The Worldly Philosophers
Subtitle: the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers
By: Robert L. Heilbroner.
Edition: Fifth edition, completely revised for the 1980's
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Economists -- Biography.; Economics -- History.
First sentence: This is a book about a handful of men with a curious claim to fame.
Description: A Touchstone Book.
Includes index.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the Fifth 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: 40; label: IV.
title: The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo
pagenum: 73; label: V.
title: The Visions of the Utopian Socialists
pagenum: 102; label: VI.
title: The Inexorable System of Karl Marx
pagenum: 133; label: VII.
title: The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics
pagenum: 168; label: VIII.
title: The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen
pagenum: 210; label: IX.
title: The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes
pagenum: 245; label: X.
title: The Modern World
pagenum: 284; label: XI.
title: Beyond the Economic Revolution
pagenum: 311; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 327; title: A Guide to Further Reading
pagenum: 329; title: Index
pagenum: 337