BUSINESS ENGLISH 1, 2009/10, PE6
TEAM: NO NAME
ŽELJKA LISEC, KATARINA LOVRIĆ,
ANA LOVRIĆ, MARITA LASIĆ

Famous economists
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The beginnings
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Economic schools
 Economists today

The beginnings
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The Bible
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Mercantilists

The Classical School
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Adam Smith
1723 – 1790
An Inquiry into the
Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations
“invisible hand”

The classical school
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David Ricardo
1772 – 1823
Principles of Political
Economy and Taxation
The Theory of
Comparative Advantage

Socialism
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Karl Marx
1818 – 1883
Capital
Classless society

Neoclassical School
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John Maynard Keynes
1883 – 1946
The General Theory of
Employment, Interest and Money
“visible hand”

Paul Samuelson
Economists today
William Nordhaus

Sources
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Njavro, Arbanas: Gospodarstvo – pregled ekonomske misli
Samuelson, Nordhaus: Economics http://en.wikipedia.org