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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 w..more
Published August 10th 1999 by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster (NY) (first published 1953)
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Feb 04, 2012Ted rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: economics, essays, history, classics, multiple-reads, biography-autobiography, beach-serious-nonfiction, have, re-read, reviews-liked
If you have even a modest interest in economics,particularly in the historic and philosophical aspects of the subject, but don’t know where to begin, this book is what you are looking for!
(On the other hand, if you have an interest in the Econ 101 side of the subject, enroll in an Econ 101 course and learn about the “dismal science” from that vantage point: the relations between distribution and consumption; buyers, sellers, and markets; economic growth, inflation, and unemployment; and the mi..more
Mar 03, 2011Ian 'Marvin' Graye rated it really liked it(On the other hand, if you have an interest in the Econ 101 side of the subject, enroll in an Econ 101 course and learn about the “dismal science” from that vantage point: the relations between distribution and consumption; buyers, sellers, and markets; economic growth, inflation, and unemployment; and the mi..more
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This is step two in a project to acquire a modest foundation in political and economic philosophy before some more focused reading in both areas.
The first step was Thelma Lavine’s “From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest”:
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Both books summarise the lives and philosophy of key philosophers in language that is easy to understand.
While I intend to read some other generalist philosophy books as well, I recommend both books for re..more
This is step two in a project to acquire a modest foundation in political and economic philosophy before some more focused reading in both areas.
The first step was Thelma Lavine’s “From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest”:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/..
Both books summarise the lives and philosophy of key philosophers in language that is easy to understand.
While I intend to read some other generalist philosophy books as well, I recommend both books for re..more
Sep 09, 2008Trevor rated it really liked it
This one fits into a swag of books that have been written over the years, sort of grand introductions to the key players in philosophy (or in this case economics). Now, there are dangers with this stuff. One of them is getting the balance right in how much you plan to say about the life of the ‘philosopher’ and how much space that then leaves you to expound on their economic (or philosophical) theories. For an example of someone who gets that balance completely wrong check out the ‘in 90 minutes..more
Jun 15, 2011Jan-Maat added it · review of another edition Shelves: 20th-century, finance, society, modern-history
More or less the story of British Empiricism versus mainland European Idealism, but without the empiricism, told in a handful of lives the 'worldly philosophers' of the title, or economists as they are often known, but Heilbroner did not want to use as off putting a term as economists, having an eye on potential sales. The book feels quite smug now rereading it, the Cheshire cat has got the cream and leaves a self-satisfied smile on almost every page. My sense is that it is overall less than the..more
Jun 24, 2018Σωτήρης Αδαμαρέτσος rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Βιβλίο αποκάλυψη για τον αναγνώστη που αναζητά γνώση και καλή πληροφορία σε εξειδικευμένα θέματα, όπως η οικονομική επιστήμη και φιλοσοφία.
Ο συγγραφέας, πρόσωπο με ευρεία γνώση και έξυπνο χιούμορ, σε όμορφη γλώσσα, υπέροχη έκφραση και ύφος, μας παρουσιάζει τα έργα και την ζωή των φιλοσόφων των οικονομικών θεωριών, με ακρίβεια στη γνώση αλλά και αναλυση της εποχής και των κοινωνιών που γέννησαν τα πρόσωπα αυτά και τις θεωρίες τους, των οποίων αποτέλεσαν και συνέπεια. Μια οικονομική θεωρία δεν εί..more
Ο συγγραφέας, πρόσωπο με ευρεία γνώση και έξυπνο χιούμορ, σε όμορφη γλώσσα, υπέροχη έκφραση και ύφος, μας παρουσιάζει τα έργα και την ζωή των φιλοσόφων των οικονομικών θεωριών, με ακρίβεια στη γνώση αλλά και αναλυση της εποχής και των κοινωνιών που γέννησαν τα πρόσωπα αυτά και τις θεωρίες τους, των οποίων αποτέλεσαν και συνέπεια. Μια οικονομική θεωρία δεν εί..more
May 06, 2013sologdin rated it did not like it · review of another edition
Nutshell: cold warrior burps up whirlwind dilettante's tour of the chrematistical arts.
Overall presents an affective dialectic, positioning various theorists of political economy in relationship to each other on the basis of how they feel about the future. Smith is pragmatically optimistic; Malthus and Ricardo are independently despairing; Owen, Fourier, Saint-Simon are presented as insanely optimistic; and so on. This presentation sweeps up the whole: “behind this diversity was a common thread,..more
Overall presents an affective dialectic, positioning various theorists of political economy in relationship to each other on the basis of how they feel about the future. Smith is pragmatically optimistic; Malthus and Ricardo are independently despairing; Owen, Fourier, Saint-Simon are presented as insanely optimistic; and so on. This presentation sweeps up the whole: “behind this diversity was a common thread,..more
My estimation of economic science lies somewhere between where I rate astrology and phlogiston, but I'm giving this a chance to convince me otherwise..
