This dimension groups schools of economic thought by the historical period in which they arose. Wikipedia notes that modern economic thought is commonly dated from "Adam Smith and classical economics in the late 18th century, and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' Marxian economics in the mid 19th century." Browsing by period lets a visitor compare schools that arose in the same era.
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Wikimedia FoundationContains: New Keynesian Economics, New Keynesian economics, lead section
New Keynesian economics is a school of macroeconomics that strives to provide microeconomic foundations for Keynesian economics.
Contains: Neoclassical Synthesis, Neoclassical synthesis, lead section
an academic movement...that attempted to reconcile John Maynard Keynes's macroeconomic theories with neoclassical economics
Contains: Cambridge School, Cambridge capital controversy, The two Cambridges
Key figures: Joan Robinson, Piero Sraffa, Nicholas Kaldor, Luigi Pasinetti, Richard Kahn
Contains: Lausanne School, Lausanne School, lead section
The central feature of the Lausanne School was its development of general equilibrium theory.
Contains: Georgism, Georgism, lead section
persons (including corporations) should own the value that they produce themselves
Contains: Stockholm School, Stockholm school (economics), lead section
a school of economic thought referring to a loosely organized group of Swedish economists working together primarily in the 1930s
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