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Rose Friedman (1910–2009), American free-market economist; Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (1895–1973), Norwegian economist and Nobel Prize co-winner; Roland Fryer (born 1977), American economist; Drew Fudenberg (born 1957), American economist and game-theory expert; Masahisa Fujita (藤田昌久, born 1943), Japanese economist and academic
Stephen Moore, a member of the editorial forward of The Wall Street Journal, said in 2013: "Quoting the most-revered champion of free-market economics since Adam Smith has become a little like quoting the Bible." He adds, "There are sometimes multiple and conflicting interpretations."
The 2007–2008 financial crisis led to public skepticism about the free market consensus even from some on the economic right. In March 2008, Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, announced the death of the dream of global free-market capitalism. [96]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. Scottish economist and philosopher (1723–1790) This article is about the Scottish economist and philosopher. For other people named Adam Smith, see Adam Smith (disambiguation). Adam Smith FRS FRSE FRSA Posthumous Muir portrait, c. 1800 Born c. 16 June [O.S. c. 5 June] 1723 Kirkcaldy ...
As an economist, Williams was a proponent of free market economics and opposed socialist systems of government intervention. [24] Williams believed laissez-faire capitalism to be the most moral, most productive system humans have ever devised. [25]
The AfD was founded in 2013 after the financial crisis by a group of free market economists who were fundamentally critical of European integration Explainer-Turning back the clock: Germany's AfD ...
Knight's perspective was iconoclastic, and markedly different from later Chicago school thinkers. He believed that while the free market could be inefficient, government programs were even less efficient. He drew from other economic schools of thought such as institutional economics to form his own nuanced perspective.
And here, the self-described Marxist appeals to the wisdom of not just Adam Smith, but also the arch-free-market economists Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. “If they were alive, they would ...