Great Economists, The

Phil Thornton is lead consultant at Clarity Economics, a consultancy and freelance writing service he set up after a 15-year career as a newspaper journalist. Before founding Clarity Economics he was Economics Correspondent at the Independent newspaper, a post he held for eight years. Phil is an award winning journalist, with a strong platform. His awards include Feature Journalist of the Year award in the Work World Media Awards, 2010 and Print Journalist of the Year Work World Media Awards, 2007

• About the Author  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Chapter 1 – Adam Smith – the ‘founding father’ of economics  Chapter 2 – David Ricardo – from immigrant to gentleman  Chapter 3 – Karl Marx – the fallen hero?  Chapter 4 – Alfred Marshall – microeconomics arrives  Chapter 5 – John Maynard Keynes – the rise, fall, rise … and fall  Chapter 6 – Friedrich Hayek – the archetypal libertarian  Chapter 7 – Milton Friedman – father of monetarism  Chapter 8 – Paul Samuelson – the neoclassical economist synthesist  Chapter 9 – Gary Becker – economics in the real world  Chapter 10 - Daniel Kahneman – economic psychologist

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