几位著名经济思想家的生平、时代和思想 : 世俗哲人 英文原版 The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

基本信息

By (author) Robert L. Heilbroner

Format Paperback | 365 pages

Dimensions 152 x 229 x 22.1mm | 338g

Publication date 01 Sep 1999

Publisher SIMON & SCHUSTER

Imprint POCKET BOOKS

Publication City/Country New York, United States

Language English

Edition Revised

Edition Statement 7th Revised edition

ISBN10 068486214X

ISBN13 9780684862149

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

本书着重介绍了斯密、李嘉图，马尔萨斯，熊彼特等经济学家的生平、时代与思想，是经济学说史方面的一本颇有参考价值的读物。曾被译成24种文字，既有思想解剖又有历史陈述，颇值一读。

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.

作者简介

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.