Economic Historian

🇺🇸Joel Mokyr

Economics

b. 1946

"By ignoring and evading rather than altogether abolishing obsolete rules and regulations, eighteenth century Britain moved slowly toward a free market society."

🇬🇧Niall Ferguson

Economics

neoliberalism

b. 1964

"Without the spread of British rule around the world, it is hard to believe that the structures of liberal capitalism would have been so successfully established in so many different economies around the world."

🇬🇧Eric Hobsbawm

Politics

Socialism

1917–2012

"o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so."

🇺🇸Douglass North

Economics

1920–2015

"Effective institutions raise the benefits of cooperative solutions or the costs of defection, to use game theoretic terms."

🇭🇺Karl Polanyi

Economics

1886–1964

"The economic system is, in effect, a mere function of social organization."

🇺🇸Robert Fogel

Economics

1926–2013

"People want more and more leisure time which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that."

🇺🇸Murray Rothbard

Literature

1926–1995

"The Origins of the Federal Reserve", The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics vol. 2, no. 3 : 3 – 51"

🇺🇸Immanuel Wallerstein

Economics

1930–2019

"The past can be told as it truly is, not was. For recounting the past is a social act of the present done by men of the present and affecting the social system of the present."

Eduard Bernstein

Literature

1850–1932

"The parties which assumed the names of liberals were, or became in due course, simple guardians of capitalism."