Greatest Economists of All Time
The Top Ten
1 Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx ( 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the four-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
Karl Heinrich Marx ( 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the four-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
2 Adam Smith
Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment.
Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Father of capitalism.
3 John Maynard Keynes
Man who visualise future
4 Carl Menger
5 Amartya Sen
6 Friedrich Hayek
7 John Nash
John Forbes Nash Jr. was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations.
John Forbes Nash Jr. was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations.
8 Thomas Piketty
9 Frédéric Bastiat
10 Ludwig Von Mises
The Contenders
11 Hyman Minsky
12 Henry George
13 David Ricardo
None above except Keynes would put themselves higher than Ricardo in this list and Keynes was illiterate on the subject...
14 John Stuart Mill
15 Murray Rothbard
16 David Hume
17 Milton Freedman
Easily one of the most influential economists of all time. Other economists like Hayek and Mises were influential to the build up of modern economics but they didn't revolutionise economic theory the way Friedman and Keynes did.
Easily the greatest economist of all time.
18 Alan Greenspan
19 Janet Yellen
20 Stephanie Kelton
21 Friedrich Engels
22 Dag Hammarskjöld
23 Rosa Luxemburg
24 Thorstein Veblen
25 Naomi Klein
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