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Discover the forgotten economists who built the free market we know.

Unsung Heroes of the Market

The 24 Underrated Economists You Need to Know

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    456 pages

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    14 July 2026

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Summary

You’ve heard of Adam Smith and Milton Friedman. But the economists whose quiet brilliance has kept the free market running? You don’t see them on book covers—until now.

Edited by Robert M. Whaples, Co-Editor and Managing Editor of the acclaimed academic journal The Independent Review, Unsung Heroes of the Market: The 24 Underrated Economists You Need to Know reveals a cast of overlooked thinkers who shaped the economic foundations of the modern world—yet remain large…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781598134285
ISBN-10:1598134280
Author:Robert M. Whaples, Christopher J. Coyne, Gregory J. Robson, Diana W. Thomas
Publisher:Independent Institute,U.S.
Imprint:Independent Institute,U.S.
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:456
Release Date:14 July 2026
Weight:780g
Dimensions:36mm x 152mm x 229mm
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About The Author

Robert M. Whaples

Robert M. Whaples

  • Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute

  • Co-Editor and Managing Editor, The Independent Review

  • Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University

  • Director and Book Review Editor, EH.NET

  • Member, Board of Advisors for the Center on Culture and Civil Society, The Independent Institute

  • Co-editor of Is Social Justice Just?, In All Fairness, and Pope Francis and the Caring Society (The Independent Institute books).

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania.

  • Former Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

  • Former Associate Editor, Business Library Review.

  • Former Chair, The Cliometric Society.

  • Former editor, EH.Net’s Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History.

Christopher J. Coyne

  • Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute

  • Co-Editor, The Independent Review

  • Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Programs, Department of Economics, George Mason University

  • Co-Editor, Review of Austrian Economics

  • Book Review Editor, Public Choice

  • Ph.D. in Economics, George Mason University.

  • Taught at the University of West Virginia and Hampden-Sydney College.

  • Former Hayek Visiting Fellow, The London School of Economics.

  • Former Visiting Scholar, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University.

Gregory J. Robson

  • Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute

  • Associate Research Professor, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

  • Co-Editor, The Independent Review

  • B.S. in Economics and Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University.

  • A.L.M. in Government, Harvard University.

  • M.A. in Philosophy, Duke University.

  • Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Arizona.

Diana W. Thomas

  • Senior Fellow, The Independent Institute

  • Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Economic Inquiry, Heider College of Business, Creighton University

  • Co-Editor, The Independent Review

  • Ph.D. in Economics, George Mason University.

  • Former Assistant Professor of Economics, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University.

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