The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers is a book by Robert L. Heilbroner that was published in 1953. It has sold nearly four million copies, making it the second-best-selling economics text of all time. The book examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx. It explores the common focus of their ideas, which is the search to understand how a capitalist society works. A few highlighter marks are in the book.

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