2006-06-11 17:55:17 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Economics
Woah! This is an awesome question. So much for you to discover, oh ye seeker of knowledge.
This forum cannot do this question justice. Here's a few of the eminent names you should research, along with their publications:
Adam Smith - "The Wealth of Nations"
John Maynard Keynes - "The General Theory of Interest and Employment"
Thorstein Veblen - "The Theory of the Leisure Class"
Karl Marx - "Das Kapital"
Gary Becker - wrote about microeconomics of the family
Ronald Coase - studied contracts, trade-offs and incentives
Milton Friedman - forerunner of neoclassical economics
Amartya Sen - "Development as Freedom"
Joseph Stiglitz - "Globalization and its Discontents" and "The Roaring 90's" - founder of information economics
Robert Lucas - eminent scholar in the Chicago tradition
Douglass North - prominent economist in the New Instituationlist movement
Robert Solow - proposed the first widely accepted quantitative theory of growth
James Tobin - Keynesian economist who focused on an active economic policy
2006-06-12 02:33:51 · answer #1 · answered by Veritatum17 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Economic issues have been around as long as the written word. But, it was Adam Smith that first wrote a single source to define economics as a whole system of thought.
2006-06-12 08:19:32 · answer #2 · answered by Slug 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we ourselves...Economics started in the days of Adam n Eve.
2006-06-14 09:10:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Economists.
2006-06-12 01:06:35 · answer #4 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you mean the financial system as it is, it is an invention of people who think they are too good to work.
2006-06-12 03:01:44 · answer #5 · answered by unknown u 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