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Eric Lonergan is an economist and hedge-fund manager. His work on contemporary political issues has been published in Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, and the Economist.

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Stephanie Kelton is a writer, political advisor, and professor of economics and public policy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She served as the chief economist for the US Senate Budget Committee and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

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Murray Rothbard was a political theorist, professor, economist of the Austrian school, and one of the founding fathers of modern anarcho-capitalism – a synthesis of classical liberalism and individualist anarchism. He was active in the Libertarian Party in the 1970s and ’80s and cofounded the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. His other major works include America’s Great Depression, The Ethics of Liberty, and Man, Economy, and State.

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Yanis Varoufakis is a world-renowned economist and political activist. He holds a Phd in economics from the University of Essex but is best known for founding the left-wing party Syriza and serving as Greece’s Minister of Finance.

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Milton Friedman (1912-2006) studied mathematics and economics at Rutgers University during the Great Depression before taking up a position at the University of Chicago in 1946. Over the following three decades, he established himself as one of the world’s most vocal champions of the free market. His work was a major influence on Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan’s governments. Friedman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1976 and is regarded as one of the most important economists of the twentieth century.

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British historian Adam Tooze is a professor and the director of the European Institute at Columbia University, New York. His previous books include the Wolfson History Prize-winning The Wages of Destruction (2006), a study of Nazi Germany’s economic policies, and The Great Deluge (2014), an analysis of the Great War and the creation of a new international order.

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Michael Newman is a professor of politics at London Metropolitan University. His other books include Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left and Democracy, Sovereignty and the European Union.

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Capitalism (2015) chronicles the history of the dominant socioeconomic system that society runs on today. From its humble beginnings in medieval Europe to its present global dominance, capitalism’s history is marked by its dynamic – and sometimes unstable – nature. Nevertheless, its influence on how society has developed over the last 200 years is paramount to understanding the modern human condition.

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James Fulcher is a fellow at the University of Leicester, where he teaches sociology. Aside from Capitalism, he also co-authored Oxford University Press’ Sociology textbook, now in its fourth edition.

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Edge of Chaos (2018) examines the key challenges that liberal democracies around the world are facing today. Aging populations, limited resources and increasing debt are all threats to these countries’ economic well-being – but so too are the “remedies” of short-term policies and protectionism. Author Dambisa Moyo examines that misguided agenda and presents a radical blueprint for economic growth in the twenty-first century.

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Dambisa Moyo is an internationally renowned economist and author whose career has included posts at the World Bank and Goldman Sachs. Her macroeconomic analyses have landed her on the New York Times best-selling books list four times. Her books include Dead Aid (2009), How the West Was Lost (2011) and Winner Take All (2012). In 2009, she was recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, listed in TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world and named as one of “20 remarkable visionaries” by Oprah Winfrey.

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Capitalism Without Capital (2017) is an account of the growing importance of the intangible economy. Today, for the first time, most developed economies are investing less in tangible, physical assets such as machinery and factories, than in intangible assets such as software, research and development capability. These intangibles are hugely valuable but do not exist in physical form. The blinks ahead explore the nature of this trend, as well as its effects on business, the economy and public policy.

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Jonathan Haskel, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, is an economics professor at London’s Imperial College Business School. Stian Westlake, formerly the head of science-and-innovation think tank NESTA, currently serves as advisor to the UK government’s minister for universities, science, research and innovation.

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