Mark Blaug

Mark Blaug  (3 April 1927 – 18 November 2011) was a Dutch-born British economist (naturalised in 1982), who covered a broad range of topics during his long career.

In 1955 Blaug received his PhD from Columbia University in New York under the supervision of George Stigler. Besides shorter periods in public service and in international organisations he has held academic appointments in – among others – Yale University, the University of London, the London School of Economics and the University of Buckingham. He was visiting Professor in the Netherlands, University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where he was also co-director of CHIMES (Center for History in Management and Economics).

Mark Blaug made far reaching contributions to a range of topics in economic thought throughout his career. Apart from valuable contributions to the economics of art and the economics of education, he is best known for his work in history of economic thought and the methodology of economics. Concerning methodological issues and the application of economic theory to a wide range of subjects from education to human capital, the "philosophy of science and the sweep of intellectual progress are fitting subjects to accommodate the breadth of Mark Blaug's interest.

     

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Blaug

Mark Skousen

Mark Skousen was born in 1947 in San Diego, California, and grew up in Portland, Oregon. He earned his B.A. and Master's degree in economics from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University in 1977.

Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA from 1972 to 1975. He later worked as a consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology, and other companies. He was a columnist for Forbes magazine from 1997 to 2001, and has contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal as well as to various libertarian periodicals. He has been a speaker at investment conferences and  has lectured for think tanks, From 2008-2010 he was a weekly contributor on CNBC's Kudlow & Company and has also appeared on C-SPAN Book TV and Fox News.

Academic Books:

• The Structure of Production (New York University Press, 1990) ISBN 0-8147-7895-X
• Economics on Trial (Irwin McGraw Hill, 1991; 2nd edition, 1993) ISBN 1-55623-372-8 Translated into Japanese.
• Dissent on Keynes, editor (Praeger Publishing, 1992) ISBN 027593778X
• Puzzles and Paradoxes in Economics, co-authored with Kenna C. Taylor (Edward Elgar, 1997) ISBN 1840640499 Translated into Korean and Chinese
• Economic Logic (Capital Press, 2000, 2008, 2011, 2014). ISBN 1621572226 Fourth Edition includes chapters on macroeconomics and government policy, as well as microeconomics with Carl Menger’s “theory of the good” and the profit-and-loss income statement to explain the dynamics of the market process, entrepreneurship, and the advantages of saving. Translated into Chinese by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press
• The Making of Modern Economics (M. E. Sharpe Publishers, 2001, 2009) ISBN 0765622270 Winner 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Now in its second printing; translated into Chinese, Turkish, Mongolian, Spanish and Polish
• The Power of Economic Thinking (Foundation for Economic Education, 2002)ISBN 1572462019 Translated into Chinese by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press
• Vienna and Chicago: Friends or Foes? A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics (Capital Press, 2005) ISBN 0895260298 Translated into Chinese
• The Completed Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, compiled and edited by Mark Skousen (Regnery Books, 2006) ISBN 0895260336 Regnery Publishing has also published in paperback the original Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, edited with a new introduction by Mark Skousen, as Vol. I (1706–1757) and The Completed Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin as Vol. II (1757–1790)
• The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes (M. E. Sharpe, 2007) ISBN 0765616947
• EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists Is Transforming the World (Wiley & Sons, 2008) ISBN 0470138076 Translated into Korean & Portuguese

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Skousen

Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to have 5 billion users by 2030

During an event on Monday celebrating Facebook's 12th anniversary, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear he wants 5 billion people using the social network by 2030, according to USA Today. That would mean nearly 60 percent of the human race would be using Facebook in 2030, when the world's population is expected to reach 8.5 billion, according to the UN.

by Micah Singleton@MicahSingleton  Feb 4, 2016, 4:48pm EST

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/4/10918680/5-billion-facebook-users-by-2030-mark-zuckerberg