01 · Knowledge Atlas
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Theories, political philosophies, economic models, institution types and forms of self-government — each idea traced through theory, real examples, critique and results.
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- Karl MarxThinkerGerman philosopher, economist and revolutionary who analysed capitalism as a system of class exploitation, developed a materialist theory of history, saw in the Paris Commune a model of popular self-government, and inspired both democratic socialist and communist movements.
- KautilyaThinkerName under which the Arthashastra, an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, administration, taxation, espionage and foreign policy, was compiled; traditionally identified with Chanakya, minister of Chandragupta Maurya, though modern scholars treat the text as composite.
- Kenneth ArrowThinkerAmerican economist whose impossibility theorem (1950–51) showed that no method of aggregating individual rankings of three or more options can satisfy a small set of reasonable conditions at once; Nobel laureate in 1972 for work on general equilibrium and welfare theory.