This book by Robert Heilbroner examines the economic problem of scarcity and how it affects the decisions of individuals, businesses, and governments. Heilbroner looks at the history of economic thought and how it has shaped our current understanding of the economic problem. He also explores the
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Robert L. Heilbroner was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some two dozen books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (1953), a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.