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Krugman's New York Times blog was "The Conscience of a Liberal", devoted largely to economics and politics. Five days after 9/11 terrorist attacks, Krugman argued in his column that the calamity was "partly self-inflicted", citing poor pay and training for airport security driven by the transfer of responsibility for airport security from ...
One of his most famous contributions to statistics is sequential sampling. [120] Friedman did statistical work at the Division of War Research at Columbia, where he and his colleagues came up with the technique. [121] It became, in the words of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, "the standard analysis of quality control inspection". The ...
Progressive economics—also known as New Progressive Economics [6] —made a comeback in the United States to the forefront public discourse after the Great Recession of the late 2000s. Popular dissatisfaction with government policies favouring big business and the bailout of banks led to the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era.
This article lists notable socialist economists and political economists This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Milton Friedman (United States, 1912–2006), winner of a Nobel Prize in Economics and a self-identified Classical Liberal and libertarian, [50] was known for the Friedman rule, Friedman's k-percent rule, and the Friedman test. Some literature: Capitalism and Freedom, 1962; A Monetary History of the United States, 1963; Free to Choose, 1980
Yoram Barzel (1931–2022), Israeli economist, works in property rights, applied price theory, and political economy; Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850), French classical liberal theorist, political economist; Kaushik Basu (born 1952), Indian economist and academic, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank
Irving Fisher (February 27, 1867 – April 29, 1947) [1] was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists , though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school. [ 2 ]