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Acknowledgements

Introduction: 20 Extraordinary Lives

1 Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683)

2 Sir William Petty (1623–1687)

3 Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)

4 Richard Cantillon (1680–1734)

5 François Quesnay (1694–1774)

6 David Hume (1711–1776)

7 Adam Smith (1723–1790)

8 Nicolas de Condorcet (1743–1794)

9 David Ricardo (1772–1823)

10 Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832)

11 Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834)

12 Simonde de Sismondi (1773–1842)

13 John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

14 Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)

15 Karl Marx (1818–1883)

16 Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)

17 William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882)

18 Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917)

19 Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919)

20 Alfred Marshall (1842–1924)

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