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The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L. Heilbroner
The lives and ideas of the great economists, Smith to Schumpeter, told as intellectual biography. Still the best first book on economics.
Read it if…
you want economics through its thinkers.
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Skip it if…
you want a textbook.
Try instead: The Affluent Society →
Three things you will actually use
- Ideas have biographies.
- Economics is about people.
- Start with Smith.
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Read the chapters on Smith and Keynes.
Our verdict
Economists as people.
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