Grand pursuit : the story of economic genius /
Nasar, Sylvia.
Grand pursuit : the story of economic genius / Sylvia Nasar. - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011. - xv, 558 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-526) and index.
Perfectly new: Engels and Karl Marx in the age of miracles -- Must there be a proletariat? Alfred Marshall's patron saint -- Miss Potter's profession: Beatrice Webb and the housekeeping state -- Empire of energy: Irving Fisher and the cross of gold -- Creative destruction: Joseph Schumpeter and economic evolution -- The last days of mankind: Schumpeter in Vienna -- "Europe is dying" : Maynard Keynes at Versailles -- The joyless street: Schumpeter and Hayek in Vienna -- Immaterial mechanisms of the mind: Keynes and Fisher in the 1920s -- Starter trouble: the Great Depression -- Searching: Webb and Robinson in the 1930s -- Economists' war: Keynes and Friedman in WWII -- Exile: Schumpeter and Hayek in WWII -- Past and future: Keynes at Bretton Woods -- Road from serfdom: Hayek and the German miracle -- Paul Samuelson goes to Washington -- Inventing the future: Robinson in Moscow and Beijing -- Tryst with destiny.
9780684872988 (hbk.) 9780684872995 (pbk.) 9781439198612 (ebook)
2011024751
Economics--History.
Economists.
Economic history.
HB75 / .N347 2011
330.15092/2
Grand pursuit : the story of economic genius / Sylvia Nasar. - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011. - xv, 558 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-526) and index.
Perfectly new: Engels and Karl Marx in the age of miracles -- Must there be a proletariat? Alfred Marshall's patron saint -- Miss Potter's profession: Beatrice Webb and the housekeeping state -- Empire of energy: Irving Fisher and the cross of gold -- Creative destruction: Joseph Schumpeter and economic evolution -- The last days of mankind: Schumpeter in Vienna -- "Europe is dying" : Maynard Keynes at Versailles -- The joyless street: Schumpeter and Hayek in Vienna -- Immaterial mechanisms of the mind: Keynes and Fisher in the 1920s -- Starter trouble: the Great Depression -- Searching: Webb and Robinson in the 1930s -- Economists' war: Keynes and Friedman in WWII -- Exile: Schumpeter and Hayek in WWII -- Past and future: Keynes at Bretton Woods -- Road from serfdom: Hayek and the German miracle -- Paul Samuelson goes to Washington -- Inventing the future: Robinson in Moscow and Beijing -- Tryst with destiny.
9780684872988 (hbk.) 9780684872995 (pbk.) 9781439198612 (ebook)
2011024751
Economics--History.
Economists.
Economic history.
HB75 / .N347 2011
330.15092/2