Robert L. Heilbroner

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

Sprecher: Woods, Mary

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 660 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441743695
• Artikelnr.: 30837437

Autorenporträt

Robert L. Heilbroner was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some 20 books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
I Introduction
II The Economic Revolution
III The Wonderful World of Adam Smith
IV The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo
V The Dreams of the Utopian Socialists
VI The Inexorable System of Karl Marx
VII The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics
VIII The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen
IX The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes
X The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter
XI The End of the Worldly Philosophy?
A Guide to Further Reading
Notes
Index