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Robert L. Heilbroner, 1919-2005

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Major Works of Robert L. Heilbroner

  • "Saving and Investment: Dynamic aspects", 1942, AER.
  • The Worldly Philosophers: the lives, times, and ideas of the great economic thinkers, 1953.
  • Quest for Wealth: a study of acquisitive man, 1958.
  • The Future as History: the historic currents of our time and the direction in which they are taking America, 1960.
  • The Making of Economic Society, 1962.
  • The Great Ascent: The struggle for economic development in our time, 1963.
  • A Primer on Government Spending, with P.L.Bernstein, 1963.
  • Understanding Macroeconomcs, 1965. (later editions with James K. Galbraith)
  • The Limits of American Capitalism, 1966.
  • The Economic Problem, 1968 (later editions with James K. Galbraith)
  • Between Capitalism and Socialism : essays in political economics, 1970.
  • In the Name of Profit, 1972.
  • An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, 1974.
  • "The Paradox of Progress: Decline and decay in the Wealth of Nations", 1975, in Skinner and Wilson, editors, Essays on Adam Smith.
  • Corporate Social Policy : Selections from Business and Society Review, 1975.
  • Is Economics Relevant?, with A.M. Ford, 1976.
  • Business Civilization in Decline, 1976.
  • Beyond Boom and Crash, 1978.
  • "Modern Economics as a Chapter in the History of Economic Thought", 1979, HOPE.
  • Marxism: For and against, 1980.
  • "Was Schumpeter Right?", 1981, Social Research.
  • Five economic challenges, with Lester C. Thurow, 1981.
  • Economics Explained with Lester C. Thurow, 1982.
  • "The Socialization of the Individual in Adam Smith", 1982, HOPE.
  • "Economics and political economy: Marx, Keynes, and Schumpeter", 1984, JEI
  • The Nature and Logic of Capitalism, 1985.
  • Behind the Veil of Economics: Essays in the worldy philosophy, 1988.
  • "Rereading The affluent society", 1989, JEI
  • The debt and the deficit : false alarms/real possibilities, with P. Bernstein, 1989.
  • The Economic Transformation of America: 1600 to the Present, with A. Singer, 1993.
  • 21st Century Capitalism, 1993.
  • "Vision in economic thought: remarks upon receipt of the Veblen-Commons award", 1994, JEI.
  • Visions of the Future : the distant past, yesterday, today, tomorrow, 1995.
  • Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy, 1996.
  • The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought, with W.S. Milberg, 1996.
  • "Socialism" at Concise Encyclopedia of Economics [Lib]

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Resources on Robert Heilbroner

  • Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies website at the New School
  • Heilbroner obituary at NY Times, 2005
  • Heilbroner obituary at Washington Post, 2005
  • Heilbroner obituary at Reason.org, 2005
  • The "Worldly Philosophers" web page by Kit Taylor (nice!)
  • "Robert Heilbroner: An Economic Pioneer Decries the Modern Field's Narrow Focus," by Louis Uchitelle, New York Times. 23 Jan 1999 [online]
  • Heilbroner 1999 interview [video]
  • Heilrboner articles at Dissent magazine
  • Heilbroner articles at NY Review of Books
  • 1999 Challenge issue on Robert Heilbroner [jstor]
  • Heilbroner entry at Cliffs Notes
  • "Marginalized Economists: Revisiting Robert Heilbroner" by Rachel Cohen, 1914, post
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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