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Robert Heilbroner is Norman Thomas Professor (Emeritus) at the New School for Social Research.

Obras por Robert L. Heilbroner

The Making of Economic Society (1963) 246 exemplares
An inquiry into the human prospect (1656) 232 exemplares
Twenty-First Century Capitalism (1993) 134 exemplares
Marxism: For and Against (1980) 126 exemplares
The Nature and Logic of Capitalism (1985) 119 exemplares
The Economic Problem (1968) 48 exemplares
Between Capitalism and Socialism (1970) 46 exemplares
Business Civilization in Decline (1976) 40 exemplares
The limits of American capitalism (1966) 37 exemplares
Understanding macroeconomics (1965) 35 exemplares
Five Economic Challenges (1981) 32 exemplares
A Primer on Government Spending (1963) 26 exemplares
Understanding Microeconomics (1975) 22 exemplares
Beyond Boom and Crash (1978) 16 exemplares

Associated Works

The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Contribuidor — 178 exemplares
The Reader's Digest Teen-Age Treasury: Four Volumes (1957) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Great Stories of American Businessmen (1972) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Wide World (1957) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares

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Book that asked if there was hope for man em Name that Book (Dezembro 2021)

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Одна из лучших книг, которых я читал за всю жизнь. Автор мастерски описал социо-экономические революции произошедшие за всю историю человечества, но самое главное автор указал, кто смог проанализировать и описать данные революции, а иногда даже предсказать их. Каждая глава имеет историю о великом экономисте, его жизненном пути, а также как он пришел к своей великой идее. Каждая глава начинается с вопроса и отвечает на него, но в процессе ответа, задает след. вопрос. Книга имеет 10 глав, и подводит читателя к пику книги - что будет дальше с Миром? Что будет дальше с экономикой? Я считаю, книга обязательна к прочтению любому человеку. Она поможет понять, почему мир такой как он есть.

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kmaxat | 26 outras críticas | Aug 26, 2023 |
Dated now, it was good for me to read at the time.
 
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mykl-s | 6 outras críticas | Aug 13, 2023 |
This is history of when what we call economics was still part of philosophy, with some more recent economists too. Each one is worth knowing about.

Later, in 2023, I learn that the seventh and last edition of Worldly Philosophers included a new chapter, chapter 11, titled "The End of Worldly Philosophy?". It discusses "end" in both of its possible meanings, as termination, and as purpose or goal.

Heilbroner mentions how economics has become very mathematical, with lots of numbers and theories. That's fine, he thinks. What disturbs him, though, is economists who believe their field is a science like physics. Humans, with our free will and emotions, and ethics, and values can't be described in the same way that, say, electrons can.

He hopes for an economics that more and more realizes that it is linked to politics more than to physics, and one that realizes it is not value-free, an economics with a sense of social responsibility.
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mykl-s | 26 outras críticas | Aug 6, 2023 |

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Obras
40
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Membros
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