Grand Pursuit
The Story of Economic Genius
In a sweeping narrative, the author of the megabestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. It's 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. 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 was a new pursuit. She describes the often hero…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4391-9861-2
- EAN: 9781439198612
- Produktnummer: 14351169
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 576 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 23'173 KB
- Abbildungen: 16 pp b-w insert; rough front
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Sylvia Nasar
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