The worldly philosophers : the lives, times and ideas of the great economic thinkers / Robert L. Heilbroner.
By: Heilbroner, Robert L.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Penguin, 1986 (1991)Edition: 6th ed.Description: 365 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0140136681 .Subject(s): Economics -- HistoryDDC classification: 330.10922Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 330.10922 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00070147 | ||
General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 330.10922 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00070146 |
Previous ed.: 1980.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-348) and index.
Introduction -- The economic revolution -- The wonderful world of Adam Smith -- The gloomy presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo -- The visions 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 -- Behind the worldly philosophy.