The final and most profound revision of this classic bestseller defines the common thread linking the world\'s greatest Economic Thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them.
Thus, unlike its predecessors, this new edition provides not just an indispensable illumination of our past but a call to action for our future..
This chapter conveys a concern that today\'s increasingly scientific economics may overlook fundamental social and political issues that are central to economics.
In a bold new concluding chapter entitled The End of the Worldly Philosophy? Heilbroner reminds us that the word end refers to both the purpose and limits of economics.
It is a focus never more needed than in this age of confusing Economic headlines.
The theme is the common focus of their highly varied ideas--namely, the search to understand how a capitalist society works.
Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects Thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx.
In this seventh edition, Robert L.
The Worldly Philosophers not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times.
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 final and most profound revision of this classic bestseller defines the common thread linking the world\'s greatest Economic Thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them
