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HEILBRONER, Robert was born on March 24, 1919 in New York, United States. Son of Louis and Helen (nee Weiller) Heilbroner.
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In The Worldly Philosophers, Robert Heilbroner set out to describe what the great economists thought would happen to the system of capitalism. In later books. Professor Heilbroner projected his own views about the future of the capitalist system. Now he asks a still more demanding question: What is capitalism? In search of an answer, The Nature and Logic of Capitalism takes us on a far-ranging exploration to the unconscious levels of the human psyche and the roots of domination and submission; to the organization of primitive society and the origins of wealth; to the sources of profit and the conception of a "regime" of capital; to the interplay of relatively slow-changing institutions and the powerful force of the accumulation of wealth. By the end of this tour we have grappled not only with ideas of Adam Smith and Karl Marx but with Freud and modern anthropologists as well. And we are far closer to understanding capitalism in our time, its possibilities and limits.
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Una demoledora crisis, más amplia y profunda que nunca, está afectando actualmente a la teoría económica moderna, a los hombres y mujeres que se dedican a hablar de ese tema. La crisis en cuestión es consecuencia de la ausencia de una «visión», de un conjunto de aquellos conceptos políticos y sociales compartidos de los que depende, en última instancia, la economía. Y esta ausencia, a su vez, refleja el colapso de las teorías de Keynes, que han dominado el terreno desde la década de los cuarenta hasta la de los setenta, del mismo modo en que antes lo hicieron las de Smith, Ricardo, Mill o Marshall. A la decadencia de esta perspectiva económica, en cualquier caso, le han seguido diversas tendencias cuyo denominador común parece ser una impecable elegancia a la hora de exponer los términos, acompañada de una absoluta inoperancia en cuanto a su aplicación práctica. Por todo ello, este libro se dedica a describir este estado de cosas, para que el lector se sitúe y conozca todos los puntos de vista, y luego intenta sugerir la dirección en que debería moverse el pensamiento económico si desea recuperar la influencia que hasta hace poco ha ejercido. Robert Heilbronner es profesor emérito de Economía en la New School for Social Research de Nueva York. Es autor de más de treinta libros, incluyendo The Wordly Philosophers, An Inquiry into Human Prospect y Visiones del futuro, este último también publicado por Paidós. William Milberg es profesor ayudante de Economía en la New School for Social Research de Nueva York y ha compilado libros como Prospects for Canadian-U.S. Economic Relations Under Free Trade o The Megacorp and Macrodynamics: Essays in Memory of Alfred Eichner.
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Selections from great writings on economics, annotated and introduced by a distinguished economist and teacher. Author of The Worldly Philosophers, a 3-million-copy seller, Robert Heilbroner offers here a compendium of readings from the "worldly philosophers" themselves. The selections range from the earliest economic thought to such towering volumes as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy, and John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Acting as "a docent, not merely an editor," he takes the reader through the core arguments with "brilliantly clear commentary" (New York Times Book Review).
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"This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future." So begins Visions of the Future, the prophetic new book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner. Heilbroner's basic premise is stunning in its elegant simplicity. He contends that throughout all of human history, despite the huge gulf in social organization, technological development, and cultural achievement that divides us from the earliest known traces of homo sapiens, there have really only been three distinct ways of looking at the future. During a period Heilbroner refers to simply as the Distant Past, stretching from prehistory to the appearance of modern nation-states in seventeenth century Europe, there was no notion of a future measurably and materially different from the present or the past. From the Stone Age to the Bronze, Mesopotamia and Egypt to Greece and Rome, and throughout the Middle Ages, a continuum of cultures and civilizations shared one defining expectation--the absence of any expectation of material progress for the great masses of people. Heilbroner maintains that it was not until the first stirrings of the period he refers to as Yesterday, spanning from roughly 1700 to 1950, that the future entered into human consciousness as a great beckoning force. Capitalism, continually reinvigorated by the seemingly endless forward march of science and an evolving sense of democracy, appeared to promise all levels of society some expectation of a future at least somewhat better than the past. It was this unwavering faith in the superiority of the future that separated Yesterday from the age we have now entered, that of Today. While we are still driven towards tomorrow by the same forces that determined the recent past, the lessons of Hiroshima and Chernobyl, the chaos in the former Soviet Union, the stagnation of the West, and the anarchic rage unleashed in our inner cities and in hot spots around the globe have brought on a palpable anxiety that is quite apart from both the resignation of the Distant Past or the bright optimism of Yesterday. In a brilliant conclusion drawing together the threat of nuclear blackmail, global warming and the growing commodification of life represented by video games, voice mail, and VCRs, Visions of the Future issues a call to face the challenges of the twenty-first century with a new resolve strengthened by the inspiration of our collective past.
