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Economists
Economists are professionals who specialize in the social science discipline of economics, which is concerned with the study, development, and application of theories, concepts and policies for the management of wealth and resources of a country or region, in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.
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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 informed the economic ...
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 Economics. He is the ...
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 alleviation and ...
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, particularly for his ...
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 of the earliest ...
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 the 1987 recipient ...
