Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Awards:   Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Science/Technology) 2011
Author:   Sylvia Nasar
Publisher:   Simon & Schuster
ISBN:  

9780684872988


Pages:   558
Publication Date:   13 September 2011
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Science/Technology) 2011

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The author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes the reader on a journey of discovery--how the greatest invention of modern times, economics, has changed the lives of every single human being. In a sweeping narrative, the author of the megabestseller 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 economics 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 describes the often heroic efforts of Marx, Engels, Alfred Marshall, Beatrice and Sydney Webb, and the American 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 planet. In Nasar's dramatic narrative 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 hitherto age-old destiny of misery and early death. This idea, unimaginable less than 200 years ago, is a story of trial and error, but ultimately transcendent, as it is rendered here in a stunning and moving narrative.

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Author:   Sylvia Nasar
Publisher:   Simon & Schuster
Imprint:   Simon & Schuster
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.885kg
ISBN:  

9780684872988


ISBN 10:   0684872986
Pages:   558
Publication Date:   13 September 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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[This] is the story of the evolution of a radical, planet-reshaping idea...The canvas is epic...The details are fresh, at times startling...At the same time, gnarly but critical concepts...shine through in all their richness and complexity. If only Econ 101 had been this interesting! - Fortune


A timely reminder of the importance of the so-called dismal science. . . . Written almost as a novel and aimed at those without a background in economics, the book charts capitalism's evolution through the eyes of the people who invented it. . . . It is compellingly written, full of detail and vivid anecdotes, and with a refreshing focus on people rather than prices. --Gregor Hunter, The Nation


Nasar has written a compelling history of modern economics, a story of the theorists as well as of their theories. . . . Grand Pursuit is artfully rendered and a delight to read. . . . One suspects that future economics textbooks will warrant some revisions. All the same, their authors would profit from consulting Grand Pursuit . <p>-- Bloomberg BusinessWeek's **FIVE STAR** Review


A Beautiful Mind tells a moving story and offers a remarkable look into the arcane world of mathematics and the tragedy of madness. -- The New York Times Book Review


Author Information

Sylvia Nasar is the author of the bestselling A Beautiful Mind, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. She is the John S. and James. L Knight Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

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