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One of the most influential members of the Graduate Faculty of the 1960s and 1970s, Robert Heilbroner was born in New York City to a wealthy.
A summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Harvard, Robert Louis Heilbroner (born 1919) is an influential economist and prolific writer, reviewer.

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Robert Heilbroner is Norman Thomas Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the New School for Social Research, in New York City. His main contribution to economic thought is in the critical methodology/philosophy of economics...he likes to look at "the big picture".

Heilbroner's view on the Doctrine of value-free economics (Wertfreiheit) are as follows:

Economists are not scientifically detached in assessing economic theories...Economists, like all social investigators, ...cannot help being emotionally involved with the society of which they are members: every social scientist approaches his task with a wish, consciously or unconsciously, to demonstrate the workability or unworkability of the social order he is investigating. In the face of this extreme vulnerability to value judgements, economists cannot be impartial or disinterested: thus, value judgements, partly of a sociological kind, partly with respect to bahaviour, have infused economics from its earliest statements to its latest and most sophisticated representations".

Heilbroner also believes that the study o

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Robert Heilbroner 1919-2005

Mark Levinson ▪ Spring 2005
“Whatever Dissent‘s problems,” Irving Howe once said to me in the 1980s, “we at least have two of the most literate economists alive.” He was referring to Robert Lekachman and Robert Heilbroner.
Bob Heilbroner was a man of prodigious energy. He wrote hundreds of articles and more than twenty books that sold in excess of ten million copies. His first book, The Worldly Philosophers, sold nearly four million copies and is the second best-selling economics textbook of all time, after Paul Samuelson’s Economics.
For all his renown as an economist, he was something of an outsider in the economics profession. In a field that is often obscure, he was a master of lucid prose. He had a simple style, seemingly easy but in fact almost impossible to copy. This writing did not come naturally. A typical Heilbroner lecture, for example—although insightful and wide-ranging, a restless mind thinking out loud—was not nearly as polished as his books and essays. His crystal-clear writing, fo
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Robert Heilbroner
One of the most influential members of the Graduate Faculty of the 1960s and 1970s, Robert Heilbroner was born in New York City to a wealthy German Jewish family that owned menswear stores. He studied literature, philosophy and economics at Harvard University and graduated in 1940 summa cum laude. During World War II, he was sent to the University of Michigan to learn Japanese, and served in the United States Army as an interpreter. He also worked at the Office of Price Control under John Kenneth Galbraith.
After returning from the war, Heilbroner decided to continue his economic education at the New School for Social Research in 1946, where he “had the immense good fortune to fall into the class, and under the spell, of Adolph Lowe,” a University-in-Exile economist of the German Historical School, who taught a seminar on the history of economic thought.[1] Heilbroner already worked as a freelance writer, publishing articles in magazines like Harper’s. As he recalled later, in Lowe’s course he “discovered classical political economy as an approach to economics