10 Famous Economists and Their Landmark Books

Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

Free markets, not government, protect the individual and ensure quality

JK Galbraith - The Great Crash, 1929 (1954)

It’s government’s job to stop speculative frenzies ruining the real economy

Jane Jacobs - The Economy of Cities (1968)

Cities have always been, and always will be, the drivers of wealth

John Maynard Keynes - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)

To achieve social goals like full employment, governments must actively manage the economy

Thomas Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

The world’s finite resources can’t cope with an increasing population

Alfred Marshall - Principles of Economics (1890)

To understand people, watch their habits of earning, saving and investing

Karl Marx - Capital (1867)

The interests of labor and capital are perennially in conflict

David Ricardo - Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)

A free-trading world will see each nation fulfil its potential

Joseph Schumpeter - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942)

No form of political economy matches the dynamism of capitalism and its process of ‘creative destruction’

Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations (1778)

The wealth of a nation is that of its people, not its government

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