Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393039191
The author of The Worldly Philosophers compiles an anthology of classic texts in economics, supplemented by his own critical commentary.
Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 1997-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393340171
Selections from great writings on economics, annotated and introduced by a distinguished economist and teacher. Author of The Worldly Philosophers, a 3-million-copy seller, Robert Heilbroner offers here a compendium of readings from the "worldly philosophers" themselves. The selections range from the earliest economic thought to such towering volumes as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy, and John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Acting as "a docent, not merely an editor," he takes the reader through the core arguments with "brilliantly clear commentary" (New York Times Book Review).
Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Economics
ISBN : 9780671201517
Introduction.--The economic revolution.--The wonderful world of Adam Smith.--The gloomy world of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo.--The beautiful world of the Utopian socialists.--The inexorable world of Karl Marx.--The Victorian world and the underworld of economics.--The savage world of Thorstein Veblen.--The sick world of John Maynard Keynes.--The modern world.--Beyond the economic revolution.--A guide to further reading (p. 320-326).
Author : Jeremy Adelman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2014-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691163499
The life and times of one of the most provocative thinkers of the twentieth century Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change. This is the first major account of Hirschman’s remarkable life, and a tale of the twentieth century as seen through the story of an astute and passionate observer. Adelman’s riveting narrative traces how Hirschman’s personal experiences shaped his unique intellectual perspective, and how his enduring legacy is one of hope, open-mindedness, and practical idealism.
Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Economics
ISBN :
"Guide to further reading": pages 307-312.
Author : Adam Smith
Publisher :
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Ethics
ISBN :
Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466804270
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author : Warren J. Samuels
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1405128968
Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, thiscompanion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration ofthe history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus:the history of economic thought, the history of economics as adiscipline, and the historiography of economic thought. Provides sophisticated introductions to a vast array oftopics. Focuses on a unique range of topics, including the history ofeconomic thought, the history of the discipline of economics, andthe historiography of economic thought.
Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 1989-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393242633
"[These essays] are rich in argument, in clear and provocative presentation of complicated issues, and are often delightfully quotable. Behind the Veil of Economics makes instructive, disturbing, and lively reading." —Elizabeth Wolgast, New York Times Book Review What lies behind the veil of economics? Power and ideology, answers Robert Heilbroner—the power of our economic involvement in society to shape the ways we think about it; the visions and values that add unsuspected ideological color to our economic beliefs about it. Most important, Heilbroner shows why economics has become the reigning form of social inquiry and how we might penetrate its mystique.
Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher :
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
