Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
For more details on this topic, see Grand Pursuit (book).In a sweeping narrative Nasar takes readers on on a journey through the long 20th century 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.
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