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	Robert Heilbroner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert L. Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist.
		Heilbroner grew up in New York, and graduated from Harvard University in 1940 with a summa cum laude degree in philosophy, government and economics.
		In 1963, Heilbroner earned a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research, where he was subsequently appointed Norman Thomas Professor of Economics in 1971 and remained for some fifty years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Heilbroner (623 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Economics Scholar, Author Robert L. Heilbroner, 85
		Robert L. Heilbroner, the prominent economics historian whose best-selling book "Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers" became a classic study of the great thinkers who shaped economics, died of a stroke Jan. 5 at a hospital in New York.
		Heilbroner was the Norman Thomas professor at the New School for Social Research (now New School University) in New York for five decades and was the author of more than 20 books and numerous essays.
		Heilbroner considered himself a "philosophical historian" who sometimes found himself at odds with conventional economists, who, he believed, often disregarded the social and political context of economic problems.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A5380-2005Jan12?language=printer (535 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Robert Heilbroner, 85; with novelist's touch, he enlivened economics ...
		Robert Heilbroner, an educator and prolific writer who enlivened the subject of economics with his classic study of the world's most influential economic thinkers, died Jan. 5 of a stroke in New York City.
		LOS ANGELES -- Robert Heilbroner, an educator and prolific writer who enlivened the subject of economics with his classic study of the world's most influential economic thinkers, died Jan. 5 of a stroke in New York City.
		Heilbroner added a cautionary new final chapter to the 1999 edition, titled cryptically ''The End of Worldly Philosophy." He utilized the chapter to detail his dislike for the modern trend in economics that relies on mathematics and esoteric models while excluding societal factors.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/01/14/robert_heilbroner_85_with_novelists_touch_he_enlivened_economics_texts (708 words)

	Heilbroner
		Heilbroner describes himself as a radical conservative in that he sees capitalism in its historical context and he supports many of the changes toward equality socialism.
		Heilbroner says he is "torn between the obvious injustices of the economic system and the extreme difficulties with the details of solving them.
		Heilbroner considers himself a "philosophical historian" and is sometimes at odds with conventional economists, who, he believes, often disregard the social and political context of economic problems.
	home.business.utah.edu /~fincmb/heil.html (389 words)

	Robert Heilbroner; his dissertation became noted economics text; 85 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Robert Heilbroner, a prominent economics historian whose best-selling book "Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers," became a classic study of the great thinkers who shaped economics, has died.
		Heilbroner, who died Jan. 5 of a stroke in New York, was the Norman Thomas professor (emeritus) at the New School for Social Research in New York for five decades and the author of numerous essays and more than 20 books.
		Heilbroner was born March 24, 1919, and raised in Manhattan.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050127/news_1m27heilbron.html (443 words)

	Is World Population a Concern? Robert Heilbroner, Thomas Malthus, and the Application of Both (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Heilbroner supports him in stating that the rate of growth was a doubling every twenty-five years, but "corrects" Malthus by further adding the rate was even faster (close to fifteen years) in backwoods areas.
		Heilbroner seems to want to say Malthus saw twenty-five years as the standard rate everywhere, but that was not at all his point.
		Heilbroner quotes an expert in the 1970s who says that the crops will be wiped out and "in ten years" people will have to begin eating each other in Pakistan.
	www.framingbusiness.net /heilbronerpopulation.htm (6511 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Marxism: For and Against, by Robert L. Heilbroner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This is an intriguing title: it arouses expectations of a judicious and balanced evaluation of the specific doctrines of Marx and Marxism from a scholarly and non-partisan point of view.
		...Neither does Heilbroner judge the theory of historical materialism in the light of the emergence of the democratic welfare state, the rise of fascism, or the recurrent strength of nationalist sentiment, all completely unanticipated by the theory...
		...Heilbroner simply does not confront the evidence that, however it may have been in some previous periods, in the 20th century the political mode is more decisive for historical events than is the economic...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V70I1P80-1.htm (1684 words)

