Robert Heilbroner

Robert Heilbroner
Born(1919-03-24)March 24, 1919
DiedJanuary 4, 2005(2005-01-04) (aged 85)
New York City, U.S.[1]
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsFederal Office of Price Administration,

New School for Social Research,

Wall Street commodities firm.[1]

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.

  1. ^ a b Noble, Holcomb (2005-01-12). "Robert Heilbroner, Writer and Economist, Dies at 85". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-10-05.