Sylvia Nasar on Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

John Forbes Nash: brilliant, tortured, complex. Sylvia Nasar rendered his story with perspective and grace in A Beautiful Mind, her biography of the mathematical genius stricken with schizophrenia. Now Nasar, a Columbia University journalism professor, turns her formidable writing talent to an important narrative of our time: the making of modern economics. From Charles Dickens's portraits of poverty in mid-19th-century London to the contributions of Marx, Engels, and Keynes, among many others, Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius reveals how economics rescued humankind, irrevocably altering the lives of past, present, and future generations.

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