 History of Economic Policy is used as an important tool in this process.The Other Canon is highly eclectic and gathers ideas from many authors of various epochs.Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Gunnar Myrdal, Gustav von Schmoller, Werner Sombart, Nicholas Kaldor, Max Weber and Adam Smith (for considerations of the primary sector) are among the theorists to have influenced The Other Canon.