Robert Heilbroner

Robert Heilbroner

Federal Office of Price Administration, New School for Social Research,

Wall Street commodities firm.

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 contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.

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