The worldly philosophers : the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers /
Robert L. Heilbroner.
- Fifth edition, completely revised.
- New York, New York : Simon and Schuster, 1980.
- 347 páginas ; 21 cm.
- A Touchstone book .
Preface to the Fifth Revised Edition, 9 -- I. Introduction, 11 -- II. The economic revolution, 16 -- III. The wonderful world of Adam Smith, 40 -- IV. The Gloomy presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo, 73 -- V. The visions of the utopian socialists, 102 -- VI. The inexorable system of Karl Marx, 133 -- VII. The victoria n world and the underworld of economics, 168 -- VIII. The savage society of Thorstein Veblen, 210 -- IX. The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes, 245 -- X. The modern world, 284 -- XI. Beyond the economic revolution, 311 -- Acknowledgments, 327 -- A guide to further reading, 329 -- Index, 337.