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Nonfiction · Economics

The Worldly Philosophers

Robert Heilbroner

1953 · 368 pages

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.

★ 6.6

Nonfiction · Science history

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

1962 · 217 pages

Science does not creep forward by adding facts, Kuhn argues. It works inside one framework until the anomalies pile up and the whole picture flips. Paradigm shift is his phrase and his idea.

★ 8.3

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions