Robert L. Heilbroner (1919–2005)

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1. John Kenneth Galbraith

   Author of The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

2. Robert L. Heilbroner

   Author of The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, The making of economic society, The Nature and Logic of Capitalism

3. Adam Smith

   Author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

4. John Maynard Keynes

   Author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

5. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, The Age of Reform, Social Darwinism in American Thought

6. Thorstein Veblen

   Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class

7. Will Durant

   Author of The Story of Philosophy, The Age of Louis the XIV, The Lessons of History

8. Joseph A. Schumpeter

   Author of Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

9. Milton Friedman

   Author of Capitalism and Freedom

10. Paul Krugman

    Author of The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science, The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s

11. Alexander Hamilton

    Author of The Federalist Papers

12. Amartya Sen

    Author of Development as Freedom, On Ethics and Economics

13. Michael Harrington

    Author of The Other America: Poverty in the United States, The Accidental Century, The Twilight of Capitalism

14. Louis Menand

    Author of The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

15. Allan Bloom

    Author of The Closing of the American Mind

16. A. J. Ayer

    Author of Language, Truth and Logic

17. Karl Polanyi

    Author of The Great Transformation

18. F. A. Hayek

    Author of The Road to Serfdom

19. Thomas Hobbes

    Author of Leviathan, Leviathan Parts I and II

20. Herbert Marcuse

    Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory, Five Lectures: Psychoanalysis, Politics and Utopia