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Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Nasar Book Summary
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 heroic efforts of Marx, Engels, Alfred Marshall, Beatrice and Sydney Webb, and the American Irving Fisher to put those insights into action—with revolutionary consequences for the world.
From the great John Maynard Keynes to Schumpeter, Hayek, Keynes’s disciple Joan Robinson, the influential American economists Paul Samuelson and Milton Freedman, and India’s Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, she shows how the insights of these activist thinkers transformed the world—from one city, London, to the developed nations in Europe and America, and now to the entire planet. In Nasar’s dramatic narrative of these discoverers we witness men and women responding to personal crises, world wars, revolutions, economic upheavals, and each other’s ideas to turn back Malthus and transform the dismal science into a triumph over mankind’s hitherto age-old destiny of misery and early death. This idea, unimaginable less than 200 years ago, is a story of trial and error, but ultimately transcendent, as it is rendered here in a stunning and moving narrative.
Book Name | Grand Pursuit |
Genre | History |
Author | Sylvia Nasar |
Published | 13 September 2011, Tuesday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 24.23 MB |
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Essential reading for those interested in modern economic history.. This is essential reading for those interested in economic history. The book spans the development of economic thought from the mid-1800s up to the post World War II era. It is a great book that would work well as a lead up to Daniel Yergin's book The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, which covers the development of economic thought throughout the 20th century. What I found most fascinating about this work was what it revealed regarding the personal lives of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Beatrice Potter (the inventor of the welfare state and the "think tank"), Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes and his Bloomsbury circle of friends, Milton Friedman (I had no idea that he initially supported Keynesian economics), and Joan Robinson. Very intriguing as well to gain some insight into the potential relationships that developed between Cambridge economists who had leanings toward socialism and Soviet style communism and their influence upon the infamous British MI6 double-agents who became known as the Cambridge Five.
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The Grand Pursuit book written by Sylvia Nasar was published on 13 September 2011, Tuesday in the History category. A total of 153 readers of the book gave the book 3.5 points out of 5.
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