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Many economists who propounded the inevitability of business cycles, including Kuznets, Hayek, Paul Samuelson and James Tobin, have won Nobel Prizes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

While he propounded a number of groundbreaking if sometimes controversial theories, Professor Lucas was best known for his hypothesis of “rational expectations,” advanced in the early 1970s in a critique of macroeconomics.

From New York Times • May 17, 2023

And it ends with one of them stepping on a butterfly and changing the course of history — 20 years before the chaos theoretician Edward Norton Lorenz propounded the “butterfly effect.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

He characterized as “fantasy” another idea, propounded by British author Robin Mackness in the best-selling 1988 book “Oradour: Massacre and Aftermath,” that the Nazis attacked Oradour in search of gold stolen by the resistance.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2023

The theory Hapgood alluded to was one first propounded in 1908 by an amateur American geologist named Frank Bursley Taylor.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson