Grand pursuit : [the story of economic genius] /
Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind, chronicles the evolution of modern economics, from Victorian London to present times.
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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[New York] :
Simon & Schuster Audio,
[2011]
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
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Table of 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.