Sylvia Nasar

4.07 of 5 Votes: 5

url

https://booksminority.net/sylvia-nasar

gender

female

website

http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270051276/JRN_Profile_C/1165270083420/JRNFacultyDetail.htm

genres

History & Biography

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Books by Sylvia Nasar

Grand Pursuit: A History of Economic Genius (2011)

language

English

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

review 1: An impressively researched book detailing the great economists of the past two centuries. Somehow, I felt it was too ambitious a canvas and no single "take-home" points really stood out in my mind. The narrative was definitely interesting at times - lots of irrelevant gossip abou...

A Grand Pursuit: A History of Economic Genius (2000)

language

English

3.73 of 5 Votes: 5

review 1: From the onset, I looked forward to reading this book by Sylvia Nasar - the author of A Beautiful Mind, a biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr - and who also happens to be the daughter of a German mother and Uzbek father. Having been b...

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