Testimonials Adam Smith Alexis de Tocqueville Charles Dickens Karl Marx Samul Smiles Winston Churchill John Keynes Thomas Sowell Joseph Schumpeter Eric Hoffer Deng Xiaoping Thomas Friedman Naomi Klein Riccardo Bellofiore Jeanette Winterson Luigi Zingales
Adam Smith(1723-1790)
Scottish social philosopher, pioneer of political economy
father of modern economics and capitalism
Reference text: The Wealth of Nations
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: investigation of the causes of wealth aiming at the substitution of industrial freedom for a system of restriction
Critical thinking: Capitalism, Political Economy, causes of wealth
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
French Political thinker and historian
Liberal position about democracy
Reference text: Journey to England and Ireland(1835)
Focus: Manchester
Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels
Critical thinking: Alienation, exploitation, industrialization, inequal distribution of wealth, bad working condition, double nature of capitalism, utilitarism
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English Victorian novelist
remarkable characters
superb telling technique
symbolic portrait social class contrast
Reference text: Hard Times (1854)
Utilitarianism
Focus: Coketown
Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Tocqueville , A. Toynbee
Critical thinking: social rift, industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class - capitalists
German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist
Critical of his contemporary economy, politic, society and culture
Reference text: Das Kapital(1867)
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: A. Toynbee, F. Engels, Luigi Zingales
Critical thinking: industrialization, unequal distribution of wealth, money creates wealth
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818 -1883)
Scottish author and reformer.
Reference text: Thrift (1875)
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: K. Marx, E. Hoffer, T. Sowell, J. Schumpeter
Critical thinking: Industrialization,metaphor of the multi – faceted natureof capitalism
Samuel Smiles (1812 –1904)
British Conservative Politician
statesman and orator, Nobel Prize for Literature
twice Prime Minister (1940–45 and 1951–55)
officer in the British Army
historian, writer, artist
he received the Nobel Prize in Literature
Reference: Sir W. Churchill Quotes
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: powerful command of the English language, literature
Critical thinking: capitalism, socialism, blessing, industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class, army
Winston Churchill(1874-1965)
British economist
He is considered to be one of the founders of modern macroeconomics, and the most influential economist of the 20th century.
His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics
Reference text: The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money (1936)
Focus: Capitalism and direct interventions
Cross cultural references: R. Bellofiore
Critical thinking: industrialization, Keynesianism, direct intervention on financial problems
John Maynard Keynes(1883 – 1946)
Joseph Alois Schumpeter(1883 -1950)
An Austrian American economist and political scientist.
Popularized "creative destruction" in economics
Reference text: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: K. Marx, L. Zingales, R. Bellofiore
Critical thinking: industrialization, the European financial situation, creative destruction
American social writer
He was the author of ten books He was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom in February 1983
Reference text: (1971)
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: J.Bentham,
A.Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels,
Critical thinking: corruption of business andcapitalism
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
Politician and reformist leader of theCommunist Party of China
led China towards a market economy.
Reference: Deng Xiaoping quotes
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: K. Marx, E. Hoffer, T. Sowell, J. Schumpeter
Critical thinking: market economy, to be rich is gloriouos because it gave power and wealth
Deng Xiaoping(1904 – 1997)
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author
conservative thinker of the late 20th century America's leading philosopher seminal study on the role of Race in history explain the principles underlying modern economics he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a
conservative and libertarian perspective. opposes Marxism,
Reference text: Marxism: Philosophy and Economics
Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A.Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, F. A. Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter
Critical thinking: pushiness, justice and equality, civil rights, race and ethnicity
Thomas Sowell (1930)
American journalist and author.
He writes a twice-weekly column for TheNew York Times. He has won the Pulitzer Prize threetimes.
Reference text: The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization(1999)
Focus: Free-Market capitalism
Cross cultural references: J.Bentham,
A.Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels,
Critical thinking: global trade, theMiddle East, Globalization, environmentalissues
Thomas Friedman (1953)
Canadian author and social activist
known for her political analyses andcriticism of corporate globalization.
Reference text: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: K. Marx, E. Hoffer, T. Sowell, J. Schumpeter
Critical thinking: frontier capitalism shifting from crisis to crisis
Naomi Klein (1970)
Full professor in political Economy at the University of Bergamo
Reference text: An article from “the Guardian”(2011)
Focus: A crisis of Capitalism
Cross cultural references: Karl Marx, Hyman Philip Minsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Stuart Holland, John Maynard Keynes
Critical thinking: actualization, financial problems in Europe
Riccardo Bellofiore
Contemporary English Writer
adopted by Pentecostal parents
boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, sexual identities
Reference text:
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Focus: Manchester
Cross cultural references: A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, C. Dickens
Critical thinking: industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class – capitalists, process of change, contradictions inside society.
Jeanette Winterson (1959)
Italian economist and educator
He’s the winner of the 2003 Germán Bernácer Prize to the best European economist under 40 working in macro-finance.
Competition isn’t guaranted by the control organisms
Reference text: A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity(3 June 2012)
Focus: Capitalism
Cross cultural references: Adam Smith, Kenneth Joseph Arrow
Critical thinking: actualization, financial problems in Europe
Luigi Zingales(1963)
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