Title:
The worldly philosophers : the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers
Author:
Heilbroner, Robert L.
Personal Author:
Edition:
6th ed.
Physical Description:
365 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary:
Presents the ideas of the great economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to Malthus, and from Marx to John Maynard Keynes.
Language:
English
Contents:
The economic revolution -- The wonderful world of Adam Smith -- The gloomy presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo -- The visions of the utopian socialists -- The inexorable system of Karl Marx -- The Victorian world and the underworld of economics -- The savage society of Thorstein Veblen -- The heresies of John Maynard Keynes -- The contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter -- Behind the worldly philosophy.
ISBN:
9780671634827
9780671633189
Format :
Book
