Two of America\'s most respected economists clarify the basics of economics for everyone who wants to understand the nature of the economic forces that seem to rule our lives. \"Clarity triumphant, whether the topic is inflation or government, markets or Marx.\"--Newsday....

In its fourth edition, Economics Explained continues its announced purpose -- to explain that mysterious thing called economics. But there is a new urgency to the book. It is announced in the first sentence of the introduction: \"Just in case the reader-to-be hasn\'t noticed, disturbing things are going on in the American economy these days....

With its roots in history and eyes on the future, this book traces the development of our economic society from the Middle Ages to the present, offering a balanced perspective of why our economy is the way it is and where it may be headed. It explores the catalytic role past economic trends and dynamics?particularly capitalism?...

Economists, practitioners of the dismal science, are little known for their compassion or their profundity, but Robert Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers, displays both in this sweeping study of the state and future of capitalism....

A prophetic vision of the shape of things to come, from one of America\'s most eloquent economists....

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....

A deep and widespread crisis affects modern economic theory, a crisis that derives from the absence of a \"vision\"--a set of widely shared political and social preconceptions--on which all economics ultimately depends....