Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
- ISBN-10
- 0684872994
- ISBN-13
- 9780684872995
- Series
- Grand Pursuit
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 558
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Sylvia Nasar
Description
Traces how the works of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew reflected the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, citing the achievements of such influential figures as John Maynard Keyes, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen.
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