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"Guide to further reading": pages 307-312.
Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Economics
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"Guide to further reading": pages 307-312.
Author : Robert Louis Heilbroner
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1439144826
The bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx—“all the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to know, served up with a flourish” (The New York Times). The Worldly Philosophers 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.
Author : Jeremy Adelman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 18,73 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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 18,48 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.
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Page : 274 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2020
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ISBN : 0711253099
Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 46,84 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 : Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1980-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0393951669
"Genuinely open-minded and inquiring. . . .it intelligently summarizes and shrewdly questions four central topics of Marxist thought—the dialectical approach to philosophy, the materialist interpretation of history, the socio-analysis of capitalism and the commitment to socialism." —Raymond Williams, Cambridge University In the lucid style and engaging manner that have become his trademark, Robert L. Heilbroner explains and explores the central elements of Marxist thought: the meaning of a "dialectical" philosophy, the usefulness and problems of a " materialist" interpretation" of history, the power of Marx's "socioanalytic" penetration of capitalism, and the hopes and disconcerting problems involved in a commitment to socialism. Scholarly without being academic, searching without assuming a prior knowledge of the subject, Dr. Heilbroner enables us to appreciate the greatness of Mark while avoiding an uncritical stance toward his work.
Author : Duncan K. Foley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674027078
This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam's fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends.
Author : Robert L. Heilbroner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 039395529X
A social analysis of capitalism. Nature and logic of social systems and capitalism.