Name: Grand Pursuit: Great 20Th Century Economic Thinkers and What They Discovered About the way the World Works
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Author: Sylvia Nasar
ISBN: 9781841154565

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Grand Pursuit: Great 20Th Century Economic Thinkers and What They Discovered About the way the World Works

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Physical Book

Author

Sylvia Nasar

Publisher

Fourth Estate

Synopsis "Grand Pursuit: Great 20Th Century Economic Thinkers and What They Discovered About the way the World Works "

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

Sylvia Nasar

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Sylvia Nasar (born on August 17, 1947 in Rosenheim, Bavaria) is an American journalist and author, known for her biography A Beautiful Mind, which chronicles the life of mathematician and economist John Forbes Nash Jr. This book earned her the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Nasar grew up in Germany and Turkey, and earned her bachelor's degree in literature from Antioch College in 1970. She later pursued a master's degree in economics at New York University (NYU), where she worked for four years with Nobel laureate Wassily Leontief. Her journalistic career began at Fortune, and she was an economic correspondent for The New York Times from 1991 to 1999

In 2001, Nasar was named the first Knight Chair in Business Journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism. In 2011, she published Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, a work that explores the history of economic thought and how economists have influenced the improvement of human living conditions

In addition to her literary achievements, Nasar has been recognized with honorary doctorates from DePaul University and Niagara University, and has been a fellow at the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation

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