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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- Paul RomerThinkerEconomist who proposed charter cities; shared the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for work on endogenous growth.
- Peter KropotkinThinkerAnarchist thinker and naturalist who argued in Mutual Aid (1902) that cooperation is a major factor in evolution.
- Philip PettitThinkerIrish philosopher at Princeton and the Australian National University who revived civic republicanism and defined freedom as non-domination, i.e. independence from arbitrary power.
- Pierre-Joseph ProudhonThinkerFrench socialist and printer, the first to call himself an anarchist; proposed mutualism, federalism and workers' association in place of both capitalism and the centralised state.