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Economics is applied psychology at scale. The thinkers below built the frameworks that still govern trade policy, monetary policy, taxation, and development.

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

IQ 170

British economist, philosopher and author

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

IQ 170

A French economist and statesman.

David Hume

David Hume

IQ 180

A Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist, who is best known for his highly inf

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

An Irish statesman and philosopher who supported the rights of the British colonists to resist metropolitan authority.

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

IQ 180

An Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics durin

François Quesnay

François Quesnay

IQ 165

A French economist and physician who is one of the fathers of political economy.

Henri de Saint-Simon

Henri de Saint-Simon

IQ 165

A French political, economic and socialist theorist who created a political and economic ideology known as Saint-Simonia

Jane Marcet

Jane Marcet

British writer

John Law

John Law

IQ 165

Scottish economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

IQ 180

An English philosopher and political economist who was an influential thinker in the history of classical liberalism.

John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes

IQ 170

An English economist, whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

IQ 180

An American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of par

John Bright

John Bright

IQ 150

A British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade poli

Karl Marx

Karl Marx

IQ 180

A German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.

Leon Winiarski

Leon Winiarski

IQ 185

A Polish mathematical physics based sociopolitical economist

Manahel Thabet

Manahel Thabet

IQ 168

Yemeni economist

Max Weber

Max Weber

IQ 170

A German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist, who is regarded among the most important theorists on

Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman

IQ 155

An American economist who is widely regarded as one of the best economists of the 20th century by many

Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden

IQ 155

An English Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace.

Thomas Chalmers

Thomas Chalmers

IQ 170

A Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the

Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Veblen

IQ 150

An American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.

Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto

IQ 190

An Italian civil engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher.

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

An Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States

Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin

IQ 200

The Father of Ethereum

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अक्सर पूछे जाने वाले प्रश्न

Who is the father of economics?

Adam Smith, with The Wealth of Nations (1776), is universally called the father of modern economics.

Is Keynes the greatest economist?

John Maynard Keynes, Adam Smith, and Milton Friedman are the three most influential economists — Keynes for macroeconomic policy, Smith for free markets, Friedman for monetarism.

What did Marx predict that was wrong?

Marx predicted that advanced capitalist economies would collapse first into socialist revolution; in fact, agrarian Russia and China adopted communism before industrial nations.

Who won the first Nobel in Economics?

Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen shared the first Nobel in Economic Sciences in 1969.

Why is economics called a dismal science?

Thomas Carlyle coined "dismal science" in 1849 — originally a racist attack on John Stuart Mill; the term stuck because economics often delivers unwelcome conclusions.