The worldly philosophers : the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers / Robert L. Heilbroner.
1999
HB76 .H4 1999 (Mapit)
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Title
The worldly philosophers : the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers / Robert L. Heilbroner.
Edition
Revised seventh edition.
ISBN
068486214X (pbk.)
9780684862149 (pbk.)
9780684862149 (pbk.)
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, [1999]
Language
English
Description
365 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
HB76 .H4 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification
330/.092/2
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B
Summary
"The Worldly Philosophers is one of the bestselling economics books of all time. For more than half a century, it has not only enabled us to see more deeply into our history but helped us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner unearths a theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The theme is the common focus of their highly varied ideas-- namely, the search to understand how a capitalist society works."--Back cover.
Note
"A Touchstone book."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-343) and index.
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Table of Contents
The economic revolution
The wonderful world of Adam Smith
The gloomy presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo
The dreams of the utopian socialists
The inexorable system of Karl Marx
The Victorian world and the underworld of economics
The savage society of Thorstein Veblen
The heresies of John Maynard Keynes
The contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter
The end of the worldly philosophy?
The wonderful world of Adam Smith
The gloomy presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo
The dreams of the utopian socialists
The inexorable system of Karl Marx
The Victorian world and the underworld of economics
The savage society of Thorstein Veblen
The heresies of John Maynard Keynes
The contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter
The end of the worldly philosophy?