Dr Strangelove's Game: A Brief History of Economic Genius

by Paul Strathern

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The history of economic genius is a tale of brilliance, egomania and borderline insanity. Since the earliest days, a cast of sometimes highly colourful individuals have pondered on the key to accumulating wealth and power. Paul Strathern has produced an erudite and witty narrative of these thinkers, together with their miraculous, and sometimes disastrous, ideas. Men like Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes were fascinating characters as well as influential thinkers. But there are also a host of lesser-known figures whose theories were as eccentric as they were - the mediaeval monk who invented game theory by...Read more
  • ISBN10 0241141796
  • ISBN13 9780241141793
  • Publish Date 25 October 2001
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 February 2010
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Hamish Hamilton Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 352
  • Language English