Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

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Simon 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.

 

Contenido

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
Index
527

Immaterial Devices of the Mind
281
Magneto Trouble Keynes and Fisher
306

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Sylvia Nasar was born in Rosenheim, Germany on August 17, 1947. She received a bachelor's degree in literature from Antioch College in 1970 and master's degree in economics from New York University in 1976. She is an economist and author. Her books include A Beautiful Mind, which inspired the academy award winning movie, and Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius. She was an economics correspondent for the New York Times and is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in several publications including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Newsweek.

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