Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Consciously written as an alternative to Robert Heilbroner’s classic The Worldly Philosophers, this book sets out to explore and critique the lives and ideas of the great economists. Both books begin with Adam Smith, though Foley discusses only eight of Heilbroner’s 16 economists and [...]
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Consciously written as an alternative to Robert Heilbroner’s classic The Worldly Philosophers, this book sets out to explore and critique the lives and ideas of the great economists. Both books begin with Adam Smith, though Foley discusses only eight of Heilbroner’s 16 economists and [...]
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This sequel to Heilbroner’s classic survey of the great economists, The Worldly Philosophers, published four decades ago, is an anthology of writings of some 20 economic thinkers ranging from Aristotle to Malthus, Marx, Veblen and Schumpeter, with interlinking commentaries. Making the dismal science palatable [...]
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