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The Making of Economic Society

by Robert L. Heilbroner, William S. Milberg · 1962

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For thirty-five years "The Making of Economic Society" has taught us how to fit the times in which we have been living into the drama of its title. No easy assurances or baleful prophecies emerge from this classic text. What the reader gains is an understanding of the possibilities, good and bad, for the making of economic society in the years ahead.

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