Written in 1953, Worldly Philosophers have sold nearly four million copies. The author of twenty other books, Heilbroner was well-known for The Worldly Philosophers, life scans, and contributions by famous scientists. Notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes. Heilbererer’s best-known works included Worldly Philosophers. The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (1953). An Enquiry into the Human Prospect (1974), The Nature and Logic of Capitalism (1985).
The Callen of Vision in Modern Economic Thought (1995; with WS Milberg). The Worldly Philosophers, first published in 1953, is an untrue work on the history of economics, by American economist and historian Robert L. Heilbroner, Norman Thomas Professor of Economics, Emeritus at the New School of Public Research, New York. Moreover, in its seventh edition, published in a revised and revised edition in 1999, the book regularly shared with economists, giving them a general idea of western economic thought.
Worldly Philosophers brings together various economic thinkers like Adam Smith and Karl Marx with an insistence that they share a common desire. Moreover, the search for an understanding of how capitalist society works. Heilbroner includes eight economists and thinkers groups: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Parson Malthus. Further, Utopian Socialists, Karl Marx, Victorian underworld, Torstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and Joseph Schumpeter. It looks at their history, their times, and their most important contributions to the economic sphere.
Apart from a history of different personalities and political contexts. These great economists have tried to understand how society meets its needs. They clarified, illuminated, and interpreted the seemingly confusing economic world, not just of his contemporaries but also of the modern student. They also addressed the future of the market system, and whether capitalism can be reversed or saved itself. Unlike traditional and dictatorial methods. Which has taken its place, the market system has allowed the human race to fulfill the necessary functions of survival.
While giving people the freedom to do as they please. How the market system works, and how long it can survive, is what world philosophers want to understand. Heilbroner concludes by criticizing the current economic situation. Also, he emphasizes that governing economics has gone to social sciences, which attempt to predict human behavior. The market through mathematical models that do not have a social context, is futile and self-defeating, and captures the realm of your real power.
Further, modern economists need to go back to the examples set by the world’s philosophers. Who has never dared to ask the big, complex questions about human society? Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers is the most widely read article in the history of economic thinking ever. Also, the great economic thinkers – from Adam Smith to Malthus, Marx to John Maynard Keynes – live in the context of their times.
