Study Guide: The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner (SuperSummary) (Unabridged‪)‬

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This audio study guide for The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as including the idea of economics as a market system analysis and economists' viewpoints as functions of the eras in which they lived. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. 

Published in 1953, and written by an American economist and historian, “The Worldly Philosophers” is a regularly assigned textbook on the history of economics and western economic thought, exploring thinkers from Adam Smith to Karl Marx

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