The worldly philosophers : the lives, times and ideas of the great economic thinkers / Robert L. Heilbroner
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TextPublication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, c1961Edition: REVISED EDITIONDescription: ix, 309 pages ; 22 cmSubject(s): ECONOMICS | ECONOMIC -- HISTORYLOC classification: HB 31 .H4 1961
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LRC - Graduate Studies | National University - Manila | Gen. Ed - CEAS | General Circulation | GC HB 31 .H4 1961 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | c.1 | Available | NULIB000012603 |
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Includes index.
I. Introduction -- II. The economic revolution -- III. The wonderful world of Adam Smith -- IV. The gloomy world of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo -- V. The beautiful world of the utopian socialist -- VI. The inexorable world of Karl Marx -- VII. The Victorian world and the Underworld of economics -- VIII. The savage world of Thorstein Veblen -- IX. The sick world of John Maynard Keynes -- X. The modern world -- XI. Beyond the economic revolution.
This is a book about a handful of men with curious claim to fame. By all the rules of schoolboy history books, they were nonentities: they commanded no armies, sent no men to their deaths, ruled no empires, took little part in history-making decisions.
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