Many interesting and colorful people have contributed to the world of business and the science of economics. Here we provide short and insightful biographies of some of our favorite business persons and economists.
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B
- Frédéric Bastiat
- Gary S. Becker
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Jeff Bezos
- Peter J. Boettke
- Matthew Boulton
- James M. Buchanan
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D
- Gottlieb Daimler
- Angus S. Deaton
- Gérard Debreu
- Antoine Destutt de Tracy
- Aaron Director
- Walt Disney
- Jack Dorsey
- Esther Duflo
- E.I. Du Pont
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F
- Cyrus W. Field
- Irving Fisher
- Robert W. Fogel
- Henry Ford
- Henry Clay Frick
- Milton Friedman
- Roland G. Fryer, Jr.
- Robert Fulton
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H
J
K
- Daniel Kahneman
- Nicholas Kaldor
- Michał Kalecki
- Leonid V. Kantorovich
- Joseph P. Kennedy
- John Maynard Keynes
- Israel M. Kirzner
- Frank H. Knight
- Simon Kuznets
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M
- Thomas Malthus
- Bernard Mandeville
- Alfred Marshall
- Karl Marx
- Louis B. Mayer
- Deirdre N. McCloskey
- Cyrus H. McCormick
- Andrew Mellon
- Carl Menger
- Hyman P. Minsky
- Ludwig von Mises
- J.P. Morgan
- Samuel F.B. Morse
- Dambisa Moyo
- Elon Musk
- Gunnar Myrdal
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- Ayn Rand
- David Ricardo
- Lionel Robbins
- Joan Robinson
- John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- Wilhelm Röpke
- Murray N. Rothbard
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
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- Salamanca School
- Paul A. Samuelson
- David Sarnoff
- Jean-Baptiste Say
- Thomas C. Schelling
- Joseph A. Schumpeter
- Anna J. Schwartz
- Frank Seiberling
- Amartya Sen
- Nassau W. Senior
- Herbert A. Simon
- Isaac M. Singer
- Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
- Adam Smith
- Vernon L. Smith
- Hernando de Soto
- Thomas Sowell
- Herbert Spencer
- Piero Sraffa
- George Stephenson
- George J. Stigler
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
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- Madam C.J. Walker
- Léon Walras
- George Westinghouse
- Eli Whitney
- Knut Wicksell
- Philip H. Wicksteed
- Oliver E. Williamson
- F.W. Woolworth