Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: An interesting contrast

I recently assigned Heilbroner along with New Ideas from Dead Economics (by Todd Buchholz) in a college course and found them a useful contrast. Buchholz is a bit to the right of the mainstream and Heilbroner is far to the left, so they usually give different perspectives on the economists of the past. If I were to use only one, Buchholz would be the clear choice. Heilbroner is a better writer than he is an economist, while Buchholz is both a gifted writer and a sound economist. Perhaps because he is unhappy with most of what has happened in the past half century in economics, Heilbroner ends his book with Schumpeter in the 1940s. In contrast, Buchholz believes that the past half century has been a creative and exciting time in economics and, hence, one gets from him a better sense of what is happening in economics today.