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The thinkers discussed in this volume are a remarkably diverse group They were born in the eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their work extends into the twentyfirst Some are economists primarily addressing other scholars others popular writers aiming at the general public Their educational backgrounds range from entirely informal schooling to PhDs from major universities They include a former telegraph operator a onetime Hollywood wardrobe department manager and a graduate of secretarial school Some were shaped by the frontier others by the city They are storytellers and data collectors committed Christians and confirmed atheists devoted to family life and resolutely single Two are recognized here as the intellectual partners of their illustrious spouses