The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

In this fifth edition of The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, an account of the most celebrated and popular history of economics is provided. The concerns of economists--from Adam Smith to Malthus, from Marx to Veblen, from Keynes to modern day economists--have changed drastically over the years. The 1980s, with all its complicated politics, its dwindling natural resources and its growing fiscal problems, is reviewed as a decade of economic challenges. This work aims to make a comprehensible history of the thinking that underlies a system that is vital to the operation of the oncoming 1980s. This edition adds Robert Heilbroner's explanation of imperialism, provides new estimates of Marx and discusses modern economics. A Touchstone Book, published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980. Paperback edition.