General Links

 

I -    Great Economists
II -   Economic Schools of Thought
III -  Economic Institutions

The best general source is the History of Economic Thought (HET) Website run by the New School of Social Research in NYC.  Unfortunately the site does not permit direct hyperlinks to all articles.  Accordingly page directions from their Home Page are provided for each article referenced below.  For any investigation at least three different sources should be consulted.

I - Great Economists

(a) Medieval Europe

St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Catholic Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Wikipedi

(b) Renaissance Europe

Luca Pacioli (1445?-1515?)

Accounting History Page

History of Double Entry Bookkeeping

Wikipedia

(c) 16th to 18th Century

William Petty (1623-1687)

HET - Schools of Thought: Pre-Classical - Petty

Studies in the History of Science

Wikipedia

(d) 18th Century

Francois Quesnay (1694-1774)

HET - Schools of Thought: Pre-Classical - Francois Quesnay

Internet Archives

Wikipedia

Adam Smith (1723-1790)

HET - Schools of Thought: Classical - Smith

Library of Economics & Liberty

Wikipedia

(e) 19th Century

David Ricardo(1772-1823)

HET - Schools of Thought: Classical - Ricardo

Economic History Network

Wikipedia

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Blupete

Encyclopedia of Philosophy

HET - Schools of Thought: Classical - Bentham

Wikipedia

Jean Baptist Say (1767-1832)

HET - Schools of Thought: Classical - Say

Liberal International

Library of Economics & Liberty

Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)

HET - Schools of Thought: Classical - Malthus

Victorian Web

Wikipedia

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

Encyclopedia of Philosophy

HET - Schools of Thought: Classical - Mill

Wikipedia

William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)

HET - Schools of Thought: Neoclassical Schools Anglo/American- Jevons

Library of Economics & Liberty

Wikipedia

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

HET - Schools of Thought: Classical - Marx

Spartacus Educational

Wikipedia

(f) 20th Century

Leon Walras (1834-1910)

HET - Schools of Thought: Neoclassical Schools Continental - Walras

School of Cooperative Individualism

Wikipedia

Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk (1851-1914)

The Jefferson School of Philosophy, Economics, and Psychology

Ludwig von Mises Institute

Wikipedia

Carl Menger (1840-1921)

HET - Schools of Thought: Neoclassical Schools Continental - Menger

Ludwig von Mises Institute

Wikipedia

Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)

Encyclopedia Britannica

eNotes

Wikipedia

Alfred Marshall  (1842-1924)

HET - Schools of Thought: Neoclassical Schools Anglo/American- Alfred Marshall

McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought

Wikipedia

Johan Gustaf (Knut) Wicksell (1851-1926)

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

HET - Schools of Thought: Neoclassical Schools Continental - Wicksell

Wikipedia

Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)

Association for Evolutionary Economics

Blupete

HET - Schools of Thought: Alternative Schools Heterodox - Veblen

Wikipedia

John Bates Clark (1847-1938)

HET - Schools of Thought: Neoclassical Schools Anglo/American- Clark

McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought

Wikipedia

Frank William Taussig (1859-1940)

HET - Alphabetic Index - Taussig

JSTOR

Online Library of Liberty

Wikipedia

John R. Commons (1862-1945)

HET - Schools of Thought: Alternative Schools Heterodox - Comonns

Wisconsin Historical Society

Wikipedia

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

Atlantic Monthly, May 1932

HET - Schools of Thought: Alternative Schools Keynesians - Keynes

Wikipedia

Irving Fisher (1867-1947)

Economist

HET - Alphabetic Index - Fisher

Library of Economics & Liberty

Wikipedia

Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874-1948)

HET - Alphabetic Index - Mitchell

National Bureau of Economics Research

Wikipedia

Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950)

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

HET - Alphabetic Index - Schumpeter

Wikipedia

Harold A. Innis (1894-1952)

Canadian Encyclopedia

Media Studies.ca

Wikipedia

Frank H. Knight (1885-1972)

HET - Alphabetic Index - Knight

University of Chicago

Wikipedia

Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)

HET - Alphabetic Index - Mises

Library of Economics & Liberty

Wikipedia

Harry Gordon Johnson (1923-1977)

HET - Alphabetic Index - Johnson

Library of Economics & Liberty

Wikipedia

Joan Robinson (1903-1985)

HET - Alphabetic Index - Robinson

Library of Economics & Liberty

Wikipedia

John Hicks, 1904-1989

HET - Alphabetic Index - Hicks

NobelPrize.org

Wikipedia

Friedrich August von Hayek, 1889-1992

HET - Alphabetic Index - Hicks

Library of Economics & Liberty

NobelPrize.org

Wikipedia

Kenneth Ewart Boulding (1910-1993)

Encyclopedia of the Earth

HET - Alphabetic Index - Boulding

National Academy of Sciences

Wikipedia

William Vickrey, 1914-1996

HET - Alphabetic Index - Vickrey

NobelPrize.org

Wikipedia

 

(f) 21st Century

Tibor Scitovsky (1910-2002)

HET - Alphabetic Index - Scitovsky

Stanford News Service

Wikipedia

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006 )

HET - Alphabetic Index - Galbraith

Library of Economics & Liberty

New York Times

Wikipedia

James Tobin (1918-2002)

HET - Alphabetic Index - Tobin

NobelPrize.org

Wikipedia

Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

HET - Alphabetic Index - Friedman

Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice

New York Review of Books

Wikipedia

Ronald H. Coase (1910 -  )

HET - Alphabetic Index - Coase

NobelPrize.org

Wikipedia

Paul A. Samuelson (1915 -  )

HET - Alphabetic Index - Samuelson

NobelPrize.org

Wikipedia

Douglass C. North (1920- )

HET - Alphabetic Index - North

NobelPrize.org

Wikipedia

Robert A. Mundell (1932-  )

HET - Alphabetic Index - Mundell

NobelPrize.org

Home Page: http://www.columbia.edu/~ram15/

Wikipedia

Paul Krugman (1953- )

NobelPrize.org

The Official Paul Krugman Web Page

Paul Romer (1955- )

IDEAS

Stanford Web Page

Wikipedia