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| Title: | | Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius  |
| Authors: | | Ashenfelter, Orley |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6213 |
| Abstract: | | In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too - with more than enough warts and foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert Heilbroner's remarkably different conception in The Worldly Philosophers. I also discuss more generally the question of why economists might be interested in their history at all. |
| Subjects: | | economic history economic growth economic policy |
| JEL: | | B10 B30 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201113734 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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