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Book · 1953 · Nonfiction

The Worldly Philosophers

Robert Heilbroner
Simon and Schuster (Simon & Schuster) · 368 pages
★ 6.6 editorial score

Smith, Malthus, Marx, Veblen and Keynes written as characters, obsessions and bad ideas intact. Nearly four million copies have sold, and generations took their economics from this rather than a textbook.

Genre
EconomicsIntellectual historyEconomic history
Subject
EconomicsEconomic theoryCapitalismIntellectual history
Time
1953

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