The worldly philosophers :
Heilbroner, Robert L.
The worldly philosophers : the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers / Worldly philosophers : the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers / Robert L. Heilbroner. - Rev. 7th ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999. - 365 p. : 22 cm.
"A Touchstone book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-343) and index.
I. Introduction
II. The Economic Revolution
III. The Wonderful World of Adam Smith
IV. The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo
V. The Dreams of the Utopian Socialists
VI. The Inexorable System of Karl Marx
VII. The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics
VIII. The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen
IX. The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes
X. The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter
XI. The End of the Worldly Philosophy?
"The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a view 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."--BOOK JACKET.
068486214X (pbk.) 9780684862149 (pbk.)
Economists--Biography.
Economics--History.
330.0922 HEI B / 001759
The worldly philosophers : the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers / Worldly philosophers : the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers / Robert L. Heilbroner. - Rev. 7th ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999. - 365 p. : 22 cm.
"A Touchstone book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-343) and index.
I. Introduction
II. The Economic Revolution
III. The Wonderful World of Adam Smith
IV. The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo
V. The Dreams of the Utopian Socialists
VI. The Inexorable System of Karl Marx
VII. The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics
VIII. The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen
IX. The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes
X. The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter
XI. The End of the Worldly Philosophy?
"The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a view 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."--BOOK JACKET.
068486214X (pbk.) 9780684862149 (pbk.)
Economists--Biography.
Economics--History.
330.0922 HEI B / 001759