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Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

by Sylvia Nasar
RM45.00 MYR
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Economics as humanity’s boldest modern invention

Sylvia Nasar traces the making of modern economics, from Dickens and Mayhew to Marx, Marshall, and Fisher. A sweeping account of ideas confronting poverty and deprivation.

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2011)
  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2011)
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2012)
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Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

by Sylvia Nasar
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ISBN: 9780684872988
Authors: Sylvia Nasar
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date of Publication: 2011-09-13
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Philosophy, Politics, Economics, Business, Biographies & Memoirs, History
Related Topics: Social Science, World History, Finance, Biography Memoir, Politics, History, Biography, Money, European History
Goodreads rating: 3.84
(rated by 1745 readers)

Description

From the author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Beautiful Mind comes a sweeping journey into economics—the greatest invention of modern times—and how it has changed the lives of people everywhere. 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 is 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. 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.
 

Economics as humanity’s boldest modern invention

Sylvia Nasar traces the making of modern economics, from Dickens and Mayhew to Marx, Marshall, and Fisher. A sweeping account of ideas confronting poverty and deprivation.

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2011)
  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2011)
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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