Nasar, Sylvia. <br/><br/>
Grand pursuit :  the story of economic genius / 
Sylvia Nasar. 
 - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. 
 - New York :  Simon & Schuster,  2011. 
 - xv, 558 p., [16] p. of plates :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-526) and index. 
<br/><br/>Perfectly new: Engels and Karl Marx in the age of miracles -- Must there be a proletariat? Alfred Marshall's patron saint -- Miss Potter's profession: Beatrice Webb and the housekeeping state -- Empire of energy: Irving Fisher and the cross of gold -- Creative destruction: Joseph Schumpeter and economic evolution -- The last days of mankind: Schumpeter in Vienna -- "Europe is dying" : Maynard Keynes at Versailles -- The joyless street: Schumpeter and Hayek in Vienna -- Immaterial mechanisms of the mind: Keynes and Fisher in the 1920s -- Starter trouble: the Great Depression -- Searching: Webb and Robinson in the 1930s -- Economists' war: Keynes and Friedman in WWII -- Exile: Schumpeter and Hayek in WWII -- Past and future: Keynes at Bretton Woods -- Road from serfdom: Hayek and the German miracle -- Paul Samuelson goes to Washington -- Inventing the future: Robinson in Moscow and Beijing -- Tryst with destiny. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780684872988 (hbk.) 9780684872995 (pbk.) 9781439198612 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011024751 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economics--History.<br/>Economists.<br/>Economic history.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HB75  / .N347 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.15092/2