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Three and a half centuries of people, books, ideas and the events they answered. Locke wrote after a revolution, Smith in the year of another, Mises and Hayek while Europe tried central planning, Friedman during stagflation. Zoom into an era, filter by school, and click any name to see their life, key work and ideas lit up together.
1700175018001850190019502000EVENTSGlorious RevolutionAmerican independenceFrench RevolutionCorn Laws repealedCobden–Chevalier TreatyRussian RevolutionSocialist calculation debateWeimar hyperinflationGreat DepressionMont Pelerin SocietyErhard's currency reformEnd of Bretton WoodsStagflationHayek's NobelDeng's reform and openingThatcher & ReaganBerlin Wall fallsIndia's liberalizationPlano RealGlobal financial crisisMilei elected in ArgentinaPEOPLELockeMontesquieuHumeSmithMadisonMalthusSayConstantRicardoBastiatTocquevilleMillMengerBöhm-BawerkMisesSchumpeterKnightReadHayekPopperBerlinCoaseStiglerFriedmanBuchananNorthTullockRothbardKirznerSowellOlsonSimonOstromNozickde SotoMcCloskeyIDEASNatural rights & propertyReligious tolerationSeparation of powersCantillon effectImpartial spectatorDivision of laborInvisible handMalthusian trapSay's lawComparative advantageDifferential rentLiberty of the modernsTyranny of the majorityCandlemakers' petitionThe seen and the unseenLegal plunderHarm principleSubjective, marginal valueTime preference & roundabout productionAustrian business cycleEconomic calculation problemTransaction costs & the firmCreative destructionRoad to serfdomKnowledge problemPiecemeal social engineeringPermanent incomeI, PencilNegative vs positive libertyCoase theoremPublic choiceNon-aggression principleNegative income taxMonetary history / Great ContractionLogic of collective actionRent-seekingNatural rate of unemploymentCompetition as discoveryRegulatory captureEntrepreneurial alertnessAnarcho-capitalismEntitlement theoryPretence of knowledgeFour ways to spend moneyKnowledge & decisionsSimon–Ehrlich betConstrained vs unconstrained visionsFatal conceitRules of the gameGoverning the commonsDead capitalGreat Enrichment

Try: pick “Vienna & the debate” to zoom into the socialist calculation debate, then click Mises's name. Their life, key work and ideas stay lit; everything else fades. Dashed bars are living thinkers.

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