Update: A little breezy, but so far it is interesting to read that Adam Smith was a lot brighter than his latter day followers. He recognized that the division of labor did not create economic growth by any sort of magic, but by the systematic exploitation of available resources including labor. He thought that eventually wages would either rise..more
Update: A little breezy, but so far it is interesting to read that Adam Smith was a lot brighter than his latter day followers. He recognized that the division of labor did not create economic growth by any sort of magic, but by the systematic exploitation of available resources including labor. He thought that eventually wages would either rise..more
Jan 29, 2014Rajat Ubhaykar rated it it was amazing
In this excellent summary of the evolution of economic thought over the last two centuries, Professor Robert Heilbroner delves into not just the philosophies, but also the lives and the backgrounds of various economic thinkers and tries to find common ground between how they experienced their lives and what they wrote in their books.
He starts the book off with one essential question: what makes the modern economy so radically different from medieval and ancient economies so as to necessitate th..more
He starts the book off with one essential question: what makes the modern economy so radically different from medieval and ancient economies so as to necessitate th..more
Jul 16, 2008J.G. Keely rated it really liked it
Read as an audiobook.
As far as I know, this is an excellent and amusing introduction to economics. I certainly enjoyed the breadth and depth to which Heilbroner explored the topic, arguing intelligently for how, why, and when economics came about, and the tracing its strange, wavering history through the politics, war, and geography of the modern world.
The inclusion of not only scientists and revolutionaries but satirists, idealists, religious fanatics, armchair hobbyists, and social theorists h..more
As far as I know, this is an excellent and amusing introduction to economics. I certainly enjoyed the breadth and depth to which Heilbroner explored the topic, arguing intelligently for how, why, and when economics came about, and the tracing its strange, wavering history through the politics, war, and geography of the modern world.
The inclusion of not only scientists and revolutionaries but satirists, idealists, religious fanatics, armchair hobbyists, and social theorists h..more
Feb 13, 2012Bruce rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I read the first edition of this text, published in 1953. It is now in its seventh edition, and I assume that there have been changes in it, changes that I do not know about. My comments here can only relate to the edition that I read. In this book Heilbroner explores the personalities and roles of prominent economists from Adam Smith in the 18th century until the time this book was published in 1953. Economics as an academic discipline, or even as a concept, was not possible in traditional soci..more
Sep 08, 2008Bruce rated it it was amazing Shelves: social-science
If you're a Goodreader (or a Virtual Bookshelfer?), you may have come to know and enjoy particular reviewers' reviews. For example, I've become something of a fan of the reviews of fellow Goodreaders Trevor McCandless and Ginnie Jones. I mean it as the height of compliments to say that reading Heilbroner is like reading McCandless and Jones. In a nutshell, Heilbroner surveys and summarizes the major ideas/writings and lives of economists beginning with Adam Smith and culminating in John Kenneth..more
Dec 26, 2018Savil Srivastava rated it it was amazing
A history of the big ideas in Economics from Adam Smith to Mill to Marx to Keynes. Written in the 1950s so doesn't get into Hayek/Friedman. Wonderful book that I highly recommend, because Heilbroner not only lucidly explains the core ideas but also puts them into context: we're taken into the society that each of these economists lived in, and their own personal lives and how these likely affected their views on the political-economy.
Jul 20, 2017رحمان rated it really liked it Shelves: economics, philosophy, history, non-fiction, leftism
Can capitalism survive the test of time? In this book, Heilbroner tries to answer this question by surveying what he calls the worldly philosophers. He starts with the father of economics Adam Smith who of course answers with a resounding yes (albeit with some qualifications). Next, he examines the resourceful Ricardo who isn't as optimistic but still has enough confidence in the system as long as the aristocratic landlords are pushed away. His pessimistic friend Malthus, however, disagrees and..more
Oct 28, 2014Palash Bansal rated it it was amazing
Having studied economics for the last 3 years, in all fairness to the professors and myself, I did imbibe the concepts of it. But all the theories were like little pieces of autarky islands. What was missing was a common thread that could join everything together such that it all ends up making complete sense.
This book certainly helped a lot in doing so!
This book certainly helped a lot in doing so!
Jan 19, 2019Jason Furman rated it it was amazing
The Worldly Philosopher should be required reading for all economists and is also a book I would highly recommend to all non economists as well. I last read it about 30 years ago and although I have learned a lot in the interim, and economics has advanced some as well, it has actually aged reasonably well. Moreover, much of the writing is genuinely beautiful and makes you want to read it aloud to various people you come across, a feeling one rarely if ever gets with an economics book.
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May 14, 2009Erik Graff rated it it was amazing · review of another editionThe Wordly..more
Recommended to Erik by: no one
This book consists of a series of short biographies of such economists as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John M. Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter etc. The accounts of their lives are studded with anecdotes and amusing asides which disguise the fact that the reader is actually learning classical economic theory painlessly.
