From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today's financial mess.
As the twenty-first century faces new and ever more daunting economic obstacles, Sylvia Nasar tells the story of how our financial world came to function as it does today, and how a handful of men and women would change the lives of every person on the planet.
Economics was not always associated with bankers and excess, or with recessions and bailouts. Economics, as we know it, was born in the nineteenth century when Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew chronicled the destitution in London's slums and wanted to turn money into a force for social good. Man's material fate would be placed in his own hands, rather than left to destiny. The torch would be carried on by everyone from Marx and Engels to Keynes and Friedman, with revolutionary results.
Filled with the stories of colourful lives and visions of the characters who shaped modern economics, Grand Pursuit is a fascinating history of the determining force of the past century, and a vital insight into how our world works now.
'A history of economics which is full of flesh, bloom and warmth' The Economist
| ISBN: | 9781841154565 |
| Publication date: | 19th July 2012 |
| Author: | Sylvia Nasar |
| Publisher: | 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 557 pages |
| Genres: |
Economic theory and philosophy Biography: business and industry Biography: philosophy and social sciences History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities) Economic history History |
From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today's financial mess.
As the twenty-first century faces new and ever more daunting economic obstacles, Sylvia Nasar tells the story of how our financial world came to function as it does today, and how a handful of men and women would change the lives of every person on the planet.
Economics was not always associated with bankers and excess, or with recessions and bailouts. Economics, as we know it, was born in the nineteenth century when Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew chronicled the destitution in London's slums and wanted to turn money into a force for social good. Man's material fate would be placed in his own hands, rather than left to destiny. The torch would be carried on by everyone from Marx and Engels to Keynes and Friedman, with revolutionary results.
Filled with the stories of colourful lives and visions of the characters who shaped modern economics, Grand Pursuit is a fascinating history of the determining force of the past century, and a vital insight into how our world works now.
'A history of economics which is full of flesh, bloom and warmth' The Economist
Grand Pursuit features in the following genres: Economic theory and philosophy, Biography: business and industry, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities), Economic history, History
Grand Pursuit is available in Paperback, Hardback
Grand Pursuit was written by Sylvia Nasar and published by 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Grand Pursuit has 557 pages