Heilbroner, Robert L. <br/><br/>
The worldly philosophers :   the lives, times and ideas of the great economic thinkers /  
Robert L. Heilbroner 
 - REVISED EDITION. 
 - New York :  Simon and Schuster,  c1961. 
 - ix, 309 pages ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>ECONOMICS<br/>ECONOMIC -- HISTORY
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HB 31 .H4 1961