The Worldly Philosophers
Subtitle: the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers.
By: [by] Robert L. Heilbroner.
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Economics; Economists; History
First sentence: This is a book about a handful of men with a curious claim to fame.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (pages 294-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the Revised Edition
pagenum: ix; label: I.
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: II.
title: The Economic Revolution
pagenum: 6; label: III.
title: The Wonderful World of Adam Smith
pagenum: 28; label: IV.
title: The Gloomy World of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo
pagenum: 58; label: V.
title: The Beautiful World of the Utopian Socialists
pagenum: 85; label: V!.
title: The Inexorable World of Karl Marx
pagenum: 112; label: VII.
title: The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics
pagenum: 143; label: VIII.
title: The Savage World of Thorstein Veblen
pagenum: 181; label: IX.
title: The Sick World of John Maynard Keynes
pagenum: 214; label: X.
title: The Modern World
pagenum: 252; label: XI.
title: Beyond the Economic Revolution
pagenum: 277; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 293; title: A Guide to Further Reading
pagenum: 294; title: Index
pagenum: 300