Grand Pursuit The Story of Economic Genius

by Nasar, Sylvia

• ISBN13: 9780684872988
• ISBN10: 0684872986
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-13
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

From the author ofA Beautiful Mind, a sweeping history of the invention of modern economics that takes you from Dickensrs" London to modern Calcutta.

Table of Contents

Preface: The Nine Parts of Mankind	p. xi
Hope
Prologue: Mr. Sentiment Versus Scrooge	p. 3
Perfectly New: Engels and Marx in the Age of Miracles	p. 11
Must There Be a Proletariat? Marshall's Patron Saint	p. 48
Miss Potter's Profession: Webb and the Housekeeping State	p. 91
Cross of Gold: Fisher and the Money Illusion	p. 139
Creative Destruction: Schumpeter and Economic Evolution	p. 171
Fear
Prologue: War of the Worlds	p. 197
The Last Days of Mankind: Schumpeter in Vienna	p. 207
Europe Is Dying: Keynes at Versailles	p. 235
The Joyless Street: Schumpeter and Hayek in Vienna	p. 262
Immaterial Devices of the Mind: Keynes and Fisher in the 1920s	p. 281
Magneto Trouble: Keynes and Fisher in the Great Depression	p. 306
Experiments: Webb and Robinson in the 1930s	p. 338
The Economists' War: Keynes and Friedman at the Treasury	p. 354
Exile: Schumpeter and Hayek in World War II	p. 372
Confidence
Prologue: Nothing to Fear	p. 383
Past and Future: Keynes at Bretton Woods	p. 390
The Road from Serfdom: Hayek and the German Miracle	p. 399
Instruments of Mastery: Samuelson Goes to Washington	p. 409
Grand Illusion: Robinson in Moscow and Beijing	p. 426
Tryst with Destiny: Sen in Calcutta and Cambridge	p. 446
Epilogue: Imagining the Future	p. 461
Acknowledgments	p. 465
Notes	p. 467
Index	p. 527
Photo Credits	p. 557
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