Who do you think is the best economist for you?

Question

who do you think is the best economist for you?

is it??

1.adam smith

2. david ricardo

3. thomas malthus

4. karl marx

5. alfred marshall

6. leon walras

7.john maynard keynes

and give the reason why.......

Answer 1

this list is very limited.

I like Mahbub ul Haq and Amartya Sen, for thier work on Human Development.

Answer 2

You are missing the most important economist of the 20th Century.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Friedrich August von Hayek, CH (May 8, 1899 – March 23, 1992) was an Austrian-British economist and political philosopher known for his defence of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought in the mid-20th century. He is considered to be one of the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century.[1] One of the most influential members of the Austrian School of economics, he also made significant contributions in the fields of jurisprudence and cognitive science. He shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics with ideological rival Gunnar Myrdal "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena."[2] He also received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991.[3] He is considered to be one of the major forces of change from the dominant interventionist and Keynesian policies of the first part of the 20th century to the more market friendly, less state controlled and liberal policies after the 1980s.