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Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital during the late industrial revolution, as Europe underwent a wrenching transformation from an agricultural to an industrial...

Benjamin Graham developed "value investing," a style adopted by Warren Buffett, one of history's most successful investors; it is based on "fundamental...

Carl Menger (18401921), and Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk (18511914), working in Vienna in the late nineteenth century, rejected the classical and Marxian ideas that...

Alfred Marshall (18421924), a British economics professor at Oxford University, developed economics into a more rigorous, professional discipline than ever...

Saving, budgeting, and investing are keys to creating wealth-but there are many different philosophies about how to approach this essential task. The...

For centuries, gold has been considered a safe haven: it is tangible, unlike an account balance, and its value is relatively stable, especially as a hedge...

Joseph Schumpeter (18831950) viewed capitalism as a dynamic engine of progress. In his view, mature economic systems find a regular and stable routine of...

Frank Knight (18851972) fathered the famous Chicago School of Economics, whose members are among the most decorated in history. An abstract theorist, Knight...

Financial markets have an impressive history of gains and progress for prudent and judicious investors. But these advances are often interrupted by powerful...

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was without question the most influential economist of the twentieth century. His most important work, The General Theory of...

In America's financial nerve center, fortunes are made, and sometimes lost. J.P. Morgan, Jay Gould, Hetty Green, Jim Brady, Jesse Livermore, Bernard Baruch,...

Public confidence in financial markets depends on the perception that they are fair and just, not distorted or manipulated to the advantage of particular...

Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) and Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) were perhaps the foremost defenders of the free market and limited government during the...

Investments in tangible assets offer a unique set of opportunities and problems, often related to limited supply (so that price becomes especially sensitive...

As the world becomes more economically and culturally integrated, there are vast opportunities for growthespecially as less prosperous countries seize the...

Leon Walras (18341910) transformed economics from a literary discipline into a mathematical, deterministic science. For the first time, Walras expressed the...

Institutionalism is an economic point of view that emphasizes the role of social organization and structure in modern economic life. Thorstein Veblen...

Most investors do not get involved in speculation or commodities, but speculators play a vital function in financial markets by absorbing and managing risk....

The classical economists pioneered a new way of thinking about the uniquely human tendency to produce, trade, consume, and accumulate.Adam Smith (17231790)...