THE NATURE versus nurture debate has been at the forefront of the understanding of human nature since the emergence of Renaissance humanism. Before, the Christian dogma of original sin dealt with the ...
Excerpt and condensation of Chapter 6 from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, 7th ed., 1999. Robert Heilbroner's The ...