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The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers
The bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx—“all the economic lore most general readers con...
Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going
Introduces basic concept of economics and examines 1990s trends in the American economy including inequality in incomes, globalized capitalism, and th...
Everything You Need to Know about how the Economy Works and where It's Going
Two of America's most respected economists clarify the basics of economics for everyone who wants to understand the nature of the economic forces that...
A New York Times Notable Book What forms will capitalism take in the twenty-first century? To answer this question, noted economist and social philoso...
The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
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"It is my hope that some grasp of what the twenty-first century holds in store for capitalism may enable us to avoid at least some of the pain we migh...
"[These essays] are rich in argument, in clear and provocative presentation of complicated issues, and are often delightfully quotable. Behind the Vei...
The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers [by] Robert L. Heilbroner. 4th Ed., Completely Rev. for the 1970's
In The Worldly Philosophers, Robert Heilbroner set out to describe what the great economists thought would happen to the system of capitalism. In late...
Selections from great writings on economics, annotated and introduced by a distinguished economist and teacher. Author of The Worldly Philosophers, a ...
This text provides a brief historical approach to explain economics and the various manifestations - the people, events and politics that are key to s...
"Genuinely open-minded and inquiring. . . .it intelligently summarizes and shrewdly questions four central topics of Marxist thought—the dialectical...
A deep and widespread crisis affects modern economic theory, a crisis that derives from the absence of a "vision"--a set of widely shared political an...
The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
1600 to the Present
This extraordinary text offers a proven combination of scholarship from an insightful economist and a renowned American historian. It recounts the dev...
Is there hope for man? That "terrible question" was posed by Robert L. Heilbroner in the original version of An Inquiry into the Human Prospect. In th...
Macroeconomics and Social Policy in Memory of William S.Vickrey
The 15 papers collected in this book encompass important macroeconomic theories and policies espoused by 1996 Nobel laureate economist William S. Vick...
The Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
"This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future." So begins Vis...
Essays in the Worldly Philosophy
Professor Heilbroner shows why economics has become the reigning form of social inquiry, and how we might penetrate its mystique. He explores aspects ...
The Great Economic Thinkers
This lucid account explains the ideas of economists like Adam Smith, Ricardo, Marx, and Keynes....
Dans ce classique de l'initiation économique, Robert L. Heilbroner donne une image complète des grandes traditions de l'économie : classique, marxi...
Everything You Need to Know about How the Economy Works and Where It's Going
A history of economic concepts with emphasis on those of Adam Smith, Marx, and Keynes....
Essays in Political Economics
A collection of essays on three topics: the contemporary changes in both economic systems, especially those changes driven by technology; economic the...
Said One Executive: “Why should my conscience bother me?” Here are dramatic true stories of executives whose desire for profit leads them into sha...
The Historic Currents of Our Time and the Direction in which They are Taking America
... Heilbroner sets out to tell us where capitalism will go in the years to come. In order to do that properly, he first shows us where capitalism has...
Study in five major parts: economic history and background, economic science the study of the macro system of economic growth, the market mechanism, o...
This text offers a proven combination of scholarship from an economist and a renowned American historian. It recounts the story of capitalism and the ...
Look at Again for the 1990's
False Alarms/real Possibilities
As the British trade deficit continues to grow, this trenchant, original and timely book on the US deficit and national debt offers much to readers on...
Book of the 1992 Massey Lectures, broadcast on Canadian radio in which the author, an economic historian and a professor of economics at the New Schoo...