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The Worldly Philosophers

Robert L. Heilbroner

  • 342 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1953
  • 67 editions
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1 About this book

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.

Good for readers who want: economics, history, and a true life story.

  • Economics
  • History
  • Biography
  • Economic history
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Biographies
  • Philosophers
  • Manuel

2 About Robert L. Heilbroner

1919–2005

Robert L. Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some two dozen books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (1953), a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.

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