Robert L. Heilbroner
Robert L. Heilbroner
Books by Robert L. Heilbroner
The Debt and the Deficit: False Alarms/Real Possibilities
Paperback, 1989
As the British trade deficit continues to grow, this trenchant, original and timely book on the US deficit and national debt offers much to readers on this side of the Atlantic.
The Nature and Logic of Capitalism
Paperback, 1986
In The Worldly Philosophers, Robert Heilbroner set out to describe what the great economists thought would happen to the system of capitalism. In later books. Professor Heilbroner projected his own...
Marxism: For and Against
Paperback, 1982
"Genuinely open-minded and inquiring. . . .it intelligently summarizes and shrewdly questions four central topics of Marxist thought—the dialectical approach to philosophy, the materialist...
Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy
Paperback, 1997
Selections from great writings on economics, annotated and introduced by a distinguished economist and teacher.
Behind the Veil of Economics: Essays in the Worldly Philosophy
Paperback, 1989
"[These essays] are rich in argument, in clear and provocative presentation of complicated issues, and are often delightfully quotable. Behind the Veil of Economics makes instructive, disturbing,...
An Inquiry into the Human Prospect: Looked at Again for the 1990s
Third Edition, Paperback, 1992
Is there hope for man? That "terrible question" was posed by Robert L. Heilbroner in the original version of An Inquiry into the Human Prospect.Business Civilization in Decline
Paperback, 1976
21st Century Capitalism
Paperback, 1994
"It is my hope that some grasp of what the twenty-first century holds in store for capitalism may enable us to avoid at least some of the pain we might otherwise have to endure," writes the eminent...
The Essential Adam Smith
Paperback, 1987
Few writings are more often cited as a cornerstone of modern economic thought than those of Adam Smith. Few are less read.