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New Economic Theories

New Economic Theories. Adam Smith 1723–1790 . Adam Smith laid the intellectual framework for the concept of the free market. Thomas Malthus 1766 – 1834.

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New Economic Theories

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  1. New Economic Theories

  2. Adam Smith1723–1790 AdamSmith laid the intellectual framework for the concept of the free market

  3. Thomas Malthus 1766–1834 In An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), Malthus predicted that the food supply would not meet the needs of the growing population

  4. David Ricardo 1772–1823 The “Iron Law of Wages”

  5. Karl Marx 1818–1883 Philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, Karl Marx is regarded by many as the most influential economic and social thinker of the 19th century

  6. Jeremy Bentham 1748–1832 Utilitarianism: “The greatest good for the most people” or “The greatest good over the least pain”

  7. Robert Owen1771–1858 • Utopian socialist • Founded New Lanark Mills in Scotland as a model cooperative factory • Many industrialists visited New Lanark, and a few adopted aspects of Owen’s cooperative

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