Robert Heilbroner
American economist (1919–2005) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert L. Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some two dozen books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (1953), a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
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Robert Heilbroner | |
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Born | (1919-03-24)March 24, 1919 |
Died | January 4, 2005(2005-01-04) (aged 85) New York City, New York, United States[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Economics |
Institutions | Federal Office of Price Administration,
New School for Social Research, Wall Street commodities firm.[1] |
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