The Worldly Philosophers
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (1953) is a book by Robert Heilbroner.
It sold nearly four million copies, making it the second-best-selling economics text of all time (the first being Paul Samuelson's Economics, a highly popular university textbook). 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. Its content is:
- Introduction
- The Economic Revolution
- The Wonderful World of Adam Smith
- The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo
- The Dreams of the Utopian Socialists
- about Robert Owen, Henri de Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, and John Stuart Mill
- The Inexorable System of Karl Marx
- The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics
- The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen
- The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes
- The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter
- The End of the Worldly Philosophy?
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