Worldly Philosophers the Lives Times & Ideas of T - 5836

This is the story of those academic scribblers-from Adam Smith through Malthus and Ricardo, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, Lord Keynes himself, to the economists now wrestling with the problems of our contemporary world. Their subject-economics-has been called the dismal science, but their private lives were full of strange and curious events, and the private worlds of ideas they built around themselves make fascinating reading. This is a scholarly book about the thinkers whose ideas about business and society have become the causes for which men work and fight and die.ASIN: B003YJONFCVSKU: RDV.B003YJONFC.ACondition: AcceptableAuthor/Artist:heilbroner, robertBinding: Hardcover