Liberal thinkers

1. John Stuart Mill
2. Alexis de Tocqueville
3. John Maynard Keynes
4. Schumpeter, Popper and Hayek
5. Berlin, Rawls and Nozick
6. Rousseau, Marx and Nietzsche

Today, August 27, 2018, I received my print version of The Economist describing Schumpeter, Popper and Hayek

The Dream of Utopian Socialists

Is the title of Chapter 5 in The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner a Touchstone Book  published by Simon & Schuster.  I have a copy of the revised seventh edition with a 1999 copyright.

With people “feeling the Berne” recently, it seems appropriate to revisit this.  Young people may not have been here before.

I.  Introduction

II.  The Economic Revolution

III.  The Wonderful World of Adam Smith

IV.  The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo

V.  The Dreams of the Utopian Socialists

VI.  The Inexorable System of Karl Marx

VII.  The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics

VIII.  The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen

IX.  The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes

X.  The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter

XI.  The End of the Worldly Philosophy?

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