Scientists & Inventors (2)
60 entries in the Historical Figures compendium.
Charles A. BeardHistorian who reinterpreted the Constitution through economic motives.Daniel J. BoorstinHistorian, Librarian of Congress, and consensus school exponent.Henry Steele CommagerProlific liberal historian who opposed McCarthyism and presidential overreach.Will DurantHistorian and philosopher who popularized civilization's story.Samuel Eliot MorisonHistorian who combined sailing and scholarship to write authoritative maritime history.John Lothrop MotleyAmerican historian and diplomat who wrote on the Netherlands.Francis ParkmanAmerican historian of the colonial frontier and horticulturist.William H. PrescottFirst American scientific historian, despite severe visual impairment.Barbara W. TuchmanAmerican historian who made the past interesting to millions.Frederick Jackson TurnerHistorian who shaped American historical scholarship with his frontier thesis.C. Vann WoodwardHistorian of the American South and race relations.Howard ZinnHistorian who wrote A People's History of the United States.Marc BlochFrench historian and Resistance member; co-founded the Annales School.Robert ConquestBritish-American historian and leading Cold War Sovietologist.Johann Gustav DroysenGerman historian who idealized power and shaped Prussian historiography.Georges DubyFrench medieval historian and public intellectual.Mircea EliadeRomanian historian of religion and theorist of the sacred.James Anthony FroudeEnglish historian and biographer, known for polemical works.Christopher Hill (historian)English Marxist historian of 17th-century England.Bernard LewisHistorian of Islam and controversial public intellectual.Elizabeth LongfordEnglish historian known for biographies of 19th-century figures.Thomas Babington MacaulayWhig historian, politician, and architect of English education in India.James MillScottish historian, economist, and father of John Stuart Mill.A. J. P. TaylorEnglish historian and broadcaster known for television lectures.Arnold J. ToynbeeEnglish historian who analyzed the rise and fall of civilizations.Hugh Trevor-RoperEnglish historian who investigated Hitler's death and authenticated forged diaries.Kenneth ArrowAmerican economist who shaped social choice and general equilibrium theory.Gary BeckerEconomist who applied rational choice to diverse social behaviors.Fischer BlackCo-author of the Black–Scholes option pricing model.James M. BuchananEconomist who applied self-interest analysis to political decision-making.Milton FriedmanAmerican economist and Nobel laureate who advanced monetarism.John Kenneth GalbraithCanadian-American economist, diplomat, and public intellectual.Henry GeorgeAdvocate of a single tax on land values to reduce poverty.James HeckmanAmerican economist and Nobel laureate known for the Heckman correction.Robert Lucas Jr.Central figure in new classical macroeconomics and rational expectations.Daniel McFaddenNobel laureate econometrician who advanced discrete choice analysis.Robert C. MertonAmerican economist and Nobel laureate in economic sciences.Franco ModiglianiItalian-American economist and Nobel laureate in 1985.Robert MundellCanadian economist who pioneered optimum currency areas and supply-side economics.Herbert A. SimonAmerican scholar known for bounded rationality and satisficing.Vernon L. SmithAmerican economist and Nobel laureate in experimental economics.Joseph StiglitzAmerican New Keynesian economist and Nobel laureate.Larry SummersEconomist, Treasury secretary, Harvard president, and policy architect.James TobinAmerican economist and Nobel laureate who proposed the Tobin tax.Thorstein VeblenAmerican economist and sociologist who criticized capitalism.William VickreyEconomist who pioneered auction theory and congestion pricing.Frédéric BastiatFrench economist who developed opportunity cost and the broken window parable.Ronald CoaseEconomist who explained why firms exist and how property rights matter.Ragnar FrischNorwegian economist who coined econometrics, microeconomics, and macroeconomics.Thomas Robert MalthusEnglish economist who argued population growth limits societal progress.Karl MarxGerman philosopher and revolutionary socialist who developed Marxism.Carl MengerFounder of the Austrian school of economics.Luca PacioliFranciscan friar who published the first work on double-entry accounting.Vilfredo ParetoItalian polymath who shaped economics and sociology.Joseph SchumpeterAustrian economist who popularized creative destruction.Francis FukuyamaAmerican scholar who argued liberal democracy may be history's endpoint.Thomas PaineEnglish-born American Founding Father and political philosopher.Ayn RandRussian-American writer and philosopher who created Objectivism.Murray RothbardAmerican economist, anarcho-capitalist theorist, and libertarian activist.Friedrich EngelsGerman philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-founded Marxism.
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