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Robert L. Heilbroner's Books
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The Worldly PhilosophersThe Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own...Read More
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ECONOMICS EXPLAINEDIn its fourth edition, Economics Explained continues its announced purpose -- to explain that mysterious thing called economics. But there is a new...Read More
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Seattle Times, September 14, 2011
...The Story of Economic Genius' by Sylvia Nasar Simon & Schuster, 558 pp., $35 Nearly 60 years ago, Robert Heilbroner wrote "The Worldly Philosophers," a breezy yet intellectually serious tour through nearly two centuries of economic thought. Heilbroner's...
American History Now, October 3, 2011
...its unreserved embrace of that old-fashioned stratum of culture we know as middlebrow. It's a cross between Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers -- which became a textbook evergreen by delivering its edification seemingly effortlessly -- and...
Digital Tonto, May 29, 2011
...Proof is more challenging, but wholly worth the effort. To round out the list, I can enthusiastically recommend Robert Heilbroner’s classic survey of history’s great economists, The Worldly Philosophers and Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel . ...
