Some Chronology

1469: Niccolo Machiavelli May 3, 1469-June 20, 1527, Florence, Italy

1478: Sir (Saint) Thomas More, February 7, 1469-July 1, 1535, London, England

1513, Machiavelli, The Prince

1515, Thomas More, Utopia

1535: Thomas More beheaded on July 1 by the order of Henry VIII.

1583: Hugo Grotius (April 10, 1583-August 28,1645) born in Delft, Holland “Natural rights” / Property rights are consensual.

1588: Thomas Hobbes (April 5, 1588-Dec 4, 1679) born in Malmesbury, England

1632: John Locke (August 29, 1632-1704)

1651: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan / Property rights are established by the sovereign.

1694: François Quesnay (1694-1774)

1711: David Hume (April 26, 1711-1776) is born in Edinburgh, April 26.

1712: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was born in Geneva, Switzerland.

1723: Adam Smith was born to a single mother, a “fatherless” child, June 5.

1724: Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 - February 12, 1804), Konigsburg, East Prussia

1758: Francois Quesnay publishes Tableau Economique.

1762: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Contrat social

1766: Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) is born.

1776: Thomas Jefferson et al., The American Declaration of Independence, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

1798: Thomas Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population (First edition)

1790: Adam Smith dies, July 17.

1818: Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 - March 14, 1883) , born in Trier, Rheinisch Prussia, died in London.

1820: Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820-August 5, 1895) Born in Barmen Germany, died in L:ondon.

1835: William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) was born in

1839: Henry George (1839-1898) born

1840: Carl Menger (1840-1921) born in

1848: Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto, [Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei, London: February, 1848]

1842: Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) born

1857: Thorstein Bund Veblen (1857-1929) was born in Minnesota.

1867, Karl Marx, while living in England, completed the first edition of Das Kapital, in German. [An English translation was edited by Friedrich Engels and published in1887.]

1970: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov [Lenin] (1870- January 21, 1924) was born in

1871: William Stanley Jevons, Theory of Political Economy

1879: Henry George (1839-97), Progress and Poverty

1879: Joseph Stalin (1879-1953, born Iosif Dzugashvili) in Tiblitzi, Georgia.

1879: Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davydovich Bronstein), Yanovka, Ukraine.

1881: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Mathematical Psychics.

1881: Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) was born

1883: John Maynard Keynes was born 5 June 1883 in Cambridge, England, the son of John Neville Keynes, a prominent economist in his own right.

1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class

1900: Friedrich A. Hayek (1900-92) was born in Vienna, Austria.

1908: John Kenneth Galbraith born in Canada.

1912: Milton Friedman born in New York City.

1917: The bolshevik wing of Russia’s Communist Party seizes power under the command of Lenin in the October Revolution (new calendar = November).

1919, John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

1929: The Crash

1930: John Maynard Keynes, Treatise on Money (London: MacMillan)

1936: John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (London: MacMillan)

1940: Leon Trotsky was murdered by a Stalinist assassin in August in Mexico.

1946: John Maynard Keynes died 21 April 1946 in Firle, Sussex, England. The Treaty of Breton Woods establishes the IMF.

1949: Ludwig von Mises, Human Action

1956: Milton Friedman, Quantity Theory of Money

1963: Milton Friedman and Anna Schwarz, A Monetary History of the United States

1969: The first Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen