Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Robert L. Heilbroner

4/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 23 1919
Died
0303 01 20052005
Robert L. Heilbroner was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers, a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.

Written in 1953, The Worldly Philosophers has sold nearly four million copies—the second-best-selling economics text of all time. The seventh edition of the book, published in 1999, included a new final chapter entitled "The End of Worldly Philosophy?", which included both a grim view on the current state of economics as well as a hopeful vision for a "reborn worldly philosophy" that incorporated social aspects of capitalism.

Although a highly unconventional economist, who regarded himself as more of a social theorist and "worldly philosopher" , and who tended to integrate the disciplines of history, economics and philosophy, Heilbroner was nevertheless recognized by his peers as a prominent economist. He was elected Vice President of the American Economic Association in 1972.

He also came up with a way of classifying economies, as either Traditional , Command , Market , or Mixed.

He was a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security.

Heilbroner died on January 4, 2005 in New York, NY at the age of 85.

Robert L. Heilbroner

4/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 23 1919
Died
0303 01 20052005
Robert L. Heilbroner was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers, a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.

Written in 1953, The Worldly Philosophers has sold nearly four million copies—the second-best-selling economics text of all time. The seventh edition of the book, published in 1999, included a new final chapter entitled "The End of Worldly Philosophy?", which included both a grim view on the current state of economics as well as a hopeful vision for a "reborn worldly philosophy" that incorporated social aspects of capitalism.

Although a highly unconventional economist, who regarded himself as more of a social theorist and "worldly philosopher" , and who tended to integrate the disciplines of history, economics and philosophy, Heilbroner was nevertheless recognized by his peers as a prominent economist. He was elected Vice President of the American Economic Association in 1972.

He also came up with a way of classifying economies, as either Traditional , Command , Market , or Mixed.

He was a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security.

Heilbroner died on January 4, 2005 in New York, NY at the age of 85.

Books from Robert L. Heilbroner

The Worldly Philosophers

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The End of Work

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Economics Explained

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Essential Adam Smith

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Nature and Logic of Capitalism

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Making of Economic Society

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Marxism: For and Against

3.7/5 ( ratings)

21st Century Capitalism

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Understanding Attitudes and Predicting Social Behavior

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Behind the Veil of Economics: Essays in the Worldly Philosophy

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Visions of the Future (American Lectures)

2.9/5 ( ratings)

The Future as History

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Marxism: For and Against

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Visions of the Future: The Distant Past, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

3/5 ( ratings)

An Inquiry into the Human Prospect: Updated & Reconsidered for the 1990s

3/5 ( ratings)

A Construção da Sociedade Econômica

3/5 ( ratings)

Why Market Socialism?: Voices from Dissent: Voices from Dissent

3/5 ( ratings)

Twenty-First Century Capitalism (CBC Massey Lectures)

3/5 ( ratings)
loader