The worldly philosophers : the lives, times and ideas of the great economic thinkers / Robert L. Heilbroner

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, c1961Edition: REVISED EDITIONDescription: ix, 309 pages ; 22 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB 31 .H4 1961
Contents:
I. Introduction -- II. The economic revolution -- III. The wonderful world of Adam Smith -- IV. The gloomy world of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo -- V. The beautiful world of the utopian socialist -- VI. The inexorable world of Karl Marx -- VII. The Victorian world and the Underworld of economics -- VIII. The savage world of Thorstein Veblen -- IX. The sick world of John Maynard Keynes -- X. The modern world -- XI. Beyond the economic revolution.
Summary: This is a book about a handful of men with curious claim to fame. By all the rules of schoolboy history books, they were nonentities: they commanded no armies, sent no men to their deaths, ruled no empires, took little part in history-making decisions.
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Includes index.

I. Introduction -- II. The economic revolution -- III. The wonderful world of Adam Smith -- IV. The gloomy world of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo -- V. The beautiful world of the utopian socialist -- VI. The inexorable world of Karl Marx -- VII. The Victorian world and the Underworld of economics -- VIII. The savage world of Thorstein Veblen -- IX. The sick world of John Maynard Keynes -- X. The modern world -- XI. Beyond the economic revolution.

This is a book about a handful of men with curious claim to fame. By all the rules of schoolboy history books, they were nonentities: they commanded no armies, sent no men to their deaths, ruled no empires, took little part in history-making decisions.

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