Showing The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner

Paperback. Pub Date: May. 2000 Pages: 368 Publisher: Penguin of The final REVISION of this classic bestseller. The 7th edition defines the the common thread LINKING the world's Greatest Economic Thinkers and Explores the philosophies that the MOTIVATE THEM. Hailed by Galaith AS A illiant achievement. The Worldly Philosophers with over 2 million copies sold worldwide. not only enables us to see more deeply into our history. but helps us to better understand our own times. Heiloner provides the new theme that connects thinkers as different as Adam Smith and Karl Marx: the desire to understand how a capitalist society works. A new chapter conveys a concern that today's increasingly scientific economics may overlook fundamental social and political issues that are central to economics.