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HEILBRONER, Robert was born on March 24, 1919 in New York, United States. Son of Louis and Helen (nee Weiller) Heilbroner.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy, New School Social Research, 1963. Doctor of Laws, LaSalle College.
Doctor of Laws, Ripon College. Doctor of Laws, Long Island University. Doctor of Laws, Wagner College.
Doctor of Laws, State University of New York, Purchase. Doctor of Laws, New School for Social Research.
Professor Econ, New School Social Research, 1968-1973. Norman Thomas Professor Economics, Graduate Faculty, New School Social Research, New York City, New York, United States of America, since 1973. Editorial Board, Social Research, 1963, Challenge, since 1970, Dissent, 1970-.
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( Selections from great writings on economics, annotated ...)
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(Political Science, Philosophy, Economy, World Economy)
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Author: Future as History, 1960, Great Ascent, 1963, Limits of American Capitalism, 1966, Between Capitalism and Socialism, 1970, The Making of Economic Society, review edition, 1989, (with James Galbraith) The Economic Problem, review edition, 1990, The Worldly Philosophers, review edition, 1999, Between Capitalism and Socialism, 1970, An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, review edition, 1980, Business Civilization in Decline, 1976, Beyond Boom and Crash, 1978, Marxism: For and Against, 1980, (with Lester Thurow) Five Economic Challenges, review edition, 1987, Economics Explained, review edition, 1987, The Nature and Logic of Capitalism, 1985, The Essential Adam Smith, 1986, Behind the Veil of Economics, 1988, 21st Century Capitalism, 1993, Visions of the Future, 1995, (with William Millberg) The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought, 1996, Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy, 1996, also many articles and brochures in field.
My work began with an interest in the evolution of economic thought, not considered as an exercise in analysis, but as an aspect of intellectual history, and has continued in that vein. Gradually my focus of interest has shifted, however, from the ‘scenarios’ of the great economists to a consideration of the nature and logic of capitalism. This change in emphasis perhaps reflects my evolution from a naive Keynesian (graduated amid the early debates about the General Theory in 1940), through a second education in the classical economists, largely received at the hands of Adolph Lowe, my mentor at the New School, to a deep interest in Marx, the result of my exposure to the critical thought of students and colleagues during the last decade at the New School.
I now see my life career as an effort to come to grips with, make my peace with, and finally to venture beyond Marx. The degree to which I have succeeded is of course for others to say but the direction of my impetus should at least be made clear. I have always been interested in writing as clearly and nontechnically as possible in the belief that scholarly efforts should not preclude communication with other educated readers.
Chairman board Town School, New York City, 1963-1973, Council Economic Priorities, 1973-1979. Served to 1st lieutenant United States Army, World World War II. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member American Economic Association (executive committee 1972, vice president 1983-1984), Association for an Evolutionary Economy (Vedlen-Commons award 1993), New York Council for the Humanities (Scholar of Year 1994), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married 1st Joan Knapp in 1952 (divorced in 1975). Married 2nd Shirley Davis in 1975.