The worldly philosophers : the lives, times and ideas of the great economic thinkers /
Robert L. Heilbroner.
- 6th ed.
- London : Penguin, 1986
- 365 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.
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.