
Robert L. Heilbroner was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some two dozen books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (1953), a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
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The worldly philosophers
1999
ISBN 9781439144824
Economics Explained
1982
ISBN 9780132296908
Teachings From the Worldly Philosophy
1997
ISBN 9780393316070
The nature and logic of capitalism
1986
ISBN 9780393955293
Marxism
1980
ISBN 9780393242621