How to think like an economist : great economist who shaped the world and what they can teach us / Robbie Mochrie

Includes index.

Foreword -- 1. Aristotle - The Philosopher -- 2. Thomas Aquinas - The Angelic Doctor -- 3. Adam Smith - The Founder -- 4. Robert Malthus and David Ricardo - The Realist and the Theorist -- 5 John Stuart Mill - The Classical Liberal -- 6. Karl Marx - The Communist Visionary -- 7. William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger and Léon Walras - Three Quiet Revolutionaries -- 8. Alfred Marshall - The Frail Master Craftsman -- 9. Joseph Schumpeter - Creator and Destroyer -- 10. John Maynard Keynes - The Last Amateur -- 11. Friedrich Hayek - A Very Different Type of Liberal -- 12. John von Neumann - The Most Brilliant Mathematician Ronald Coase - The Placid Observer -- 14. Milton Friedman - The Monetarist -- 15. Paul Samuelson - The American Keynes? -- 16 Herbert Simon - The Social Scientific Realist -- 17. Thomas Schelling - The Storyteller -- 18. Robert Solow - Craftsman and Builder -- 19. Gary Becker - The Unwavering Imperialist -- 20. Elinor Ostrom - The Political Scientist -- 21. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky - Two Psychologists -- 22 Robert Lucas - The Idealist -- 23. George Akerlof - The Borrower -- 24. Esther Duflo - The Experimenter

In explaining how economic thinking is indispensable to tackling these huge problems, this book is a sure-footed guide, spanning Aristotle's ideas about restraining consumption, Adam Smith's thinking about the importance of moral character for sustained economic development, and Esther Duflo's ongoing work to help the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty. It shows how the greatest economic thinkers - Karl Marx, Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek, among many others - have enabled us to see the world differently, and how we can make it better.