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Subject: R. L. Heilbroner, Economist and Writer

Author: dead at 85

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: January 11, 2005 11:02:49 EDT Robert L. Heilbroner, an economist and the author of the best-selling book "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers," has died at age 85. Professor Heilbroner died Jan. 4, according to the Web site of the New School University, where he spent his career and most recently was a professor emeritus at the graduate faculty of political and social science division. The cause of death was not given, and a phone message left for a school spokeswoman was not immediately returned. "The Worldly Philosophers," first published in 1953, provides a history of world economists from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes. A 1999 article in The New York Times called it "a 'Profiles in Courage' of the great thinkers who shaped modern economics." Professor Heilbroner, who attended the Horace Mann School for Boys, graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and worked briefly in the federal Office of Price Administration before serving in the Army during World War II. He then began studying at the New School while working as a freelance writer and was granted a doctorate in economics for his book "The Making of Economic Society" after joining the university's economics faculty, the Web site said. Professor Heilbroner also wrote "The Limits of American Capitalism," "An Inquiry in the Human Prospect" and more than 20 other books. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]