Unsung Heroes of the Market
The 24 Underrated Economists You Need to Know
$98.26
- Hardcover
456 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
You’ve heard of Adam Smith and Milton Friedman. But the economists whose quiet brilliance has kept the free market running? You don’t see them on book covers—until now.
Edited by Robert M. Whaples, Co-Editor and Managing Editor of the acclaimed academic journal The Independent Review, Unsung Heroes of the Market: The 24 Underrated Economists You Need to Know reveals a cast of overlooked thinkers who shaped the economic foundations of the modern world—yet remain large…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598134285 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1598134280 |
| Author: | Robert M. Whaples, Christopher J. Coyne, Gregory J. Robson, Diana W. Thomas |
| Publisher: | Independent Institute,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Independent Institute,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 780g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Robert M. Whaples
Robert M. Whaples
Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute
Co-Editor and Managing Editor, The Independent Review
Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University
Director and Book Review Editor, EH.NET
Member, Board of Advisors for the Center on Culture and Civil Society, The Independent Institute
Co-editor of Is Social Justice Just?, In All Fairness, and Pope Francis and the Caring Society (The Independent Institute books).
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
Former Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Former Associate Editor, Business Library Review.
Former Chair, The Cliometric Society.
Former editor, EH.Net’s Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History.
Christopher J. Coyne
Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute
Co-Editor, The Independent Review
Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Programs, Department of Economics, George Mason University
Co-Editor, Review of Austrian Economics
Book Review Editor, Public Choice
Ph.D. in Economics, George Mason University.
Taught at the University of West Virginia and Hampden-Sydney College.
Former Hayek Visiting Fellow, The London School of Economics.
Former Visiting Scholar, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University.
Gregory J. Robson
Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute
Associate Research Professor, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Co-Editor, The Independent Review
B.S. in Economics and Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University.
A.L.M. in Government, Harvard University.
M.A. in Philosophy, Duke University.
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Arizona.
Diana W. Thomas
Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute
Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Economic Inquiry, Heider College of Business, Creighton University
Co-Editor, The Independent Review
Ph.D. in Economics, George Mason University.
Former Assistant Professor of Economics, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University.
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