Obituary: Robert Heilbroner

01/11/2005 Mises Wire Chris Sciabarra

A brief obituary appears in the New York Times, courtesy of The Associated Press: "Robert Heilbroner, 85, Economist and Writer, Dies." Absent from this brief death notice is, perhaps, one of Heilbroner's most famous formulations. Upon the collapse of 20th century socialism, he said: "Mises was right."

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