John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)

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1. John Maynard Keynes

   Author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Essays in Persuasion, A Treatise on Probability

2. John Kenneth Galbraith

   Author of The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State, The Culture of Contentment

3. Adam Smith

   Author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

4. Karl Popper

   Author of The Logic of Scientific Discovery, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume II: Hegel and Marx, The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics)

5. Milton Friedman

   Author of Capitalism and Freedom, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960

6. F. A. Hayek

   Author of The Road to Serfdom, The Constitution of Liberty

7. Joseph A. Schumpeter

   Author of Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle (Social Science Classics Series)

8. David Ricardo

   Author of Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (Great Minds)

9. Karl Marx

   Author of Capital: A Critique of Political Ecomony, Vol. 1: The Process of Production of Capital, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, Capital: A Critique of Political Ecomony, Vol. 3: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

10. Thorstein Veblen

    Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise

11. Thomas Malthus

    Author of An Essay on the Principle of Population

12. Alfred Marshall

    Author of Principles of Economics (Great Minds Series)

13. Robert L. Heilbroner

    Author of The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

14. Isaiah Berlin

    Author of Four Essays on Liberty, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, Personal Impressions

15. Charles P. Kindleberger

    Author of Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises

16. Robert Skidelsky

    Author of Keynes: The Return of the Master, John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946, John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 2: The Economist as Saviour, 1920-1937

17. Karl Polanyi

    Author of The Great Transformation

18. John Rawls

    Author of A Theory of Justice

19. John Locke

    Author of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government

20. Max Weber

    Author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism