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

ISBN-10: 0671201514
ISBN-13: 9780671201517
Series: The Worldly Philosophers
Pages: 342
Language: English
Published: 1953
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Author: Robert L. Heilbroner

Description

Introduction.--The economic revolution.--The wonderful world of Adam Smith.--The gloomy world of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo.--The beautiful world of the Utopian socialists.--The inexorable world of Karl Marx.--The Victorian world and the underworld of economics.--The savage world of Thorstein Veblen.--The sick world of John Maynard Keynes.--The modern world.--Beyond the economic revolution.--A guide to further reading (p. 320-326).