ECO 54 HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
GUIDE TO ONLINE MATERIALS

Note: The links on the names themselves are to Wikipedia. “Hay” and “Akama” refer to the databases prepared by Rod Hay and Michio Akama. These three sites contain biographical sketches, photographs, links to online editions of important works, and other material on most, if not all, of the people we will be discussing in this course.

A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
George A. Akerlof 1940- Go
Maurice Allais 1911-2010 Go
St. Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
Aristotle 384-322 BC Go
Kenneth J. Arrow 1921- Go Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Louis Bachelier 1870-1946
Claude Frédéric Bastiat 1801-1850 Go Go Go
Gary S. Becker 1930- Go Go
Jeremy Bentham 1748-1832 Go Go Go
Abram Bergson 1914-2003 Go
Eduard Bernstein 1850-1932 Go
Joseph L.F. Bertrand 1822-1900 Go
Fischer Black 1938-1995 Go
Jean-Joseph Louis Blanc 1813-1882 Go Go
Pierre Le Pesant, Boisguilbert 1646-1714
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk 1851-1914 Go Go Go
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz 1868-1931 Go
Giovanni Botero 1540-1617 Go Go
Sir Arthur L. Bowley 1869-1957 Go
James M. Buchanan 1919-2013 Go Go
Nikolai I. Bukharin 1888-1938 Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
John Calvin 1509-1564 Go
Richard Cantillon 1680-1734 Go Go
Gustav Cassel 1866-1945 Go Go
Edward H. Chamberlin 1899-1967 Go
Sir Josiah Child 1630-1699 Go Go
John Bates Clark 1847-1938 Go Go Go
Ronald H. Coase 1910- Go
Richard Cobden 1804-1865 Go
Jean Baptiste Colbert 1619-1683 Go
John R. Commons 1862-1945 Go
M.J.A. Nicolas de Caritat Marquis de Condorcet 1743-1794 Go Go Go Go
Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543 Go
Antoine Augustin Cournot 1801-1877 Go Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Bernardo Davanzati 1529-1606 Go
Charles D'Avenant 1656-1714 Go
Gerard Debreu 1921-2004 Go Go
Evsey D. Domar 1914-1997 Go
A. Jules E. Dupuit 1804-1866 Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 1845-1926 Go Go Go
Friedrich Engels 1820-95 Go Go Go Go
Robert F. Engle III 1942- Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Ludwig Feuerbach 1804-1872 Go Go Go
Irving Fisher 1867-1947 Go Go Go
Robert W. Fogel 1926- Go
Charles Fourier 1772-1837 Go Go
Milton Friedman 1912-2006 Go Go
Ragnar A.K. Frisch 1895-1973 Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
John Kenneth Galbraith 1908-2006 Go Go
Henry George 1839-1897 Go Go
William Godwin 1756-1836 Go Go Go
Hermann Heinrich Gossen 1810-1858 Go
John Graunt 1620-1674 Go
Clive W. J. Granger 1934-2009 Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Trygve Haavelmo 1911-1999 Go
Gottfried von Haberler 1900-1995 Go
Alvin H. Hansen 1887-1975 Go Go
Roy F. Harrod 1900-1978 Go Go
John C. Harsanyi 1920-2000 Go
Ralph G. Hawtrey 1879-1971 Go
Friedrich August von Hayek 1889-1992 Go
James J. Heckman 1944- Go
Eli F. Heckscher 1879-1952 Go
Georg W.F. Hegel 1770-1831 Go Go Go
Sir John R. Hicks 1904-1989 Go Go
Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 Go Go
Harold Hotelling 1895-1973 Go
David Hume 1711-1776 Go Go Go
Francis Hutcheson 1694-1746 Go Go Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
William Stanley Jevons 1835-1882. Go Go Go Go
Clèment Juglar 1819-1905 Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Daniel Kahneman 1934- Go
Nicholas Kaldor 1908-1986 Go
Michal Kalecki 1899-1970 Go
Leonid V. Kantorovich 1912-1986 Go
Karl Kautsky 1854-1938 Go
John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946 Go Go Go Go
Ibn Khaldun 1332-1406
Gregory King 1648-1712
Lawrence R. Klein 1920- Go
Frank H. Knight 1885-1972 Go Go
Nikolai D. Kondratiev 1892-1931 Go
Tjalling C. Koopmans 1910-1985 Go
Paul Krugman 1953- Go
Simon Kuznets 1901-1985 Go
Finn E. Kydland 1943- Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Kelvin J. Lancaster 1924-1999 Go
Oskar Lange 1904-1965 Go
John Law 1671-1729 Go Go
Wassily Leontief 1906-1999 Go Go
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870-1924 Go
Abba P. Lerner 1903-1982 Go Go
Sir W. Arthur Lewis 1915-1990 Go Go
Friedrich List 1789-1846 Go Go Go
John Locke 1632-1704 Go Go
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. 1937- Go
Rosa Luxemburg 1870-1919 Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Thomas Robert Malthus 1766-1834 Go Go Go Go
Gerard de Malynes c.1586-1641 Go Go
Bernard de Mandeville 1670-1733 Go
Harry M. Markowitz 1923- Go
Alfred Marshall 1842-1924 Go Go Go Go
Karl Marx 1803-1883 Go Go Go Go
Daniel L. McFadden 1937- Go Go
Lionel W. McKenzie 1919-2010 Go
James E. Meade 1907-1995 Go
Robert C. Merton 1944- Go
Carl Menger 1840-1921 Go Go Go
Karl Menger 1902-1985 Go
James Mill 1773-1836 Go Go
John Stuart Mill 1806-1873 Go Go Go
Merton H. Miller 1927-2000 Go
James A. Mirrlees 1936- Go
Ludwig von Mises 1881-1973 Go Go
Edward Misselden 1608-1654 Go
Wesley Clair Mitchell 1874-1948 Go
Franco Modigliani 1918-2003 Go
Henry Ludwell Moore 1869-1958 Go Go
Oskar Morgenstern 1902-1976 Go
Thomas Mun 1571-1641 Go Go
Robert A. Mundell 1932- Go
John F. Muth 1930-2005
Gunnar Myrdal 1898-1987 Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
John F. Nash 1928- Go Go
John von Neumann 1903-1957 Go Go
Douglass C. North 1920- Go
Sir Dudley North 1641-1691 Go Go Go
Ragnar Nurkse 1907-1959 Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Bertil G. Ohlin 1899-1979 Go
Robert Owen 1771-1858 Go Go Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Vilfredo Pareto 1848-1923 Go Go Go
Sir William Petty 1623-1687 Go Go Go
Arthur Cecil Pigou 1877-1959 Go Go
Edward C. Prescott 1940- Go
Pierre Joseph Proudhon 1809-1865 Go Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
François Quesnay 1694-1774 Go Go Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Frank P. Ramsey 1903-1930 Go Go
John Rawls 1921-2002 Go
David Ricardo 1772-1823 Go Go Go
Lord Lionel C. Robbins 1898-1984 Go
Joan Robinson 1903-1983 Go
Wilhelm G. F. Roscher 1817-1894 Go Go
Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan 1902-1985 Go
Stephen A. Ross 1944- Go
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1788 Go
Ibn Rushd (Averroes) 1126-1198

