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Great Economists and Their Times

This publication traces the development of the major schools of economic thought through the work of ten important economists. These economists were the leading exponents of their schools, and their ideas represent the major contributions to economic thought made by each school. A chronicle of historical events recounts the politics, social environment and intellectual climate of each decade in which the famous economists lived. (1990)

  • Ten Great Economists
  • Major Schools of Economic Theory
  • Timeline:
  • 1730-1800
  • Beginning of Physiocratic School of economic theory
  • Adam Smith (1723-1791)
  • Beginning of Classical School of economic theory
  • 1800-1850
  • David Ricardo (1772-1823)
  • Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
  • John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
  • 1850-1900
  • Karl Marx (1818-1883)
  • Beginning of Marxist School of economic theory
  • Leon Walras (1834-1910)
  • Alfred Marshall (1842-1924)
  • Beginning of Marginalist School of economic theory
  • 1900-1980
  • Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
  • Beginning of Institutionalist School of economic theory
  • John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
  • Beginning of Keynesian School of economic theory
  • Irving Fisher (1867-1947)
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The information in this publication was taken from The World of Economics, a unique exhibition on economics and the U.S. economy located in the lobbies of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and its Los Angeles Branch.

For additional information contact Lyndi Beale via e-mail (Pubs Sf).