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The Worldly Philosophers; The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

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Author: Robert L. Heilbroner
ISBN: 9780671633189

by Robert L. Heilbroner

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9780671633189
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Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1987-01-01
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
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The sixth edition of Robert L. Heilbroner's engaging, scholarly account of the entire range of economic thinking since Adam Smith, completely revised for the 1990s.

Author Biography

Robert L. Heilbroner is the Norman Thomas Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at The New School for Social Research and is the author of more than twenty books. He lives in New York City.

Introduction	p. 13
The Economic Revolution	p. 18
The Wonderful World of Adam Smith	p. 42
The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo	p. 75
The Dreams of the Utopian Socialists	p. 105
The Inexorable System of Karl Marx	p. 136
The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics	p. 170
The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen	p. 213
The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes	p. 248
The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter	p. 288
The End of the Worldly Philosophy?	p. 311
A Guide to Further Reading	p. 323
Notes	p. 331
Index	p. 345
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