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Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Grand PursuitIn a sweeping narrative, the author of the mega-bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. It's the epic story of the making of modern economics, and of how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands rather than in Fate. Nasar's account...
Full description- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Published: 13 September 2011
- Format: Hardback 576 pages
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- Categories: Economic History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780684872988 ISBN 10: 0684872986
- Sales rank: 30,254
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Full description for Grand Pursuit
In a sweeping narrative, the author of the mega-bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. It's the epic story of the making of modern economics, and of how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands rather than in Fate. Nasar's account begins with Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew observing and publishing the condition of the poor majority in mid nineteenth-century London, the richest and most glittering place in the world. This was a new pursuit. She then describes the efforts of Marx, Engels, Alfred Marshal, Beatrice and Sydney Webb, and Irving Fisher to put those insights into action?with revolutionary consequences for the world. From the great John Maynard Keynes to Schumpeter, Hayek, Keynes's disciple Joan Robinson, the influential American economists Paul Samuelson and Milton Freedman, and India?s Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, she shows how the insights of these activist thinkers transformed the world?from one city, London, to the developed nations in Europe and America, and now to the entire world. In Nasar's dramatic account of these discoverers we witness men and women responding to personal crises, world wars, revolutions, economic upheavals, and each other's ideas to turn back Malthus and transform the dismal science into a triumph over mankind?s...
