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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers [7th Edition]
by Robert L. Heilbroner
from Touchstone
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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A brief review of economic history-no more, no less
A decent review of economic philosophy as it changed across time. Not very much depth, but that's the point. This book is on the "List of Unrequired Reading" from UT-Austin, my undergraduate institution. I can't say it's well-written, but probably as easy to read as economics gets. As other reviewers have noted, you read about one period/economist and wish there was more substance given. However, if this were the case, the book would be 1000 pages. After each section, I found myself going to Wikipedia for... more info
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Boring and important people omitted 
Despite being really interested in getting a good overview of the various ideas and lifes of great economists and being highly motivated I have not managed to get past page 132 - it was such a boring read. It would be much more informative and quicker to print out and read the wikipedia pages of the economists mentioned.
Furthermore the book does not discuss (in most cases not even mention) very influential economists like Friedman, van Mises and it also gives the wrong impression that the first person... more info
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The Pen is Mightier than the Sword! 
I read this book for a Microeconomics class that I took with Dr. Gertmenian at Pepperdine in California back in the late 1980s.
I enjoyed learning about this handful of powerful philosophers who helped shape economic theory. Some of their theories make good sense; other theories make no sense. There is some serious naïve thoughts about human nature.
The most fascinating person to me was Adam Smith and his thoughts about the free markets system. I especially enjoyed learning about his... more info
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Good, but too much 
I do think this is a very informative book, but I think the author tries too hard. I have a decently large vocabulary, but there were still several words per chapter I needed a dictionary for. There are also a few passages where the author tried to get a little to linguistically creative, which is not really suit the nature of this piece.
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