Grand Pursuit, Sylvia Nasar
Grand Pursuit, Sylvia Nasar
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Grand Pursuit
The Story of Economic Genius

Author: Sylvia Nasar

Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd, Anne Twomey

Unabridged: 20 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2011


Synopsis

An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed 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. Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern economics, of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands.

A New York Times bestseller, this sweeping narrative from the author of 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. Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern economics, of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands.

 

About Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar is the author of the bestselling A Beautiful Mind, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. She is the John S. and James. L Knight Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Olethros on December 01, 2014

-De muchas ideas, que principalmente explican las cosas en retrospectiva, y de muchas voluntades.- Género. Ensayo. Lo que nos cuenta. Desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta comienzos del XXI, repaso de la vida e ideas, económicas principalmente (pero también muy sociales, políticas e incluso personales),......more

Goodreads review by Mal on April 06, 2017

Economics Through the Lens of Personality: An Accessible History It’s well known that Thomas Carlyle, a 19th century British historian, is credited with first calling economics “the dismal science.” What’s much less widely appreciated is that this derogatory label was well justified when he set the p......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on December 01, 2014

-De muchas ideas, que principalmente explican las cosas en retrospectiva, y de muchas voluntades.- Género. Ensayo. Lo que nos cuenta. Desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta comienzos del XXI, repaso de la vida e ideas, económicas principalmente (pero también muy sociales, políticas e incluso personales),......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on December 01, 2014

-De muchas ideas, que principalmente explican las cosas en retrospectiva, y de muchas voluntades.- Género. Ensayo. Lo que nos cuenta. Desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta comienzos del XXI, repaso de la vida e ideas, económicas principalmente (pero también muy sociales, políticas e incluso personales),......more

Goodreads review by Marks54 on January 31, 2012

This is a popularly oriented book on economic history - in particular by way of a historical look at economists and their times. The premise is to look at the thinkers who developed our ways of thinking about how economic thinking can be used to improve the lots of people through intentional activit......more