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Robert L. Heilbroner

Robert L. HeilbronerAKA Robert Lewis Heilbroner

Born: 24-Mar-1919
Birthplace: Manhattan, NY
Died: 4-Jan-2005
Location of death: Manhattan, NY
Cause of death: Illness [1]

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Economist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Worldly Philosophers

Military service: US Army (WWII)


[1] Lewy Body Disease (a form of dementia).

Father: Louis Heilbroner (clothier, d. 1924)
Mother: Helen Heiler
Wife: Joan Knapp (m. 1952, div. 1975, two sons)
Son: Peter Heilbroner
Son: David Heilbroner
Wife: Shirley Eleanor Davis (m. 1975, until his death)

    University: Harvard University (1940)
    University: PhD, New School for Social Research (1963)
    Professor: New School for Social Research (1971-)

    American Economic Association
    Bronze Star

Author of books:
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (1953, economics)
The Future as History (1960, history)
The Making of Economic Society (1962, economics)
An Inquiry into the Human Prospect (1974, economics)
The Economic Transformation of America: 1600 to the Present (1977, economics)
The Nature and Logic of Capitalism (1985, economics)
Behind the Veil of Economics: Essays in the Worldly Philosophy (1988, economics)
21st Century Capitalism (1993, economics)
The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought (1995, economics)


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