Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusSimon and Schuster, 2011 - 558 páginas An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed 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. Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern economics, of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands. A New York Times bestseller, this sweeping narrative from the author of 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. Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern economics, of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands. |
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Perfectly New | 11 |
Must There Be a Proletariat? | 48 |
Miss Potters Profession | 91 |
Cross of Gold Fisher and the Money Illusion | 139 |
Creative Destruction | 171 |
War of the Worlds | 197 |
Europe Is Dying Keynes at Versailles | 235 |
The Joyless Street Schumpeter and Hayek in Vienna | 262 |
Experiments | 338 |
The Economists War | 354 |
Exile Schumpeter and Hayek in World War II | 372 |
Past and Future Keynes at Bretton Woods | 390 |
Instruments of Mastery | 409 |
Grand Illusion Robinson in Moscow and Beijing | 426 |
Imagining the Future 461 | 465 |
527 | |
Immaterial Devices of the Mind | 281 |
Magneto Trouble Keynes and Fisher | 306 |
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