Economic Personality

William Newmarch (28 January 1820 – 23 March 1882) was an English banker, economist, and statistician. Read More

John Millar (22 June 1735 – 30 May 1801) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Read More

Clara Elizabeth Collet (10 September 1860 – 3 August 1948) was a pioneering British economist, statistician, social reformer, and civil servant. Read More

Patrick Colquhoun (14 March 1745 – 25 April 1820) was a Scottish merchant, statistician, magistrate, and social economist. Read More

Sir Henry Hardinge Samuel Cunynghame KCB (8 July 1848 – 3 May 1935) was a distinguished British civil servant, lawyer, academic, inventor, and economist. Read More

Albert Frederick Mummery (10 September 1855 – 24 August 1895) was a renowned English mountaineer and economist. Read More

William Edward Hearn QC (21 April 1826 – 23 April 1888) was an Irish-Australian academic, lawyer, politician, and economist. Read More

August Oncken (10 April 1844 – 10 July 1911) was a German economist and historian of economic thought, primarily known for his extensive research and publications on the Physiocrats, particularly François Quesnay, and on Adam Smith. Read More

Gustav Cohn (12 December 1840 – 17 September 1919) was a prominent German economist, particularly known for his work on transportation economics (especially railways), public finance, and his systematic treatise System der Nationalökonomie. Read More

Martin Bronfenbrenner (August 2, 1914 – June 2, 1997) was a distinguished American economist known for his wide-ranging contributions to macroeconomics, income distribution theory, the Japanese economy, and the history of economic thought. Read More

Rudolf Auspitz (7 July 1837 – 8 March 1906) was an Austrian economist, politician, and industrialist. Read More

Edith Abbott (September 26, 1876 – July 28, 1957) was an American economist, social worker, educator, author, and social reformer. Read More

John Cazenove (1788 – 15 January 1879) was an English clergyman and political economist, best known for his staunch support and elucidation of the economic theories of Thomas Robert Malthus. Read More

Kenneth Ewart Boulding (January 18, 1910 – March 18, 1993) was an English-born American economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. Read More

Arthur Robert Burns (1895 – 1981) was a British-born American economist, best known for his influential work The Decline of Competition: A Study of the Evolution of American Industry (1936). Read More

Mary Jean Bowman (1908-2002) was a renowned American economist and educator who made groundbreaking contributions to the fields of economics, education, and human capital. Read More

Claude Frédéric Bastiat (French: [klod fʁedeʁik bastja]; 30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was a French economist, writer, legislator, and a prominent member of the French Liberal School. Read More

Irving Fisher (February 27, 1867 – April 29, 1947) was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist, and progressive social campaigner. Read More

Henry Charles Carey was an influential 19th-century American economist and the leading proponent of the "American School" of political economy. Read More

Thomas Penson De Quincey (15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his autobiographical work Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Read More

Evan Frank Mottram Durbin (1 March 1906 – 3 September 1948), commonly known as E. F. M. Durbin, was a British economist and Labour Party politician. Read More

Mauro Fasiani (28 December 1891 – 2 May 1956) was a distinguished Italian economist, best known for his significant contributions to public finance (known in Italy as Scienza delle Finanze). Read More

Benedetto Croce (Italian: [beneˈdetto ˈkroːtʃe]; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, literary critic, and politician. Read More

Antoine Elisée Cherbuliez (29 July 1797 – 7 March 1869) was a Swiss liberal economist, political theorist, and jurist. Read More

Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 – 29 May 1862) was an English historian, best known for his monumental, unfinished work, History of Civilization in England (2 volumes, 1857–1861). Read More

Henry Carter Adams (December 31, 1851 – August 11, 1921) was a prominent American economist and educator whose work significantly influenced the development of public finance, the regulation of industries (particularly railroads), and the role of statistics in government. Read More

Luigi Amoroso (26 March 1886 – 28 October 1965) was an influential Italian mathematical economist, best known for his contributions to microeconomic theory, particularly the theory of the firm, monopoly, and duopoly, as well as his work on economic dynamics and business cycles. Read More

John Francis Bray (26 June 1809 – 1 February 1897) was an American-born British socialist writer, Chartist, and printer, best known for his influential work Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy; or, The Age of Might and the Age of Right (1839). Read More

George Douglas Howard Cole (25 September 1889 – 14 January 1959), commonly known as G. D. H. Cole, was a highly influential English political theorist, economist, historian, writer, and democratic socialist. Read More

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was a British statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist. Read More

Lauchlin Bernard Currie (October 8, 1902 – December 23, 1993) was a Canadian-born American economist who played a significant role in U.S. economic policy during the New Deal and World War II, particularly as an early advocate of Keynesian fiscal policy. Read More

Ronald Harry Coase (29 December 1910 – 2 September 2013) was a British-American economist and author. Read More

Maurice Herbert Dobb (24 July 1900 – 17 August 1976) was a highly influential British Marxist economist and economic historian. Read More

Moses Abramovitz (January 1, 1912 – December 1, 2000) was a distinguished American economist, best known for his pioneering work on the sources of economic growth, business cycles, and long-term economic development. Read More

John Barton (11 February 1789 – 10 March 1852) was an English classical economist, best known for his insightful, though sometimes overlooked, contributions to the debates on the effects of machinery on labor, the causes of unemployment, and the nature of the Poor Laws during the early 19th century. Read More