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Hoover's Economic Policies

By Steven Horwitz

When it was all over, I once made a list of New Deal ventures begun during Hoover’s years as Secretary of Commerce and then as president. . . . The New Deal owed much to what he had begun.1 —FDR advisor Rexford G. Tugwell Many historians, most of the general public, and even many economists think of Herbert Hoover...

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Great Depression

By Gene Smiley

A worldwide depression struck countries with market economies at the end of the 1920s. Although the Great Depression was relatively mild in some countries, it was severe in others, particularly in the United States, where, at its nadir in 1933, 25 percent of all workers and 37 percent of all nonfarm workers were comple...

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Akerlof, George A. (1940-)

Alchian, Armen A. (1914-2013)

Allais, Maurice (1911-2010)

Arrow, Kenneth (1921-2017)

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Bastiat, Frédéric (1801-1850)

Becker, Gary Stanley (1930-2014)

Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)

Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von (1851-1914)

Buchanan, James M. (1919-2013)

Burns, Arthur Frank (1904-1987)

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Cassel, Gustav (1866-1945)

Coase, Ronald H. (1910-2013)

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Debreu, Gerard (1921-2004)

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Engle, Robert F. (1942-)

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Fama, Eugene (1939-)

Fisher, Irving (1867-1947)

Fogel, Robert W. (1926-2013)

Friedman, Milton (1912-2006)

Frisch, Ragnar (1895-1973)

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Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-2006)

George, Henry (1839-1897)

Granger, Clive W. J. (1934-)

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Haavelmo, Trygve (1911-1999)

Harrod, Roy F. (1900-1978)

Harsanyi, John C. (1920-2000)

Hayek, Friedrich August (1899-1992)

Heckman, James J. (1944-)

Heller, Walter Wolfgang (1915-1987)

Hicks, John R. (1904-1989)

Hume, David (1711-1776)

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Jevons, William Stanley (1835-1882)

Johnson, Harry Gordon (1923-1977)

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Kahneman, Daniel (1934-)

Kantorovich, Leonid Vitalievich (1912-1986)

Keynes, John Maynard (1883-1946)

Klein, Lawrence Robert (1920-2013)

Knight, Frank Hyneman (1885-1972)

Koopmans, Tjalling Charles (1910-1985)

Krugman, Paul (1953-)

Kuznets, Simon (1901-1985)

Kydland, Finn E. (1943-)

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Lange, Oskar Ryszard (1904-1965)

Leontief, Wassily (1906-1999)

Lerner, Abba Ptachya (1905-1982)

Lewis, W. Arthur (1915-1991)

Locke, John (1632-1704)

Lucas, Robert E. (1937-)

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Machlup, Fritz (1902-1983)

Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766-1834)

Markowitz, Harry (1927-)

Marshall, Alfred (1842-1924)

Marx, Karl (1818-1883)

McFadden, Daniel L. (1937-)

Meade, James Edward (1907-1995)

Menger, Carl (1840-1921)

Merton, Robert C. (1944-)

Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)

Miller, Merton H. (1923-2000)

Mirrlees, James A. (1936-)

Mises, Ludwig von (1881-1973)

Modigliani, Franco (1918-2003)

Morgenstern, Oskar (1902-1977)

Mundell, Robert A. (1932-)

Myrdal, Gunnar (1898-1987)

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Nash, John F. (1928-2015)

Neumann, John von (1903-1957)

Nordhaus, William D. (1944-)

North, Douglass C. (1920-2015)

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Ohlin, Bertil Gotthard (1899-1979)

Okun, Arthur M. (1928-1980)

Ostrom, Elinor (1933-2012)

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Pareto, Vilfredo (1848-1923)

Phelps, Edmund S. (1933-)

Pigou, Arthur Cecil (1877-1959)

Prescott, Edward C. (1940-)

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Quesnay, François (1694-1774)

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Ricardo, David (1772-1823)

Robbins, Lionel (1898-1984)

Robinson, Joan Violet (1903-1983)

Romer, Paul M. (1955-)

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Samuelson, Paul Anthony (1915-2009)

Sargent, Thomas J. (1943-)

Say, Jean-Baptiste (1767-1832)

Schelling, Thomas (1921-)

Scholes, Myron S. (1941-)

Schultz, Theodore William (1902-1998)

Schumpeter, Joseph Alois (1883-1950)

Selten, Reinhard (1930-)

Sen, Amartya (1933-)

Sharpe, William F. (1934-)

Shiller, Robert J. (1946-)

Simon, Herbert Alexander (1916-2001)

Sims, Christopher A. (1942-)

Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Smith, Vernon L. (1927-)

Solow, Robert Merton (1924-)

Spence, Michael (1943-)

Stigler, George J. (1911-1991)

Stiglitz, Joseph E. (1943-)

Stone, John Richard Nicholas (1913-1991)

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Thaler, Richard H. (1945-)

Tinbergen, Jan (1903-1994)

Tirole, Jean (1953-)

Tobin, James (1918-2002)

Tullock, Gordon (1922-2014)

Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques (1727-1781)

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Veblen, Thorstein (1857-1929)

Vickrey, William S. (1914-1996)

Viner, Jacob (1892-1970)

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Walras, Leon (1834-1910)

Weber, Max (1864-1920)

Wicksell, Knut (1851-1926)

Williamson, Oliver (1932-)