Heilbroner, Robert L.

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.

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Economics--History.

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