伟大的追求：经济学天才的故事

Sylvia Nasar, "Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius"
ISBN: 0684872986 | 2011 | EPUB | 576 pages | 1 MB

【作者简介】Sylvia Nasar为美国哥伦比亚大学商业新闻教授，她本科毕业于美国Antioch College，这所学校的校训别具一格“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity”（能否翻译成 “努力奋斗，不要在碌碌无为中死去”？），硕士毕业于纽约大学。在加入哥伦比亚大学之前，她先后效力于《财富杂志》、《美国新闻与世界报道》、《纽约时报》等媒体机构。

【书籍简介】
看教材太累，看故事解困。
此书是Sylvia Nasar继《美丽心灵》（经济学家纳什的故事）之后的又一本力作。
阅读此书，你就会理解经济学的使命是如此神圣：解救人类。
此书娓娓动听地讲述了John Maynard Keynes ， Schumpeter，Hayek，Joan Robinson, Paul Samuelson，Milton Freedman, Amartya Sen等经济学天才的故事。

In a sweeping narrative, the author of the megabestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. It’s 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 and publishing the condition of the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, the richest and most glittering place in the world. This was a new pursuit. She describes the often heroic efforts of Marx, Engels, Alfred Marshall, Beatrice and Sydney Webb, and the American Irving Fisher to put those insights into action—with revolutionary consequences for the world.

From the great John Maynard Keynes to Schumpeter, Hayek, Keynes’s disciple Joan Robinson, the influential American economists Paul Samuelson and Milton Freedman, and 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 to the entire planet. In Nasar’s dramatic narrative of these discoverers 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 and early death. This idea, unimaginable less than 200 years ago, is a story of trial and error, but ultimately transcendent, as it is rendered here in a stunning and moving narrative.

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