An economist by profession, Robert Heilbroner is the author of a number of books and articles that put economic theories and developments into historical perspective and relate them to contemporary social and political problems. He is especially...
Robert L. Heilbroner, (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers (1953), a survey of the lives and...
1. THE PROBLEM When historians and economists refer to the "Adam Smith problem" they mean the difficulty of reconciling the highly empathetic and socialized individual presented in Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 with the asocial, self-interested individual Smith elaborated in The...
It is both a personal joy and a professional honor to introduce Robert L. Heilbroner as the 1993 Veblen-Commons recipient. It has become traditional to begin the introduction of the current Veblen-Commons Award recipient by drawing linkages, intellectual or otherwise, with past recipients. For...
