Key Economists and Their Economic Schools

Adam Smith

Classical Economics

Jean-Baptiste Say

Classical Economics

David Ricardo

Classical Economics

Thomas Robert Malthus

Classical Economics

John Stuart Mill

Classical Economics

Frederic Bastiat

Classical Economics

Alfred Marshall

Neoclassical Economics

William Stanley Jevons

Neoclassical Economics

Léon Walras

Neoclassical Economics

Vilfredo Pareto

Neoclassical Economics

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

Neoclassical Economics

John Bates Clark

Neoclassical Economics

Thorstein Veblen

Institutionalist

John R. Commons

Institutionalist

Wesley Clair Mitchell

Institutionalist

John Kenneth Galbraith

Institutionalist

Carl Menger

Austrian Economics

Eugen Böhm von Bawerk

Austrian Economics

Friedrich von Wieser

Austrian Economics

Friedrich Hayek

Austrian Economics

Henry Hazlitt

Austrian Economics

Murray Rothbard

Austrian Economics

Ludwig von Mises

Austrian Economics

Frank Knight

Chicago Economics

Milton Friedman

Chicago Economics

Thomas Sowell

Chicago Economics

Joseph Schumpeter

Historical Economics

Knut Wicksell

Stockholm School

John Maynard Keynes

Keynesian Economics

Karl Marx

Marxism (Socialism)

Ronald Coase

Neo-Institutionalist

Joan Robinson

Post Keynesian

John Hicks

Neo-Keynesian

Robert Solow

Neo-Keynesian

Gregory Mankiw

New Keynesian

James M. Buchanan

Constitutional Economics

Robert Emerson Lucas Jr.

New Classical

Arthur Laffer

Supply-side Economics