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Robert Heilbroner has passed away
Robert Heilbroner, author of Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers and among the most influential economic historians of the 20th century, has died in New York. He was 85.
Dr Heilbroner, who had suffered for the past three years with Lewy Body disease, a rare Alzheimer's-like illness, died of a stroke last Wednesday, according to his son, David.
Here is an obituary.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on January 10, 2005 at 07:35 AM in Economics | Permalink
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