Assignment – 1 Macroeconomics
Economists and their important works:
Adam Smith FRSA was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment era. Main article: The Theory of Moral Sentiments, The Wealth of Nations
Thomas Malthus was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography
Main article: An Essay on the Principle of Population
John Stuart Mill was a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory and political economy Main article: On Liberty, freedom of speech
Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism
David Ricardo was a British political economist, one of the most influential of the classical economists.
Main articles: The High Price of Bullion, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Karl Marx was a philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, Sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Main Article: Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto
John Maynard Keynes was a British economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments Main article: Keynesian ascendancy , Keynesian economics out of favour, Keynesian resurgence
William Petty was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in
Alfred Marshall (26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924) was one of the most influential economists. Main Article: Principles of Economics
Francois Quesnay was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school Main Article: Tableau economique
Piero Sraffa was an influential Italian economist, who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge Main Article: Production of Commodities by Means of
Friedrich von hayek was an Austrian-British economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Main Article: Austrian business cycle theo ry, Economic
Commodities
calculation problem
Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer, and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement Main Article: A New View of Society: Or, Essays on the
Formation of Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice (London, 1813). Retitled, A New View of Society
John Locke was known as an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential
Friedrich engels was a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman Main Articles: founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 published The Condition of the Working
Class in England
David Hume as a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist,
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school Main Article: An Essay on the Impolicy of a Bounty on the Exportation of Grain,Lord Lauderdale on Public Wealth", Milton Friedman was an American economist who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and the complexity of stabilization policy
Frederic Bastiat was a French economist and author who was a prominent member of the French Liberal School. He developed the economic concept of opportunity cost, and introduced the Parable of the Broken Window
Henri de saint simon was a French political and economic theorist and businessman whose thought played a substantial role in influencing politics, economics, sociology, and the philosophy of science. Main Articles: Lettres d'un habitant de Genève
à ses contemporains, L'Industrie Robert Merton Solow is an American economist, particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth that culminated in the exogenous
Leon Walras was a French mathematical economist and Georgist Main Article: De la propriété intellectuelle,
Éléments d'économie politique pure
Carl Menger was an Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economics Main articles: Principles of Economics
Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, an author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher Main Article: A Vindication of Natural Society :
A View of the Miseries and Evils Aris ing to Mankind
Thomas Sargent is an Nobel prize American economist, who is currently the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University Main Article: empirical research on cause and effect in the macro economy"
Robert Lucas Jr is an American economist at the University of Chicago. Widely regarded as the central figure in the development of the new classical approach to
