When Robert Хайлбронер died in 2005, obituaries reported about death of the known American economist and sociologist. But millions of thankful readers all over the world knew him foremost as an author of "Philosophers from the world this" - surprizing narration about fates and ideas of titans of economic idea. Surprizing yet and because the general drawing of book Хайлбронера made a few million copies, evidently refuting a myth that an economy is gloomy and uninteresting science. On the pages of "Philosophers" great theories neighbor with description of whimsical tricks of their authors| seeming the personages of historical labours of figure find the unique outlines. Always dissipated Adam Смит and grumbling Carl Маркс, brilliant David Ricardo and John Мейнард Keynes changed our world, and the recital of them hardly will leave indifferent as students, so those, who all life wanted to know about an economy more, but was afraid to glance in толстенные, напичканные formulas volumes.