You might think that, given the extreme levels of wealth that exist today, the richest economist would be someone who was still alive. But you’d be wrong.Who was the second richest? None other than John Maynard Keynes.
Mark Skousen explains in a 2010 Daily Reckoning post how David Ricardo (1772-1823) became the richest economist in history….
FRBNY— Liberty Street Economics
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Amy Farber
2 comments:
Probably right about Ricardo, but I think Otto Eckstein became clearly richer than Keynes. Compare their Wikipedia articles.
Certainly seems so. But third richest isn't bad either. Definitely enough to tweak the noses of a lot of his opponents.
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