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Relating to public figures or personalities, celebrities or otherwise, who have made significant progress in their particular professional field, or who have helped or influenced wider society to an outstanding degree.

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John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas have affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, and ...

Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman (born 28 February 1953) is an American economist. He is an economics professor at Princeton University and is also a Centenary Professor at the London School of ...

Jeffrey Sachs

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Jeffrey Sachs (born 5 November 1954) is an American economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is known for his work on economic development, poverty ...

Adam Smith

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Adam Smith (16 June 1723 - 17 July 1790) was a Scottish political economist and social philosopher. Smith is widely regarded as the father of modern economics and capitalism, ...

Simon Kuznets

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Simon Kuznets (30 April 1901 - 8 July 1985) was a Russian-American economist of the University of Pennsylvania and recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize in economics. Kuznets was one ...

James M. Buchanan

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James M Buchanan (born 3 October 1919) is an American economist. He is the 1986 recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics, for his work on public choice theory.

Robert Solow

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Robert Solow (born 23 August 1924) is an American economist, who is best known for his work on the theory of economic growth and the exogenous growth model named after him. He is ...