Robert Heilbroner, the prominent historian of economics whose best-selling book “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers,” became a classic study of the ...

Robert Heilbroner, the bestselling writer of economics, died early this month at the age of 85. He and John Kenneth Galbraith may well have sold more economics books than all other economists combined ...

How many graduate students write a best-selling book while still in school? Robert Heilbroner did. “The Worldly Philosophers” has sailed through seven American editions, offering a wide-angle lens on ...

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, has died. He was 85. Heilbroner died ...

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.

In 1981, the socialist economist and best-selling author Robert Heilbroner took to the pages of the democratic socialist magazine, Dissent, to answer what would seem like a rather academic question, ...

The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies brings together faculty and students for interdisciplinary conversations around theoretical approaches to—and analytic methods for—the study of capitalism ...