Important People in His World of Ideas
- Adam Smith (1723–1790), the "Father of Economics"
- Auguste Comte (1798–1857), Ingram was a firm adherent of him
- David Ricardo (1772–1823), an ideological opponent
- John Elliott Cairnes (1823–1875), one of the last of the classical economists
- François Quesnay (1694–1774), a French economist
- Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712–1759), a French economist
- Pierre Leroux (1797–1871), French philosopher and political economist
- Cliffe Leslie (1826–1882), Irish economist
- John Ramsay McCulloch (1789–1864), a Scottish economist, leader of the Ricardian school
- Georg Ludwig von Maurer (1790–1872), a German historian
- William Petty (1623–1687), an English economist, scientist and philosopher
- Karl Rau (1792–1870), a German political economist
- George Ferdinand Shaw (1821–1899), an Irish journalist and Professor of Greek and Latin
- Jacques Turgot (1727–1781), a French economist
- Arthur Young (1741–1820), an English writer on agriculture, economics and social statistics
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