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050 _aHB 31 .H4 1961
100 _aHeilbroner, Robert L.
_eauthor
245 4 _aThe worldly philosophers :
_bthe lives, times and ideas of the great economic thinkers /
_cRobert L. Heilbroner
250 _aREVISED EDITION.
260 _aNew York :
_bSimon and Schuster,
_cc1961
300 _aix, 309 pages ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes index.
505 _aI. 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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 _aECONOMICS
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