Robert Heilbroner
Sign in to saveAmerican economist and historian of economic thought (1919–2005)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 24 March 1919
- Died
- 4 January 2005
- Works
- 60
Top works
- The story of the economists and how their ideas helped make our modern world
- The supply curve of savings
- The worldly philosophers
- Economic means and Social ends
- The crisis of vision in modern economic thought
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- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 17
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,712x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,512x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,786x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,745x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,444x
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Quotes
- “He who enlists a man's mind wields a power even greater than the sword or the scepter.”
- “It may strike us as odd that the idea of gain is a relatively modern one; we are schooled to believe that man is essentially an acquisitive creature and that left to himself he will behave as any self-respecting businessman would. The profit motive, we are constantly being told, is as old as man himself.Nothing could be further from the truth.”
- “Nobody wanted this commercialization of life.”
- “The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.”
- “Even today — in blithe disregard to his actual philosophy — Smith is generally regarded as a conservative economist, whereas in fact, he is more avowedly hostile to the motives of businessman than most New Deal economists.”
- “David Ricardo saw that the escalator worked with different effects on different classes, that some rode triumphantly to the top, while others were carried up a few steps and then kicked back down to the bottom.”
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