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Robert Heilbroner

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Robert Heilbroner · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1919, New York City, United States — 2005, New York City, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Robert Heilbroner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Robert Heilbroner was an American economist and historian of economic thought whose book 'The Worldly Philosophers' — a history of great economists from Adam Smith to Keynes — became one of the best-selling economics books ever written. He taught for decades at the New School for Social Research. Born into a German-Jewish family in New York, he was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists