The Worldly Philosophers

Robert L. Heilbroner (1919- ) is the Norman Thomas Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. He has two children and currently resides in New York City. Heilbroner graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1940 with a degree in history, government, and economics, and worked briefly for the Office of Price Administration. After service in the Army during World War II, he took a job as a business economist with a large commodity-trading house. However, he soon decided that he liked writing more than office work and took a year's leave. He never went back to business.For two decades, thousands of instructors have used The Worldly Philosophers as an introduction to the lives and thoughts of the great economists. Sales of all editions of this book have been estimated at approximately two million. The combined sales of all the economics books written by Heilbroner, counting joint authorships, may make him the top-selling economics authors of all time. In his writing Heilbroner brings an economic point of view to social and political problems.

出版者:Penguin

作者:Robert L Heilbroner

页数:368

出版时间:2000-5-25

价格:GBP 10.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780140290066

图书标签:经济史经济学economics英文原版经济学：思想史社会英文经济

The final revision of this classic bestseller, the 7th edition defines the common thread linking the world's greatest economic thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them. Hailed by Galbraith as a "brilliant achievement", "The Worldly Philosophers" with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, not only enables us to see more deeply into our history, but helps us to better understand our own times. Heilbroner provides the new theme that connects thinkers as different as Adam Smith and Karl Marx: the desire to understand how a capitalist society works. A new chapter conveys a concern that today's increasingly "scientific" economics may overlook fundamental social and political issues that are central to economics.

读后感

读到一半，马尔萨斯和李嘉图是主张完全不同的两个人，但是他们是彼此的挚友——只因为有相同的理想，为整个社会变得更好保持终身的理性探讨。 我曾经认为经济学家多是教人家如何逐利的，现在才发现自己是多么肤浅。他们跟社会学家、法学家一样，研究的是怎样安放大家肉身的办...  

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初遇地居然是日文版地，估计看完这个会看看英文版。实在是本有趣的写经济学者的书

已故作家和思想家的作品。深邃的视野，华丽的文笔，适可而止的幽默，虽然不是一本有趣好玩的书，但无疑是精品中的精品

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初遇地居然是日文版地，估计看完这个会看看英文版。实在是本有趣的写经济学者的书

深入浅出，脉络清晰