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100 1  Nasar, Sylvia. 
245 10 Grand pursuit :|bthe story of economic genius /|cSylvia 
       Nasar. 
250    First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c2011. 
300    xv, 558 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-526) and 
       index. 
505 0  Preface: The nine parts of mankind -- I. Hope : Prologue: 
       Mr. Sentiment versus Scrooge -- 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 -- Cross of gold: [Irving] Fisher and the money 
       illusion -- Creative destruction: [Joseph] Schumpeter and 
       economic evolution. 
505 0  II. Fear : Prologue: War of the worlds -- The last days of
       mankind: Schumpeter in Vienna -- Europe is dying: 
       [Maynard] Keynes at Versailles -- The joyless street: 
       Schumpeter and [Friedrich] Hayek in Vienna -- Immaterial 
       devices of the mind: Keynes and Fisher in the 1920s -- 
       Magneto trouble: Keynes and Fisher in the Great Depression
       -- Experiments: Webb and [Joan] Robinson in the 1930s -- 
       Economists' war: Keynes and [Milton] Friedman at the 
       Treasury -- Exile: Schumpeter and Hayek in WWII. 
505 0  III. Confidence : Prologue: Nothing to fear -- Past and 
       future: Keynes at Bretton Woods -- Road from serfdom: 
       Hayek and the German miracle -- Instruments of mastery: 
       [Paul] Samuelson goes to Washington -- Grand illusion: 
       Robinson in Moscow and Beijing -- Tryst with destiny:  
       [Amartya] Sen in Calcutta and Cambridge -- Epilogue: 
       Imagining the Future. 
520    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. 
650  0 Economics|xHistory. 
650  0 Economists. 
650  0 Economic history. 
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