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Born March 1, 1858 • Berlin • Germany
Died September 26, 1918 (aged 60) • Germany
Notable Works “Philosophie des Geldes”
Subjects Of Study economics • money • human being • social interaction
Gustav Ratzenhofer
Austrian general and sociologist
Richard Cantillon
Irish economist
Max Weber
Max Weber
German sociologist
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher
Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
German mathematician, economist, and philosopher
Dühring, c. 1900
Eugen Dühring
German philosopher and economist
Joachim Wach
German-American theologian
Paul Barth
German philosopher and sociologist
Friedrich Albert Lange
German philosopher
Heinrich Rickert
German philosopher
Fischer, Kuno
Kuno Fischer
German philosopher
Paul Natorp
German philosopher
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Scottish philosopher
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
British philosopher
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
French philosopher
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
British philosopher and economist
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
American economist
Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Malthus
English economist and demographer
English economist David Ricardo
David Ricardo
British economist
James Mill
James Mill
Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist

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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in "Plato's Symposium" oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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