Download or read book The Worldly Philosophers written by Robert L. Heilbroner and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction.--The economic revolution.--The wonderful world of Adam Smith.--The gloomy world of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo.--The beautiful world of the Utopian socialists.--The inexorable world of Karl Marx.--The Victorian world and the underworld of economics.--The savage world of Thorstein Veblen.--The sick world of John Maynard Keynes.--The modern world.--Beyond the economic revolution.--A guide to further reading (p. 320-326).