Comprei esse livro em maio de 2004, e só agora tive tempo e disposição para encarar a leitura, por coincidência terminei em maio de 2018, 14 anos depois de comprado. Não deveria mesmo ter lido antes, acho que a maturidade ajuda a aproveitar mais o livro, sem dúvida alguma. Um livraço para quem tem interesse em economia, diria leitura obrigatória para ajudar a formar contexto histórico do desenvolvimento das ideias em economia, com foco em alguns de seus protagonistas e filosófos mais proeminente..more
A fascinating book. Heilbroner effortlessly communicates the ideas of classical economic theory while providing the reader with amusing anecdotes about the men behind this theoretical development.
Feb 10, 2008Holly rated it really liked it Shelves: nonfiction
So interesting and what an introduction! The idea that has most stuck with me in the book, I felt, is that in a group of non-industrialized peoples, increasing wages will result in a voluntary decrease of hours instead of an increase or no change. The concept of accumulating wealth while sacrificing free time is not inherent! Imagine that..we are so tied into this system of living that we forget alternatives are possible sometimes. I would never even think of cutting my hours if I got a raise..more
Jun 28, 2016Jeremy rated it it was amazing
Like many weepy humanists, I don't read many books that deal with economics in a sincere, deep way (too dry, too mathy, the usual wimpy criticisms.) Heilbroner's overview is wonderful, not simply because he breaks down several notoriously byzantine, ideologically fraught economic world systems, but because he shows the reader the sincere human inquiries at the center of them. What is our world like? How did it get that way? Is it possible to exert control over it?
Economics in our age is, like so..more
Oct 18, 2015Phoenix2 rated it really liked itEconomics in our age is, like so..more
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Great book!! Reading it felt like being in the classroom with someone explaining to me the theories and everything. Many examples that make it easier to understand the points raised and I loved that it included biographies in it as well!!
Sep 03, 2012David Sarkies rated it liked itRecommended to David by: Some Guy at Law School
Explores the development of economic theory
3 September 2012
A friend at lawschool recommended this book to me after I had decided to read the works of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes in the hope that I could glean some ideas on how to become wealthy. My belief was that wealth lay in understanding the basics of economics, and when it came to economics, I believed that the basics could be found in a number of authors that my American History lecturer had mentioned who had been quintessential in..more
3 September 2012
A friend at lawschool recommended this book to me after I had decided to read the works of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes in the hope that I could glean some ideas on how to become wealthy. My belief was that wealth lay in understanding the basics of economics, and when it came to economics, I believed that the basics could be found in a number of authors that my American History lecturer had mentioned who had been quintessential in..more
There’s a good reason this is the second best selling economics book of all time (the first is Paul Samuelson’s Economics textbook, which was prescribed by professors for introductory economics classes for decades): its subject matter - the great economic thinkers, or “worldly philosophers - is both timeless and assembled with great care; and the erudition and style with which Heilbroner writes is unparalleled. With seven editions over more than 60 years (Heilbroner died in 2005), this landmark..more
Jan 04, 2016Shaunak Bhatt rated it it was amazing Shelves: philosophy-religion, favorites, nonfiction-econ
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May 05, 2015Karn Satyarthi rated it really liked it
I had hoped for good biographical sketches on world's best ever economists before beginning this book but was pleasantly surprised to find out that it was much more than just that. Heilbroner essentially deals with the historical development of economic theory through the work of some of its greatest exponents. The chapters on Thorstein Veblen and early socialists like Owen, Saint Simon and Fourier are especially illuminating. The author does well to divorce Marx's work from later day Marxists...more
Mar 23, 2010Steven Peterson rated it really liked it
The subtitle of this book: 'The lives, times & ideas of the great economic thinkers.' Here, Robert Heilbroner, in an accessible manner, addresses the work of key economic thinkers. Among these: Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and John Maynard Keynes. For readers who wish to get a better sense of differing economic thinkers, this is a good entree to that world.
Jan 10, 2018Josh Friedlander rated it it was amazing
This book should be required reading for everyone, running through the major theories on economics from the beginning of the Capitalist economy until recent times (when the author thinks we have run out of 'Worldly Philosophers', since nowadays economists are too humbled to try and build major systems, rather just suggesting tweaks at the margins), in colourful and gripping terms, free of maths and full of biographical gracenotes. (The life of Thorstein Veblen in particular is a delight.) Here a..more
First rate introduction, NOT to the key ideas, but to the key personalities, of economics.
One caveat: it looks like a popular book, but it is not. Suggest reading with a pencil to underline the key theoretical passages to re-read more carefully on the second pass.
One caveat: it looks like a popular book, but it is not. Suggest reading with a pencil to underline the key theoretical passages to re-read more carefully on the second pass.
A not-far-from comprehensive summary of the most notable economists of our civilisation; of the individuals that, in their own individualised and unique way, formulated the foundational theories which are still used as a basis of reference today.
Jan 15, 2016Lars Holterud Aarsnes rated it really liked it
Great book about economics. Goes through all the major economic principles and the history of how economics evolved by telling the story of the greatest economists that have ever been.
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Robert L. Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers, a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
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