Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
John Hicks

Born: April 8, 1904
Died: May 20, 1989 (aged 85)
Bio: Sir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century.
Known for:
- Value and Capital (1939)
- The Theory of Wages (1932)
- A revision of demand theory (1956)
- Capital and time (1973)
- A market theory of money (1989)