of the most influential of the classical economists along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill. He was also a politician, and a member of the Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland. US economists r...

Alfred Marshall - The Venerable Grandfather of Economics - britishheritage.org
Alfred Marshall - The Venerable Grandfather of Economics - britishheritage.org
Alfred Marshall - The Venerable Grandfather of Economics - britishheritage.org
Alfred Marshall - The Venerable Grandfather of Economics - britishheritage.org
Alfred Marshall - The Venerable Grandfather of Economics - britishheritage.org

Alfred Marshall FBA (1842–1924) was an English economist, one of the most influential of his time. His book, Principles of Economics (1890), was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years. It brought the ideas of supply and demand, marginal utility, and costs of production into a c...

John Law  - The First Paper Money Banker, 1720 - britishheritage.org
John Law  - The First Paper Money Banker, 1720 - britishheritage.org
John Law  - The First Paper Money Banker, 1720 - britishheritage.org
John Law  - The First Paper Money Banker, 1720 - britishheritage.org
John Law  - The First Paper Money Banker, 1720 - britishheritage.org
John Law  - The First Paper Money Banker, 1720 - britishheritage.org

John Law (1671 – 1729) was a Scottish economist and gambler. As an economist, he drew a distinction between money, a means of exchange, from national wealth, dependent on trade. As a gambler, he would win card games by mentally calculating odds. He originated ideas such as the scarcity theory of ...

Ronald Coase - "the greatest of the University of Chicago economists" - britishheritage.org
Ronald Coase - "the greatest of the University of Chicago economists" - britishheritage.org
Ronald Coase - "the greatest of the University of Chicago economists" - britishheritage.org
Ronald Coase - "the greatest of the University of Chicago economists" - britishheritage.org
Ronald Coase - "the greatest of the University of Chicago economists" - britishheritage.org
Ronald Coase - "the greatest of the University of Chicago economists" - britishheritage.org
Ronald Coase - "the greatest of the University of Chicago economists" - britishheritage.org

Ronald Harry Coase (1910–2013) was a British economist and author. He was the Musser Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he arrived in 1964 and remained for the rest of his life. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991. A believer in real markets, ...

Lionel Robbins - Free Market Economist - britishheritage.org
Lionel Robbins - Free Market Economist - britishheritage.org

Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins (1898 –1984) was a British economist, and prominent academic at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is known for his leadership at LSE, his proposed definition of economics, and for his efforts in shifting Anglo-Saxon economics from its Marshallian direc...

Emma Rothschild  - Economic Historian - britishheritage.org

Emma Rothschild (born 16 May 1948) is a distinguished British economic historian. She is a professor of History and director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Harvard University; and an honorary Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. She formerly served ...

William Petty -  Land Surveying by Political Arithmetic - britishheritage.org
William Petty -  Land Surveying by Political Arithmetic - britishheritage.org
William Petty -  Land Surveying by Political Arithmetic - britishheritage.org
William Petty -  Land Surveying by Political Arithmetic - britishheritage.org
William Petty -  Land Surveying by Political Arithmetic - britishheritage.org

Sir William Petty FRS (1623–1687) was an English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers. He ...

David Hume -  Scottish Enlightenment Empiricist  1740s - britishheritage.org
David Hume -  Scottish Enlightenment Empiricist  1740s - britishheritage.org
David Hume -  Scottish Enlightenment Empiricist  1740s - britishheritage.org
David Hume -  Scottish Enlightenment Empiricist  1740s - britishheritage.org
David Hume -  Scottish Enlightenment Empiricist  1740s - britishheritage.org
David Hume -  Scottish Enlightenment Empiricist  1740s - britishheritage.org
David Hume -  Scottish Enlightenment Empiricist  1740s - britishheritage.org

David Hume (1711–1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist, best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. He strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychologi...

Jeremy Bentham - Social Reform Advocate 1800s - britishheritage.org
Jeremy Bentham - Social Reform Advocate 1800s - britishheritage.org
Jeremy Bentham - Social Reform Advocate 1800s - britishheritage.org
Jeremy Bentham - Social Reform Advocate 1800s - britishheritage.org
Jeremy Bentham - Social Reform Advocate 1800s - britishheritage.org
Jeremy Bentham - Social Reform Advocate 1800s - britishheritage.org
Jeremy Bentham - Social Reform Advocate 1800s - britishheritage.org
Jeremy Bentham - Social Reform Advocate 1800s - britishheritage.org
Jeremy Bentham - Social Reform Advocate 1800s - britishheritage.org
Jeremy Bentham - Social Reform Advocate 1800s - britishheritage.org
Jeremy Bentham - Social Reform Advocate 1800s - britishheritage.org

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) introduced the notion of 'utility' and developed the framework still underpinning much applied policy evaluation. The "fundamental axiom" of his philosophy was the principle that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong...

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