Philosophers from this world. Hillbroner R.

When Robert Hillbroner died in 2005, obituary reported the death of a famous American economist and sociologist. But millions of grateful readers around the world knew him primarily as the author of “philosophers from this world” - an amazing story about the fate and ideas of the titans of economic thought. It is also amazing because the total circulation of Hillbroner's book was several million copies, clearly refuting the myth that the economy is a gloomy and not interesting science.

On the pages of "philosophers" great theories are adjacent to a description of the bizarre outputs of their authors; Figures who seemed to the characters of historical works gain their unique outlines. The eternally distracted Adam Smith and the grumbling Karl Marx, the brilliant David Ricardo and John Meinard Keynes changed our world, and the story about them is unlikely to leave indifferent both students and those who all their lives wanted to know more about the economy, but were afraid to look into the thickness, but to look into the thick ones, crammed with volume formulas.