The conservative view: Adam Smith. Friedrich Hayek. Milton Friedman. Murray Rothbard -- The liberal view: John Stuart Mill. John Maynard Keynes. Joseph A. Schumpeter. John Kenneth Galbraith. Donald N. Michael. Robert Theobald. Robert L. Heilbroner. Daniel P. Moynihan -- The radical view: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Thorstein Veblen. Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy. Michael Harrington.