While there have been many famous economists, some of the most well-known names include Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. Which ...

If you studied any college-level economics, you probably remember David Ricardo’s name. He was the other founder of classic economic theory, after Adam Smith, and his “comparative advantage ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers!