Influential Economic Thinkers Flashcards

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Adam smith

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Shaped traditional economic theory- believer in the free market

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Karl Marx

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Critical of the free market - it allowed certain people to dominate

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Friedrich Hayek

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Supporter of the free market system and critic of command economies.
Governments shouldn’t intervene to allocate resources bc governments lack information .

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