Marshall (Economics) Library Advent Calendar 2017

Famous Economists #AdventCalendar2017 9 Dec: Joan Robinson contributed to the support and exposition of Keynes' “General Theory” writing especially on its employment implications in 1936 and 1937 – with particular reference to the Great Depression.#MarshallLibraryAdvent pic.twitter.com/98l3d1hptK

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Famous Economists #AdventCalendar2017 8 Dec: John Kenneth Galbraith wrote a trilogy of works on Economics: American Capitalism 1952, The Affluent Society, 1958 and The New Industrial State, 1967 #MarshallLibraryAdvent CC-BY-SA Dutch National Archive pic.twitter.com/IQTUj9N6Yx

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Famous Economists #AdventCalendar2017 Classical Economist David Ricardo (1772-1823), advocate of the market economy and free trade. Made a fortune on the stockmarket #MarshallLibraryAdvent pic.twitter.com/wYHLpmVO2D

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It's the first day of our Famous Economists #AdventCalendar. Friedrich Hayek famous for defending classical liberalism. Nobel prize winner 1974 - shared with Gunnar Myrdal pic.twitter.com/7PUtR0AUnH

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2 Dec: Ricardo was the author of the book Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. He advanced a Labour Theory of Value pic.twitter.com/Z6NKKCaTy4

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3 Dec: 3.JS Mill. Utilitarian political economist. His Principles of Political Economy of 1848 was one of the most widely read economic textbooks in the nineteenth century. pic.twitter.com/HtoIYk0daF

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4 December: CC BY-SA 3.0 Punt, Anefo – Joan Robinson wrote Economics of Imperfect Competition 1933 and coined the term monopsony – used to describe the wage gap between women and men of equal productivity. pic.twitter.com/dPAA9SkuH2

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5 Dec: Malthus was the author of the book An Essay on the Principle of Population 1798, in which he put forward the idea of the “Malthusian Trap”! pic.twitter.com/owGPZkGW1P

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6 December: John Maynard Keynes, the famous economist, married Lydia Lopokova a Russian ballerina in 1925 Bloomsbury Ballerina available at 12 D 70 #economics #adventcalendar2017 pic.twitter.com/0hVjSQjopg

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