Sylvia Nasar, the widely acclaimed author of A Beautiful Mind.
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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評分Her chronological narrative emphasizes a key tension between antistatist laissez faire ideas and the logic of the modern welfare state. A final chapter on Indian economist Amartya Sen takes us beyond the West briefly, but the book concentrates overwhelmingl...
評分Her chronological narrative emphasizes a key tension between antistatist laissez faire ideas and the logic of the modern welfare state. A final chapter on Indian economist Amartya Sen takes us beyond the West briefly, but the book concentrates overwhelmingl...
評分每一個章節就是一位高手的生平故事,重點突齣,而且,我意猶未盡。 作者似乎在播紀錄片,每次都會把你帶入,誰知道那麼多文學界人士與經濟學傢交集在一起,非常歡欣~ 基本上很難一次讀完全書,很厚,一位人物大概50頁左右篇幅,特彆親近人,我現在剛剛看完費雪,...
圖書標籤: Economics History 經濟學 經濟 全球思想傢書庫 傳記 Economic 金融
Many anecdotes, rich references, obvious like and dislike by author, but interesting to see intellectual journey of each giant. I like Beatrice Potter's story of growth-she and her husband are cooperative theorists, members of Fabian Society, and founders of London school of economics.
評分從馬剋思到哈耶剋,從西德尼·韋布到米爾頓·弗裏德曼,娜薩把一位位有血有肉的經濟學傢帶到瞭我們麵前,用一段段細節豐富的故事串聯起瞭近現代經濟思想的演化進程,而故事的主角正是這些改變瞭經濟學發展軌跡的男男女女們,也正是他們重塑瞭我們對這個世界可能性的認知。對於平時不會捧起一本經濟學大部頭的讀者來說,這本書對經濟學的刻畫無疑是全麵而生動的。
評分從馬剋思到哈耶剋,從西德尼·韋布到米爾頓·弗裏德曼,娜薩把一位位有血有肉的經濟學傢帶到瞭我們麵前,用一段段細節豐富的故事串聯起瞭近現代經濟思想的演化進程,而故事的主角正是這些改變瞭經濟學發展軌跡的男男女女們,也正是他們重塑瞭我們對這個世界可能性的認知。對於平時不會捧起一本經濟學大部頭的讀者來說,這本書對經濟學的刻畫無疑是全麵而生動的。
評分從馬剋思到哈耶剋,從西德尼·韋布到米爾頓·弗裏德曼,娜薩把一位位有血有肉的經濟學傢帶到瞭我們麵前,用一段段細節豐富的故事串聯起瞭近現代經濟思想的演化進程,而故事的主角正是這些改變瞭經濟學發展軌跡的男男女女們,也正是他們重塑瞭我們對這個世界可能性的認知。對於平時不會捧起一本經濟學大部頭的讀者來說,這本書對經濟學的刻畫無疑是全麵而生動的。
評分Many anecdotes, rich references, obvious like and dislike by author, but interesting to see intellectual journey of each giant. I like Beatrice Potter's story of growth-she and her husband are cooperative theorists, members of Fabian Society, and founders of London school of economics.
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