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Paul Strathern

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Description:“Strathern scores high marks for readability, and for his skill in précising complex theories into digestible paragraphs” THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH “Strathern [has] a gift for enlivening otherwise straight forward intellectual histories with knockabout stories and telling anecdotes” SPECTATOR Brilliantly entertaining, Dr Strangelove’s Game will do for economics what Sophie’s World did for philosophy and E=mc2 for physics. With the infectious enthusiasm of a great teacher and a novelist’s eye for a colourful parade of often bizarre and idiosyncratic figures, Paul Strathern gives us a vivid account of the world of economics through the lives and minds of those who contributed to the growth of economic thought from the Middle Ages to the present.   The familiar and iconic names – Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes – turn out to be fascinating characters, as do a host of lesser-known figures – from Luca Pacioli, a medieval monk who used a ball game to stimulate thought about probability theory (and gambling) to John von Neumann, the manic genius who invented game theory, worked on the atomic bomb, and was probably the model for Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove. Strathern sets their lives and thoughts against the dramatic backdrop of great events – the South Sea Bubble, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution and the Great Crash. His lightly worn erudition makes Dr Strangelove’s Game amazingly accessible, leaving readers enriched and enlightened. This is an enriching and entertaining account of the great, the good and the downright bad in economic theories.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with DR STRANGELOVE’S GAME: A Brief History of Economic Genius. To get started finding DR STRANGELOVE’S GAME: A Brief History of Economic Genius, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: “Strathern scores high marks for readability, and for his skill in précising complex theories into digestible paragraphs” THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH “Strathern [has] a gift for enlivening otherwise straight forward intellectual histories with knockabout stories and telling anecdotes” SPECTATOR Brilliantly entertaining, Dr Strangelove’s Game will do for economics what Sophie’s World did for philosophy and E=mc2 for physics. With the infectious enthusiasm of a great teacher and a novelist’s eye for a colourful parade of often bizarre and idiosyncratic figures, Paul Strathern gives us a vivid account of the world of economics through the lives and minds of those who contributed to the growth of economic thought from the Middle Ages to the present.   The familiar and iconic names – Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes – turn out to be fascinating characters, as do a host of lesser-known figures – from Luca Pacioli, a medieval monk who used a ball game to stimulate thought about probability theory (and gambling) to John von Neumann, the manic genius who invented game theory, worked on the atomic bomb, and was probably the model for Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove. Strathern sets their lives and thoughts against the dramatic backdrop of great events – the South Sea Bubble, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution and the Great Crash. His lightly worn erudition makes Dr Strangelove’s Game amazingly accessible, leaving readers enriched and enlightened. This is an enriching and entertaining account of the great, the good and the downright bad in economic theories.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with DR STRANGELOVE’S GAME: A Brief History of Economic Genius. To get started finding DR STRANGELOVE’S GAME: A Brief History of Economic Genius, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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