Grand pursuit : the story of economic genius / Sylvia Nasar.

Grand pursuit : the story of economic genius / Sylvia Nasar.

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

9780684872988
0684872986
9780684872995 (pbk.)
0684872994 (pbk.)

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.

English

xv, 558 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

HB75 .N347 2011

330.15092/2

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 the condition of the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, the richest place in the world. She describes the often heroic efforts of Marx and others to put those insights into action, with revolutionary consequences. From John Maynard Keynes to 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 the entire planet. In Nasar's dramatic narrative 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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