	The Worldly Philosophers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heilbroner describes three ways in which societies have dealt with such precariousness: tradition, authoritarianism, and market systems.
		The book's original research material has, according to Heilbroner, "long since disappeared." The book's prose also changed with Heilbroner's "own evolving views", though the revisions made over time are unclear and apparently "noticeable perhaps only to scholars in the field".
		However, Heilbroner mentions references to the "collapse of Soviet communism" which occurred at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Worldly_Philosophers (400 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Making of Economic Society, by Robert L. Heilbroner; and The Great Ascent, by Robert L. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Heilbroner's two new books is "an attempt to present some of the basic content of economics in [the] mingled light of theory and history." This is a most commendable undertaking.
		...Heilbroner, disregarding the evidence of countless anthropologists, sociologists, and historians, really believes that what the Communist Manifesto calls "naked self-interest and callous cash payment" are forces for social cohesion, he should at least have argued the case in some detail...
		...Heilbroner has done little more than document the nature of our "'impossible situation": in which for us to follow the established pattern of aid to underdeveloped countries will be just as disastrous as to do nothing...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V36I1P87-1.htm (1692 words)

	Heilbroner's One-Armed Philosophers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Heilbroner's resolve is a tragic reminder of the one-sided way economics was taught a generation ago: Give Adam Smith his due, and then spend the rest of the time patronizing Keynes, Marx, Veblen, and the socialists.
		Heilbroner has been a dedicated "democratic socialist" for most of his life and was for many years the Norman Thomas Professor of Economics at the New School.
		Robert Heilbroner, "The Triumph of Capitalism," The New Yorker, January 23, 1989.
	www.libertyhaven.com /theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/philosophy/heilbroners.shtml (942 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Heilbroner, Robert Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In his studies, Heilbroner sought to simplify economic theory by stripping it of technical jargon; he criticized late-20th-century economists for not being sufficiently concerned with the social, political, and individual impact of their work.
		Heilbroner generally believed that government involvement in the economy should be minimized, but also supported government intervention to deal with capitalism's shortcomings and crises.
		Heilbroner and Polanyi: a shared vision.(Part IV: Heilbroner in the history of economic thought)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/heilbroner.asp (318 words)

	Oxford University Press: Visions of the Future: Robert Heilbroner
		During a period Heilbroner refers to simply as the Distant Past, stretching from prehistory to the appearance of modern nation-states in seventeenth century Europe, there was no notion of a future measurably and materially different from the present or the past.
		Heilbroner maintains that it was not until the first stirrings of the period he refers to as Yesterday, spanning from roughly 1700 to 1950, that the future entered into human consciousness as a great beckoning force.
		Heilbroner's thesis seems simple..., his substantiation of it is a wonder of elegant synthesis....It is not comfort that one takes away from this stimulating little book.
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/History/?ci=019510286X&view=usa (795 words)

	The Worldly Philosphers by Robert Heilbroner - A Book Review by Dan Ross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Heilbroner asks a question at the end such as “are we seeing the end of Worldly Philosophers?” as the field is increasingly getting more specialized and very few economists are tackling the “big picture” anymore and how the various components of an economy (land, labor and capital) are intertwined with each other.
		Heilbroner doesn't give you everything but perhaps enough to chomp your teeth into the works of each philosopher on your own.
		Robert Heilbroner is Norman Thomas Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the New School for Social Research, in New York City.
	www.betterbizbooks.com /bb/wordlyphilosophers.htm (385 words)

	Robert Heibroner
		Robert Heilbroner is Norman Thomas Professor (Emeritus) at the New School for Social Research.
		Heilbroner says he is "torn between the obvious injustices of the economic system and the extreme difficulties with the details of solving them for example, who rules and how laws are made.
		Heilbroner draws heavily on Smith, Marx, and other early economic philosophers for his insights, and like many of them considers himself a "philosophical historian." Thus it is no surprise that he is sometimes at odds with conventional economists, who, he believes, often disregard the social and political context of economic problems.
	www.newschool.edu /gf/econ/faculty/heilbroner/home/index.htm (1667 words)

	Robert Heilbroner / Biography
		In the face of this extreme vulnerability to value judgements, economists cannot be impartial or disinterested: thus, value judgements, partly of a sociological kind, partly with respect to bahaviour, have infused economics from its earliest statements to its latest and most sophisticated representations".
		Heilbroner also believes that the study of economics, following the collapse of the Keynesian view, has reached a state of crisis that can never be overcome without the development of an all-encompassing vision.
		According to Heilbroner and Milber g in "The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought", "By vision we mean the political hopes and fears, social stereotypes, and value judgements--all unarticulated, as we have said--that infuse all social thought, not throught their illegal entry into an otherwise pristine realm, but as psychological, perhaps existential, necessities.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /heilbronerbio.html (286 words)

	Social Research Volume 71 No. 2 : THE WORLDLY PHILOSOPHERS AT FIFTY
		Heilbroner’s book remains popular because of his wonderfully flowing and accessible writing style and the colorful detail he provides about the lives of the otherwise faceless giants in the history of “the dismal science” of economics.
		At a recent academic conference session devoted to Heilbroner’s work, a number of audience members--all now professional economists-- spoke of how The Worldly Philosophers had affirmed their feeling that there was more to economics than the dry and politically conservative material they were being fed in textbook form in their college classes.
		When lecturing on Marx, Heilbroner would often say with amusement that the most contentious word in the title of his book Marxism: For and Against was the innocuous-sounding “and.” Similarly, I would say that the most challenging part of the title of the chapter “The End of the Worldly Philosophy?” is the innocent-looking question mark.
	www.socres.org /vol71/issue712.htm (2459 words)

	American Prospect Online - ViewWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Robert L. Heilbroner, who died January 4 at the age of 85, was one of a dwindling generation of professional economists who had broad humanistic curiosity and progressive values, and who wrote graceful prose for a large audience.
		Heilbroner was first and foremost a student of the history of economic thought.
		Heilbroner, along with John Kenneth Galbraith, Karl Polanyi, and Albert Hirschman, deserves to be read and read and read.
	www.prospect.org /web/view-web.ww?id=8999 (534 words)

	A Future of Capitalism: The Economic Vision of Robert Heilbroner
		Carroll moves freely among Heilbroner's writings spanning several decades to show how his analysis focuses on the interlocking nature of, and tensions among, three central internalized institutions and values in capitalism: the drive to accumulate capital, the market, and division between private and public realms.
		Heilbroner's modernism appears in the search for the underlying unity of capitalism, the effort to give it a singular meaning, and the quest to identify its future.
		In this latter way of thinking, texts such as Heilbroner's are the sites of multiple meanings, and their interpretation may gain more from trying to locate those different meanings (contextually, or in terms of various interpretive communities) rather than the quest to render them coherent and consistent.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0135.shtml (1174 words)

	Robert Heilbroner: An Economic Pioneer Decries the Modern Field's Narrow Focus
		Heilbroner, 79, is at one end of a growing debate over whether economics, as practiced today, is effective.
		Going beyond science sits easier with older economists like Heilbroner or Blaug, who is 71, or Solow, who is 74, and like Heilbroner and Blaug came of age as an economist in the 1950s, while Keynesianism was still in its heyday and the Cold War had not yet helped squeeze value judgments out of economics.
		That is how the worldly philosophers would have thought, Heilbroner suggests in a new chapter added to the seventh edition of "The Worldly Philosophers," to be published in the spring by Simon and Schuster.
	www.wright.edu /~tdung/heilbroner.htm (1656 words)

	MBEAW: Robert L. Heilbroner
		"Robert Heilbroner: an economic pioneer decries the modern field's narrow focus," NY Times (1/23/99).
		Blackwell, Ron; Jaspal Chatha and Edward J. Nell (eds.) Economics as Worldly Philosophy: Essays in Political and Historical Economics in Honor of Robert Heilbroner (NY: St. Martin's, 1993).
		Heilbroner, Robert L. The Worldly Philosophers: the Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers [1953] (7th rev. ed.; NY: Simon and Schuster, 1999).
	www.mbeaw.org /resources/voices/heilbroner.html (441 words)

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		Trenchant and unflinching, Professor Heilbroner's look at the sum and substance of our prospects for the remaining years of this century is provocative and indispensable reading for those who prefer not to avert their gaze from the hard realities of our times.
		Heilbroner gives a penetrating historical overview of how we have thought about the future through the ages, and issues a clarion call to face the challenges of the 21st century with a new awareness and resolve strengthened by the inspiration of our past.
		In his own words, Heilbroner serves as docent to the master works that he has culled from the history of economic thought.
	www.faculty.rsu.edu /~felwell/Theorists/Heilbroner/MajorWorks.html (1303 words)

	Mises Economics Blog: Obituary: Robert Heilbroner
		Robert Heilbroner, an avowed democratic socialist, has also admitted the triumph of capitalism and Mises’ prescience.
		Heilbroner had previously dismissed Mises’s arguments, helping to spread the myth that Mises’s anti-socialist claims had been “demolished” by socialist theorists responding to Mises’s arguments.
		In this work, Heilbroner claimed that Mises was wrong, that socialist economic calculation was possible, and that the “superior performance” of socialism would “soon reveal the outmoded inadequacy of a free enterprise economy.”
	blog.mises.org /blog/archives/002949.asp (1432 words)

	Remembering Robert Heilbroner - January 25, 2005 - The New York Sun
		Heilbroner was influenced by such prodigious New School teachers as Adolph Lowe, and brought broad social interests to bear on economics.
		Milberg noted that Heilbroner described Adam Smith wandering outdoors in his dressing gown, Karl Marx amid "an eye-stinging haze of tobacco smoke," and the "would-be" aristocrat Joseph Schumpeter lying about his wife's noble background - in fact, she worked as a maid.
		With an eyeglass case neatly stowed in his right breast pocket, Heilbroner stepped up to the podium and lamented the death of the worldly philosopher concerned broadly with sociology, politics, and psychology.
	www.nysun.com /article/8222 (534 words)

	Robert Heilbroner Dies (Signifying Nothing: Tell 'em about it, Joe-Joe!)
		Heilbroner’s first book, “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers,” written before he received his doctorate, is one of the most widely read economics books of all time.
		“The worldly philosophers,” Dr. Heilbroner said in a 1999 interview, “thought their task was to model all the complexities of an economic system – the political, the sociological, the psychological, the moral, the historical.
		Heilbroner's other criticisms of economics these days are a matter of ongoing debate, particularly by New Institutionalists.
	blog.lordsutch.com /?entryid=2365 (620 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Professor and economic historian Robert Heilbroner dies at 85
		Robert Heilbroner died Jan. 4 at age 85.
		NEW YORK –; Robert Heilbroner, an economist and the author of the best-selling book "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers," has died at age 85.
		Heilbroner died Jan. 4, according to the Web site of the New School University, where he was a professor emeritus at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science division and where he spent his career.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20050110-1810-obit-heilbroner.html (332 words)

	HES: ANN -- Robert Heilbroner Obituary
		Source: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/45bfa7f0-62ac-11d9-8e5d-00000e2511c8.html Inspiration to generations of economists Published: January 10 2005 02:00 Robert Heilbroner, author of Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers and among the most influential economic historians of the 20th century, has died in New York.
		In his later years, Dr Heilbroner became a critic of the modern economics, cautioning that the focus on mathematics and esoteric models to the exclusion of any societal factors diverged from the great strides made by his Worldly Philosophers.
		Born in 1919 and raised in Manhattan, Dr Heilbroner attended Harvard in the late 1930s, studying under Worldly Philosopher Joseph Schumpeter and other luminaries at a time of great ferment and upheaval in economics caused by the Great Depression as well as the revolutionary theories of John Maynard Keynes.
	www.eh.net /pipermail/hes/2005-January/002809.html (640 words)

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