Sylvia Nasar Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today's financial mess. As the twenty-first century faces new and ever more daunting economic obstacles, Sylvia Nasar tells the story of how our financial world came to function as it does today, and how a handful of men and women would change the lives of every person on the planet. Economics was not always associated with bankers and excess, or with recessions and bailouts. Economics, as we know it, was born in the nineteenth century when Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew chronicled the destitution in London's slums and wanted to turn money into a force for social good. Man's material fate would be placed in his own hands, rather than left to destiny. The torch would be carried on by everyone from Marx and Engels to Keynes and Friedman, with revolutionary results. Filled with the stories of colourful lives and visions of the characters who shaped modern economics, Grand Pursuit is a fascinating history of the determining force of the past century, and a vital insight into how our world works now. 'A history of economics which is full of flesh, bloom and warmth' The Economist

Edited by Sylvia Nasar, bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind and former economics correspondent for the New York Times , The Best American Science Writing 2008 brings together the premiere science writing of the year. Distinguished by the foremost voices and publications—among them Pulitzer Prize-winner Amy Harmon, Nobel Prize–winner Al Gore, and award-winning and bestselling author Oliver Sacks—this anthology is a comprehensive overview of our most advanced and most relevant scientific inquiries.

L’any 1994 el matemàtic nord-americà John Forbes Nash va ser guardonat amb el premi Nobel d’economia per l’Acadèmia sueca. La notícia no tindria més transcendència de la normal si no fos que aquest geni de les matemàtiques, en el punt més àlgid de la seva

Sylvia Nasars Buch ist die dramatische Biographie des genialen Mathematikers John Nash, der an paranoider Schizophrenie erkrankte, wahnsinnig wurde und nach seiner Heilung 1994 den Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften erhielt. Eine aufwühlende Geschichte von einem Genie und dessen Sieg über eine schreckliche Krankheit.

Nulla è stato normale nella vita di John Nash: le 27 paginette della sua tesi di dottorato diedero una spinta risolutiva alla teoria dei giochi, insegnò al MIT di Boston, ricevette, nel 1994, il Premio Nobel per l'economia... Una carriera prestigiosa, ma c'è l'altra faccia della medaglia: ripudia la donna che gli ha dato un figlio, è arrestato per omosessualità, piomba nella depressione e consuma buona parte della sua vita nei labirinti della follia e dell'emarginazione. Sarà l'affetto di chi gli è rimasto vicino a restituirlo alla vita e ai suoi studi.