ABSTRACT
L unch with Bob Heilbroner was always an intellectual feast. Every body who knew him will say in one way or another that he was a man of infinite imagination and infinite hope. The subject of his imagina tion was the vast historical enterprise of capitalism, its origins, its progression, its locale, its politics, its economics, its ruling and sub ordinate ideas, its clashes, the covert and overt drives of the men and women locked in this great matrix, and how that matrix might some day be shattered. The subject of his hope was the possible attenua tion of the cruelties, the injustices, the deprivations, and the destruc tiveness of capitalism by surpassing its limits and moving into a future that used to be called socialism.
