Aristotle - the philosopher
Thomas Aquinas - the angelic doctor
Robert Malthus and David Ricardo - the realist and the theorist
John Stuart Mill - the classical liberal
Karl Marx - the communist visionary
William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger and Léon Walras - three quiet revolutionaries
Alfred Marshall - the frail master craftsman
Joseph Schumpeter - creator and destroyer
John Maynard Keynes - the last amateur
A very different type of liberal
John von Neumann - the most brilliant mathematician
Ronald Coase - the placid observer
Milton Friedman - the monetarist
Paul Samuelson - the American Keynes?
Herbert Simon - the social scientific realist
Thomas Schelling - the storyteller
Robert Solow - craftsman and builder
Gary Becker - the unwavering imperialist
Elinor Ostrom - the political scientist
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky - two psychologists
Robert Lucas - the idealist
George Akerlof - the borrower
Esther Duflo - the experimenter