Sentence examples for worldly philosopher from inspiring English sources

But he was nonetheless a worldly philosopher.

WORLDLY PHILOSOPHER: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman, by Jeremy Adelman.

Justin Fox, in his review of "Worldly Philosopher" (July 21), explained it to me.

Indeed, like his sometime rival George Soros, he appears to aspire to the role of worldly philosopher.

"Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman" (Princeton), by the Princeton historian Jeremy Adelman, is a biography worthy of the man.

Then again, neither of those guys has yet been the subject of a doorstop of a biography like "Worldly Philosopher," the hugely engaging 740-page epic that Jeremy Adelman has just delivered.

ECONOMISTS, the worldly philosophers, do not on the whole live up to that tag.

In a famous history of economics, the late Robert Heilbroner described economists as "worldly philosophers".

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukIN 1953 Robert Heilbroner, an American economist, published "The Worldly Philosophers", an inspirational account of what economists do.

This is one explanation for the continuing popularity of Robert L. Heilbroner's book "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers".

Regarding "Wanted: Worldly philosophers," (Views, Nov. 7): While no one could quarrel with Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman's view that we need people who can take a more lucid and comprehensive view of the economy, it is not obvious that the worldly philosophers they cite have done that job.