· Reviewed: Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius. The author of A Beautiful Mind focuses on the men and women who shaped contemporary economic thought. By Jordan Timm Septem. Photo: Natalie Castellino. GRAND PURSUIT: The Story of Economic Genius (Simon Schuster) Sylvia Nasar. · Nasar's A Beautiful Mind mined a rich dramatic vein in the story of a solitary mathematical genius. Her new work looks to a broad sweep of modern economic history for similar magic with mixed results. While the author rightly sees a vital and indeed dramatic core to the "dismal science," the narrative can feel desultory at times. · In “Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius,” Sylvia Nasar chronicles the development of economic thought from its pessimistic roots as the “dismal science” to the intellectual.
A Review of Sylvia Nasar's "Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius". Sylvia Nasar, the author of A Beautiful Mind and a former economics correspondent for The New York Times, tells us that she set out to write, not a history of economics, but the story of those thinkers "searching for intellectual tools that could help solve what. Fast-forward more than a decade to Nasar's second book, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius. Like her first, Grand Pursuit focuses on individual genius, has a rich narrative laden with. Sylvia Nasar talked about her book, [Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius]. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications Ms. Nasar was interviewed while at the 11th annual.
Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern economics, of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands. A New York Times. In “ Grand Pursuit,” Nasar chronicles the development of economic thought from its pessimistic roots as the “dismal science” to the intellectual underpinnings of modern prosperity, social. Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, Sylvia Nasar. Simon Schuster, New York, NY (USA) (). ISBN xv + pp., $ [Published in Journal of Economic Psychology, 33 (), pp. , doi /www.doorway.ru] Reading this book against the backdrop of depressing news on the economy, I.
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