The Worldly Philosophers: A Comprehensive Guide to the Lives, Times, and Ideas of Great Economic Thinkers

Amazon Customer: I enjoyed reading this book

United States on Nov 17, 2023

Olya: Very nice and good quality cover.

Germany on May 01, 2023

Mr. Michael R. Mcdowell: I loved this book. A very readable account of the lives and theories of great economist's.

United Kingdom on Oct 03, 2022

Tony Woodruff: Heilbroner has an easy writing style which seems as though he is talking to you. It has the essentials of the theories as they developed from Smith through to Shumpeter, but also great anecdotes about how extraordinary many of these thinkers were.

Canada on Sep 03, 2022

Gabriel Julea: In fact I ordered the book as a gift to send to my daughter, who had received it very fast, a day earlier than planned. I have twice read it some years ago. To me, it is a wonderful book every person must read in order to understand the world we live in. As a bonus, it is wonderfully written, an easy lecture and as captivating as a thriller. I warmly recommend it to everyone, be him young or old.

France on Jun 24, 2019

Dan.D: Ultra interesante

Mexico on Jun 14, 2019

Odysseus at home: From time we find books like this. A book full of insight, information and lessons about the world. Yes, from time to time you read a book that is more than its subject because the scope is so wide and open. In cases like this, everything seems to make sense and get connected, from an equation in mathematical terms to a rainy day in London. Yes, I loved the reading because it teaches something new about something that seems quiet obvious or trivial. Everyone has a theory and a solution to the inequality or the famine in the world, but more often than not, they are all wrong. As M. Gladwell once said, people lacks theories and --usually-- they act ignoring this tiny detail. Theories, explanations, this is what our curious philosophers gives us to see the world the other way round, i.e., as it really is.

Now the book: With an exquisite, elegant and appealing style, Robert Heilbroner goes along three centuries or so in which economics has lived with us in the modern sense of the word. To make the difference he explains the emergence of the politics, markets and the capital as connected phenomenons. Never before the world had seen something like this. That's why Adam Smith...

United States on Jan 02, 2015

Vivek Sharma: The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner presents ideas of Adam Smith, Parson Malthus, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter, among others, with clarity and brevity. The book educates you about the historical development of the subject of economics with a very readable, quotable and imitable prose. Heilbroner takes the readers on a remarkable journey from the islands of unformed ideas to an understanding of economic realities of preceding generations. Once the knowledge of relevant forms and forces underlying different societies is shown together with methods of production, consumption and taxation; the seeker is introduced to various modes of thinking about profit, loss, welfare, capital, labor, supply, demand, stock and imperialism.

The greatest thinkers (limited to Western/economic thinkers of the last three centuries) were people of flesh and blood, and in general most scientific (/and economic) texts ignore the persona behind the idea, principle or axiom. Every philosopher who has contributed to the unraveling of the mystery cult of market where profit is a virtue is revisited and celebrated as a...

United States on Jul 05, 2011