Grand Pursuit: The Story Of The People Who Made Modern Economics


Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers India
Publisher Address : A -75, Sector 57 ,NOIDA, UPIndia
Publisher Email : Sapana.Solanki@harpercollins-india.com
Published Date : Jul-12
 
Category
Economics
City/Country
Noida/India
ISBN 10
1841154563
ISBN 13
9781841154565
Edition Number
N/A
 
 
 
Book Description

As the twenty-first century faces new and ever more daunting economic obstacles, Sylvia Nasar tells the story ofhow our financial world came to function as it does today, and how a handful of men and women would change thelives of every person on the planet. Economics was not always associated with bankers and excess, or withrecessions and bailouts. Economics, as we know it, was born in the nineteenth century when Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew chronicled the destitution in London's slums and wanted to turn money into a force for social good. Man’s material fate would be placed in his own hands, rather than left to destiny. The torch would be carried on by everyone from Marx and Engels to Keynes and Friedman, with revolutionary results. Filled with the stories of colourful lives and visions of the characters who shaped modern economics, Grand Pursuit is a fascinating history of the determining force of the past century, and a vital insight into how our world works now.

 
Top