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Comte Claude Henri de Saint-Simon 1760-1825 Go
Paul A. Samuelson 1915-2009 Go Go
Jean-Baptiste Say 1767-1832 Go Go Go
Gustav von Schmoller 1838-1917 Go Go Go
Myron S. Scholes 1941- Go
Theodore W. Schultz 1902-1998 Go Go
Joseph Schumpeter 1883-1950 Go Go
Reinhard Selten 1930- Go
Amartya K. Sen 1933- Go
Nassau William Senior 1790-1864 Go Go
William F. Sharpe 1934- Go
Henry Sidgwick 1838-1900 Go Go
Georg Simmel 1858-1918 Go
Herbert A. Simon 1916-2001 Go
Jean-Charles-Leonard Simonde de Sismondi 1773-1842 Go Go Go
Eugene Slutsky 1880-1948 Go
Adam Smith 1723-1790 Go Go Go Go
Vernon L. Smith 1927- Go
Werner Sombart 1863-1941 Go Go
Robert M. Solow 1924- Go Go
Georges Sorel 1847-1922 Go
A. Michael Spence 1943- Go
Herbert Spencer 1820-1903 Go Go
Piero Sraffa 1898-1983 Go
Heinrich von Stackelberg 1905-1946 Go
Sir James D. Steuart 1713-1780 Go Go
George J. Stigler 1911-1991 Go Go
Joseph E. Stiglitz 1942- Go
Sir Richard Stone 1913-1991 Go
William Graham Sumner 1840-1910 Go Go
Trevor W. Swan 1918-1989
Paul M. Sweezy 1910-2004 Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Frank W. Taussig 1859-1940 Go
Richard H. Tawney 1880-1962 Go
Henry Thornton 1760-1815 Go
Johann Heinrich von Thünen 1780-1850 Go
Jan Tinbergen 1903-1994 Go
James Tobin 1918-2002 Go
Col. Robert Torrens 1780-1864 Go Go
Gordon Tullock 1922- Go
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot 1727-1781 Go Go Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929 Go Go Go
William Vickrey 1914-1996 Go
Jacob Viner 1892-1970 Go
François Arouet (Voltaire) 1694-1774 Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
M. E. Léon Walras 1834-1910 Go Go Go
Max Weber 1864-1920 Go Go
Knut Wicksell 1851-1926 Go Go Go
Philip H. Wicksteed 1844-1927 Go Go
Friedrich von Wieser 1851-1926 Go Go Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Xenophon 431-355 BC Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Allyn Young 1876-1929 Go Go

Name Dates Hay Akama Portrait Other
Ernest Zermelo 1871-1953 Go

Updated January 21, 2013.