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The Essential Adam Smith (Essential Scholars)

The Essential Adam Smith (Essential Scholars)

Adam Smith (1723–1790) is widely hailed as the founding father of the discipline now known as economics, and he is widely credited as the founding father of what is now known as capitalism. Smith’s 1776 book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of...

The Essential Enlightenment (Essential Scholars)

The Essential Enlightenment (Essential Scholars)

The political ideas that fully came together under the name “liberal” in the early nineteenth century—the ideas we often now refer to as “classical liberalism”—emerged out of major debates and developments from the late 1600s to the late 1700s, part...

The Essential John Locke (Essential Scholars)

The Essential John Locke (Essential Scholars)

No single individual is ever the sole founder of any major stance in political philosophy. Nevertheless, if one were forced to name the founder of the classical liberal perspective in political thought which holds as its primary political principle...

The Essential Ronald Coase (Essential Scholars)

The Essential Ronald Coase (Essential Scholars)

Ronald Coase (1910-2013) was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. His influence is due largely to two publications, the only two cited in the announcement of his Nobel Prize: “The Nature of the Firm” (1937) and “The Problem of...

The Essential UCLA School of Economics (Essential Scholars)

The Essential UCLA School of Economics (Essential Scholars)

The UCLA tradition carries on in the work of dozens of economists who earned their PhDs at UCLA during its golden years. Because their work spread beyond UCLA, the tradition lives on in the work of scores of economists who had no formal connection...