Lives of economic thinkers

Question 1

Adam Smith

Answer 1

-Born in Scotland
-professor “ Moral philosophy University of Glasgow”
-tutoring job in france
-commissioner of customs at the end of his life

Question 2

Karl Max

Answer 2

-Born in Trier
-studied philosophy in Berlin
-editor of Rheinische Zeitung
-settled in London (works in library british museum)
-founded the International Workingmen’s Association

Question 3

John Maynard Keynes

Answer 3

-Born in Cambridge UK
-Student of Marshall
-Versailles peace negotiations after WW1
-Hayek-Keynes debate in the thirties
-Bretton Woods conference
-member of Bloomsbury group

Question 4

Joseph Schumpeter

Answer 4

-Born in Austria
-youngest economics professor in Vienna
-failed as minister of finance and director of a commercial bank
-fascination for Japan
-emigrated to Us
-professor at Harvard