Abbe, Ernst 135
Bell, Daniel 119
Berend, Ivan 117
Blanc, Louis 3
Braudel, Fernand 18 ff.
Carnegie, Andrew 110
Charles V 61
Cipolla, Carlo M. 99
Cortés, Hernán 56
Dahrendorf, Ralf 119
Duke, James Buchanan 111
Engels, Friedrich 10
Finley, Moses I. 26
Ghazali, Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad 34
Grotius, Hugo 88
Hauptmann, Gerhart 133,
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 10
Hilferding, Rudolf 20
Hobbes, Thomas 88
Hume, David 88
Ibn Khaldun 34
Kershaw, Ian 166
Keynes, John Maynard 16 ff., 150
Kirdorf, Emil 110
Liebknecht, Wilhelm 3
Locke, John 88
Maier, Charles 150
Malthus, Thomas 92
Mairano, Romano 40
de Mandeville, Bernard 88
Marx, Karl 7–11, 24, 52, 54, 124, 133, 138
Maximilian I 61
McCoy, Sherman 122
Baron de Montesquieu 88
Müntefering, Franz 117
Newton, Isaac 62
Owen, Robert 135
Paine, Thomas 88
Polanyi, Karl 17 ff.
Pomeranz, Kenneth 93
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph 3
Rathenau, Emil 114
Rockefeller, John D. 110
Rodbertus, Johann Karl 4
Schäffle, Albert Eberhard Friedrich 4
Schilling, Heinz 88
Schluchter, Wolfgang 13
Schumpeter, Joseph A. 7, 14–16, 102
von Siemens, Wilhelm 105
Sinbad the Sailor 34
Smith, Adam 10, 34, 84, 89–91, 145 ff.
Sombart, Werner 4–5, 12–13, 41, 95
Soros, George 115
de Spinoza, Baruch 88
Stanford, Amasa Leland 111
Stark, Jürgen 116
Tilly, Charles 129
al-Tusi, Nasir ad-Din 34
Vanderbilt, Cornelius 111
de Vries, Jan 83
Weber, Max 7, 11–13, 17, 24, 41, 88, 95, 124
van der Wee, Herman 62
Wolfe, Tom 122
Zheng-He 29