The Worldly Philosophers
Subtitle: the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers
By: Robert L. Heilbroner.
Edition: Sixth edition
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Economists -- Biography.; Economics -- History.
First sentence: This is a book about a handful of men with a curious claim to fame.
Notes: A Touchstone book.
Includes bibliographic references (pages 327-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the Sixth Edition
pagenum: 7; label: I.
title: Introduction
pagenum: 13; label: II.
title: The Economic Revolution
pagenum: 18; label: III.
title: The Wonderful World of Adam Smith
pagenum: 42; label: IV.
title: The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo
pagenum: 75; label: V.
title: The Visions of the Utopian Socialists
pagenum: 105; label: VI.
title: The Inexorable System of Karl Marx
pagenum: 136; label: VII.
title: The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics
pagenum: 171; label: VIII.
title: The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen
pagenum: 213; label: IX.
title: The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes
pagenum: 249; label: X.
title: The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter
pagenum: 288; label: XI.
title: Beyond the Worldly Philosophy
pagenum: 311; title: A Guide to Further Reading
pagenum: 327; title: Notes
pagenum: 335; title: Index
pagenum: 349