A Brief History of Economic Genius (Cloth)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.48 (707 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1587991284 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Others are obscure: John von Neumann, inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strathern weaves the men's lives and contributions with notable marketplace milestones such as Holland's 17th-century bout of tulipmania, Britain's notorious South Sea Bubble, the Great Depression, and the rebuilding and retribution strategies following the two world wars. The cast includes schemers, dreamers, unheeded prophets, utopians, sages, mountebanks, dour pessimists, megalomaniacal optimists, socialists, laissez-faire extremists, mighty eccentrics, and, within their own rights, geniuses of all ranks. In Strathern's hands, the "dismal science" becomes anything but. Paul Strathern's A Brief History of Economic Genius is a lively and ambitious series of linked biographies of notable visionaries in the world of economics. O'Billovich. Some of these are well known--John Maynard Keynes, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Robert Malthus, George M
spitzigl said Readable, but with numerous mistakes. This review is for a book by Strathern published in Canada under the title"Dr. Strangelove's Game: A Brief History of Economic Genius".I found this book a major disappointment. It seems to me that the author isclearly outside his field of expertise, the result being a book riddledwith errors. For instance, in his exposition of Ricardo's theory ofcomparative advantage, the example has no comparative advantage. If he hadbothered to read a chapter of an introductory international economics book,he wou. This is the first draft of a great book H. N. T. I feel sorry for the author. I do not know enough about the industry to know if this is very bad writing or catastrophically bad editing, but under all this lies quite an interesting book.As others have pointed out the book starts with frequent editing errors, where the spacing is wrong (somewhat lik ethis). This happens every other page for about the first 25 pages, but then seems to stop. Even worse are smaller, stranger errors that remind me of my student papers before I reviewed them. For examp. "Good but there is ALOT better out there" according to Dan E. Ross. I bought this book hoping it might shed some insights into the thoughts and times of the world's greatest economists and I got what I hoped for. In particular I was hoping to see if the author did a good job in relating economics to other areas such as politics, science, sociology, history philosophy and mathematics and the book fulfilled my desire. The book was well written, in terms of prose, making it an easy book to read economics books, especially for non-economists.If I had anything to gripe
Paul Strathern uncovers the lives and ideas of the great philosophers of money against the backdrop of some of history's most turbulent events: The South Sea Bubble, the French and Russian Revolutions, and the Crash of 1929. On the way, he provides an enriching and entertaining account of the great, the good, and the downright bad in economic theories- from double-entry bookkeeping to game theory.