Robert L. Heilbroner was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some 20 books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
"The Worldly Philosophers, quite simply put, is a classic....None
of us can know where we are coming from unless we know the sources
of the great ideas that permeate our thinking. The Worldly
Philosophers gives us a clear understanding of the economic ideas
that influence us whether or not we have read the great economic
thinkers."
--Lester Thurow
"A brilliant achievement."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
"If ever a book answered a crying need, this one does. Here is all
the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to
know, served up with a flourish by a man who writes with immense
vigor and skill, who has a rare gift for simplifying
complexities."
--The New York Times
"Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers is a living classic,
both because he makes us see that the ideas of the great economists
remain fresh and important for our times and because his own
brilliant writing forces us to reach out into the future."
--Leonard Silk
"Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith inspired several readers to become
Nobel laureates in biology. Robert Heilbroner's new edition of The
Worldly Philosophers will inspire a new generation of
economists."
--Paul Samuelson
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