A Brief History of Economic Genius - Paul Strathern

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Thomson, 2001, Large-format Paperback - Economics - 328pp. ISBN 9781587991899.
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.
Strathern brings the reader along in a lively, breezy and elegant manner, through Adam Smith and Hume; the French Optimists and British Pessimists: Saint-Simon and Owen; Marx and Hegel; Pareto; Veblen; Schumpeter, Keynes, John Nash and finally full circle back to von Neumann.
Strathern uncovers the genuine progression of the development of mathematics and economic theory, from double-entry booking keeping to the discovery of standard deviation and the various applications of probability theory.
These brilliant economists and mathematicians often were aware of each other, had met each other or read each other's work thereby influencing and building upon one another's conclusions. Strathern manages his broad swath of historical information and condenses it into a very usable, readable and informative format.