Grand pursuit : the story of economic genius
Title:
Grand pursuit : the story of economic genius
Author:
Nasar, Sylvia.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
558 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
Traces how the works of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew reflected the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, citing the achievements of such influential figures as John Maynard Keyes, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen.
Language:
English
Contents:
Perfectly new: Engels and Karl Marx in the age of miracles -- Must there be a proletariat? Alfred Marshall's patron saint -- Miss Potter's profession: Beatrice Webb and the housekeeping state -- Empire of energy: Irving Fisher and the cross of gold -- Creative destruction: Joseph Schumpeter and economic evolution -- The last days of mankind: Schumpeter in Vienna -- "Europe is dying" : Maynard Keynes at Versailles -- The joyless street: Schumpeter and Hayek in Vienna -- Immaterial mechanisms of the mind: Keynes and Fisher in the 1920s -- Starter trouble: the Great Depression -- Searching: Webb and Robinson in the 1930s -- Economists' war: Keynes and Friedman in WWII -- Exile: Schumpeter and Hayek in WWII -- Past and future: Keynes at Bretton Woods -- Road from serfdom: Hayek and the German miracle -- Paul Samuelson goes to Washington -- Inventing the future: Robinson in Moscow and Beijing -- Tryst with destiny.
ISBN:
9780684872988
9780684872995
9781439198612
Format :
Book