James Madison, the pen name of Charles Aronstein (August 27, 1870 – March 27, 1943), was an American theatre manager, writer, and publisher, best known for writing and publishing the periodical *Madison's Budget*.

Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, and was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019.

James Alan Robinson is a British-American economist and political scientist.

Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE)..

French aristocrat and political thinker Alexis Charles Henri de Tocqueville transformed how the world understood democracy through his keen observations of 19th-century America.

Ronald Chernow is an American writer, journalist, and biographer.