The Worldly Philosophers：The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

作者: Robert L. Heilbroner （罗伯特·L·海尔布伦）著

出版社: Simon & Schuster US

出版时间: 1999-09

版次: 0007

ISBN: 9780684862149

定价: 153.70

装帧: 平装

开本: 其他

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 368页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>文学

The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that 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 Marx. The theme is the common focus of their highly varied ideas -- namely, the search to understand how a capitalist society works. It is a focus never more needed than in this age of confusing economic headlines.

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. This chapter conveys a concern that today's increasingly scientific economics may overlook fundamental social and political issues that are central to economics. Thus, unlike its predecessors, this new edition provides not just an indispensable illumination of our past but a call to action for our future. Robert L. Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers (1953), a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes. I  Introduction

II  The Economic Revolution

Ill  The Wonderful World of Adam Smith

IV  The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo

V  The Dreams of the Utopian Socialists

VI  The Inexorable System of Karl Marx

VII  The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics

VIII  The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen

IX  The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes

X  The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter

XI  The End of the Worldly Philosophy?

A Guide to Further Reading

Notes

Index
内容简介:
The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that 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 Marx. The theme is the common focus of their highly varied ideas -- namely, the search to understand how a capitalist society works. It is a focus never more needed than in this age of confusing economic headlines.

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. This chapter conveys a concern that today's increasingly scientific economics may overlook fundamental social and political issues that are central to economics. Thus, unlike its predecessors, this new edition provides not just an indispensable illumination of our past but a call to action for our future.
作者简介:
Robert L. Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers (1953), a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
目录:
I  Introduction

II  The Economic Revolution

Ill  The Wonderful World of Adam Smith

IV  The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo

V  The Dreams of the Utopian Socialists

VI  The Inexorable System of Karl Marx

VII  The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics

VIII  The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen

IX  The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes

X  The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter

XI  The End of the Worldly Philosophy?

A Guide to Further Reading

Notes

Index