The Worldly Philosophers
Book by Robert Heilbroner
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Introduction.--The economic revolution.--The wonderful world of Adam Smith.--The gloomy world of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo.--The beautiful world of the Utopian socialists.--The inexorable world ... Google Books
Originally published: 1953
Author: Robert Heilbroner
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The bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx—“all the economic lore most general readers conceivably ...
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The subject of The Worldly Philosophers, the great economists, covers those theorists whose words and thoughts concerning the creation and distribution of ...
Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers is the most widely read text on the history of economic thought ever written. Here, the great economic ...
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This book is a classic introduction to the history of economic thought. It is very well written and clearly very well researched. I learned quite a bit about ...
In any case, this very easy-reading book is one that will add to your economics knowledge, although it might be better used not as a primer for economics ...
Ignoring the philosopher's warnings about the dangers of monopoly, they justified resistance to government attempts at social legislation. During this era, ...
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The bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx—“all the economic lore most general readers conceivably ...
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The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers, a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably ...