Worldly Philosophers

Completed reading “the #worldly #philosophers” by #robert #heilbroner.Synopsis of this masterpiece1. The whole world until the 16th or 17th century could not envisage the #market system for the thoroughly sound reason that #land,#labour and #capital-the basic agents of production which the market system allocates-did not yet exist.2. As late as the 14th or 15th century there was no such thing as “land” in the sense of freely saleable or rent producing property.3. The great chariot of society which for so long had run down the gentle slope of tradition, now found itself powered by an internal combustion machine. Transactions, transactions, transactions and gain, gain, gain provided a new and startlingly powerful motive force.4. In the course of this change, power naturally began to gravitate into the hands of those who understood money matters-the merchants-and away from the disdainful nobility, who did not.5. Invention of “double entry book keeping” accelerated the large scale business operations.6. Compares the thought process of various economic thinkers adam smith at the one end and karl marx in the other.

I read this book years back, and when I saw it in a different cover, I bought it. Tremendous work by the author here!

Amazing book to gain knowledge of economic welfare. Useful and valid for new generation and market study also.

This book is a classic introduction to the history of economic thought. It is very well written and clearly very well researched. I learned quite a bit about thinkers who I had heard about since college but had never really understood their contribution to the liberal economic tradition until I read this book. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand a crucial part of the development of modern capitalism and the thinkers who constructed the main economic analysis of how the system works. The author explains complex ideas in a clear and straightforward way that a layman can understand. Well worth the purchase and read!

Read the smaller titles. It is only about economic philosophers. Might be ok if have not yet read anything abour history of economic thinkers.

Its an extreme good and rare book, its very informatic i recommend it for everyone who is trying to build a Business because it Shows you important Things for the future.

Leggetelo. Vi racconta la storia dei principali passi del pensiero economico. Vi fa comprendere che "economics", cioè la corrente attualmente vincente negli studi economici, con il suo contorno di ipotesi matematiche sui comportamenti individuali e delle organizzazioni, l'ha avuta vinta scacciando la dimensione socio-politica (economia politica) dallo studio dell'economia. Se volete leggere due soli testi di economia nella vita, uno è certamente questo.

great book ,needed for a history of economic thought course so was happy to get it at a cheap price. old edition but decent condition