David S. Landes

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1. Fernand Braudel

   Author of The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2, The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 2

2. E. J. Hobsbawm

   Author of The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780, Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day

3. Niall Ferguson

   Author of Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000

4. Francis Fukuyama

   Author of The End of History and the Last Man, Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity

5. Paul M. Kennedy

   Author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

6. William H. McNeill

   Author of Plagues and Peoples, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000

7. Samuel P. Huntington

   Author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

8. David S. Landes

   Author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present

9. Hernando De Soto

   Author of The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

10. Philip Bobbitt

    Author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History

11. Daniel Yergin

    Author of The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy

12. Amartya Sen

    Author of Development as Freedom

13. Charles P. Kindleberger

    Author of Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, The World in Depression, 1929-1939

14. A. J. P. Taylor

    Author of The Origins of The Second World War, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918, The Course of German History (Routledge Classics)

15. Robert D. Kaplan

    Author of The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

16. John Keegan

    Author of A History of Warfare

17. David Hackett Fischer

    Author of The Great Wave

18. John Maynard Keynes

    Author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

19. William Easterly

    Author of The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

20. Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Author of Globalization and Its Discontents