Important Individuals
Abraham Maslow: American psychologist known for creating a hierarchy of needs toward psychological health.
Adam Smith: Scottish economist, regarded as “The Father of Economics” and “The Father of Capitalism”.
Aristotle: Ancient Greek philosopher and creator of the Aristotelian Method of deductive and inductive reasoning.
Carl Menger: Austrian economist, founder of The Austrian School of Economics and theory of marginalism.
David Hume: Scottish philosopher, influential for his work on philosophical empiricism.
Francis Bacon: English philosopher, regarded as inventor of the Scientific Method.
Friedrich Engels: German philosopher, he was a historian who commonly worked with Karl Marx.
Friedrich Hayek: An Austrian-British economist who was renowned for his work on classical capitalism, classical liberalism, and the knowledge problem of centralized markets.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: A German idealist philosopher, known for his concept of the Hegelian dialectic of contradiction and preposition.
Jean-Baptiste Say: French economist and businessman who favored classical capitalism of free-markets, free trade, and the law of market demand.
Jeremy Bentham: An English philosopher who is regarded as “The Father of Utilitarianism” through his theories on social reform.
Joe Manchin: An American Senator representing the state of West Virginia, known for his rational fiscal policy.
John Maynard Keynes: British economist, known for his work on business cycles creating a massive change in macroeconomic thought.
John Stuart Mill: An English philosopher and parliamentarian, made large contributions to the theories of classical liberalism, social theory of utilitarianism, and the political economy.
Karl Marx: German philosopher and political theorist, who formed the framework of communism and socialist revolution in the economy through his theories of materialism.
Ludwig Von Mises: A Ukrainian economist, best known for his work on libertarianism and praxeology.
Milton Friedman: An American Nobel Prize winning economist whose work focused on consumption analysis and monetary theory.
Murray Rothbard: An American economist, commonly attributed to the founder of anarcho-capitalism, and impactful in the libertarian movement.
Plato: An Ancient Greek philosopher, is one of the most important figures in human history, among his works he founded the phrase polis or administrative city.
Rand Paul: An American Senator representing the state of Kentucky, known for his rational fiscal policy, son of famous libertarian Republican Ron Paul.
René Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, inventor of analytic geometry and rationalism.
Ronald Reagan: An American politician, actor, and 40th President of the United States, known for ushering in the economic advance of the 1980’s
Thomas Aquinas: An Italian philosopher and priest, commonly known for his philosophy of scholasticism.
Thomas Jefferson: An American politician, lawyer, and 3rd President of the United States, known for his Jeffersonian Democratic theory of political discourse.
Thomas Sowell: An American economist and philosopher, known for his interdisciplinary discourse on classical economics, race relations, and political science.