The Worldly Philosophers
Subtitle: the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers
By: Robert L. Heilbroner
Edition: Third edition, newly revised
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
First sentence: This is a book about a handful of men with a curious claim to fame.
Notes: A Clarion book.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the Revised Edition
pagenum: 9; label: I.
title: Introduction
pagenum: 11; label: II.
title: The Economic Revolution
pagenum: 16; label: III.
title: The Wonderful World of Adam Smith
pagenum: 38; label: IV.
title: The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo
pagenum: 68; label: V.
title: The Visions of the Utopian Socialists
pagenum: 96; label: VI.
title: The Inexorable System of Karl Marx
pagenum: 123; label: VII.
title: The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics
pagenum: 123; label: VIII.
title: The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen
pagenum: 192; label: IX.
title: The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes
pagenum: 225; label: X.
title: The Modern World
pagenum: 262; label: XI.
title: Beyond the Economic Revolution
pagenum: 288; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 305; title: A Guide to Further Reading
pagenum: 307; title: Index
pagenum: 313