Savil Srivastava's Reviews > The Worldly Philosophers

A history of the big ideas in Economics from Adam Smith to Mill to Marx to Keynes. Written in the 1950s so doesn't get into Hayek/Friedman. Wonderful book that I highly recommend, because Heilbroner not only lucidly explains the core ideas but also puts them into context: we're taken into the society that each of these economists lived in, and their own personal lives and how these likely affected their views on the political-economy.