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  • The Nature and Logic of Capitalism

    Robert L. Heilbroner

    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

    Robert L. Heilbroner

    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

    Robert L. Heilbroner

    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

    Robert L. Heilbroner

    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

    Robert L. Heilbroner

    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

    Robert L. Heilbroner

    Paperback, 1976

  • 21st Century Capitalism

    Robert L. Heilbroner

    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 Debt and the Deficit: False Alarms/Real Possibilities

    Robert L. Heilbroner, Peter L. Bernstein

    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 Essential Adam Smith

    Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone

    Paperback, 1987

    Few writings are more often cited as a cornerstone of modern economic thought than those of Adam Smith. Few are less read.