[PDF] The Worldly Philosophers

• Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2011-01-11
• ISBN : 9781439144824

The bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx—“all the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to know, served up with a flourish” (The New York Times). The Worldly Philosophers not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl

• Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 1997-04-17
• ISBN : 9780393316070

Discusses historical economic writings including Bernard Mandeville, Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Jeremy Bentham, Thorstein Veblen, and John Maynard Keynes.

• Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
• Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 1972
• ISBN : 0671213261

• Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1966
• ISBN : OCLC:1317103882

• Author : Jeremy Adelman
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2014-10-26
• ISBN : 9780691163499

Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change. This is the first major account of Hirschman’s remarkable life, and a tale of the twentieth century as seen through the story of

• Author : Robert Louis Heilbroner (économiste).)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1953
• ISBN : OCLC:490992194

• Author : Jeremy Adelman
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2013
• ISBN : 9780691155678

"Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change. Born in Berlin in 1915, Hirschman grew up amid the promise and turmoil of the Weimar era, but fled Germany when the Nazis seized power

• Author : Joseph M. Leon
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1968
• ISBN : OCLC:1007521547

• Author : Arien Mack
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2004
• ISBN : OCLC:1110905268

This special issue of Social Research celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Robert Heilbroner's classic work, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times...

• Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
• Publisher : Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
• Release Date : 1987-01-01
• ISBN : 0844662917

This lucid account explains the ideas of economists like Adam Smith, Ricardo, Marx, and Keynes.

• Author : Mehmet Odekon
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release Date : 2006-05-16
• ISBN : 9781452265186

Poverty is more than just lack of income, it is deprivation from basic capabilities, rights, and freedoms that provide individuals the necessary choices and opportunities they need to lead a life they value. The Encyclopedia of World Poverty provides extensive and current information, as well as insight into the contemporary debate on poverty. The three volumes of this state-of-the-art Encyclopedia contain over 800 original articles written by more than 125 renowned scholars. The entries contributing to this work explore poverty in various

• Author : John K. Roth,Christina J. Moose,Rowena Wildin
• Publisher : Salem PressInc
• Release Date : 2000
• ISBN : UOM:39015047703395

Examines the lives, works, and influence of ancient and contemporary world philosophers from Pythagoras and Jalal al-Din Rumi to Elie Wiesel and Alison M. Jaggar, and analyzes the authorship and historical context of ancient works.

• Author : M. Carroll
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 1998-01-12
• ISBN : 9780230372511

This book provides an intellectual portrait of Robert Heilbroner. It traces the development of his work and places it within the literature of economic thought. The book finds that Heilbroner is a writer of political economy in the classical sense. His work is more reminiscent of Smith or Marx than of contemporary economic theorists. Heilbroner's economics is built on a solid foundation of social psychology, evolutionary dynamics and human history. This holistic approach affords Heilbroner a wide latitude to define

• Author : Robert Nadeau
• Publisher : Orchises Press
• Release Date : 1984
• ISBN : 0914061011

• Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 1980-03-17
• ISBN : 9780393242621

"Genuinely open-minded and inquiring. . . .it intelligently summarizes and shrewdly questions four central topics of Marxist thought—the dialectical approach to philosophy, the materialist interpretation of history, the socio-analysis of capitalism and the commitment to socialism." —Raymond Williams, Cambridge University In the lucid style and engaging manner that have become his trademark, Robert L. Heilbroner explains and explores the central elements of Marxist thought: the meaning of a "dialectical" philosophy, the usefulness and problems of a " materialist" interpretation" of history, the